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Sunday, March 29, 1981 · Capital Centre

Islanders 5 at Capitals 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 87OVR Clark Gillies Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG C 60OVR Rolf Edberg Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG L 85OVR Bengt-Ake Gustafsson Capitals Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:54 Clark Gillies (31) SHG Mike Bossy (51), Bryan Trottier (69) NYI 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 6:38 Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (21) Rolf Edberg (7) NYI 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 9:21 Bryan Trottier (31) SHG Butch Goring (36) NYI 2 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 5:07 Clark Gillies (32) Bob Bourne (41) NYI 3 – 1 WSH
  2. 8:35 Mike Gartner (47) Glen Currie (13), Ryan Walter (42) NYI 3 – 2 WSH
  3. 12:49 Rolf Edberg (8) Dennis Ververgaert (26) NYI 3 – 3 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 5:20 Ryan Walter (24) PPG Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (33), Jean Pronovost (36) NYI 3 – 4 WSH
  2. 9:18 Stefan Persson (8) PPG Denis Potvin (56) NYI 4 – 4 WSH
  3. 14:32 Mike Bossy (68) Bryan Trottier (70), Clark Gillies (43) NYI 5 – 4 WSH

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Clark Gillies L 2 1 3 +3 2.80
Bryan Trottier C 1 2 1 +3 1.33
Mike Bossy R 1 1 4 +2 1.23
Denis Potvin D 0 1 6 +1 0.92
Bob Bourne C 0 1 3 0 0.85
Butch Goring C 0 1 3 -2 0.55
Anders Kallur C 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Ken Morrow D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Mike McEwen D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Stefan Persson D 1 0 1 0 -0.07
John Tonelli L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Garry Howatt L 0 0 1 -1 -0.45
Duane Sutter R 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 2 0 -0.75
Dave Langevin D 0 0 2 0 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roland Melanson W 25 21 4 .840 60:00 -0.90

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rolf Edberg C 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 1 1 2 0 1.53
Mike Gartner R 1 0 5 0 0.98
Ryan Walter C 1 1 1 0 0.93
Glen Currie C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Jean Pronovost R 0 1 1 -2 0.40
Pat Ribble D 0 0 3 +1 0.23
Al Hangsleben L 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Howard Walker D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Darren Veitch D 0 0 3 0 0.07
James McTaggart D 0 0 2 +1 -0.08
Dennis Ververgaert R 0 1 0 0 -0.13
Tim Tookey C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Paul MacKinnon D 0 0 0 -1 -0.90
Bob Kelly L 0 0 1 -2 -0.98
Rick Green D 0 0 1 -2 -0.98
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 0 -2 -1.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer L 37 32 5 .865 59:52 -0.55