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Wednesday, March 4, 1981 · Chicago Stadium

Red Wings 3 at Blackhawks 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 98OVR Tony Esposito Blackhawks First Star 43 SV · .935 C 54OVR Paul Woods Red Wings Second Star 2A · 2 SOG C 59OVR Terry Ruskowski Blackhawks Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:39 Mark Kirton (14) Paul Woods (15) DET 1 – 0 CHI
  2. 8:26 Doug Wilson (8) Denis Savard (38) DET 1 – 1 CHI

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 5:38 Vaclav Nedomansky (10) Paul Woods (16), John Barrett (7) DET 2 – 1 CHI
  2. 6:11 John Marks (6) Terry Ruskowski (50) DET 2 – 2 CHI
  3. 11:06 Jean Hamel (4) Unassisted DET 3 – 2 CHI
  4. 14:54 Keith Brown (7) Terry Ruskowski (51), Glen Sharpley (21) DET 3 – 3 CHI

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Paul Woods C 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
John Barrett D 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Mark Kirton C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Jean Hamel D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Dale McCourt C 0 0 8 0 0 0 0:00 0.60
Gary McAdam R 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
John Ogrodnick L 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Jim Korn D 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Mike Foligno R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Joe Paterson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Willie Huber D 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.08
Earl Ingarfield C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tom Bladon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Brad Smith R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brent Peterson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Perry Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Gilbert — 9 8 1 .889 20:00 0.05
Larry Lozinski T 28 26 2 .929 40:00 1.10

Chicago Blackhawks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Terry Ruskowski C 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Glen Sharpley C 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
John Marks R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Keith Brown D 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Doug Wilson D 1 0 7 0 0 0 0:00 0.97
Denis Savard C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Bob Murray D 0 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Al Secord L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Tom Lysiak C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Greg Fox D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Tim Higgins R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Rick Paterson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Darryl Sutter C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Ted Bulley L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Reg Kerr C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rich Preston R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brian Young D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tony Esposito T 46 43 3 .935 60:00 2.05