Top Cheddar 2026-27

Wednesday, November 23, 1988 · Capital Centre

Islanders 6 at Capitals 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 88OVR Bengt-Ake Gustafsson Capitals First Star 4A · 3 SOG R 86OVR Dave Christian Capitals Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG R 72OVR Mikko Makela Islanders Third Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:09 Larry Murphy (2) PPG Dale Hunter (11), Geoff Courtnall (13) NYI 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 10:53 Pat LaFontaine (12) PPG Tomas Jonsson (8), Mikko Makela (5) NYI 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 15:24 Mikko Makela (5) Raimo Helminen (4), Bob Bassen (3) NYI 2 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 2:42 Geoff Courtnall (12) Dale Hunter (12), Scott Stevens (14) NYI 2 – 2 WSH
  2. 2:50 Kevin Hatcher (4) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (18) NYI 2 – 3 WSH
  3. 3:25 Kevin Hatcher (5) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (19), Dave Christian (9) NYI 2 – 4 WSH
  4. 12:05 Dave Christian (13) PPG Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (20), Scott Stevens (15) NYI 2 – 5 WSH
  5. 15:21 Alan Kerr (3) Unassisted NYI 3 – 5 WSH
  6. 16:11 Geoff Courtnall (13) Stephen Leach (5), Grant Ledyard (3) NYI 3 – 6 WSH
  7. 17:30 Brent Sutter (5) SHG Steve Konroyd (5) NYI 4 – 6 WSH
  8. 18:17 Mike Ridley (10) PPG Dave Christian (10), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (21) NYI 4 – 7 WSH
  9. 19:21 Pat LaFontaine (13) Mikko Makela (6) NYI 5 – 7 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 13:20 Alan Kerr (4) Bob Bassen (4) NYI 6 – 7 WSH

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mikko Makela R 1 2 4 0 0 0 0:00 2.30
Alan Kerr R 2 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.10
Pat LaFontaine C 2 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.73
Bob Bassen L 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
Tomas Jonsson D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Brent Sutter C 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Steve Konroyd D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Raimo Helminen C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
David Volek L 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Greg Gilbert L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Randy Wood R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bryan Trottier C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Derek King L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ken Morrow D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brad Dalgarno R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Christopher Pryor D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Rich Pilon D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kelly Hrudey — 14 11 3 .786 22:50 -1.15
Billy Smith L 14 10 4 .714 36:48 -2.00

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 4 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.88
Dave Christian R 1 2 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.53
Geoff Courtnall L 2 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 2.28
Kevin Hatcher D 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.50
Scott Stevens D 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Dale Hunter C 0 2 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.18
Grant Ledyard D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Larry Murphy D 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Mike Ridley C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.68
Stephen Leach R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
John Druce R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Kelly Miller L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bobby Gould R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Yvon Corriveau L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Peter Sundstrom L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rod Langway D 0 0 2 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.45
Neil Sheehy D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Lou Franceschetti L 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Clint Malarchuk W 32 26 6 .812 60:00 -1.90