1986–87 Washington Capitals season

The 1986–87 Washington Capitals season was the 13th in the franchise's history. The Capitals finished 2nd in the Patrick Division and lost in the Division Semi-finals to the New York Islanders 4 games to 3.
==Off-season==
==Regular Season==
===Final Standings===
===Game log===
No.	R	Date 	Score 	Opponent 	Record
1 	L	October 9, 1986 	4–5 	@ Pittsburgh Penguins (1986–87) 	0–1–0
2 	L	October 11, 1986 	1–6 	Philadelphia Flyers (1986–87) 	0–2–0
3 	W	October 13, 1986 	7–6 OT	@ New York Rangers (1986–87) 	1–2–0
4 	L	October 16, 1986 	4–7 	@ New York Islanders (1986–87) 	1–3–0
5 	L	October 18, 1986 	2–4 	Buffalo Sabres (1986–87) 	1–4–0
6 	W	October 20, 1986 	5–4 	@ Montreal Canadiens (1986–87) 	2–4–0
7 	T	October 21, 1986 	4–4 OT	@ Quebec Nordiques (1986–87) 	2–4–1
8 	W	October 24, 1986 	8–2 	Minnesota North Stars (1986–87) 	3–4–1
9 	W	October 25, 1986 	2–1 	New Jersey Devils (1986–87) 	4–4–1
10 	W	October 28, 1986 	5–2 	@ Vancouver Canucks (1986–87) 	5–4–1
11 	L	October 29, 1986 	3–6 	@ Edmonton Oilers (1986–87) 	5–5–1
12 	L	November 1, 1986 	1–4 	@ Calgary Flames (1986–87) 	5–6–1
13 	L	November 4, 1986 	1–7 	@ New York Islanders (1986–87) 	5–7–1
14 	W	November 5, 1986 	3–2 	Vancouver Canucks (1986–87) 	6–7–1
15 	W	November 8, 1986 	3–2 	Chicago Blackhawks (1986–87) 	7–7–1
16 	T	November 11, 1986	2–2 OT	@ Minnesota North Stars (1986–87)	7–7–2
17 	T	November 12, 1986	2–2 OT	@ Chicago Blackhawks (1986–87) 	7–7–3
18 	L	November 14, 1986	1–4 	Quebec Nordiques (1986–87) 	7–8–3
19 	L	November 16, 1986	2–6 	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1986–87) 	7–9–3
20 	L	November 18, 1986	5–6 	Los Angeles Kings (1986–87) 	7–10–3
21 	T	November 21, 1986	3–3 OT	@ Detroit Red Wings (1986–87) 	7–10–4
22 	L	November 22, 1986	4–5 	Pittsburgh Penguins (1986–87) 	7–11–4
23 	T	November 26, 1986	2–2 OT	Boston Bruins (1986–87) 	7–11–5
24 	L	November 28, 1986	2–4 	Philadelphia Flyers (1986–87) 	7–12–5
25 	L	November 29, 1986	3–4 	@ Quebec Nordiques (1986–87) 	7–13–5
26 	W	December 1, 1986 	2–1 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1986–87) 	8–13–5
27 	T	December 3, 1986 	3–3 OT	@ Winnipeg Jets (1986–87) 	8–13–6
28 	W	December 6, 1986 	3–1 	Montreal Canadiens (1986–87) 	9–13–6
29 	W	December 9, 1986 	4–2 	New Jersey Devils (1986–87) 	10–13–6
30 	L	December 10, 1986	2–8 	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1986–87) 	10–14–6
31 	L	December 14, 1986	1–3 	New York Rangers (1986–87) 	10–15–6
32 	L	December 17, 1986	1–6 	@ New York Rangers (1986–87) 	10–16–6
33 	L	December 19, 1986	4–6 	@ New Jersey Devils (1986–87) 	10–17–6
34 	W	December 20, 1986	5–3 	St. Louis Blues (1986–87) 	11–17–6
35 	W	December 26, 1986	2–1 	New York Islanders (1986–87) 	12–17–6
36 	L	December 28, 1986	5–7 	@ Chicago Blackhawks (1986–87) 	12–18–6
37 	L	December 30, 1986	1–3 	Hartford Whalers (1986–87) 	12–19–6
38 	W	January 1, 1987 	4–3 OT	Pittsburgh Penguins (1986–87) 	13–19–6
39 	L	January 3, 1987 	1–4 	Philadelphia Flyers (1986–87) 	13–20–6
40 	W	January 5, 1987 	6–4 	@ St. Louis Blues (1986–87) 	14–20–6
41 	L	January 7, 1987 	2–5 	@ Pittsburgh Penguins (1986–87) 	14–21–6
42 	W	January 9, 1987 	3–2 	Pittsburgh Penguins (1986–87) 	15–21–6
43 	T	January 11, 1987 	2–2 OT	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1986–87) 	15–21–7
44 	L	January 13, 1987 	2–3 	Winnipeg Jets (1986–87) 	15–22–7
