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Washington Capitals, 1985-86

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Patrick Division, Prince of Wales Conference Made the playoffs

1985-86 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
3 80 50-23-7 107 0.669 315 272 +43 30-8-2 20-15-5

Records are wins, then losses, then ties.

Playoffs

Round Opponent Result
Division Semifinals New York Islanders Won 3-0
Division Finals New York Rangers Lost 2-4

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats for it.

Skater Pos GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits
Dave Christian R 80 41 42 83 2 15 218 0
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 70 23 52 75 9 26 113 0
Craig Laughlin R 75 30 45 75 24 43 114 0
Mike Gartner R 74 35 40 75 -5 63 279 0
Alan Haworth C 71 34 39 73 36 72 194 0
Larry Murphy D 78 21 44 65 2 50 180 0
Bobby Carpenter C 80 27 29 56 -12 105 205 0
Greg Adams L 78 18 38 56 24 152 150 0
Scott Stevens D 73 15 38 53 0 165 121 0
Gaetan Duchesne L 80 11 28 39 10 39 119 0
Bobby Gould R 79 19 19 38 7 26 123 0
Jorgen Pettersson L 47 8 16 24 -4 10 74 0
Peter Andersson D 61 6 16 22 -8 36 84 0
Lou Franceschetti L 76 7 14 21 -4 131 57 0
Kevin Hatcher D 79 9 10 19 6 119 132 0
Rod Langway D 71 1 17 18 27 61 54 0
Darren Veitch D 62 3 9 12 21 27 82 0
Gary Sampson L 19 1 4 5 -3 2 17 0
Doug Jarvis C 25 1 2 3 -5 16 19 0
Dwight Schofield D 50 1 2 3 6 127 13 0
Greg Smith D 14 0 3 3 3 10 6 0
John Barrett D 14 0 3 3 3 12 7 0
Mark Taylor C 30 2 1 3 -4 4 23 0
Stephen Leach R 11 1 1 2 0 2 4 0
Daryl Evans R 6 0 1 1 -1 0 14 0
David Jensen C 5 1 0 1 1 0 5 0
Grant Martin D 11 0 1 1 -5 6 5 0
Ed Kastelic R 15 0 0 0 0 73 2 0
Yves Beaudoin D 4 0 0 0 -4 0 7 0
Yvon Corriveau L 2 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
Al Jensen 44 289302 1165 1036 129 3.19 0.889
Pete Peeters 34 1911301 907 794 113 3.37 0.875
Pat Riggin 7 23100 132 109 23 3.75 0.826
Bob Mason 1 10000 5 5 0 0.00 1.000

