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Saturday, December 9, 1972 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Rangers 4 at Islanders 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 90OVR Bill Fairbairn Rangers First Star 2G · 5 SOG D 97OVR Rod Seiling Rangers Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG G 80OVR Ed Giacomin Rangers Third Star 19 SV · .950

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 15:43 Rod Seiling (6) Gene Carr (5), Pete Stemkowski (11) NYR 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 16:40 Brian Lavender (3) Craig Cameron (4) NYR 1 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 16:19 Bill Fairbairn (12) PPG Bobby Rousseau (14), Walt Tkaczuk (18) NYR 2 – 1 NYI
  2. 17:33 Bill Fairbairn (13) Ted Irvine (6), Ron Harris (6) NYR 3 – 1 NYI
  3. 18:24 Vic Hadfield (12) PPG Rod Seiling (9), Jean Ratelle (22) NYR 4 – 1 NYI

3rd Period

No scoring

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bill Fairbairn R 2 0 5 +1 2.03
Rod Seiling D 1 1 2 +1 1.68
Gene Carr C 0 1 4 +1 0.93
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Ted Irvine L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Pete Stemkowski C 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Vic Hadfield L 1 0 3 -1 0.68
Bobby Rousseau R 0 1 0 0 0.63
Ron Harris D 0 1 2 0 0.63
Jean Ratelle C 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Larry Sacharuk D 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Bruce MacGregor C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Ab DeMarco D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Glen Sather L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rod Gilbert R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Randy Legge D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ed Giacomin W 20 19 1 .950 60:00 1.15

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Brian Lavender L 1 0 4 +1 1.05
Craig Cameron R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Jim Mair D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Bill Mikkelson D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Billy Harris R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Terry Crisp C 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Ken Murray D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Lorne Henning C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Hudson C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Germain Gagnon L 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Tom Miller C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Arnie Brown D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Neil Nicholson D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Don Blackburn L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Brian Spencer L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Bryan Lefley D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith L 29 25 4 .862 60:00 -0.50