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Sunday, December 6, 1981 · Madison Square Garden

Whalers 5 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 82OVR Doug Sulliman Whalers First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG D 88OVR Dave Maloney Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG D 92OVR Mark Howe Whalers Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:31 Blaine Stoughton (18) PPG Doug Sulliman (11), Mark Howe (11) HFD 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 11:24 Paul Shmyr (1) Rick MacLeish (11), Dave Keon (9) HFD 2 – 0 NYR
  3. 17:50 Dave Maloney (2) Unassisted HFD 2 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:32 Ron Duguay (14) PPG Mike Rogers (18), Dave Maloney (9) HFD 2 – 2 NYR
  2. 5:38 Nick Fotiu (1) Mikko Leinonen (9), Dave Maloney (10) HFD 2 – 3 NYR
  3. 6:44 Mark Howe (4) PPG Ron Francis (8), Doug Sulliman (12) HFD 3 – 3 NYR
  4. 8:44 Doug Sulliman (12) Mickey Volcan (1) HFD 4 – 3 NYR
  5. 12:52 Blake Wesley (4) PPG Chris Kotsopoulos (7), Rick Meagher (10) HFD 5 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

No scoring

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Doug Sulliman L 1 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.53
Mark Howe D 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Paul Shmyr D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Blake Wesley D 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Blaine Stoughton L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Ron Francis C 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Rick MacLeish C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Dave Keon C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Rick Meagher C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Mickey Volcan D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Chris Kotsopoulos D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.17
Warren Miller R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Don Nachbaur C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Tom Rowe R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mark Renaud D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.13
Garry Howatt L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -1.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen W 26 23 3 .885 60:00 0.05

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dave Maloney D 1 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.22
Nick Fotiu L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Mikko Leinonen L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Ron Duguay C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.75
Mike Rogers C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Jere Gillis L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Tom Younghans R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Reijo Ruotsalainen D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Allison R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mark Pavelich C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dean Talafous C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Peter Wallin R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Barry Beck D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dave Silk R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -1.05
Ed Hospodar D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.42
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Weeks L 26 21 5 .808 60:00 -1.65