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Saturday, October 24, 1981 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Capitals 4 at Islanders 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Mike Bossy Islanders First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 79OVR Bobby Carpenter Capitals Second Star 2A · 9 SOG RC C 98OVR Dennis Maruk Capitals Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:45 Dennis Maruk (5) PPG Bobby Carpenter (4) WSH 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 6:50 Pat Ribble (1) Unassisted WSH 2 – 0 NYI
  3. 16:38 Duane Sutter (3) Ken Morrow (2), Mike Bossy (5) WSH 2 – 1 NYI
  4. 17:35 Wayne Merrick (3) Mike McEwen (6) WSH 2 – 2 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 1:00 John Tonelli (3) Tomas Jonsson (5), Wayne Merrick (4) WSH 2 – 3 NYI
  2. 1:24 Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (3) Bobby Carpenter (5) WSH 3 – 3 NYI
  3. 18:36 Mike Bossy (9) Bryan Trottier (11), Clark Gillies (2) WSH 3 – 4 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 4:29 Bob Bourne (5) Mike Bossy (6), Mike McEwen (7) WSH 3 – 5 NYI
  2. 16:30 Butch Goring (3) Dave Langevin (1), Anders Kallur (3) WSH 3 – 6 NYI
  3. 17:04 Dennis Maruk (6) Mike Gartner (3) WSH 4 – 6 NYI

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bobby Carpenter C 0 2 9 0 0 +1 0:00 2.07
Dennis Maruk C 2 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.73
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Mike Gartner R 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Pat Ribble D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Roland Stoltz R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Gaetan Duchesne L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Greg Theberge D 0 0 6 0 0 -2 0:00 0.15
Todd Bidner L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rick Green D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Howard Walker D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Al Hangsleben L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Timo Blomqvist D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul MacKinnon D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Tim Tookey C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Ryan Walter C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Glen Currie C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dave Parro L 25 19 6 .760 60:00 -2.60

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Bossy R 1 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.68
Wayne Merrick C 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Mike McEwen D 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Bryan Trottier C 0 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.23
Tomas Jonsson D 0 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.22
Bob Bourne C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Ken Morrow D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Duane Sutter R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Clark Gillies L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
John Tonelli L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.68
Butch Goring C 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Anders Kallur C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Dave Langevin D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Billy Carroll C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Hector Marini R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roland Melanson W 36 32 4 .889 60:00 0.20