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Sunday, December 11, 1988 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Capitals 6 at Sabres 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Mike Gartner North Stars First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG D 67OVR Grant Ledyard Sabres Second Star 2G · 3 SOG R 75OVR Ray Sheppard Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:11 Mike Ridley (18) Rod Langway (6), Kevin Hatcher (11) WSH 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 15:33 Mike Gartner (6) PPG Geoff Courtnall (19), Scott Stevens (21) WSH 2 – 0 BUF
  3. 18:03 Mike Donnelly (3) Ray Sheppard (10), Pierre Turgeon (15) WSH 2 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 6:38 Christian Ruuttu (5) Unassisted WSH 2 – 2 BUF
  2. 7:25 Benoit Hogue (6) Uwe Krupp (5) WSH 2 – 3 BUF
  3. 11:43 Mike Gartner (7) Dale Hunter (16) WSH 3 – 3 BUF
  4. 16:50 Geoff Courtnall (16) Mike Gartner (10), Dale Hunter (17) WSH 4 – 3 BUF
  5. 17:12 Ray Sheppard (8) John Tucker (19), Christian Ruuttu (13) WSH 4 – 4 BUF
  6. 18:36 Grant Ledyard (1) Unassisted WSH 5 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 0:36 Grant Ledyard (2) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (25) WSH 6 – 4 BUF

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Gartner R 2 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.80
Grant Ledyard D 2 0 3 0 0 +4 0:00 2.33
Dale Hunter C 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.33
Geoff Courtnall L 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.23
Kevin Hatcher D 0 1 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.15
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Mike Ridley C 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Rod Langway D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Dave Christian R 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.37
Larry Murphy D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bobby Gould R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Kelly Miller L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Stephen Leach R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
John Druce R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Neil Sheehy D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Lou Franceschetti L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Scott Stevens D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.72
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pete Peeters W 25 21 4 .840 60:00 -0.90

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ray Sheppard R 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Christian Ruuttu C 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
John Tucker R 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Uwe Krupp D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Benoit Hogue L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.68
Pierre Turgeon C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Mike Donnelly L 1 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.53
Doug Bodger D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Phil Housley D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Scott Arniel L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Hartman L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Mark Napier R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Calle Johansson D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Mike Ramsey D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Jan Ludvig R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.68
Mike Foligno R 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Cloutier — 10 10 0 1.000 19:24 1.00
Daren Puppa L 20 14 6 .700 40:36 -3.10