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Saturday, December 26, 1981 · Civic Arena

Sabres 7 at Penguins 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 97OVR John Van Boxmeer Sabres First Star 2A · 8 SOG L 52OVR Lindy Ruff Sabres Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG L 64OVR Pat Boutette Penguins Third Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:44 Randy Carlyle (6) PPG Pat Boutette (24), Doug Shedden (9) BUF 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 10:04 George Ferguson (11) Randy Carlyle (33), Mike Bullard (10) BUF 0 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 3:09 Peter Lee (11) Mark Johnson (8), Greg Malone (14) BUF 0 – 3 PIT
  2. 3:44 Alan Haworth (5) Jean-Francois Sauve (17), Mike Ramsey (10) BUF 1 – 3 PIT
  3. 4:35 Dale McCourt (16) PPG Lindy Ruff (16), John Van Boxmeer (36) BUF 2 – 3 PIT
  4. 16:44 Ric Seiling (17) Unassisted BUF 3 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 6:16 Pat Boutette (11) PPG Paul Gardner (21), Randy Carlyle (34) BUF 3 – 4 PIT
  2. 8:05 Doug Shedden (6) PPG Rick Kehoe (20), Pat Boutette (25) BUF 3 – 5 PIT
  3. 10:56 Lindy Ruff (10) PPG Unassisted BUF 4 – 5 PIT
  4. 11:34 Mike Ramsey (1) Dale McCourt (18) BUF 5 – 5 PIT
  5. 16:32 Alan Haworth (6) PPG Lindy Ruff (17), John Van Boxmeer (37) BUF 6 – 5 PIT
  6. 19:48 Craig Ramsay (10) Ric Seiling (15) BUF 7 – 5 PIT

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John Van Boxmeer D 0 2 8 0 0 +3 0:00 2.30
Lindy Ruff L 1 2 5 0 0 -1 0:00 2.23
Mike Ramsey D 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Alan Haworth C 2 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.88
Ric Seiling R 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Dale McCourt C 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Craig Ramsay L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Jean-Francois Sauve C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Andre Savard C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Richie Dunn D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Brent Peterson C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Larry Playfair D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Tony McKegney L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Foligno R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bill Hajt D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards W 43 38 5 .884 60:00 0.05

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat Boutette L 1 2 2 0 0 -1 0:00 2.00
Randy Carlyle D 1 2 2 0 0 -1 0:00 2.00
Doug Shedden C 1 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.83
Peter Lee R 1 0 9 0 0 -1 0:00 1.13
George Ferguson C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Mike Bullard C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Greg Malone C 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Rick Kehoe R 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Paul Gardner C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Pat Price D 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Mark Johnson C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Paul Baxter D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Pat Graham L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Marc Chorney D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Gregg Sheppard C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Russ Anderson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Nick Ricci L 36 30 6 .833 59:34 -1.50