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Wednesday, December 21, 1983 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Whalers 6 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 92OVR Mark Johnson Whalers First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG L 78OVR Lindy Ruff Sabres Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG D 59OVR Richie Dunn Whalers Third Star 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:45 Adam Creighton (2) Lindy Ruff (14) HFD 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 5:05 Mark Johnson (16) PPG Richie Dunn (11), Ray Neufeld (17) HFD 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 6:57 Dave Andreychuk (14) Lindy Ruff (15), Paul Cyr (14) HFD 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 9:21 Sylvain Turgeon (14) PPG Mark Johnson (21), Richie Dunn (12) HFD 2 – 2 BUF
  3. 9:39 Bob Crawford (13) Greg Malone (10), Norm Dupont (15) HFD 3 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 2:56 Ron Francis (9) Paul Lawless (2), Blaine Stoughton (8) HFD 4 – 2 BUF
  2. 15:10 Sylvain Turgeon (15) PPG Mark Johnson (22), Ray Neufeld (18) HFD 5 – 2 BUF
  3. 17:02 Lindy Ruff (6) PPG Dave Andreychuk (14), Adam Creighton (2) HFD 5 – 3 BUF
  4. 19:43 Steve Stoyanovich (3) Greg Malone (11) HFD 6 – 3 BUF

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Johnson C 1 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 2.15
Richie Dunn D 0 2 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.85
Sylvain Turgeon L 2 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.50
Greg Malone C 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Ray Neufeld R 0 2 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.18
Ron Francis C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Bob Crawford R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Paul Lawless L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Norm Dupont L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Blaine Stoughton L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Steve Stoyanovich L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
Joel Quenneville D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Mike Crombeen R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Zuke C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Torrie Robertson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Ed Hospodar D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Marty Howe D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Risto Siltanen D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ed Staniowski W 37 34 3 .919 60:00 1.15

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Lindy Ruff L 1 2 3 0 0 -1 0:00 2.08
Dave Andreychuk L 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Adam Creighton C 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.38
Paul Cyr L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Real Cloutier R 0 0 7 0 0 0 0:00 0.53
Gilles Hamel L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Jim Wiemer D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Hannu Virta D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.15
Phil Housley D 0 0 6 0 0 -2 0:00 0.15
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ric Seiling R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Moller R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bill Hajt D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Sean Mckenna R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Jerry Korab D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Brent Peterson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso L 25 20 5 .800 58:35 -1.75