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Sunday, December 19, 1976 · Madison Square Garden

Barons 2 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Phil Esposito Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 7 SOG C 96OVR Dennis Maruk Barons Second Star 2A · 5 SOG D 79OVR Mike McEwen Rangers Third Star 1G · 6 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 15:50 Phil Esposito (15) Bill Goldsworthy (7), Ken Hodge (22) CLE 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 7:01 Mike McEwen (6) Phil Esposito (21), Ron Greschner (14) CLE 0 – 2 NYR
  2. 16:06 Steve Vickers (10) PPG Carol Vadnais (21), Phil Esposito (22) CLE 0 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 10:24 Bob Murdoch (13) Al MacAdam (16), Dennis Maruk (19) CLE 1 – 3 NYR
  2. 17:06 Frank Spring (5) Dennis Maruk (20) CLE 2 – 3 NYR

Cleveland Barons

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dennis Maruk C 0 2 5 +2 1.93
Bob Murdoch R 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Al MacAdam R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Frank Spring R 1 0 1 0 0.83
Brent Meeke D 0 0 2 +2 0.45
Jim Neilson D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Dave Gardner C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bob Girard L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mike Christie D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Mike Fidler L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Ralph Klassen C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Ken Kuzyk R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Greg Smith D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jim Moxey R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bob Stewart D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Glenn Patrick D 0 0 0 -2 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche L 39 36 3 .923 60:00 1.35

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Phil Esposito C 1 2 7 +1 2.68
Mike McEwen D 1 0 6 +1 1.35
Ron Greschner D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Bill Goldsworthy R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Steve Vickers L 1 0 1 0 0.83
Ken Hodge R 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Wayne Dillon C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Rod Gilbert R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Don Murdoch R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dave Maloney D 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Greg Polis R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Dave Farrish D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Pat Hickey L 0 0 2 -1 -0.38
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Gratton W 24 22 2 .917 60:00 0.70