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Sunday, October 15, 1972 · Madison Square Garden

North Stars 2 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 87OVR Vic Hadfield Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG C 86OVR Walt Tkaczuk Rangers Second Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG D 93OVR Dale Rolfe Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:24 Danny Grant (2) Ted Harris (1), Bob Nevin (1) MNS 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 13:28 Bill Fairbairn (2) Dale Rolfe (1), Vic Hadfield (5) MNS 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 19:36 Vic Hadfield (1) PPG Jean Ratelle (3), Rod Gilbert (3) MNS 1 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 1:03 Walt Tkaczuk (1) Gene Carr (1), Brad Park (3) MNS 1 – 3 NYR
  2. 10:01 Dale Rolfe (1) Brad Park (4), Walt Tkaczuk (2) MNS 1 – 4 NYR
  3. 10:56 J.P. Parise (2) PPG Danny Grant (1), Bill Goldsworthy (2) MNS 2 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 12:24 Steve Vickers (2) Jean Ratelle (4), Bobby Rousseau (2) MNS 2 – 5 NYR
  2. 18:00 Steve Vickers (3) Unassisted MNS 2 – 6 NYR

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Danny Grant L 1 1 2 -2 1.23
Ted Harris D 0 1 1 0 0.55
J.P. Parise L 1 0 1 0 0.52
Bill Goldsworthy R 0 1 2 0 0.48
Bob Nevin R 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Buster Harvey R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Barry Gibbs D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Murray Oliver C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dean Prentice L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Lou Nanne D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Charlie Burns C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Jerry Byers L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Doug Mohns L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Jude Drouin C 0 0 3 -3 -0.22
Tom Reid D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Dennis O'Brien D 0 0 2 -4 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gump Worsley L 44 38 6 .864 60:00 -0.70

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Vic Hadfield L 1 1 7 +1 2.05
Walt Tkaczuk C 1 1 7 +1 2.05
Dale Rolfe D 1 1 4 +4 1.98
Steve Vickers L 2 0 2 +2 1.95
Brad Park D 0 2 3 +3 1.92
Jean Ratelle C 0 2 3 +2 1.78
Bobby Rousseau R 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Gene Carr C 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Bill Fairbairn R 1 0 2 +1 0.90
Rod Gilbert R 0 1 2 0 0.78
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 5 +1 0.53
Ab DeMarco D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Ron Stewart R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Glen Sather L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Curt Bennett R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rod Seiling D 0 0 2 0 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Villemure W 19 17 2 .895 60:00 0.20