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Tuesday, March 3, 1981 · Capital Centre

Flames 6 at Capitals 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Kent Nilsson Flames First Star 1G · 3A · 3 SOG C 93OVR Don Lever Flames Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG L 85OVR Bengt-Ake Gustafsson Capitals Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:22 Guy Chouinard (26) Dan Labraaten (14), Bob Murdoch (17) CGY 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 7:03 Kent Nilsson (37) PPG Pekka Rautakallio (41) CGY 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 17:42 Don Lever (22) Paul Reinhart (35), Kent Nilsson (66) CGY 3 – 0 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 5:42 Ken Houston (12) Phil Russell (21), Kent Nilsson (67) CGY 4 – 0 WSH
  2. 9:50 Darren Veitch (4) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (28) CGY 4 – 1 WSH
  3. 14:14 Dan Labraaten (8) Kent Nilsson (68), Paul Reinhart (36) CGY 5 – 1 WSH
  4. 15:37 Ryan Walter (23) James McTaggart (5), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (29) CGY 5 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 4:21 Mike Gartner (34) Ryan Walter (31), Pat Ribble (12) CGY 5 – 3 WSH
  2. 14:20 Willi Plett (32) Jim Peplinski (20), Don Lever (24) CGY 6 – 3 WSH

Calgary Flames

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Kent Nilsson C 1 3 3 +2 3.15
Don Lever C 1 1 2 +3 1.98
Dan Labraaten L 1 1 1 +2 1.75
Paul Reinhart D 0 2 2 +1 1.55
Ken Houston R 1 0 2 +2 1.20
Bob Murdoch D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Guy Chouinard C 1 0 1 +1 0.83
Willi Plett R 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Jim Peplinski L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Pekka Rautakallio D 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Phil Russell D 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Bob MacMillan R 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Kevin Lavallee L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Brad Marsh D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jamie Hislop R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bill Clement C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Eric Vail L 0 0 2 -3 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pat Riggin W 29 26 3 .897 60:00 0.35

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 2 3 +2 1.78
Ryan Walter C 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Mike Gartner R 1 0 6 0 1.05
Darren Veitch D 1 0 2 0 0.90
James McTaggart D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Pat Ribble D 0 1 1 -1 0.40
Dennis Ververgaert R 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Glen Currie C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Guy Charron C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tim Tookey C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Howard Walker D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Al Hangsleben L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bob Kelly L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Rick Green D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 3 -3 -0.22
Jean Pronovost R 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer L 12 9 3 .750 40:00 -1.35
Dave Parro — 11 8 3 .727 20:00 -1.45