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Saturday, March 21, 1981 · Hartford Civic Center

Rangers 6 at Whalers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 75OVR Ron Duguay Rangers First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG C 73OVR Dean Talafous Rangers Second Star 2A · 0 SOG R 83OVR Anders Hedberg Rangers Third Star 1G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:45 Mark Howe (19) PPG Al Sims (32) NYR 0 – 1 HFD
  2. 19:29 Pat Boutette (26) PPG Mark Howe (39) NYR 0 – 2 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 4:08 Ron Duguay (13) Dean Talafous (14) NYR 1 – 2 HFD
  2. 7:47 Barry Beck (11) PPG Mike Allison (34), Ed Hospodar (13) NYR 2 – 2 HFD
  3. 12:16 Blaine Stoughton (39) Jack McIlhargey (6), Pat Boutette (51) NYR 2 – 3 HFD
  4. 15:49 Ron Duguay (14) Dean Talafous (15) NYR 3 – 3 HFD
  5. 18:54 Eddie Johnstone (28) Mike Allison (35), Dave Maloney (34) NYR 4 – 3 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 3:46 Anders Hedberg (28) Ron Duguay (17), Ron Greschner (39) NYR 5 – 3 HFD
  2. 10:13 Jere Gillis (9) Tom Laidlaw (22), Chris Kotsopoulos (11) NYR 6 – 3 HFD
  3. 12:41 Al Sims (15) Rick Meagher (6), Gilles Lupien (4) NYR 6 – 4 HFD

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ron Duguay C 2 1 2 +3 1.98
Dean Talafous C 0 2 0 +2 1.55
Anders Hedberg R 1 0 5 +2 1.43
Ron Greschner D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Dave Maloney D 0 1 0 +3 0.93
Eddie Johnstone R 1 0 2 0 0.90
Chris Kotsopoulos D 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Jere Gillis L 1 0 1 0 0.83
Mike Allison R 0 2 0 0 0.50
Barry Beck D 1 0 4 +1 0.30
Ed Hospodar D 0 1 2 0 0.25
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Lance Nethery C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Tom Laidlaw D 0 1 2 +1 0.03
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Peter Wallin R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Don Maloney L 0 0 0 0 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Baker W 27 23 4 .852 60:00 -0.70

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Al Sims D 1 1 2 -2 1.23
Mark Howe D 1 1 5 0 1.00
Rick Meagher C 0 1 4 0 0.93
Pat Boutette L 1 1 3 0 0.55
Gilles Lupien D 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Jack McIlhargey D 0 1 1 +1 0.32
Don Nachbaur C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jeff Brubaker L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Warren Miller R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Blaine Stoughton L 1 0 2 0 -0.15
Mike Fidler L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Dave Debol C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Norm Barnes D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Stuart Smith D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Tom Rowe R 0 0 1 -2 -0.60
Dave Keon C 0 0 1 -1 -0.83
Mike Rogers C 0 0 0 -1 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Veisor L 24 18 6 .750 58:56 -2.70