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Wednesday, December 31, 1980 · Madison Square Garden

Rockies 6 at Rangers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 57OVR Ed Cooper Rockies First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG RC C 80OVR Walt McKechnie Rockies Second Star 2G · 2 SOG R 82OVR Lanny McDonald Rockies Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:19 Eddie Johnstone (11) Tom Laidlaw (9), Barry Beck (7) CLR 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 11:43 Rene Robert (7) Unassisted CLR 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 12:26 Lanny McDonald (17) Joel Quenneville (14) CLR 2 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 0:09 Walt McKechnie (10) Ed Cooper (3), Lanny McDonald (22) CLR 3 – 1 NYR
  2. 6:58 Ulf Nilsson (2) Anders Hedberg (20) CLR 3 – 2 NYR
  3. 15:46 Ed Cooper (2) Joel Quenneville (15) CLR 4 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 5:51 Ed Cooper (3) PPG Mike McEwen (20), Rob Ramage (23) CLR 5 – 2 NYR
  2. 8:30 Mike Allison (15) Jeff Bandura (1), Eddie Johnstone (16) CLR 5 – 3 NYR
  3. 12:31 Dean Talafous (3) Steve Vickers (18), Walt Tkaczuk (14) CLR 5 – 4 NYR
  4. 19:48 Walt McKechnie (11) Ron Delorme (12), Rob Ramage (24) CLR 6 – 4 NYR

Colorado Rockies

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ed Cooper L 2 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 2.13
Walt McKechnie C 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Lanny McDonald R 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Rene Robert R 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.35
Rob Ramage D 0 2 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.18
Joel Quenneville D 0 2 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.18
Mike McEwen D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Ron Delorme C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Doug Berry C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Jack Hughes D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Mike Kitchen D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bobby Sheehan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jack Valiquette C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Joseph Ward C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Barry Smith C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Gillis L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jari Kaarela W 30 26 4 .867 60:00 -0.40

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Eddie Johnstone R 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.08
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Dean Talafous C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Mike Allison R 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Steve Vickers L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Tom Laidlaw D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Ulf Nilsson C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.53
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Barry Beck D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Jeff Bandura D 0 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.25
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Don Maloney L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Phil Esposito C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Dave Silk R 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Gary Burns L 0 0 1 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 23 18 5 .783 59:11 -1.95