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Tuesday, February 17, 1981 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Maple Leafs 8 at Islanders 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Bill Derlago Maple Leafs First Star 1G · 2A · 6 SOG R 80OVR Rick Vaive Maple Leafs Second Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG C 95OVR Darryl Sittler Maple Leafs Third Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:11 Robert Picard (6) Darryl Sittler (30), Wilf Paiement (38) TOR 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 6:29 Bob Lorimer (1) Unassisted TOR 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 7:51 Bill Derlago (22) Pat Hickey (24), Rick Vaive (25) TOR 2 – 1 NYI
  4. 16:04 Wayne Merrick (7) Bobby Nystrom (20), Ken Morrow (5) TOR 2 – 2 NYI
  5. 19:16 Rick Vaive (24) PPG Dave Farrish (13), Bill Derlago (26) TOR 3 – 2 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 3:04 Bruce Boudreau (6) Rocky Saganiuk (16) TOR 4 – 2 NYI
  2. 9:53 Denis Potvin (16) PPG Clark Gillies (37), Anders Kallur (24) TOR 4 – 3 NYI
  3. 11:00 Mike Bossy (55) PPG Clark Gillies (38) TOR 4 – 4 NYI
  4. 12:54 Darryl Sittler (32) Ian Turnbull (30), Wilf Paiement (39) TOR 5 – 4 NYI
  5. 13:19 Denis Potvin (17) Bobby Nystrom (21) TOR 5 – 5 NYI
  6. 17:49 Rick Vaive (25) Bill Derlago (27), Borje Salming (46) TOR 6 – 5 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 10:32 Wilf Paiement (28) Darryl Sittler (31) TOR 7 – 5 NYI
  2. 19:54 Rocky Saganiuk (9) Ian Turnbull (31) TOR 8 – 5 NYI

Toronto Maple Leafs

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bill Derlago C 1 2 6 +2 2.60
Rick Vaive R 2 1 2 +2 2.58
Darryl Sittler C 1 2 4 +1 2.45
Wilf Paiement R 1 2 6 0 2.45
Rocky Saganiuk R 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Ian Turnbull D 0 2 2 +2 1.70
Bruce Boudreau C 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Robert Picard D 1 0 3 0 0.98
Borje Salming D 0 1 1 +2 0.85
Dave Farrish D 0 1 3 -1 0.70
John Anderson R 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Terry Martin L 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Vitezslav Duris D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Pat Hickey L 0 1 1 +1 0.18
Barry Melrose D 0 0 0 +4 0.15
Paul Marshall L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 32 27 5 .844 60:00 -1.05

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Denis Potvin D 2 0 5 0 1.73
Bobby Nystrom R 0 2 4 0 1.55
Bob Lorimer D 1 0 3 0 0.98
Clark Gillies L 0 2 2 -2 0.80
Wayne Merrick C 1 0 3 -2 0.68
Mike Bossy R 1 0 3 -3 0.53
Anders Kallur C 0 1 2 -1 0.48
Ken Morrow D 0 1 1 -2 0.40
Bob Bourne C 0 0 4 -1 0.00
Steve Tambellini C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Lorne Henning C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dave Langevin D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Butch Goring C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Stefan Persson D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Garry Howatt L 0 0 1 -2 -0.38
Jean Potvin D 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch L 15 13 2 .867 26:34 -0.20
Billy Smith — 24 19 5 .792 32:54 -1.85