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Saturday, December 21, 1985 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Rangers 5 at Islanders 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Pat LaFontaine Islanders First Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG C 55OVR Raimo Helminen Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG RC D 96OVR Reijo Ruotsalainen Rangers Third Star 3A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:17 Duane Sutter (10) Randy Boyd (3), Pat LaFontaine (9) NYR 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 7:25 Ron Greschner (11) Don Maloney (6), Reijo Ruotsalainen (18) NYR 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 19:08 Mark Osborne (10) PPG Reijo Ruotsalainen (19), Raimo Helminen (10) NYR 2 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 3:28 Raimo Helminen (5) Reijo Ruotsalainen (20) NYR 3 – 1 NYI
  2. 4:39 Pat LaFontaine (18) Mike Bossy (21), John Tonelli (22) NYR 3 – 2 NYI
  3. 9:09 Willie Huber (2) Mike Ridley (16) NYR 4 – 2 NYI
  4. 14:03 Denis Potvin (8) PPG Pat LaFontaine (10), John Tonelli (23) NYR 4 – 3 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 9:49 Peter Sundstrom (3) Raimo Helminen (11), James Patrick (12) NYR 5 – 3 NYI
  2. 18:13 Bryan Trottier (13) Randy Boyd (4), Clark Gillies (4) NYR 5 – 4 NYI

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Raimo Helminen C 1 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 2.45
Reijo Ruotsalainen D 0 3 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Peter Sundstrom L 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
James Patrick D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Ron Greschner D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Don Maloney L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Mike Ridley C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Tomas Sandstrom R 0 0 7 0 0 +1 0:00 0.68
Willie Huber D 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Dave Gagner C 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Mark Osborne L 1 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.38
Bob Brooke R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Kelly Miller L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Rob Whistle D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Brian MacLellan L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Mark Pavelich C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Larry Melnyk D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 35 31 4 .886 60:00 0.10

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat LaFontaine C 1 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.68
John Tonelli L 0 2 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.70
Randy Boyd D 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Clark Gillies L 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Mike Bossy R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Denis Potvin D 1 0 6 0 0 -3 0:00 0.75
Bryan Trottier C 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.60
Mark Hamway R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Stefan Persson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Brent Sutter C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Ken Morrow D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Duane Sutter R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tomas Jonsson D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bob Bourne C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gord Dineen D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Greg Gilbert L 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kelly Hrudey L 17 16 1 .941 31:00 0.85
Billy Smith — 21 17 4 .810 29:09 -1.30