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Saturday, December 27, 1980 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Rockies 4 at North Stars 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 91OVR Bobby Smith North Stars First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG L 82OVR Steve Payne North Stars Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG D 75OVR Curt Giles North Stars Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:44 Bobby Smith (15) Al MacAdam (22), Steve Payne (14) CLR 0 – 1 MNS
  2. 4:10 Al MacAdam (10) Bobby Smith (24) CLR 0 – 2 MNS
  3. 7:21 Mike McEwen (7) Unassisted CLR 1 – 2 MNS
  4. 11:25 Walt McKechnie (8) Joel Quenneville (13), Lanny McDonald (20) CLR 2 – 2 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 7:08 Curt Giles (2) Mike Eaves (10) CLR 2 – 3 MNS
  2. 9:20 Joel Quenneville (6) Walt McKechnie (14) CLR 3 – 3 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 5:12 Kent-Erik Andersson (8) Unassisted CLR 3 – 4 MNS
  2. 11:30 Curt Giles (3) Bobby Smith (25), Steve Payne (15) CLR 3 – 5 MNS
  3. 12:31 Yvon Vautour (8) Unassisted CLR 4 – 5 MNS
  4. 19:57 Steve Payne (13) Unassisted CLR 4 – 6 MNS

Colorado Rockies

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Walt McKechnie C 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Joel Quenneville D 1 1 1 +1 1.60
Lanny McDonald R 0 1 4 0 0.93
Yvon Vautour R 1 0 2 +2 0.83
Mike McEwen D 1 0 2 -3 0.45
Rob Ramage D 0 0 6 -1 0.30
Doug Berry C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Ed Cooper L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Ron Delorme C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bobby Sheehan C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Barry Smith C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike Kitchen D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jack Hughes D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Joseph Ward C 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Mike Gillis L 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 1 -4 -0.53
Rene Robert R 0 0 2 -4 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Al Smith L 27 22 5 .815 59:10 -1.55

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bobby Smith C 1 2 3 +2 2.53
Steve Payne L 1 2 2 +2 2.45
Curt Giles D 2 0 3 +2 2.03
Al MacAdam R 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Kent-Erik Andersson R 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Mike Eaves C 0 1 5 -1 0.85
Tom McCarthy L 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Brad Palmer L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Fred Barrett D 0 0 0 +2 0.15
Tom Younghans R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mike Polich C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Craig Hartsburg D 0 0 1 +3 0.00
Steve Christoff C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Ron Zanussi R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Gordie Roberts D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Greg Smith D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Beaupre W 26 22 4 .846 60:00 -0.80