45 	W	January 15, 1987 	3–2 	@ New York Islanders (1986–87) 	16–22–7
46 	W	January 17, 1987 	6–1 	@ Hartford Whalers (1986–87) 	17–22–7
47 	W	January 18, 1987 	6–1 	@ New Jersey Devils (1986–87) 	18–22–7
48 	W	January 20, 1987 	6–3 	New Jersey Devils (1986–87) 	19–22–7
49 	W	January 23, 1987 	3–2 	@ Buffalo Sabres (1986–87) 	20–22–7
50 	L	January 24, 1987 	3–6 	Buffalo Sabres (1986–87) 	20–23–7
51 	L	January 27, 1987 	5–7 	@ Pittsburgh Penguins (1986–87) 	20–24–7
52 	W	January 28, 1987 	2–1 	@ Detroit Red Wings (1986–87) 	21–24–7
53 	T	January 30, 1987 	3–3 OT	New York Islanders (1986–87) 	21–24–8
54 	W	February 1, 1987 	6–4 	Winnipeg Jets (1986–87) 	22–24–8
55 	L	February 4, 1987 	2–3 	@ New York Rangers (1986–87) 	22–25–8
56 	L	February 6, 1987 	2–5 	Hartford Whalers (1986–87) 	22–26–8
57 	L	February 7, 1987 	4–5 OT	New York Rangers (1986–87) 	22–27–8
58 	W	February 15, 1987	5–3 	@ Edmonton Oilers (1986–87) 	23–27–8
59 	L	February 18, 1987	4–7 	@ Los Angeles Kings (1986–87) 	23–28–8
60 	W	February 20, 1987	6–3 	@ Vancouver Canucks (1986–87) 	24–28–8
61 	W	February 22, 1987	5–2 	@ Calgary Flames (1986–87) 	25–28–8
62 	W	February 24, 1987	8–2 	Detroit Red Wings (1986–87) 	26–28–8
63 	W	February 27, 1987	5–2 	Edmonton Oilers (1986–87) 	27–28–8
64 	W	March 1, 1987 	7–3 	New York Rangers (1986–87) 	28–28–8
65 	W	March 3, 1987 	3–2 	New Jersey Devils (1986–87) 	29–28–8
66 	L	March 5, 1987 	2–4 	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1986–87) 	29–29–8
67 	L	March 7, 1987 	2–3 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1986–87) 	29–30–8
68 	L	March 10, 1987 	3–6 	Calgary Flames (1986–87) 	29–31–8
69 	W	March 13, 1987 	10–2 	Toronto Maple Leafs (1986–87) 	30–31–8
70 	T	March 14, 1987 	3–3 OT	@ St. Louis Blues (1986–87) 	30–31–9
71 	L	March 17, 1987 	4–5 	Los Angeles Kings (1986–87) 	30–32–9
72 	W	March 20, 1987 	4–3 	Pittsburgh Penguins (1986–87) 	31–32–9
73 	W	March 22, 1987 	4–3 	Boston Bruins (1986–87) 	32–32–9
74 	W	March 24, 1987 	3–1 	@ New York Islanders (1986–87) 	33–32–9
75 	T	March 27, 1987 	2–2 OT	New York Islanders (1986–87) 	33–32–10
76 	W	March 29, 1987 	4–2 	Minnesota North Stars (1986–87) 	34–32–10
77 	W	March 31, 1987 	4–2 	Toronto Maple Leafs (1986–87) 	35–32–10
78 	W	April 1, 1987 	5–1 	@ New York Rangers (1986–87) 	36–32–10
79 	W	April 4, 1987 	3–2 OT	Philadelphia Flyers (1986–87) 	37–32–10
80 	W	April 5, 1987 	6–5 OT	@ New Jersey Devils (1986–87) 	38–32–10
==Playoffs==
===New York Islanders 4, Washington Capitals 3===
==Player Stats==
===Regular Season===
;Scoring
Player	Pos	GP	G 	A 	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
 	D 	80	23	58	81 	39 	25 	8 	0 	4
 	RW 	78	41	32	73 	61 	1 	5 	6 	10
 	D 	77	10	51	61 	283	13 	2 	0 	0
 	RW 	80	22	30	52 	67 	-3 	11 	0 	5
 	LW 	74	17	35	52 	53 	18 	0 	1 	4
 	RW 	76	23	27	50 	8 	-5 	5 	0 	2
 	RW 	78	23	27	50 	74 	18 	1 	1 	2
 	LW 	67	14	30	44 	184	9 	2 	0 	0
 	C 	73	18	25	43 	41 	-19	4 	0 	2
 	C 	50	25	16	41 	43 	3 	9 	0 	2
 	C 	40	15	19	34 	20 	-1 	6 	0 	3
 	D 	78	2 	25	27 	53 	11 	0 	0 	1
 	D 	78	8 	16	24 	144	-29	1 	0 	2
 	LW 	39	10	12	22 	26 	10 	3 	1 	0
 	RW 	75	12	9 	21 	127	-9 	0 	0 	1
 	C 	46	8 	8 	16 	12 	-10	2 	0 	0
 	C 	22	5 	7 	12 	21 	-7 	4 	0 	0
 	D 	18	1 	10	11 	10 	3 	1 	0 	0
 	D 	66	2 	8 	10 	133	1 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	45	0 	9 	9 	31 	-6 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	55	2 	2 	4 	43 	-16	0 	0 	0
