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Saturday, April 4, 1981 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Capitals 1 at Islanders 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 88OVR Clark Gillies Islanders First Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG R 90OVR Hector Marini Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG RC G 80OVR Roland Melanson Islanders Third Star 24 SV · .960 RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:44 Garry Howatt (3) Bobby Nystrom (29), Wayne Merrick (14) WSH 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 7:18 Clark Gillies (33) Mike McEwen (38) WSH 0 – 2 NYI

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 2:07 Hector Marini (3) PPG Clark Gillies (44), Butch Goring (37) WSH 0 – 3 NYI
  2. 14:39 Dennis Maruk (47) PPG Darren Veitch (19), Rick Green (22) WSH 1 – 3 NYI
  3. 19:34 Butch Goring (23) Hector Marini (5), Ken Morrow (10) WSH 1 – 4 NYI

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dennis Maruk C 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Darren Veitch D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Rick Green D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.40
Al Hangsleben L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dennis Ververgaert R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Paul MacKinnon D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Tim Tookey C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Gartner R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Ryan Walter C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jean Pronovost R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bob Kelly L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Glen Currie C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Pat Ribble D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Howard Walker D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Rick Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer L 27 24 3 .889 59:49 0.15

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Clark Gillies L 1 1 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.13
Hector Marini R 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Butch Goring C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Ken Morrow D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Bobby Nystrom R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Mike McEwen D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Wayne Merrick C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Garry Howatt L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Billy Carroll C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Denis Potvin D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.37
Bob Bourne C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Stefan Persson D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Bossy R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Anders Kallur C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Langevin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bryan Trottier C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roland Melanson W 25 24 1 .960 60:00 1.65