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Tuesday, December 22, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena

Whalers 3 at Red Wings 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 78OVR Greg Millen Whalers First Star 37 SV · .949 L 71OVR Garry Howatt Whalers Second Star 2G · 3 SOG R 73OVR Mike Blaisdell Red Wings Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:01 Mike Blaisdell (11) Mark Kirton (14) HFD 0 – 1 DET

2nd Period

  1. 0:33 Pierre Larouche (10) Mark Howe (16), Doug Sulliman (16) HFD 1 – 1 DET
  2. 12:52 Reed Larson (11) Mike Blaisdell (14), John Barrett (4) HFD 1 – 2 DET
  3. 19:39 Garry Howatt (6) Dave Keon (10) HFD 2 – 2 DET

3rd Period

  1. 11:24 Garry Howatt (7) Ron Francis (13), Blaine Stoughton (10) HFD 3 – 2 DET

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Garry Howatt L 2 0 3 +2 2.03
Blaine Stoughton L 0 1 5 0 0.85
Pierre Larouche C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Ron Francis C 0 1 2 0 0.78
Mark Howe D 0 1 5 -1 0.70
Dave Keon C 0 1 0 0 0.63
Doug Sulliman L 0 1 0 0 0.63
Warren Miller R 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Rick MacLeish C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Don Nachbaur C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mark Renaud D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rick Meagher C 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Tom Rowe R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Blake Wesley D 0 0 0 +1 -0.15
Chris Kotsopoulos D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen W 39 37 2 .949 60:00 2.20

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Blaisdell R 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Reed Larson D 1 0 3 0 0.98
Mark Kirton C 0 1 4 0 0.93
John Barrett D 0 1 1 0 0.70
Willie Huber D 0 0 7 0 0.53
Derek Smith C 0 0 5 0 0.38
John Ogrodnick L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Don Murdoch R 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Greg Smith D 0 0 4 0 0.15
Walt McKechnie C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Danny Gare R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Brad Smith R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Paul Woods C 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mark Osborne L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Jim Korn D 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Sauve L 20 17 3 .850 59:24 -0.55