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Saturday, January 17, 1981 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Capitals 4 at Islanders 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Mike Bossy Islanders First Star 3G · 1A · 10 SOG C 98OVR Bryan Trottier Islanders Second Star 3A · 4 SOG D 80OVR Bob Lorimer Islanders Third Star 3A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 16:17 Ryan Walter (14) Mike Gartner (24), Rick Green (12) WSH 1 – 0 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 5:49 Rolf Edberg (4) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (16), James McTaggart (2) WSH 2 – 0 NYI
  2. 16:39 John Tonelli (15) Bobby Nystrom (15), Ken Morrow (3) WSH 2 – 1 NYI
  3. 19:03 Ryan Walter (15) Pat Ribble (8), Rolf Edberg (3) WSH 3 – 1 NYI
  4. 19:36 Mike Bossy (46) Bryan Trottier (52) WSH 3 – 2 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 8:35 Mike Bossy (47) Bryan Trottier (53), Bob Lorimer (8) WSH 3 – 3 NYI
  2. 9:53 Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (14) Dennis Ververgaert (19), Rolf Edberg (4) WSH 4 – 3 NYI
  3. 10:06 Bob Bourne (22) Anders Kallur (19), Bob Lorimer (9) WSH 4 – 4 NYI
  4. 15:39 Clark Gillies (18) Bob Lorimer (10), Mike Bossy (31) WSH 4 – 5 NYI
  5. 18:52 Mike Bossy (48) Bryan Trottier (54) WSH 4 – 6 NYI

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rolf Edberg C 1 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.60
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 1 1 8 0 0 +2 0:00 2.28
Ryan Walter C 2 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 1.50
Dennis Ververgaert R 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Pat Ribble D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Mike Gartner R 0 1 4 0 0 -3 0:00 0.48
Rick Green D 0 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Howard Walker D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Jean Pronovost R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Bob Kelly L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Rick Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Wes Jarvis C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Glen Currie C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Yvon Labre D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.22
James McTaggart D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.80
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rollie Boutin L 43 38 5 .884 59:52 0.05

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Bossy R 3 1 10 0 0 +3 0:00 4.08
Bryan Trottier C 0 3 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.63
Bob Lorimer D 0 3 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.63
Clark Gillies L 1 0 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.28
John Tonelli L 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Bobby Nystrom R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Bob Bourne C 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Ken Morrow D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Anders Kallur C 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Denis Potvin D 0 0 1 0 0 +3 0:00 0.37
Lorne Henning C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Dave Langevin D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Stefan Persson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Butch Goring C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 39 35 4 .897 60:00 0.50