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Sunday, December 20, 1987 · Madison Square Garden

Penguins 8 at Rangers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 91OVR Randy Cunneyworth Penguins First Star 2G · 2A · 9 SOG G 56OVR Pat Riggin Penguins Second Star 40 SV · .976 C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins Third Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:04 David Shaw (5) PPG Walt Poddubny (20), Tomas Sandstrom (17) PIT 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 5:19 Tomas Sandstrom (8) Unassisted PIT 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 7:55 Kelly Kisio (13) PPG John Ogrodnick (15), Norm MacIver (3) PIT 0 – 3 NYR
  4. 11:44 Randy Cunneyworth (19) Dan Quinn (10), Randy Hillier (4) PIT 1 – 3 NYR
  5. 14:16 Mario Lemieux (29) PPG Randy Cunneyworth (15) PIT 2 – 3 NYR
  6. 19:10 Mario Lemieux (30) PPG Jock Callander (8), Randy Cunneyworth (16) PIT 3 – 3 NYR
  7. 19:27 Dave Mcllwain (7) Perry Ganchar (1) PIT 4 – 3 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 16:18 Walt Poddubny (18) PPG James Patrick (27), Marcel Dionne (19) PIT 4 – 4 NYR
  2. 18:26 Jock Callander (9) PPG Phil Bourque (4), Mario Lemieux (36) PIT 5 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 3:38 Troy Loney (1) Dan Quinn (11) PIT 6 – 4 NYR
  2. 7:42 Dan Quinn (10) PPG Paul Coffey (15), Mario Lemieux (37) PIT 7 – 4 NYR
  3. 18:26 Randy Cunneyworth (20) Jock Callander (9) PIT 8 – 4 NYR

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Randy Cunneyworth L 2 2 9 0 0 +1 0:00 3.43
Mario Lemieux C 2 2 4 0 0 +1 0:00 3.20
Dan Quinn C 1 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 2.23
Jock Callander R 1 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.23
Phil Bourque L 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Troy Loney L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Dave Mcllwain C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Perry Ganchar R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Paul Coffey D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Randy Hillier D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.33
Charlie Simmer L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Jim Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Chris Kontos C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Wayne Van Dorp L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Kenneth Gruhl L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Hunter L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Chris Dahlquist D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Rod Buskas D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pat Riggin W 41 40 1 .976 52:05 3.25
Gilles Meloche — 9 6 3 .667 7:55 -1.65

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Walt Poddubny L 1 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 1.53
Tomas Sandstrom R 1 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 1.00
James Patrick D 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.00
Kelly Kisio C 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.98
David Shaw D 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
John Ogrodnick L 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.85
Marcel Dionne C 0 1 6 0 0 -2 0:00 0.77
Jari Gronstrand D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Norm MacIver D 0 1 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.25
Jan Erixon L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Ron Greschner D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brian Mullen R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Duguay C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ulf Dahlen R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Mike Donnelly L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Michel Petit D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck L 32 24 8 .750 60:00 -3.60