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Thursday, February 26, 1981 · Boston Garden

North Stars 1 at Bruins 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 96OVR Rick Middleton Bruins First Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG C 81OVR Jean Ratelle Bruins Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG G 63OVR Rogie Vachon Bruins Third Star 20 SV · .952

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:56 Mike O'connell (9) SHG Rick Middleton (51) MNS 0 – 1 BOS
  2. 15:31 Jean Ratelle (11) PPG Ray Bourque (20), Rick Middleton (52) MNS 0 – 2 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 6:31 Mike Polich (5) Bobby Smith (51), Dino Ciccarelli (5) MNS 1 – 2 BOS
  2. 9:13 Ray Bourque (21) PPG Brad Park (42) MNS 1 – 3 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 5:15 Rick Middleton (34) SHG Unassisted MNS 1 – 4 BOS
  2. 6:17 Rick Middleton (35) SHG Jean Ratelle (22) MNS 1 – 5 BOS

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Polich C 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 1 7 -1 1.00
Don Jackson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bobby Smith C 0 1 2 -2 -0.05
Tim Young C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Tom McCarthy L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Ron Zanussi R 0 0 1 0 -0.45
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 1 -1 -0.45
Brad Maxwell D 0 0 0 -2 -0.97
Gordie Roberts D 0 0 2 0 -0.98
Steve Christoff C 0 0 1 -1 -1.13
Jack Carlson L 0 0 0 0 -1.28
Tom Younghans R 0 0 0 0 -1.28
Greg Smith D 0 0 0 0 -1.28
Craig Hartsburg D 0 0 1 0 -1.95
Al MacAdam R 0 0 0 0 -2.18
Steve Payne L 0 0 0 0 -2.93
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche L 27 22 5 .815 60:00 -1.55

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rick Middleton R 2 2 4 +3 3.13
Jean Ratelle C 1 1 1 0 1.45
Ray Bourque D 1 1 3 +1 1.23
Brad Park D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Mike O'connell D 1 0 2 0 0.75
Don Marcotte L 0 0 6 0 0.30
Dick Redmond D 0 0 2 +2 0.30
Wayne Cashman L 0 0 2 0 -0.23
Bobby Lalonde C 0 0 2 +1 -0.23
Dwight Foster R 0 0 2 -1 -0.38
Peter McNab C 0 0 0 0 -0.90
Steve Kasper C 0 0 0 0 -1.05
Mike Gillis L 0 0 1 -1 -1.20
Terry O'Reilly R 0 0 0 0 -1.43
Mike Milbury D 0 0 0 0 -1.43
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 0 0 -2.55
Keith Crowder R 0 0 0 0 -3.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rogie Vachon W 21 20 1 .952 60:00 1.25