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Saturday, October 17, 1981 · Hartford Civic Center

Red Wings 1 at Whalers 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 78OVR Greg Millen Whalers First Star 40 SV · .976 C 77OVR Rick Meagher Whalers Second Star 3G · 5 SOG D 69OVR Chris Kotsopoulos Whalers Third Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:53 Dave Keon (1) Stuart Smith (2), Greg Millen (1) DET 0 – 1 HFD
  2. 6:58 Rick Meagher (2) Garry Howatt (1), Doug Sulliman (2) DET 0 – 2 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 7:27 Chris Kotsopoulos (1) Rick MacLeish (5), Blaine Stoughton (2) DET 0 – 3 HFD
  2. 7:58 Rick Meagher (3) Garry Howatt (2), Chris Kotsopoulos (2) DET 0 – 4 HFD
  3. 16:46 Dale McCourt (2) PPG Vaclav Nedomansky (1), Don Murdoch (2) DET 1 – 4 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 9:55 Rick MacLeish (1) PPG Blake Wesley (2) DET 1 – 5 HFD
  2. 10:15 Rick MacLeish (2) PPG Don Nachbaur (4), Blaine Stoughton (3) DET 1 – 6 HFD
  3. 11:21 Rick Meagher (4) Doug Sulliman (3), Stuart Smith (3) DET 1 – 7 HFD
  4. 18:33 Jordy Douglas (2) Dave Keon (3), Chris Kotsopoulos (3) DET 1 – 8 HFD

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dale McCourt C 1 0 9 0 0 -2 0:00 1.13
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.85
Don Murdoch R 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.32
Mark Osborne L 0 0 5 0 0 -2 0:00 0.08
Mark Kirton C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
John Ogrodnick L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Paul Woods C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Mike Blaisdell R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
George Lyle L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Willie Huber D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.23
Walt McKechnie C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Mike Foligno R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Jim Korn D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
John Barrett D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.52
Greg Smith D 0 0 2 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.60
Reed Larson D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.83
Brad Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Gilbert — 16 12 4 .750 32:02 -1.80
Corrado Micalef L 22 18 4 .818 27:58 -1.20

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Meagher C 3 0 5 0 0 +3 0:00 3.08
Chris Kotsopoulos D 1 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.60
Rick MacLeish C 2 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 2.58
Garry Howatt L 0 2 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.00
Doug Sulliman L 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.92
Dave Keon C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Stuart Smith D 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Blaine Stoughton L 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Blake Wesley D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Don Nachbaur C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Warren Miller R 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Norm Barnes D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Jordy Douglas L 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.15
Rob McClanahan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Tom Rowe R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen W 41 40 1 .976 60:00 3.25