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Wednesday, December 6, 1972 · Madison Square Garden

Sabres 3 at Rangers 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 86OVR Gerry Meehan Sabres First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG D 78OVR Mike Robitaille Sabres Second Star 2A · 4 SOG G 83OVR Dave Dryden Sabres Third Star 31 SV · .939

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:05 Bill Fairbairn (11) Walt Tkaczuk (17), Ted Irvine (5) BUF 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 8:23 Randy Wyrozub (2) Mike Robitaille (5), Craig Ramsay (3) BUF 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 18:54 Jean Ratelle (12) Rod Gilbert (24) BUF 1 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 8:23 Hugh Harris (3) Gerry Meehan (6), Mike Robitaille (6) BUF 2 – 2 NYR
  2. 17:17 Gerry Meehan (13) Jim Lorentz (14) BUF 3 – 2 NYR

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Gerry Meehan C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Mike Robitaille D 0 2 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Hugh Harris C 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Jim Lorentz C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Randy Wyrozub C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Craig Ramsay L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Steve Atkinson R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Don Luce C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Larry Mickey R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Butch Deadmarsh L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Paul Terbenche D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rene Robert R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Larry Hillman D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Larry Carriere D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rick Martin L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dave Dryden W 33 31 2 .939 60:00 1.60

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bill Fairbairn R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Ted Irvine L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Jean Ratelle C 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Rod Gilbert R 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Rod Seiling D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Gene Carr C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Randy Legge D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bruce MacGregor C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
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
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ab DeMarco D 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Ron Harris D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Vic Hadfield L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Villemure L 28 25 3 .893 59:04 0.25