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Saturday, January 24, 1981 · Pacific Coliseum

Rangers 7 at Canucks 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 89OVR Eddie Johnstone Rangers First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG L 81OVR Steve Vickers Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG D 96OVR Ron Greschner Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:36 Dean Talafous (5) Jere Gillis (11), Barry Beck (13) NYR 1 – 0 VAN
  2. 12:10 Ulf Nilsson (4) Steve Vickers (22), Barry Beck (14) NYR 2 – 0 VAN
  3. 15:28 Eddie Johnstone (16) Steve Vickers (23), Mike Allison (18) NYR 3 – 0 VAN
  4. 17:46 Dave Maloney (7) Unassisted NYR 4 – 0 VAN

2nd Period

  1. 0:34 Steve Vickers (12) PPG Ron Greschner (23), Ulf Nilsson (10) NYR 5 – 0 VAN
  2. 4:50 Stan Smyl (20) Curt Fraser (19), Thomas Gradin (36) NYR 5 – 1 VAN
  3. 10:08 Ron Greschner (16) Eddie Johnstone (21), Mike Allison (19) NYR 6 – 1 VAN
  4. 12:39 Brent Ashton (13) Per-Olov Brasar (25), Gerry Minor (8) NYR 6 – 2 VAN

3rd Period

  1. 8:31 Ivan Boldirev (19) Kevin McCarthy (23) NYR 6 – 3 VAN
  2. 12:52 Gerry Minor (6) SHG Jerry Butler (12) NYR 6 – 4 VAN
  3. 18:02 Bobby Schmautz (18) Kevin McCarthy (24), Per-Olov Brasar (26) NYR 6 – 5 VAN
  4. 19:55 Eddie Johnstone (17) Don Maloney (15), Dave Maloney (22) NYR 7 – 5 VAN

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Eddie Johnstone R 2 1 2 +3 2.73
Steve Vickers L 1 2 2 +1 2.30
Ron Greschner D 1 1 4 +1 1.83
Mike Allison R 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Barry Beck D 0 2 2 0 1.40
Ulf Nilsson C 1 1 1 0 1.30
Dave Maloney D 1 1 1 +1 1.30
Dean Talafous C 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Don Maloney L 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Jere Gillis L 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Anders Hedberg R 0 0 6 -1 0.30
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Dave Silk R 0 0 1 -2 -0.38
Ed Hospodar D 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 2 -1 -0.53
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 2 +1 -0.75
Chris Kotsopoulos D 0 0 3 0 -1.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert W 26 21 5 .808 60:00 -1.65

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Gerry Minor C 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Per-Olov Brasar C 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Kevin McCarthy D 0 2 2 +1 1.18
Bobby Schmautz R 1 0 3 0 0.83
Brent Ashton L 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Ivan Boldirev C 1 0 3 -2 0.68
Curt Fraser L 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Lars Lindgren D 0 0 1 +3 0.37
Jerry Butler R 0 1 0 -2 0.33
Thomas Gradin C 0 1 0 -2 0.33
Rick Lanz D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Darcy Rota L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Mario Marois D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 3 -2 -0.23
Dave Williams L 0 0 2 0 -0.38
Stan Smyl R 1 0 1 0 -1.50
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Richard Brodeur L 29 23 6 .793 59:10 -2.20