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Sunday, December 29, 1985 · Madison Square Garden

Capitals 5 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 46OVR Brian MacLellan Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG D 95OVR Larry Murphy Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG R 65OVR Tomas Sandstrom Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:05 Alan Haworth (19) Unassisted WSH 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 18:07 Mike Gartner (19) Lou Franceschetti (7) WSH 2 – 0 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 0:33 Larry Murphy (12) PPG Dave Christian (17), Craig Laughlin (26) WSH 3 – 0 NYR
  2. 2:28 Brian MacLellan (9) PPG James Patrick (14), Raimo Helminen (13) WSH 3 – 1 NYR
  3. 3:35 Tomas Sandstrom (14) PPG Raimo Helminen (14) WSH 3 – 2 NYR
  4. 11:44 Mike Ridley (11) Brian MacLellan (14), Tomas Sandstrom (16) WSH 3 – 3 NYR
  5. 14:13 Bob Brooke (16) PPG Ron Greschner (14), Larry Melnyk (5) WSH 3 – 4 NYR
  6. 15:57 Rob Whistle (2) Brian MacLellan (15), Mike Ridley (17) WSH 3 – 5 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 5:48 Scott Stevens (5) SHG Craig Laughlin (27), Larry Murphy (16) WSH 4 – 5 NYR
  2. 11:02 Don Maloney (3) James Patrick (15), Dave Gagner (3) WSH 4 – 6 NYR
  3. 15:31 Jorgen Pettersson (7) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (25), Rod Langway (6) WSH 5 – 6 NYR

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Larry Murphy D 1 1 6 +1 1.98
Craig Laughlin R 0 2 0 +2 1.55
Alan Haworth C 1 0 2 +2 1.20
Dave Christian R 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Scott Stevens D 1 0 3 0 0.98
Jorgen Pettersson L 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Rod Langway D 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Mike Gartner R 1 0 2 -2 0.45
Lou Franceschetti L 0 1 1 -2 0.25
Darren Veitch D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Bobby Carpenter C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Gaetan Duchesne L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bobby Gould R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Peter Andersson D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Greg Adams L 0 0 3 +1 -0.30
Ed Kastelic R 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pete Peeters L 31 25 6 .806 58:37 -2.00

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Brian MacLellan L 1 2 3 +1 2.38
Tomas Sandstrom R 1 1 5 +1 1.90
James Patrick D 0 2 1 +3 1.78
Rob Whistle D 1 0 3 +3 1.42
Don Maloney L 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Raimo Helminen C 0 2 1 -2 1.03
Mike Ridley C 1 1 1 +1 0.93
Dave Gagner C 0 1 0 0 0.48
Ron Greschner D 0 1 2 -1 0.48
Bob Brooke R 1 0 2 -1 0.45
Peter Sundstrom L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Mike McEwen D 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Larry Melnyk D 0 1 1 -2 0.03
Kelly Miller L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mark Osborne L 0 0 3 -2 -0.23
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Willie Huber D 0 0 1 -2 -0.38
Reijo Ruotsalainen D 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 28 23 5 .821 60:00 -1.45