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Wednesday, January 9, 1980 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Islanders 2 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 74OVR Richie Dunn Sabres First Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG R 97OVR Mike Bossy Islanders Second Star 1A · 6 SOG L 92OVR Rick Martin Sabres Third Star 1G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:53 Bryan Trottier (23) PPG Clark Gillies (22), Mike Bossy (15) NYI 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 10:46 Craig Ramsay (11) PPG Richie Dunn (15), Gilbert Perreault (29) NYI 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 15:30 Rick Martin (20) Jerry Korab (5) NYI 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 16:45 John Tonelli (8) Bobby Nystrom (4), Stefan Persson (16) NYI 2 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 11:27 Richie Dunn (3) Ric Seiling (18), Rick Dudley (9) NYI 2 – 3 BUF

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Bossy R 0 1 6 0 1.08
Bryan Trottier C 1 0 5 0 0.98
John Tonelli L 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Clark Gillies L 0 1 0 0 0.63
Bobby Nystrom R 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Stefan Persson D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bob Bourne C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Duane Sutter R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Billy Harris R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Anders Kallur C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Lorne Henning C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dave Lewis D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dave Langevin D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith L 29 26 3 .897 59:13 0.35

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Richie Dunn D 1 1 6 0 1.83
Rick Martin L 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Rick Dudley L 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Ric Seiling R 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Gilbert Perreault C 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Craig Ramsay L 1 0 1 0 0.68
John Van Boxmeer D 0 0 6 +1 0.60
Jerry Korab D 0 1 1 0 0.55
Don Luce C 0 0 2 0 0.15
John Gould R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Danny Gare R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Derek Smith C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Bill Hajt D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tony McKegney L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards W 22 20 2 .909 60:00 0.50