 	G 	37	0 	4 	4 	16 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	25	1 	2 	3 	4 	-9 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	22	0 	3 	3 	44 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	17	1 	1 	2 	24 	-4 	0 	0 	0
 	W 	23	1 	1 	2 	83 	-3 	1 	0 	0
 	D 	6 	0 	2 	2 	8 	-4 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	15	1 	0 	1 	6 	-4 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	6 	0 	0 	0 	5 	-4 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	9 	0 	0 	0 	4 	-1 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	10	0 	0 	0 	35 	-2 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	12	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	6 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	45	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
;Goaltending
Player	MIN 	GP	W 	L 	T 	GA 	GAA 	SO	SA 	SV 	SV%
 	2536	45	20	18	5 	137	3.24	0 	1247	1110	.890
 	2002	37	17	11	4 	107	3.21	0 	930 	823 	.885
 	328 	6 	1 	3 	1 	27 	4.94	0 	184 	157 	.853
Team: 	4866	80	38	32	10	271	3.34	0 	2361	2090	.885
===Playoffs===
;Scoring
Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	PPG	SHG	GWG
 	RW 	7 	4	3	7 	14 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	7 	0	5	5 	19 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	7 	2	2	4 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	7 	2	2	4 	6 	0 	0 	1
 	LW 	7 	1	3	4 	38 	1 	0 	0
 	RW 	7 	1	3	4 	6 	0 	0 	1
 	LW 	7 	3	0	3 	14 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	7 	2	1	3 	6 	0 	0 	1
 	C 	6 	0	3	3 	7 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	7 	0	3	3 	8 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	7 	1	1	2 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	1 	1	0	1 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	W 	5 	1	0	1 	13 	1 	0 	0
 	D 	7 	1	0	1 	20 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	6 	0	1	1 	4 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	7 	0	1	1 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	1 	0	0	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	2 	0	0	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	7 	0	0	0 	23 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	7 	0	0	0 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	7 	0	0	0 	11 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	3 	0	0	0 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	4 	0	0	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
;Goaltending
Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA 	SO	SA 	SV 	SV%
 	309	4 	2	2	9 	1.75	1 	143	134	.937
 	180	3 	1	2	9 	3.00	0 	76 	67 	.882
Team: 	489	7 	3	4	18	2.21	1 	219	201	.918
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes; PPG=Power-play goals; SHG=Short-handed goals; GWG=Game-winning goals 
MIN=Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; SO = Shutouts; SA=Shots Against; SV=Shots saved; SV% = Save Percentage 
==Awards and Records==
*Larry Murphy, Defense, NHL Second Team All-Star
==Transactions==
==Draft Picks==
==Farm Teams==
==See Also==
*1986–87 NHL season
==References==
==External Links==
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Washington Capitals season, 1986–87
Washington Capitals season, 1986–87
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