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Sunday, February 22, 1981 · Hartford Civic Center

Rangers 5 at Whalers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 88OVR Pat Boutette Whalers First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG D 99OVR Mark Howe Whalers Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG D 46OVR Gilles Lupien Whalers Third Star 2G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:17 Dave Keon (9) PPG Norm Barnes (10), Warren Miller (19) NYR 0 – 1 HFD
  2. 17:41 Ron Duguay (9) SHG Dean Talafous (11) NYR 1 – 1 HFD
  3. 18:02 Mark Howe (15) PPG Al Sims (28), Mike Rogers (51) NYR 1 – 2 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 11:34 Pat Boutette (23) Mike Rogers (52) NYR 1 – 3 HFD
  2. 13:25 Eddie Johnstone (27) PPG Ulf Nilsson (18), Anders Hedberg (31) NYR 2 – 3 HFD
  3. 13:36 Nick Fotiu (8) Mike Allison (29), Tom Laidlaw (16) NYR 3 – 3 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 0:24 Gilles Lupien (1) Mark Howe (35) NYR 3 – 4 HFD
  2. 8:06 Don Maloney (25) SHG Carol Vadnais (18) NYR 4 – 4 HFD
  3. 15:19 Gilles Lupien (2) Pat Boutette (41), Blaine Stoughton (25) NYR 4 – 5 HFD
  4. 16:16 Cam Connor (1) Ron Duguay (13), Lance Nethery (4) NYR 5 – 5 HFD
  5. 16:49 Blaine Stoughton (29) Pat Boutette (42), Rick Meagher (3) NYR 5 – 6 HFD

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ron Duguay C 1 1 2 +1 1.68
Eddie Johnstone R 1 0 5 0 1.13
Dean Talafous C 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Don Maloney L 1 0 4 0 1.05
Cam Connor R 1 0 1 0 0.83
Mike Allison R 0 1 1 0 0.70
Lance Nethery C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Nick Fotiu L 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Ulf Nilsson C 0 1 4 -2 0.63
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 3 -2 0.55
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Barry Beck D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Tom Laidlaw D 0 1 1 0 0.25
Chris Kotsopoulos D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Ron Greschner D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Steve Vickers L 0 0 2 0 0.00
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert L 31 25 6 .806 60:00 -2.00

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Pat Boutette L 1 2 3 +1 2.38
Mark Howe D 1 1 6 +2 2.13
Gilles Lupien D 2 0 2 +2 1.95
Mike Rogers C 0 2 3 -1 1.33
Blaine Stoughton L 1 1 1 -1 1.30
Rick Meagher C 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Dave Keon C 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Warren Miller R 0 1 2 0 0.78
Norm Barnes D 0 1 0 0 0.48
Al Sims D 0 1 1 -1 0.40
Tom Rowe R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Ray Neufeld R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dave Debol C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jeff Brubaker L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Don Nachbaur C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Stuart Smith D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Garrett W 32 27 5 .844 60:00 -1.05