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Saturday, December 5, 1981 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Islanders 8 at North Stars 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 64OVR Duane Sutter Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG C 50OVR Billy Carroll Islanders Second Star 3A · 1 SOG RC R 98OVR Dino Ciccarelli North Stars Third Star 2G · 8 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:28 Wayne Merrick (8) Bobby Nystrom (10), John Tonelli (11) NYI 1 – 0 MNS
  2. 10:22 Duane Sutter (7) John Tonelli (12), Billy Carroll (5) NYI 2 – 0 MNS
  3. 12:38 Butch Goring (7) SHG Billy Carroll (6), Denis Potvin (5) NYI 3 – 0 MNS
  4. 14:37 Dino Ciccarelli (21) Bobby Smith (25), Ron Meighan (1) NYI 3 – 1 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 0:37 Bryan Trottier (10) Anders Kallur (9), Mike Bossy (21) NYI 4 – 1 MNS
  2. 4:06 Butch Goring (8) SHG Bryan Trottier (26), Dave Langevin (4) NYI 5 – 1 MNS
  3. 6:20 Bobby Smith (18) Brad Palmer (8), Brad Maxwell (13) NYI 5 – 2 MNS
  4. 6:46 Clark Gillies (8) Bob Bourne (13), Duane Sutter (4) NYI 6 – 2 MNS
  5. 15:51 Duane Sutter (8) Billy Carroll (7), Clark Gillies (6) NYI 7 – 2 MNS
  6. 18:29 Neal Broten (12) Al MacAdam (13), Kevin Maxwell (4) NYI 7 – 3 MNS
  7. 19:47 Dino Ciccarelli (22) Gordie Roberts (10), Bobby Smith (26) NYI 7 – 4 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 1:19 Gordie Roberts (1) Al MacAdam (14), Steve Christoff (10) NYI 7 – 5 MNS
  2. 19:49 Mike Bossy (20) Denis Potvin (6) NYI 8 – 5 MNS

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Duane Sutter R 2 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.65
Billy Carroll C 0 3 1 0 0 +3 0:00 2.40
Mike Bossy R 1 1 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.90
John Tonelli L 0 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.85
Butch Goring C 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Denis Potvin D 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Clark Gillies L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Bryan Trottier C 1 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 1.30
Wayne Merrick C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Dave Langevin D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Bob Bourne C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Bobby Nystrom R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Anders Kallur C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Mike McEwen D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Ken Morrow D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Stefan Persson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Tomas Jonsson D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 38 33 5 .868 60:00 -0.45

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dino Ciccarelli R 2 0 8 0 0 -1 0:00 1.95
Bobby Smith C 1 2 5 0 0 -3 0:00 1.93
Gordie Roberts D 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Al MacAdam R 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Kevin Maxwell C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Brad Palmer L 0 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.63
Steve Christoff C 0 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.63
Ron Meighan D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Brad Maxwell D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Neal Broten C 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.45
Fred Barrett D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Anders Hakansson L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Curt Giles D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Kent-Erik Andersson R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jack Carlson L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ron Friest L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Craig Hartsburg D 0 0 3 0 0 -5 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Beaupre L 30 23 7 .767 59:21 -2.95