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Wednesday, October 7, 1981 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Capitals 3 at Sabres 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 91OVR Ryan Walter Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG C 74OVR Bobby Carpenter Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG RC L 63OVR Tony McKegney Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:12 Ryan Walter (1) Bobby Carpenter (1), Paul MacKinnon (1) WSH 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 7:38 Jean-Francois Sauve (1) Alan Haworth (1), Tony McKegney (1) WSH 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 3:06 Bobby Carpenter (1) Ryan Walter (1), Mike Gartner (1) WSH 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 4:00 Steve Patrick (1) Lindy Ruff (1) WSH 2 – 2 BUF
  3. 9:41 Craig Ramsay (1) Bob Hess (1), Mike Ramsey (1) WSH 2 – 3 BUF
  4. 13:51 Lindy Ruff (1) Randy Cunneyworth (1) WSH 2 – 4 BUF
  5. 16:14 Tony McKegney (1) Danny Gare (1) WSH 2 – 5 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 15:35 Ryan Walter (2) Terry Murray (1) WSH 3 – 5 BUF

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ryan Walter C 2 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.80
Bobby Carpenter C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.68
Mike Gartner R 0 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.30
Paul MacKinnon D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Terry Murray D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Rick Green D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.37
Gaetan Duchesne L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Tim Tookey C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bob Kelly L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.15
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Pat Ribble D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
James McTaggart D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Greg Theberge D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Roland Stoltz R 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Jean Pronovost R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer L 36 31 5 .861 59:29 -0.65

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tony McKegney L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Lindy Ruff L 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.60
Alan Haworth C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Jean-Francois Sauve C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Danny Gare R 0 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.08
Bob Hess D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Steve Patrick R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Mike Ramsey D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Craig Ramsay L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.70
John Van Boxmeer D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ric Seiling R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Derek Smith C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Richie Dunn D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bill Hajt D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards W 27 24 3 .889 60:00 0.15