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Sunday, December 20, 1981 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Whalers 2 at Sabres 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 49OVR Larry Playfair Sabres First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG L 63OVR Tony McKegney Sabres Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG D 97OVR John Van Boxmeer Sabres Third Star 3A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:39 Gilbert Perreault (11) Tony McKegney (18), John Van Boxmeer (33) HFD 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 8:53 Larry Playfair (3) Unassisted HFD 0 – 2 BUF
  3. 15:12 Yvon Lambert (12) Alan Haworth (4), Jean-Francois Sauve (16) HFD 0 – 3 BUF
  4. 18:13 Tony McKegney (15) John Van Boxmeer (34), Gilbert Perreault (8) HFD 0 – 4 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 0:50 Tony McKegney (16) PPG John Van Boxmeer (35) HFD 0 – 5 BUF
  2. 5:51 Larry Playfair (4) Unassisted HFD 0 – 6 BUF
  3. 8:17 Chris Kotsopoulos (5) Unassisted HFD 1 – 6 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 5:16 Lindy Ruff (9) Brent Peterson (1), Craig Ramsay (15) HFD 1 – 7 BUF
  2. 8:50 Alan Haworth (4) Yvon Lambert (18), Larry Playfair (5) HFD 1 – 8 BUF
  3. 16:41 Doug Sulliman (14) PPG Rick MacLeish (14), Chris Kotsopoulos (10) HFD 2 – 8 BUF

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Doug Sulliman L 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Chris Kotsopoulos D 1 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.85
Rick MacLeish C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Mark Howe D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Ron Francis C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rick Meagher C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Don Nachbaur C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Blaine Stoughton L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Warren Miller R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Tom Rowe R 0 0 5 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Dave Keon C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Garry Howatt L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.53
Blake Wesley D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.60
Mark Renaud D 0 0 1 0 0 -5 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen L 27 19 8 .704 60:00 -4.10

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Larry Playfair D 2 1 3 0 0 +4 0:00 2.80
Tony McKegney L 2 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 2.58
John Van Boxmeer D 0 3 2 0 0 +2 0:00 2.33
Yvon Lambert L 1 1 2 0 0 +4 0:00 2.13
Alan Haworth C 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Gilbert Perreault C 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Jean-Francois Sauve C 0 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.15
Lindy Ruff L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Brent Peterson C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Craig Ramsay L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Bob Hess D 0 0 2 0 0 +4 0:00 0.60
Mike Ramsey D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Dale McCourt C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Ric Seiling R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Robert Mongrain C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bill Hajt D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Foligno R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Cloutier W 26 24 2 .923 60:00 0.90