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Saturday, December 31, 1988 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Capitals 4 at Islanders 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 77OVR Kelly Miller Capitals First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG R 93OVR Mike Gartner North Stars Second Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG C 79OVR Brent Sutter Islanders Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:35 Kelly Miller (8) Rod Langway (8) WSH 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 6:53 Derek King (6) Pat LaFontaine (21) WSH 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 14:38 Geoff Courtnall (21) PPG Dale Hunter (20), Scott Stevens (26) WSH 2 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 1:33 Mike Gartner (13) Mike Ridley (16), Grant Ledyard (7) WSH 3 – 1 NYI
  2. 5:06 Richard Kromm (1) Mikko Makela (11) WSH 3 – 2 NYI
  3. 13:42 Brent Sutter (11) PPG Jeff Norton (9) WSH 3 – 3 NYI
  4. 18:44 Patrick Flatley (3) PPG David Volek (13), Tomas Jonsson (14) WSH 3 – 4 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 8:06 Mike Ridley (24) Mike Gartner (17), Kelly Miller (10) WSH 4 – 4 NYI
  2. 16:24 David Volek (12) Brent Sutter (18), Patrick Flatley (2) WSH 4 – 5 NYI
  3. 19:58 Greg Gilbert (5) Bryan Trottier (13), Gary Nylund (4) WSH 4 – 6 NYI

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Kelly Miller L 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Mike Gartner R 1 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.90
Mike Ridley C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Geoff Courtnall L 1 0 5 0 0 -3 0:00 0.68
Grant Ledyard D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Scott Stevens D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.32
Rod Langway D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Dale Hunter C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.25
Yvon Corriveau L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lou Franceschetti L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Stephen Leach R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Larry Murphy D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Neil Sheehy D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bobby Gould R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Dave Christian R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Clint Malarchuk L 27 22 5 .815 58:45 -1.55

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brent Sutter C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
David Volek L 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Patrick Flatley R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Jeff Norton D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Derek King L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Bryan Trottier C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Greg Gilbert L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Richard Kromm L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Mikko Makela R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Tomas Jonsson D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Pat LaFontaine C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Gary Nylund D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Marc Bergevin D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Brad Dalgarno R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Reed Larson D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Alan Kerr R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kelly Hrudey W 25 21 4 .840 60:00 -0.90