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Friday, March 20, 1981 · McNichols Sports Arena

Islanders 5 at Rockies 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Mike Bossy Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG C 93OVR Bob Bourne Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG R 89OVR Lanny McDonald Rockies Third Star 3A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:53 Mike Bossy (64) Bob Bourne (38), Ken Morrow (9) NYI 1 – 0 CLR
  2. 2:54 Paul Gagne (20) PPG Steve Tambellini (18), Lanny McDonald (40) NYI 1 – 1 CLR
  3. 6:06 Bob Bourne (32) Mike Bossy (49), Bryan Trottier (67) NYI 2 – 1 CLR

2nd Period

  1. 8:04 John Tonelli (19) PPG Stefan Persson (51), Denis Potvin (53) NYI 3 – 1 CLR

3rd Period

  1. 7:23 Merlin Malinowski (22) PPG Rob Ramage (39), Lanny McDonald (41) NYI 3 – 2 CLR
  2. 12:07 Billy Carroll (2) Duane Sutter (10), John Tonelli (28) NYI 4 – 2 CLR
  3. 13:17 Steve Tambellini (23) Lanny McDonald (42) NYI 4 – 3 CLR
  4. 19:00 Mike Bossy (65) PPG Denis Potvin (54), Bryan Trottier (68) NYI 5 – 3 CLR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Bossy R 2 1 5 +2 2.80
Bob Bourne C 1 1 7 +2 2.20
Denis Potvin D 0 2 5 +3 1.93
Bryan Trottier C 0 2 4 +2 1.85
John Tonelli L 1 1 3 0 1.45
Billy Carroll C 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Duane Sutter R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Ken Morrow D 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Stefan Persson D 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Mike McEwen D 0 0 4 0 0.30
Anders Kallur C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Clark Gillies L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Butch Goring C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dave Langevin D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 3 -1 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roland Melanson W 28 25 3 .893 60:00 0.25

Colorado Rockies

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Lanny McDonald R 0 3 1 0 1.95
Steve Tambellini C 1 1 3 0 1.60
Merlin Malinowski C 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Paul Gagne L 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Rob Ramage D 0 1 5 -2 0.70
Mario Giallonardo D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Bobby Crawford R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Bill Baker D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Barry Smith C 0 0 1 0 0.08
David Watson L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 4 -1 0.00
Randy Pierce R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Yvon Vautour R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bob Miller C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Ron Delorme C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Joel Quenneville D 0 0 3 -3 -0.38
Mike Kitchen D 0 0 0 -1 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch L 42 37 5 .881 59:28 -0.05