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Thursday, January 13, 1972 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Rangers 5 at Sabres 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 89OVR Bill Fairbairn Rangers First Star 2G · 2A · 5 SOG C 89OVR Walt Tkaczuk Rangers Second Star 2G · 2A · 5 SOG D 96OVR Rod Seiling Rangers Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:12 Bill Fairbairn (9) Brad Park (30), Walt Tkaczuk (20) NYR 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 5:34 Bill Fairbairn (10) Rod Seiling (21), Walt Tkaczuk (21) NYR 2 – 0 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 6:00 Walt Tkaczuk (15) SHG Bill Fairbairn (20) NYR 3 – 0 BUF
  2. 12:42 Walt Tkaczuk (16) Ab DeMarco (6), Bill Fairbairn (21) NYR 4 – 0 BUF
  3. 15:11 Don Luce (5) Danny Lawson (2) NYR 4 – 1 BUF
  4. 17:51 Steve Atkinson (7) Chris Evans (13), Gerry Meehan (16) NYR 4 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 7:16 Gene Carr (9) Rod Seiling (22) NYR 5 – 2 BUF

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bill Fairbairn R 2 2 5 0 0 +5 0:00 3.88
Walt Tkaczuk C 2 2 5 0 0 +5 0:00 3.88
Rod Seiling D 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Gene Carr C 1 0 3 0 0 +4 0:00 1.58
Ab DeMarco D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Jim Neilson D 0 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 0.75
Brad Park D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Gary Doak D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bruce MacGregor C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Ted Irvine L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Dale Rolfe D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Glen Sather L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rod Gilbert R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Jean Ratelle C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Vic Hadfield L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Villemure W 25 23 2 .920 60:00 0.80

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Don Luce C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Gerry Meehan C 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Steve Atkinson R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Danny Lawson R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Ron Anderson R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Chris Evans D 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.25
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Ray Mckay D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Hillman D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Al Hamilton D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Randy Wyrozub C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jim Watson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rick Martin L 0 0 5 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.22
Mike Byers R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Eddie Shack L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 2 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.45
Kevin O'Shea R 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roger Crozier L 37 32 5 .865 60:00 -0.55