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Saturday, January 31, 1981 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Rangers 7 at North Stars 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 75OVR Ron Duguay Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 74OVR Ulf Nilsson Rangers Second Star 2G · 2 SOG D 79OVR Carol Vadnais Rangers Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:25 Dean Talafous (6) Barry Beck (15), Walt Tkaczuk (20) NYR 1 – 0 MNS
  2. 3:18 Mike Eaves (9) Al MacAdam (31), Gordie Roberts (24) NYR 1 – 1 MNS
  3. 6:50 Don Maloney (13) PPG Mike Allison (20), Carol Vadnais (13) NYR 2 – 1 MNS
  4. 11:10 Ulf Nilsson (5) Ron Duguay (9), Ed Hospodar (9) NYR 3 – 1 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 4:50 Ulf Nilsson (6) Carol Vadnais (14), Barry Beck (16) NYR 4 – 1 MNS
  2. 9:31 Ron Duguay (6) Walt Tkaczuk (21) NYR 5 – 1 MNS
  3. 14:31 Nick Fotiu (6) PPG Anders Hedberg (24), Ron Greschner (24) NYR 6 – 1 MNS
  4. 17:38 Kent-Erik Andersson (12) SHG Mike Eaves (17), Craig Hartsburg (17) NYR 6 – 2 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 11:30 Steve Christoff (14) PPG Curt Giles (14), Al MacAdam (32) NYR 6 – 3 MNS
  2. 14:46 Ron Greschner (18) Mike Allison (21) NYR 7 – 3 MNS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ron Duguay C 1 1 4 +2 1.98
Ulf Nilsson C 2 0 2 +1 1.80
Carol Vadnais D 0 2 3 +2 1.78
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 2 1 +1 1.48
Barry Beck D 0 2 1 +2 1.48
Ron Greschner D 1 1 2 -1 1.38
Nick Fotiu L 1 0 3 +2 1.13
Mike Allison R 0 2 0 +1 1.10
Ed Hospodar D 0 1 4 +2 1.08
Don Maloney L 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Dean Talafous C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 2 0 0.78
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Jere Gillis L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 1 +2 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Baker W 27 24 3 .889 60:00 0.15

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Eaves C 1 1 2 0 1.53
Kent-Erik Andersson R 1 0 4 0 1.05
Craig Hartsburg D 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Steve Christoff C 1 0 4 -2 0.75
Curt Giles D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Al MacAdam R 0 2 0 -2 0.58
Gordie Roberts D 0 1 1 -2 0.40
Brad Palmer L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Mike Polich C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Tom Younghans R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bobby Smith C 0 0 5 -1 -0.15
Jack Carlson L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Steve Payne L 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Tom McCarthy L 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Greg Smith D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Fred Barrett D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 0 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche L 30 23 7 .767 60:00 -2.95