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Wednesday, January 28, 1981 · The Forum

Rangers 6 at Kings 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 69OVR Jere Gillis Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG R 89OVR Eddie Johnstone Rangers Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG R 83OVR Anders Hedberg Rangers Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:06 Ron Greschner (17) Don Maloney (16), Eddie Johnstone (22) NYR 1 – 0 LAK
  2. 13:11 Anders Hedberg (19) PPG Ulf Nilsson (11), Steve Vickers (24) NYR 2 – 0 LAK
  3. 15:48 Marcel Dionne (42) PPG Charlie Simmer (40), Larry Murphy (44) NYR 2 – 1 LAK

2nd Period

  1. 12:09 Jere Gillis (7) Walt Tkaczuk (19), Dean Talafous (7) NYR 3 – 1 LAK
  2. 13:44 Greg Terrion (7) Rob Palmer (2), Mike Murphy (12) NYR 3 – 2 LAK
  3. 19:00 Dave Maloney (8) Jere Gillis (12) NYR 4 – 2 LAK

3rd Period

  1. 7:22 Eddie Johnstone (18) Dave Maloney (23) NYR 5 – 2 LAK
  2. 17:21 Anders Hedberg (20) Tom Laidlaw (11), Ulf Nilsson (12) NYR 6 – 2 LAK

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Jere Gillis L 1 1 3 +3 2.05
Eddie Johnstone R 1 1 1 +2 1.75
Anders Hedberg R 2 0 3 0 1.73
Dave Maloney D 1 1 2 +3 1.67
Ulf Nilsson C 0 2 0 +1 1.40
Ron Greschner D 1 0 3 +3 1.28
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Dean Talafous C 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Tom Laidlaw D 0 1 0 +2 0.78
Steve Vickers L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Don Maloney L 0 1 1 +2 0.70
Mike Allison R 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Ed Hospodar D 0 0 0 +2 0.15
Barry Beck D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Ron Duguay C 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert W 25 23 2 .920 60:00 0.80

Los Angeles Kings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Murphy R 0 1 4 0 0.93
Greg Terrion C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Marcel Dionne C 1 0 6 -2 0.90
Rob Palmer D 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Charlie Simmer L 0 1 1 -2 0.25
Larry Murphy D 0 1 0 -3 0.18
Dean Hopkins R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Garry Unger C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Billy Harris R 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Steve Jensen L 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Doug Halward D 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Don Waddell C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
John Gibson C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Jerry Korab D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Dave Taylor R 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Jim Fox R 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Dan Bonar C 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mario Lessard L 22 16 6 .727 60:00 -2.90