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Saturday, December 4, 1976 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Rangers 11 at North Stars 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 92OVR Rod Gilbert Rangers First Star 2G · 3A · 4 SOG R 96OVR Don Murdoch Rangers Second Star 2G · 2A · 2 SOG RC R 80OVR Ken Hodge Rangers Third Star 1G · 3A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:04 Ernie Hicke (3) PPG Dwight Bialowas (8), Dean Talafous (10) NYR 0 – 1 MNS
  2. 4:12 Steve Vickers (9) Rod Gilbert (23), Wayne Dillon (10) NYR 1 – 1 MNS
  3. 10:04 Rod Gilbert (13) Wayne Dillon (11), Steve Vickers (12) NYR 2 – 1 MNS
  4. 12:32 Roland Eriksson (9) Glen Sharpley (6), Lou Nanne (3) NYR 2 – 2 MNS
  5. 14:47 Don Murdoch (21) PPG Rod Gilbert (24), Mike McEwen (9) NYR 3 – 2 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 1:13 Rod Gilbert (14) Ron Greschner (12), Wayne Dillon (12) NYR 4 – 2 MNS
  2. 7:12 Bill Goldsworthy (3) Phil Esposito (18), Ken Hodge (15) NYR 5 – 2 MNS
  3. 7:48 Don Murdoch (22) Greg Polis (11), Walt Tkaczuk (16) NYR 6 – 2 MNS
  4. 9:38 Nick Fotiu (1) Pat Hickey (4), Pete Stemkowski (4) NYR 7 – 2 MNS
  5. 12:41 Ernie Hicke (4) PPG Unassisted NYR 7 – 3 MNS
  6. 15:55 Phil Esposito (12) PPG Ken Hodge (16) NYR 8 – 3 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 4:41 Carol Vadnais (3) Don Murdoch (10) NYR 9 – 3 MNS
  2. 10:05 Pat Hickey (6) Ken Hodge (17) NYR 10 – 3 MNS
  3. 18:25 Tom Younghans (2) Tim Young (22), Ernie Hicke (5) NYR 10 – 4 MNS
  4. 19:26 Ken Hodge (9) PPG Don Murdoch (11), Rod Gilbert (25) NYR 11 – 4 MNS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rod Gilbert R 2 3 4 +2 3.98
Don Murdoch R 2 2 2 +2 3.20
Ken Hodge R 1 3 2 +2 3.08
Wayne Dillon C 0 3 1 +2 2.25
Phil Esposito C 1 1 5 +2 2.05
Carol Vadnais D 1 0 5 +5 1.88
Steve Vickers L 1 1 1 +2 1.75
Pat Hickey L 1 1 1 +1 1.60
Ron Greschner D 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Dave Maloney D 0 0 7 +4 1.13
Greg Polis R 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 3 +2 1.00
Bill Goldsworthy R 1 0 3 +1 0.98
Nick Fotiu L 1 0 1 0 0.68
Pete Stemkowski C 0 1 0 0 0.63
Mike McEwen D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Dave Farrish D 0 0 0 +1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson W 30 26 4 .867 60:00 -0.40

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ernie Hicke L 2 1 3 -2 2.05
Roland Eriksson C 1 0 6 -1 1.05
Tom Younghans R 1 0 4 -2 0.75
Glen Sharpley C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Lou Nanne D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Dean Talafous C 0 1 5 -3 0.55
Dwight Bialowas D 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Tim Young C 0 1 0 -2 0.33
Dennis O'Brien D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Alex Pirus R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Rich Nantais L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Nick Beverley D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Fred Barrett D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Tom Reid D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Steve Jensen L 0 0 3 -2 -0.38
Bill Hogaboam C 0 0 1 -3 -0.52
Doug Hicks D 0 0 0 -4 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pete Lopresti — 21 17 4 .810 30:22 -1.30
Gary Smith L 19 12 7 .632 29:38 -4.05