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Thursday, February 26, 1981 · Capital Centre

Penguins 7 at Capitals 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 74OVR Greg Malone Penguins First Star 2G · 4 SOG R 94OVR Mike Gartner Capitals Second Star 2G · 7 SOG L 80OVR Bengt-Ake Gustafsson Capitals Third Star 3A · 0 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:33 Ross Lonsberry (17) PPG Rick Kehoe (29), Paul Gardner (29) PIT 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 2:56 Mike Gartner (31) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (24), Pierre Bouchard (5) PIT 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 8:23 Mark Lofthouse (1) Glen Currie (6), Mike Palmateer (8) PIT 1 – 2 WSH
  4. 10:58 Russ Anderson (3) Paul Gardner (30) PIT 2 – 2 WSH
  5. 15:14 Greg Malone (13) Peter Lee (23), Mario Faubert (36) PIT 3 – 2 WSH
  6. 19:20 Rick Kehoe (44) PPG Ross Lonsberry (28), Randy Carlyle (58) PIT 4 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 4:36 Jean Pronovost (19) PPG Tim Tookey (5), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (25) PIT 4 – 3 WSH
  2. 5:16 Errol Thompson (17) Gregg Sheppard (10) PIT 5 – 3 WSH
  3. 9:50 Greg Malone (14) Pat Hughes (9), Mark Johnson (18) PIT 6 – 3 WSH
  4. 11:39 Randy Carlyle (10) SHG Mario Faubert (37), Gregg Sheppard (11) PIT 7 – 3 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 7:17 Mike Gartner (32) Howard Walker (8), Tim Tookey (6) PIT 7 – 4 WSH
  2. 11:59 Jean Pronovost (20) PPG Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (26), Tim Tookey (7) PIT 7 – 5 WSH

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Greg Malone C 2 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.10
Randy Carlyle D 1 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Gregg Sheppard C 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Rick Kehoe R 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Ross Lonsberry L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Mario Faubert D 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Paul Gardner C 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Russ Anderson D 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Errol Thompson L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Peter Lee R 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Pat Hughes R 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Mark Johnson C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
George Ferguson C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Rod Schutt L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dave Burrows D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Paul Baxter D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen W 28 23 5 .821 60:00 -1.45

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Gartner R 2 0 7 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 3 0 0 0 0 0:00 1.88
Tim Tookey C 0 3 0 0 0 0 0:00 1.88
Jean Pronovost R 2 0 5 0 0 -2 0:00 1.58
Mark Lofthouse R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Glen Currie C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Howard Walker D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Pierre Bouchard D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Rick Smith D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Al Hangsleben L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Ryan Walter C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dennis Ververgaert R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
James McTaggart D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Rick Green D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Bob Kelly L 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Pat Ribble D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer L 37 30 7 .811 60:00 -2.25