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Sunday, December 9, 1979 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 4 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Bryan Trottier Islanders First Star 3A · 5 SOG C 82OVR Phil Esposito Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG R 80OVR Don Murdoch Oilers Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:56 Barry Beck (5) PPG Don Murdoch (13), Phil Esposito (14) NYI 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 9:15 Bobby Nystrom (4) Glenn Resch (1) NYI 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 16:22 Dean Talafous (2) Dave Maloney (7) NYI 1 – 2 NYR
  4. 19:29 John Tonelli (6) Bryan Trottier (24), Dave Langevin (5) NYI 2 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 4:01 Phil Esposito (13) Don Murdoch (14) NYI 2 – 3 NYR
  2. 15:30 Anders Kallur (5) Bryan Trottier (25), Dave Langevin (6) NYI 3 – 3 NYR
  3. 18:07 Don Maloney (7) Phil Esposito (15), Ron Greschner (13) NYI 3 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 11:28 Bob Bourne (2) PPG Clark Gillies (11), Bryan Trottier (26) NYI 4 – 4 NYR
  2. 16:06 Anders Hedberg (17) Steve Vickers (12), Barry Beck (18) NYI 4 – 5 NYR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bryan Trottier C 0 3 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.40
Anders Kallur C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
John Tonelli L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Dave Langevin D 0 2 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.88
Bob Bourne C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Bobby Nystrom R 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Clark Gillies L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.17
Billy Harris R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Duane Sutter R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Randy Johnston D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Yvon Vautour R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jean Potvin D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Garry Howatt L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.23
Dave Lewis D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch L 32 27 5 .844 59:22 -1.05

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 1 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.38
Don Murdoch R 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.33
Barry Beck D 1 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.30
Anders Hedberg R 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.13
Don Maloney L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.97
Dean Talafous C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Steve Vickers L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Ron Greschner D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Dave Maloney D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.25
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Warren Miller R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ron Duguay C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.23
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Frank Beaton L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Mario Marois D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Baker W 27 23 4 .852 60:00 -0.70