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 6, 1986 @ PHI L 3-5 23 29
Apr 5, 1986 vs NYR T 4-4 (OT) 35 27
Apr 3, 1986 vs HFD W 4-2 25 27
Apr 1, 1986 vs PIT W 5-3 25 27
Mar 29, 1986 @ HFD T 6-6 (OT) 24 25
Mar 28, 1986 vs NYI L 3-4 29 26
Mar 25, 1986 vs BOS W 6-3 36 20
Mar 23, 1986 vs PHI W 6-5 33 23
Mar 21, 1986 vs WIN W 5-3 30 25
Mar 18, 1986 vs LAK L 2-5 25 28
Mar 17, 1986 @ PIT W 5-3 26 26
Mar 15, 1986 @ STL W 5-4 34 24
Mar 13, 1986 @ PHI L 0-2 19 30
Mar 11, 1986 vs PIT W 5-3 34 22
Mar 9, 1986 vs NYI W 3-1 37 25
Mar 8, 1986 @ NYI W 6-2 29 18
Mar 4, 1986 vs NJD W 4-2 30 25
Mar 2, 1986 @ NYR W 4-2 33 35
Mar 1, 1986 vs NYR W 4-0 32 20
Feb 27, 1986 @ BOS W 2-1 34 35
Feb 25, 1986 vs DET W 4-3 (OT) 39 19
Feb 23, 1986 @ BUF L 1-4 35 33
Feb 22, 1986 @ PHI L 1-3 27 23
Feb 19, 1986 @ MTL T 4-4 (OT) 29 43
Feb 18, 1986 @ NYI W 5-4 31 29
Feb 15, 1986 @ LAK W 4-1 28 24
Feb 12, 1986 @ PIT L 1-8 19 38
Feb 8, 1986 vs EDM W 5-4 (OT) 40 35
Feb 7, 1986 vs MTL W 3-2 22 21
Feb 2, 1986 @ HFD W 5-4 36 28
Feb 1, 1986 vs NJD W 5-4 38 18
Jan 29, 1986 @ TOR L 2-5 32 31
Jan 28, 1986 @ DET L 0-7 26 37
Jan 25, 1986 @ MNS W 6-3 28 26
Jan 24, 1986 vs NYI L 5-7 35 24
Jan 21, 1986 vs MNS W 7-5 35 36
Jan 18, 1986 vs PHI W 5-2 26 28
Jan 17, 1986 @ NJD W 4-3 24 26
Jan 14, 1986 vs CGY L 3-4 38 29
Jan 11, 1986 @ MNS L 3-5 44 25
Jan 9, 1986 @ PHI L 0-4 24 35
Jan 7, 1986 vs DET W 4-3 40 29
Jan 4, 1986 vs NJD W 9-3 33 27
Jan 3, 1986 @ NJD W 3-2 19 26
Jan 1, 1986 vs NYR W 3-0 30 30
Dec 29, 1985 @ NYR L 5-6 28 31
Dec 28, 1985 vs CHI L 4-7 45 33
Dec 26, 1985 vs QUE W 4-3 30 29
Dec 22, 1985 @ QUE W 7-5 31 41
Dec 20, 1985 @ WIN L 4-7 32 32
Dec 18, 1985 @ EDM W 5-2 37 40
Dec 17, 1985 @ VAN T 4-4 (OT) 28 36
Dec 14, 1985 @ LAK W 5-4 32 27
Dec 10, 1985 vs TOR W 3-2 42 16
Dec 7, 1985 vs VAN W 2-1 33 22
Dec 5, 1985 vs STL W 3-2 (OT) 28 18
Nov 30, 1985 @ NJD W 6-2 41 36
Nov 29, 1985 vs NYR L 2-5 29 26
Nov 27, 1985 vs MTL W 5-3 30 22
Nov 23, 1985 vs QUE W 3-0 29 31
Nov 20, 1985 @ PIT W 3-1 20 23
Nov 19, 1985 vs PIT W 4-3 25 27
Nov 16, 1985 @ BOS T 2-2 (OT) 20 29
Nov 15, 1985 vs VAN W 5-3 25 30
Nov 12, 1985 vs EDM W 5-2 26 30
Nov 9, 1985 vs CGY L 4-5 33 18
Nov 6, 1985 @ PIT W 4-1 25 39
Nov 5, 1985 vs CHI W 8-4 33 30
Nov 2, 1985 @ NYI L 3-5 31 29
Nov 1, 1985 vs NYI W 5-3 31 29
Oct 29, 1985 vs STL W 6-3 23 25
Oct 27, 1985 @ CHI W 4-2 26 39
Oct 25, 1985 @ WIN T 7-7 (OT) 31 30
Oct 23, 1985 @ CGY L 2-4 29 32
Oct 19, 1985 vs BUF T 2-2 (OT) 20 17
Oct 18, 1985 @ BUF W 4-1 29 24
Oct 16, 1985 @ TOR W 6-5 (OT) 38 22
Oct 13, 1985 vs PHI L 2-4 33 24
Oct 12, 1985 @ NJD L 1-4 31 17
Oct 10, 1985 @ NYR L 2-4 29 25