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Thursday, January 31, 1980 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Rangers 2 at Sabres 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 44OVR Lindy Ruff Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG RC R 97OVR Danny Gare Sabres Second Star 2G · 6 SOG D 92OVR John Van Boxmeer Sabres Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:17 Gilbert Perreault (30) PPG Lindy Ruff (12), John Van Boxmeer (28) NYR 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 17:40 Phil Esposito (22) Ron Greschner (22), Don Maloney (31) NYR 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 4:55 Danny Gare (29) Lindy Ruff (13), John Van Boxmeer (29) NYR 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 9:41 Craig Ramsay (14) Andre Savard (7), Richie Dunn (21) NYR 1 – 3 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 2:32 Rick Martin (28) Gilbert Perreault (39), Ric Seiling (23) NYR 1 – 4 BUF
  2. 8:52 Danny Gare (30) Tony McKegney (15) NYR 1 – 5 BUF
  3. 9:25 Lindy Ruff (5) Rick Martin (21), Andre Savard (8) NYR 1 – 6 BUF
  4. 10:56 Ron Greschner (13) PPG Dave Maloney (16), Anders Hedberg (23) NYR 2 – 6 BUF

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Greschner D 1 1 7 0 0 -1 0:00 1.75
Phil Esposito C 1 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.20
Don Maloney L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Barry Beck D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.03
Don Murdoch R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Claude Larose L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Mario Marois D 0 0 6 0 0 -3 0:00 0.00
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ed Hospodar D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Ron Duguay C 0 0 5 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.22
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Tim Bothwell D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Pat Conacher L 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert — 10 7 3 .700 22:48 -1.55
Steve Baker L 15 12 3 .800 37:12 -1.05

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Lindy Ruff L 1 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.38
Danny Gare R 2 0 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
John Van Boxmeer D 0 2 3 0 0 +4 0:00 1.93
Gilbert Perreault C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Andre Savard C 0 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Rick Martin L 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Craig Ramsay L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Richie Dunn D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Tony McKegney L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Ric Seiling R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 0.60
Don Luce C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Derek Smith C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bill Hajt D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
John Gould R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jerry Korab D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards W 32 30 2 .938 60:00 1.50