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Monday, February 23, 1981 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Islanders 4 at North Stars 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 87OVR Glenn Resch Rockies First Star 32 SV · .970 C 78OVR Butch Goring Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG C 63OVR Wayne Merrick Islanders Third Star 2A · 0 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:24 Steve Payne (25) PPG Bobby Smith (49), Craig Hartsburg (23) NYI 0 – 1 MNS
  2. 9:11 Hector Marini (1) Wayne Merrick (8), Garry Howatt (10) NYI 1 – 1 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 12:27 Jean Potvin (1) PPG Butch Goring (28), Wayne Merrick (9) NYI 2 – 1 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 16:28 Butch Goring (21) Unassisted NYI 3 – 1 MNS
  2. 17:47 Bryan Trottier (23) Mike Bossy (40), Clark Gillies (39) NYI 4 – 1 MNS

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Butch Goring C 1 1 7 0 0 +1 0:00 2.05
Wayne Merrick C 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Jean Potvin D 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.13
Bryan Trottier C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Garry Howatt L 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Clark Gillies L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Hector Marini R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Mike Bossy R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Dave Langevin D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Anders Kallur C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bob Bourne C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Billy Carroll C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ken Morrow D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.00
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Stefan Persson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch W 33 32 1 .970 60:00 2.45

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Craig Hartsburg D 0 1 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.93
Steve Payne L 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Bobby Smith C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Tim Young C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Mike Eaves C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Kent-Erik Andersson R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Tom McCarthy L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Jack Carlson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Al MacAdam R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Greg Smith D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Ron Zanussi R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Don Jackson D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Steve Christoff C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Tom Younghans R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Gordie Roberts D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche L 27 23 4 .852 60:00 -0.70