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Sunday, December 30, 1979 · Madison Square Garden

Capitals 2 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 94OVR Ulf Nilsson Rangers First Star 3A · 4 SOG D 97OVR Barry Beck Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG R 89OVR Anders Hedberg Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:04 Guy Charron (8) Tom Rowe (14) WSH 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 11:44 Barry Beck (7) PPG Steve Vickers (15), Ulf Nilsson (29) WSH 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 0:10 Claude Larose (2) Ron Duguay (12), Barry Beck (25) WSH 1 – 2 NYR
  2. 10:27 Eddie Johnstone (6) Dave Maloney (11) WSH 1 – 3 NYR
  3. 11:47 Anders Hedberg (20) Ulf Nilsson (30), Barry Beck (26) WSH 1 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 2:46 Antero Lehtonen (3) Rolf Edberg (2) WSH 2 – 4 NYR
  2. 11:37 Steve Vickers (16) Ulf Nilsson (31), Anders Hedberg (17) WSH 2 – 5 NYR

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Antero Lehtonen R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Guy Charron C 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.98
Tom Rowe R 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Rolf Edberg C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Mike Gartner R 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Leif Svensson D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Greg Polis R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Mark Lofthouse R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ryan Walter C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Wes Jarvis C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rick Green D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Peter Scamurra D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Paul MacKinnon D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rollie Boutin L 29 24 5 .828 60:00 -1.35

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ulf Nilsson C 0 3 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.48
Barry Beck D 1 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 2.30
Anders Hedberg R 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Steve Vickers L 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Eddie Johnstone R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Claude Larose L 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Ron Duguay C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Dave Maloney D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Ron Greschner D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.45
Dean Talafous C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Warren Miller R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Frank Beaton L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Phil Esposito C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Mario Marois D 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Don Murdoch R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Don Maloney L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Baker W 25 23 2 .920 60:00 0.80