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Saturday, January 17, 1987 · Hartford Civic Center

Capitals 6 at Whalers 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 48OVR Kevin Hatcher Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG G 95OVR Bob Mason Capitals Second Star 28 SV · .966 RC R 76OVR Dave Christian Capitals Third Star 2G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:30 Mike Gartner (11) Unassisted WSH 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 7:34 Kevin Hatcher (5) Mike Ridley (21) WSH 2 – 0 HFD
  3. 11:21 Dave Christian (11) Craig Laughlin (17), Scott Stevens (22) WSH 3 – 0 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 1:56 Kevin Hatcher (6) Unassisted WSH 4 – 0 HFD
  2. 4:31 Bobby Gould (11) Kelly Miller (16), Kevin Hatcher (11) WSH 5 – 0 HFD
  3. 8:16 Dave Christian (12) Larry Murphy (28) WSH 6 – 0 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 15:08 Doug Jarvis (5) SHG Dave Tippett (11), Scot Kleinendorst (6) WSH 6 – 1 HFD

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Kevin Hatcher D 2 1 2 +3 2.28
Dave Christian R 2 0 2 +2 1.95
Mike Gartner R 1 0 4 +1 1.05
Larry Murphy D 0 1 3 +2 1.00
Bobby Gould R 1 0 1 +2 0.98
Kelly Miller L 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Craig Laughlin R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Mike Ridley C 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Scott Stevens D 0 1 1 +2 0.70
Greg Adams L 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Rod Langway D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Gaetan Duchesne L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Bob Crawford R 0 0 2 0 0.15
David Jensen C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 0 0 0.00
John Barrett D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Lou Franceschetti L 0 0 2 0 -0.15
John Blum D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Mason W 29 28 1 .966 60:00 2.05

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Doug Jarvis C 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Dave Tippett L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Scot Kleinendorst C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Ray Ferraro C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mike McEwen D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Shane Churla R 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Dave Babych D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
John Anderson R 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Paul Macdermid R 0 0 2 0 -0.15
Stew Gavin R 0 0 3 -3 -0.22
Ron Francis C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Sylvain Turgeon L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Dave Semenko L 0 0 2 0 -0.38
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 2 -4 -0.45
Dean Evason C 0 0 1 -3 -0.52
Dana Murzyn D 0 0 0 -3 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Liut L 12 7 5 .583 24:31 -3.05
Steve Weeks — 10 9 1 .900 35:29 0.15