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Thursday, January 6, 1983 · Hartford Civic Center

Canucks 6 at Whalers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 97OVR Darcy Rota Canucks First Star 3G · 5 SOG C 94OVR Mark Johnson Whalers Second Star 1G · 2A · 7 SOG L 96OVR Blaine Stoughton Whalers Third Star 3A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:24 Gary Lupul (1) Lars Lindgren (6) VAN 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 14:02 Darcy Rota (18) Ivan Hlinka (31) VAN 2 – 0 HFD
  3. 16:22 Pierre Larouche (15) PPG Chris Kotsopoulos (12), Greg Adams (8) VAN 2 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 5:20 Darcy Rota (19) Rick Lanz (17), Moe Lemay (8) VAN 3 – 1 HFD
  2. 5:56 Gary Lupul (2) Stan Smyl (15), Marc Crawford (1) VAN 4 – 1 HFD
  3. 16:24 Mark Johnson (17) Blaine Stoughton (15), Ron Francis (36) VAN 4 – 2 HFD
  4. 18:52 Thomas Gradin (15) Harold Snepsts (6) VAN 5 – 2 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 1:18 Pierre Larouche (16) Mark Johnson (17), Blaine Stoughton (16) VAN 5 – 3 HFD
  2. 5:56 Darcy Rota (20) Rick Lanz (18), Ivan Hlinka (32) VAN 6 – 3 HFD
  3. 19:05 Ron Francis (16) Blaine Stoughton (17), Mark Johnson (18) VAN 6 – 4 HFD

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Darcy Rota L 3 0 5 0 0 +3 0:00 3.08
Ivan Hlinka C 0 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.85
Gary Lupul C 2 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.80
Rick Lanz D 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Thomas Gradin C 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Lars Lindgren D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Moe Lemay L 0 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Stan Smyl R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Marc Crawford L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Jiri Bubla D 0 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 0.60
Harold Snepsts D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Patrik Sundstrom C 0 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Kevin McCarthy D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Doug Halward D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Gerry Minor C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Ron Delorme C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Williams L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Garth Butcher D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Ellacott W 49 45 4 .918 60:00 1.50

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Johnson C 1 2 7 0 0 +1 0:00 2.68
Blaine Stoughton L 0 3 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.25
Pierre Larouche C 2 0 6 0 0 -2 0:00 1.65
Ron Francis C 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Chris Kotsopoulos D 0 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.08
Greg Adams L 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.32
Ray Neufeld R 0 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.30
Robert Sullivan L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Warren Miller R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mark Renaud D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Michel Galarneau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Merlin Malinowski C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Ed Hospodar D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Paul Lawless L 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.15
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Pierre Lacroix D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jeff Brownschidle D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Russ Anderson D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen L 38 32 6 .842 59:02 -1.30