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Monday, January 12, 1981 · Boston Garden

North Stars 3 at Bruins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 98OVR Ray Bourque Bruins First Star 1G · 3 SOG R 97OVR Rick Middleton Bruins Second Star 1G · 2 SOG R 79OVR Dwight Foster Bruins Third Star 1G · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 2:13 Steve Payne (17) PPG Bobby Smith (31), Tim Young (24) MNS 1 – 0 BOS
  2. 3:27 Tom McCarthy (17) Kent-Erik Andersson (15) MNS 2 – 0 BOS
  3. 9:42 Peter McNab (20) PPG Brad Park (27) MNS 2 – 1 BOS
  4. 11:31 Dwight Foster (11) Brad McCrimmon (11), Jean Ratelle (14) MNS 2 – 2 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 11:02 Ron Friest (1) Gordie Roberts (18) MNS 3 – 2 BOS
  2. 11:13 Rick Middleton (17) Unassisted MNS 3 – 3 BOS
  3. 18:00 Ray Bourque (9) Wayne Cashman (18), Keith Crowder (5) MNS 3 – 4 BOS

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tom McCarthy L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Kent-Erik Andersson R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Tim Young C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Steve Payne L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Bobby Smith C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Ron Friest L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.53
Gordie Roberts D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.48
Steve Christoff C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Polich C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tom Younghans R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Al MacAdam R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Mike Eaves C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Curt Giles D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Fred Barrett D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Craig Hartsburg D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Jack Carlson L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche L 24 20 4 .833 59:14 -1.00

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ray Bourque D 1 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.12
Rick Middleton R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Dwight Foster R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Jean Ratelle C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Wayne Cashman L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Keith Crowder R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Brad Park D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Brad McCrimmon D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.70
Peter McNab C 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Don Marcotte L 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Craig MacTavish C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Steve Kasper C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Dick Redmond D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Mike Milbury D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mike O'connell D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Terry O'Reilly R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.60
Stan Jonathan L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rogie Vachon W 10 7 3 .700 60:00 -1.55