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Wednesday, December 9, 1987 · Hartford Civic Center

Capitals 4 at Whalers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 73OVR Sylvain Turgeon Whalers First Star 2G · 6 SOG D 83OVR Kevin Hatcher Capitals Second Star 2G · 6 SOG L 71OVR Bengt-Ake Gustafsson Capitals Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:42 Sylvain Turgeon (12) Sylvain Cote (4), Dean Evason (8) WSH 0 – 1 HFD
  2. 11:07 Scot Kleinendorst (3) Mike Millar (3) WSH 0 – 2 HFD
  3. 16:22 Larry Murphy (4) PPG Garry Galley (9), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (11) WSH 1 – 2 HFD
  4. 17:09 Sylvain Turgeon (13) Ron Francis (17), John Anderson (17) WSH 1 – 3 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 0:55 Greg Adams (6) PPG Mike Gartner (10), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (12) WSH 2 – 3 HFD
  2. 6:00 Kevin Hatcher (7) SHG Unassisted WSH 3 – 3 HFD
  3. 12:15 Kevin Dineen (11) Brent Peterson (5), Dave Tippett (5) WSH 3 – 4 HFD
  4. 18:32 Kevin Hatcher (8) Unassisted WSH 4 – 4 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 9:07 Kevin Dineen (12) Ron Francis (18) WSH 4 – 5 HFD

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Kevin Hatcher D 2 0 6 +1 2.10
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 2 2 0 1.40
Mike Gartner R 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Greg Adams L 1 0 2 -2 0.60
Larry Murphy D 1 0 1 -4 0.23
Garry Galley D 0 1 1 0 0.17
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Ed Kastelic R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bill Houlder D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Kelly Miller L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Peter Sundstrom L 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Bobby Gould R 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Lou Franceschetti L 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Dave Christian R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Mike Ridley C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Dale Hunter C 0 0 1 0 -0.37
Paul Cavallini D 0 0 0 -3 -0.90
Scott Stevens D 0 0 2 -1 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Clint Malarchuk — 14 11 3 .786 20:00 -1.15
Alain Raymond L 20 18 2 .900 39:11 0.30

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Sylvain Turgeon L 2 0 6 +1 2.10
Kevin Dineen R 2 0 4 +1 1.35
Ron Francis C 0 2 1 +2 1.25
Scot Kleinendorst C 1 0 4 +1 1.20
John Anderson R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Mike Millar R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Dave Tippett L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Brent Peterson C 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Dean Evason C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Sylvain Cote D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Dave Babych D 0 0 4 +2 0.60
Dave Williams L 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Ray Ferraro C 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Joel Quenneville D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Dana Murzyn D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Torrie Robertson L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 +1 -0.22
Paul Macdermid R 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Liut W 28 24 4 .857 60:00 -0.60