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Saturday, December 20, 1980 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Rangers 3 at North Stars 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 49OVR Chris Kotsopoulos Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG RC R 78OVR Anders Hedberg Rangers Second Star 1A · 5 SOG L 75OVR Steve Payne North Stars Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:36 Chris Kotsopoulos (1) Barry Beck (6) NYR 1 – 0 MNS
  2. 13:01 Ron Greschner (13) Jere Gillis (10), Anders Hedberg (17) NYR 2 – 0 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 3:49 Steve Payne (12) PPG Craig Hartsburg (11), Bobby Smith (21) NYR 2 – 1 MNS
  2. 19:43 Steve Christoff (2) Mike Eaves (6) NYR 2 – 2 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 0:48 Gordie Roberts (3) Al MacAdam (19) NYR 2 – 3 MNS
  2. 13:42 Don Maloney (7) Chris Kotsopoulos (6), Dean Talafous (3) NYR 3 – 3 MNS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Chris Kotsopoulos D 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.60
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Don Maloney L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Jere Gillis L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Ron Greschner D 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Dean Talafous C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Barry Beck D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Phil Esposito C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Gary Burns L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Allison R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Dave Silk R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ed Hospodar D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas T 35 32 3 .914 60:00 0.95

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Steve Payne L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Bobby Smith C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Mike Eaves C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Steve Christoff C 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Gordie Roberts D 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Craig Hartsburg D 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Greg Smith D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.52
Al MacAdam R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.40
Tim Young C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Kent-Erik Andersson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tom McCarthy L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Polich C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Zanussi R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Tom Younghans R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jack Carlson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Curt Giles D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Beaupre T 30 27 3 .900 60:00 0.45