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Wednesday, January 7, 1981 · Civic Arena

Islanders 3 at Penguins 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 60OVR Paul Baxter Penguins First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG C 93OVR Paul Gardner Penguins Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG R 95OVR Rick Kehoe Penguins Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:20 Steve Tambellini (13) Unassisted NYI 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 11:03 Peter Lee (13) Greg Malone (11) NYI 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 13:01 Paul Baxter (3) Russ Anderson (12), Mark Johnson (11) NYI 1 – 2 PIT
  4. 19:06 Paul Gardner (14) Randy Carlyle (42), Mario Faubert (25) NYI 1 – 3 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 10:18 Rick Kehoe (28) PPG Paul Gardner (13), Randy Carlyle (43) NYI 1 – 4 PIT
  2. 11:04 George Ferguson (14) Paul Baxter (2) NYI 1 – 5 PIT
  3. 14:57 Rick Kehoe (29) Paul Gardner (14), Mario Faubert (26) NYI 1 – 6 PIT
  4. 19:50 Bryan Trottier (14) Mike Bossy (28) NYI 2 – 6 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 7:18 Butch Goring (16) PPG Bob Bourne (24), Mike Bossy (29) NYI 3 – 6 PIT
  2. 8:03 Paul Baxter (4) Unassisted NYI 3 – 7 PIT

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Bossy R 0 2 1 +1 1.48
Bryan Trottier C 1 0 2 0 0.75
Steve Tambellini C 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Butch Goring C 1 0 1 -2 0.53
Bob Bourne C 0 1 2 -2 0.48
John Tonelli L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Clark Gillies L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Ken Morrow D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Stefan Persson D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Jean Potvin D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Denis Potvin D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Anders Kallur C 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Garry Howatt L 0 0 1 -1 -0.52
Dave Langevin D 0 0 0 -2 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith L 50 43 7 .860 60:00 -0.95

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Paul Baxter D 2 1 5 +3 2.65
Paul Gardner C 1 2 2 +3 2.60
Rick Kehoe R 2 0 4 +2 2.10
Randy Carlyle D 0 2 4 +1 1.55
Mario Faubert D 0 2 5 +1 1.48
George Ferguson C 1 0 7 +1 1.43
Russ Anderson D 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Peter Lee R 1 0 4 0 1.05
Mark Johnson C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Greg Malone C 0 1 2 0 0.63
Rod Schutt L 0 0 3 +2 0.52
Dave Burrows D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Pat Hughes R 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Ross Lonsberry L 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Gary Rissling L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jim Hamilton R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Nick Ricci W 15 12 3 .800 60:00 -1.05