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Wednesday, February 4, 1981 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 3 at Rangers 9

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 92OVR Don Maloney Rangers First Star 3G · 2A · 6 SOG C 73OVR Dean Talafous Rangers Second Star 2G · 4 SOG D 84OVR Stefan Persson Islanders Third Star 3A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:49 Don Maloney (14) SHG Eddie Johnstone (23) NYI 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 8:51 Mike Allison (18) PPG Ron Greschner (25) NYI 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 9:02 Dave Langevin (1) Stefan Persson (39), Steve Tambellini (15) NYI 1 – 2 NYR
  4. 14:10 Steve Vickers (13) PPG Ron Greschner (26), Anders Hedberg (25) NYI 1 – 3 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 9:22 Gary Burns (1) Dave Silk (10), Nick Fotiu (5) NYI 1 – 4 NYR
  2. 10:30 Bryan Trottier (22) PPG Stefan Persson (40), Bob Bourne (31) NYI 2 – 4 NYR
  3. 15:08 Ron Duguay (7) PPG Don Maloney (17), Ron Greschner (27) NYI 2 – 5 NYR
  4. 17:05 Don Maloney (15) PPG Dave Maloney (24), Eddie Johnstone (24) NYI 2 – 6 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 1:47 Don Maloney (16) SHG Ed Hospodar (10) NYI 2 – 7 NYR
  2. 4:58 Dean Talafous (8) Don Maloney (18) NYI 2 – 8 NYR
  3. 11:37 Dean Talafous (9) Steve Vickers (25) NYI 2 – 9 NYR
  4. 18:14 Bob Bourne (23) Anders Kallur (22), Stefan Persson (41) NYI 3 – 9 NYR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Stefan Persson D 0 3 3 -1 1.80
Bob Bourne C 1 1 5 +1 1.75
Anders Kallur C 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Bryan Trottier C 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Steve Tambellini C 0 1 1 -1 0.40
John Tonelli L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Butch Goring C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dave Langevin D 1 0 2 -1 -0.15
Ken Morrow D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 2 -1 -0.30
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 2 -1 -0.75
Denis Potvin D 0 0 3 -2 -0.75
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 -0.83
Clark Gillies L 0 0 2 -1 -0.90
Mike Bossy R 0 0 0 -2 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch — 4 2 2 .500 18:23 -1.30
Billy Smith L 28 21 7 .750 41:37 -3.15

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Don Maloney L 3 2 6 +2 4.10
Dean Talafous C 2 0 4 0 1.80
Steve Vickers L 1 1 2 0 1.53
Ron Greschner D 0 3 1 +2 1.50
Eddie Johnstone R 0 2 3 +2 1.10
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Ron Duguay C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Mike Allison R 1 0 2 0 0.60
Dave Maloney D 0 1 2 +3 0.55
Nick Fotiu L 0 1 1 +1 0.40
Ed Hospodar D 0 1 1 -1 0.40
Barry Beck D 0 0 4 0 0.30
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Gary Burns L 1 0 1 0 0.07
Dave Silk R 0 1 0 +1 0.03
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 0 +1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert W 26 23 3 .885 60:00 0.05