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Saturday, January 17, 1981 · McNichols Sports Arena

Canucks 5 at Rockies 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 74OVR Darcy Rota Canucks First Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG G 86OVR Richard Brodeur Canucks Second Star 30 SV · .938 D 84OVR Kevin McCarthy Canucks Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:44 Merlin Malinowski (12) Rob Ramage (27) VAN 0 – 1 CLR
  2. 12:35 Rick Lanz (5) Darcy Rota (19), Dennis Kearns (13) VAN 1 – 1 CLR

2nd Period

  1. 5:08 Rick Blight (1) Lars Lindgren (14), Kevin McCarthy (21) VAN 2 – 1 CLR
  2. 6:52 Curt Fraser (22) Unassisted VAN 3 – 1 CLR

3rd Period

  1. 4:51 Darcy Rota (16) Ivan Boldirev (20), Brent Ashton (7) VAN 4 – 1 CLR
  2. 11:07 Stan Smyl (19) Thomas Gradin (35), Kevin McCarthy (22) VAN 5 – 1 CLR
  3. 12:36 Lucien DeBlois (14) Mike McEwen (25), Yvon Vautour (13) VAN 5 – 2 CLR

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Darcy Rota L 1 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Kevin McCarthy D 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
Stan Smyl R 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Curt Fraser L 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Rick Lanz D 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Ivan Boldirev C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Rick Blight R 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Brent Ashton L 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Thomas Gradin C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Dennis Kearns D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Lars Lindgren D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dave Williams L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Per-Olov Brasar C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mario Marois D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jerry Butler R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Gerry Minor C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Richard Brodeur W 32 30 2 .938 60:00 1.50

Colorado Rockies

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Merlin Malinowski C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Lucien DeBlois C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Mike McEwen D 0 1 6 0 0 -2 0:00 0.77
Yvon Vautour R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Rob Ramage D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Mike Kitchen D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Lanny McDonald R 0 0 5 0 0 -2 0:00 0.08
Rene Robert R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bob Attwell R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Joel Quenneville D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bobby Sheehan C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ed Cooper L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Barry Smith C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Doug Berry C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Walt McKechnie C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Mike Gillis L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jack Hughes D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Hardy Astrom L 17 14 3 .824 40:00 -0.85
Al Smith — 14 12 2 .857 20:00 -0.30