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Friday, October 23, 1981 · Capital Centre

Islanders 4 at Capitals 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 95OVR John Tonelli Islanders First Star 2G · 5 SOG D 76OVR Tomas Jonsson Islanders Second Star 2A · 3 SOG RC R 99OVR Mike Bossy Islanders Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:46 John Tonelli (1) Bobby Nystrom (2), Wayne Merrick (2) NYI 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 10:07 Mike Bossy (7) PPG Tomas Jonsson (3), Bob Bourne (5) NYI 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 10:34 John Tonelli (2) Wayne Merrick (3), Gord Lane (4) NYI 3 – 0 WSH
  4. 14:30 Gaetan Duchesne (2) Greg Theberge (5) NYI 3 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 2:50 Tim Tookey (1) Al Hangsleben (1) NYI 3 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 9:19 Mike Bossy (8) Bryan Trottier (10), Tomas Jonsson (4) NYI 4 – 2 WSH

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John Tonelli L 2 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Tomas Jonsson D 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.78
Mike Bossy R 2 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.73
Wayne Merrick C 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.55
Bobby Nystrom R 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Gord Lane D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Bob Bourne C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Bryan Trottier C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Ken Morrow D 0 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 0.60
Mike McEwen D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Butch Goring C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Clark Gillies L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Duane Sutter R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Anders Kallur C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Billy Carroll C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dave Langevin D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Hector Marini R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 26 24 2 .923 60:00 0.90

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Greg Theberge D 0 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.23
Tim Tookey C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Gaetan Duchesne L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Al Hangsleben L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.40
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Bobby Carpenter C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Mike Gartner R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Rick Green D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Glen Currie C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Roland Stoltz R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ryan Walter C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Howard Walker D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jean Pronovost R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Terry Murray D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Bob Kelly L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Paul MacKinnon D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer L 8 5 3 .625 10:34 -1.75
Dave Parro — 20 19 1 .950 49:26 1.15