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Tuesday, December 30, 1986 · Civic Arena

Rangers 5 at Penguins 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 96OVR Walt Poddubny Rangers First Star 2G · 2A · 3 SOG L 62OVR Jan Erixon Rangers Second Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG R 96OVR Tomas Sandstrom Rangers Third Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:11 Walt Poddubny (19) Curt Giles (12), Jan Erixon (5) NYR 1 – 0 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 6:09 Craig Simpson (14) PPG Terry Ruskowski (25), Kevin Lavallee (18) NYR 1 – 1 PIT
  2. 9:32 Tomas Sandstrom (10) PPG Walt Poddubny (21), James Patrick (19) NYR 2 – 1 PIT
  3. 16:05 Bob Errey (8) PPG Dan Quinn (12), Rod Buskas (3) NYR 2 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 10:21 Jan Erixon (4) Tomas Sandstrom (20), Walt Poddubny (22) NYR 3 – 2 PIT
  2. 11:24 Dan Quinn (13) Willy Lindstrom (5) NYR 3 – 3 PIT
  3. 14:06 Walt Poddubny (20) Tomas Sandstrom (21), Willie Huber (11) NYR 4 – 3 PIT
  4. 19:47 Jan Erixon (5) Kelly Kisio (16) NYR 5 – 3 PIT

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Walt Poddubny L 2 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 3.43
Jan Erixon L 2 1 3 0 0 +4 0:00 2.95
Tomas Sandstrom R 1 2 5 0 0 +3 0:00 2.83
Willie Huber D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Curt Giles D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Kelly Kisio C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Don Maloney L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Mark Osborne L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Tom Laidlaw D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Larry Melnyk D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
James Patrick D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.25
Mike Ridley C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Tony McKegney L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Pierre Larouche C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Greschner D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Terry Carkner D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Lane Lambert R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Kelly Miller L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Froese W 34 31 3 .912 60:00 0.85

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dan Quinn C 1 1 6 0 0 -1 0:00 1.68
Bob Errey L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Rod Buskas D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Craig Simpson L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Kevin Lavallee L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Willy Lindstrom R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Randy Hillier D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Dan Frawley R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Terry Ruskowski C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.18
Ville Siren D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Phil Bourque L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dwight Mathiasen R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Hannan C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Doug Bodger D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
John Chabot C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Jim Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Chris Dahlquist D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche L 29 25 4 .862 59:16 -0.50