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Sunday, January 4, 1981 · Chicago Stadium

Penguins 2 at Blackhawks 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 98OVR Tony Esposito Blackhawks First Star 37 SV · .949 L 72OVR Rod Schutt Penguins Second Star 1G · 7 SOG D 89OVR Keith Brown Blackhawks Third Star 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:10 Tom Lysiak (12) Unassisted PIT 0 – 1 CHI
  2. 8:25 Doug Wilson (4) PPG Unassisted PIT 0 – 2 CHI
  3. 13:50 Paul Gardner (13) PPG Randy Carlyle (41) PIT 1 – 2 CHI

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 2:37 Denis Savard (13) Reg Kerr (9), Keith Brown (17) PIT 1 – 3 CHI
  2. 19:52 Rod Schutt (14) PPG Orest Kindrachuk (9), Greg Malone (10) PIT 2 – 3 CHI

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rod Schutt L 1 0 7 0 1.28
Randy Carlyle D 0 1 5 -1 0.85
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 1 2 0 0.78
Paul Gardner C 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Greg Malone C 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Rick Kehoe R 0 0 7 -1 0.38
George Ferguson C 0 0 4 0 0.30
Ross Lonsberry L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Pat Hughes R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mark Johnson C 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Jim Hamilton R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Peter Lee R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Russ Anderson D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Mario Faubert D 0 0 5 -1 -0.30
Dave Burrows D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Gary Rissling L 0 0 0 0 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Nick Ricci L 27 24 3 .889 58:46 0.15

Chicago Blackhawks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Keith Brown D 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Tom Lysiak C 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Doug Wilson D 1 0 3 +1 0.98
Denis Savard C 1 0 2 +1 0.75
Reg Kerr C 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Tim Higgins R 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Ted Bulley L 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Al Secord L 0 0 5 0 0.23
Miles Zaharko D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Peter Marsh R 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Rick Paterson C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Greg Fox D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Glen Sharpley C 0 0 3 0 0.07
Florent Robidoux L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Darryl Sutter C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Terry Ruskowski C 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Dave Hutchison D 0 0 0 +1 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tony Esposito W 39 37 2 .949 60:00 2.20