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Friday, January 2, 1981 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 1 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 94OVR Dave Maloney Rangers First Star 2G · 5 SOG C 77OVR Walt Tkaczuk Rangers Second Star 1A · 4 SOG L 81OVR Steve Vickers Rangers Third Star 1G · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 18:47 Clark Gillies (16) Bobby Nystrom (14), Steve Tambellini (11) NYI 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 19:45 Dave Maloney (5) PPG Anders Hedberg (21), Barry Beck (8) NYI 1 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 6:13 Dave Maloney (6) PPG Dave Silk (9), Gary Burns (1) NYI 1 – 2 NYR
  2. 19:49 Steve Vickers (11) Walt Tkaczuk (15), Carol Vadnais (8) NYI 1 – 3 NYR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Steve Tambellini C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Bobby Nystrom R 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Clark Gillies L 1 0 4 0 0.75
Anders Kallur C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Ken Morrow D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 0.00
John Tonelli L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Butch Goring C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bob Bourne C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mike Bossy R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dave Langevin D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Stefan Persson D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Bryan Trottier C 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Denis Potvin D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch L 22 20 2 .909 59:11 0.50

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dave Maloney D 2 0 5 0 1.73
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Steve Vickers L 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Dave Silk R 0 1 4 0 0.93
Barry Beck D 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 1 0 0.70
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 1 0 0.70
Gary Burns L 0 1 0 -1 0.32
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jeff Bandura D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dean Talafous C 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Don Maloney L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mike Allison R 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Phil Esposito C 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert W 17 16 1 .941 60:00 0.85