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Thursday, February 27, 1986 · Madison Square Garden

Penguins 3 at Rangers 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 96OVR Reijo Ruotsalainen Rangers First Star 4A · 2 SOG D 90OVR Barry Beck Rangers Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 75OVR Mike Ridley Rangers Third Star 2G · 3 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:24 Peter Sundstrom (7) Barry Beck (8), Reijo Ruotsalainen (33) PIT 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 1:52 Ron Greschner (17) PPG Reijo Ruotsalainen (34), John Vanbiesbrouck (3) PIT 0 – 2 NYR
  2. 3:07 Barry Beck (3) Brian MacLellan (26) PIT 0 – 3 NYR
  3. 8:20 Mike Ridley (17) Kelly Miller (15), Reijo Ruotsalainen (35) PIT 0 – 4 NYR
  4. 11:08 Terry Ruskowski (22) PPG Mario Lemieux (77), Mike Bullard (37) PIT 1 – 4 NYR
  5. 11:37 Mike Ridley (18) Pierre Larouche (5), Kelly Miller (16) PIT 1 – 5 NYR
  6. 15:26 Mark Pavelich (20) Unassisted PIT 1 – 6 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 10:11 Moe Mantha (12) PPG Mario Lemieux (78), Doug Shedden (30) PIT 2 – 6 NYR
  2. 12:38 George McPhee (2) Reijo Ruotsalainen (36), Mark Pavelich (20) PIT 2 – 7 NYR
  3. 14:20 Don Maloney (10) Larry Melnyk (8), Raimo Helminen (25) PIT 2 – 8 NYR
  4. 19:58 Norm Schmidt (11) Unassisted PIT 3 – 8 NYR

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mario Lemieux C 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Norm Schmidt D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Terry Ruskowski C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Doug Shedden C 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Mike Bullard C 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Moe Mantha D 1 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 0.30
Jim Johnson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Troy Loney L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
John Chabot C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mike Blaisdell R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Dave Hannan C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Craig Simpson L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Willy Lindstrom R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dan Frawley R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Ville Siren D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Rod Buskas D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Doug Bodger D 0 0 2 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche L 22 16 6 .727 39:52 -2.90
Roberto Romano — 13 11 2 .846 20:00 -0.40

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Reijo Ruotsalainen D 0 4 2 0 0 +4 0:00 3.25
Barry Beck D 1 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Mike Ridley C 2 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.88
Mark Pavelich C 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Kelly Miller L 0 2 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.70
Don Maloney L 1 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.43
Brian MacLellan L 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Larry Melnyk D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Peter Sundstrom L 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.05
Ron Greschner D 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Raimo Helminen C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
George McPhee L 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.98
Pierre Larouche C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Bob Brooke R 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Mark Osborne L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Willie Huber D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
James Patrick D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 28 25 3 .893 60:00 0.25