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Wednesday, January 26, 1972 · Madison Square Garden

Sabres 1 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Rod Gilbert Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 99OVR Jean Ratelle Rangers Second Star 2G · 5 SOG L 60OVR Ted Irvine Rangers Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:29 Ted Irvine (9) Rod Seiling (25), Bobby Rousseau (24) BUF 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 16:27 Jean Ratelle (29) Rod Gilbert (35) BUF 0 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:47 Ted Irvine (10) Jim Neilson (23), Bruce MacGregor (12) BUF 0 – 3 NYR
  2. 15:08 Jean Ratelle (30) Rod Gilbert (36), Vic Hadfield (37) BUF 0 – 4 NYR
  3. 17:54 Craig Ramsay (4) Randy Wyrozub (1), Kevin O'Shea (9) BUF 1 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 8:35 Rod Gilbert (33) Walt Tkaczuk (24), Vic Hadfield (38) BUF 1 – 5 NYR

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Craig Ramsay L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Kevin O'Shea R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Randy Wyrozub C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Don Luce C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Danny Lawson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Anderson R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Jim Watson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rick Martin L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Jim Lorentz C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Terry Ball D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Chris Evans D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mike Byers R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gerry Meehan C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Steve Atkinson R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Larry Hillman D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Al Hamilton D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roger Crozier L 41 36 5 .878 60:00 -0.15

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rod Gilbert R 1 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.53
Jean Ratelle C 2 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Ted Irvine L 2 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Vic Hadfield L 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Rod Seiling D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Jim Neilson D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Bobby Rousseau R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Bruce MacGregor C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Brad Park D 0 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Pierre Jarry L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bill Fairbairn R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Ab DeMarco D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Glen Sather L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gary Doak D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Gene Carr C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ed Giacomin W 17 16 1 .941 60:00 0.85