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Saturday, December 26, 1981 · Hartford Civic Center

Bruins 9 at Whalers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 77OVR Rick Meagher Whalers First Star 2G · 2A · 5 SOG L 62OVR Don Marcotte Bruins Second Star 3G · 4 SOG R 98OVR Rick Middleton Bruins Third Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:26 Don Marcotte (2) Steve Kasper (10), Terry O'Reilly (13) BOS 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 1:46 Keith Crowder (8) Brad Park (25), Steve Kasper (11) BOS 2 – 0 HFD
  3. 8:51 Blaine Stoughton (23) PPG Chris Kotsopoulos (11), Doug Sulliman (17) BOS 2 – 1 HFD
  4. 9:15 Garry Howatt (8) Don Gillen (2), Rick Meagher (11) BOS 2 – 2 HFD
  5. 10:20 Barry Pederson (18) PPG Peter McNab (17) BOS 3 – 2 HFD
  6. 11:09 Don Marcotte (3) Ray Bourque (18), Larry Melnyk (5) BOS 4 – 2 HFD
  7. 18:57 Peter McNab (19) PPG Ray Bourque (19), Rick Middleton (23) BOS 5 – 2 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 1:36 Pierre Larouche (11) PPG Blake Wesley (12), Rick Meagher (12) BOS 5 – 3 HFD
  2. 12:26 Don Marcotte (4) Keith Crowder (13), Steve Kasper (12) BOS 6 – 3 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 1:22 Blaine Stoughton (24) PPG Mark Howe (17), Ron Francis (14) BOS 6 – 4 HFD
  2. 1:53 Rick Meagher (13) Pierre Larouche (13) BOS 6 – 5 HFD
  3. 2:36 Rick Middleton (24) PPG Peter McNab (18), Ray Bourque (20) BOS 7 – 5 HFD
  4. 14:06 Terry O'Reilly (9) Normand Leveille (7), Mike O'connell (20) BOS 8 – 5 HFD
  5. 15:51 Rick Meagher (14) Ron Francis (15) BOS 8 – 6 HFD
  6. 19:44 Tom Fergus (8) Rick Middleton (24) BOS 9 – 6 HFD

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Don Marcotte L 3 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.85
Rick Middleton R 1 2 4 0 0 0 0:00 2.30
Ray Bourque D 0 3 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Keith Crowder R 1 1 5 0 0 +3 0:00 2.20
Steve Kasper C 0 3 0 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Peter McNab C 1 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 2.08
Terry O'Reilly R 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.68
Tom Fergus C 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.13
Larry Melnyk D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Brad Park D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Normand Leveille L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Barry Pederson C 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.53
Mike O'connell D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.37
Mike Gillis L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Stan Jonathan L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bruce Crowder R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rogie Vachon W 24 18 6 .750 60:00 -2.70

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Meagher C 2 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 3.28
Pierre Larouche C 1 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.30
Blaine Stoughton L 2 0 2 0 0 -5 0:00 0.90
Ron Francis C 0 2 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.88
Mark Howe D 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.85
Garry Howatt L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Don Gillen R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Blake Wesley D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Doug Sulliman L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Chris Kotsopoulos D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Dave Keon C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Warren Miller R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Mickey Volcan D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Rob McClanahan C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Paul Shmyr D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Don Nachbaur C 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen L 28 20 8 .714 59:39 -4.00