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Wednesday, February 22, 1989 · Great Western Forum

Capitals 7 at Kings 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 84OVR Dave Christian Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG L 89OVR Bengt-Ake Gustafsson Capitals Second Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG R 96OVR Mike Gartner North Stars Third Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:54 Dave Christian (26) PPG Scott Stevens (47), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (38) WSH 1 – 0 LAK

2nd Period

  1. 0:56 Mike Gartner (25) Unassisted WSH 2 – 0 LAK
  2. 5:39 Steve Duchesne (20) Wayne Gretzky (89), Igor Liba (16) WSH 2 – 1 LAK
  3. 7:12 Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (17) Bill Houlder (2) WSH 3 – 1 LAK
  4. 13:28 Dave Christian (27) Mike Gartner (27), Rod Langway (15) WSH 4 – 1 LAK

3rd Period

  1. 10:45 Dean Kennedy (3) Steve Kasper (22), Bernie Nicholls (65) WSH 4 – 2 LAK
  2. 13:11 Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (18) Mike Gartner (28), Dave Christian (25) WSH 5 – 2 LAK
  3. 14:41 Mike Ridley (32) Scott Stevens (48), Michal Pivonka (12) WSH 6 – 2 LAK
  4. 17:06 Kelly Miller (13) Dale Hunter (30), Bill Houlder (3) WSH 7 – 2 LAK

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dave Christian R 2 1 5 +4 3.10
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 2 1 2 +4 2.88
Mike Gartner R 1 2 2 +3 2.60
Bill Houlder D 0 2 2 +2 1.70
Kelly Miller L 1 0 2 +2 1.20
Rod Langway D 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Scott Stevens D 0 2 1 0 1.03
Michal Pivonka C 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Mike Ridley C 1 0 3 +1 0.98
Dale Hunter C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Chris Felix D 0 0 1 +3 0.37
Larry Murphy D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Peter Sundstrom L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Bobby Gould R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Lou Franceschetti L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Neil Sheehy D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jim Thomson R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Geoff Courtnall L 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Beaupre W 25 23 2 .920 60:00 0.80

Los Angeles Kings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bernie Nicholls C 0 1 6 0 1.08
Dean Kennedy D 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Steve Duchesne D 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Steve Kasper C 0 1 0 0 0.48
Igor Liba L 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 2 -3 0.33
John Tonelli L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Mike Krushelnyski C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Doug Crossman D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Jay Miller L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike Allison R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dale Degray D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dave Taylor R 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Marty McSorley D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Luc Robitaille L 0 0 2 -4 -0.45
Ken Baumgartner L 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Tim Watters D 0 0 0 -1 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Healy L 27 20 7 .741 60:00 -3.25