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Sunday, February 21, 1988 · Hartford Civic Center

Islanders 7 at Whalers 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Pat LaFontaine Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG G 86OVR Billy Smith Islanders Second Star 39 SV · .951 R 69OVR Randy Wood Islanders Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:11 Pat LaFontaine (38) Randy Wood (10), Gerald Diduck (7) NYI 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 17:32 Randy Wood (18) Pat LaFontaine (38), Alan Kerr (25) NYI 2 – 0 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 2:34 Derek King (7) Unassisted NYI 3 – 0 HFD
  2. 7:35 Dean Evason (9) PPG Ulf Samuelsson (25), Ron Francis (36) NYI 3 – 1 HFD
  3. 10:59 Mick Vukota (1) Tomas Jonsson (33), Dale Henry (10) NYI 4 – 1 HFD
  4. 11:57 Pat LaFontaine (39) Unassisted NYI 5 – 1 HFD
  5. 14:40 Rod Dallman (1) Mikko Makela (28), Bryan Trottier (39) NYI 6 – 1 HFD
  6. 15:35 Kevin Dineen (20) Ron Francis (37) NYI 6 – 2 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 18:17 Mikko Makela (31) Unassisted NYI 7 – 2 HFD

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Pat LaFontaine C 2 1 4 +3 2.88
Randy Wood R 1 1 1 +3 1.90
Mikko Makela R 1 1 2 +2 1.68
Alan Kerr R 0 1 1 +3 1.00
Bryan Trottier C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Derek King L 1 0 2 0 0.90
Dale Henry L 0 1 0 +2 0.78
Gerald Diduck D 0 1 0 +2 0.78
Tomas Jonsson D 0 1 1 +2 0.70
Rod Dallman L 1 0 1 +1 0.68
Jeff Finley D 0 0 2 +2 0.45
Denis Potvin D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Steve Konroyd D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Ken Leiter D 0 0 1 +2 0.23
Bob Bassen L 0 0 0 +2 0.15
Mick Vukota R 1 0 1 +1 0.15
Brad Lauer R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brent Sutter C 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 41 39 2 .951 60:00 2.40

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ron Francis C 0 2 2 +1 1.55
Kevin Dineen R 1 0 3 +1 0.53
Stew Gavin R 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Dean Evason C 1 0 2 -2 0.45
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 1 3 -3 0.40
Brent Peterson C 0 0 1 0 0.08
John Anderson R 0 0 5 -2 0.08
Mark Reeds R 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Dave Tippett L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Ray Ferraro C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Joel Quenneville D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Randy Ladouceur D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Carey Wilson C 0 0 3 -4 -0.38
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Neil Sheehy D 0 0 1 -3 -0.52
Sylvain Turgeon L 0 0 3 -5 -0.53
Paul Macdermid R 0 0 3 -4 -0.83
Torrie Robertson L 0 0 1 -1 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Liut — 10 7 3 .700 29:01 -1.55
Steve Weeks L 11 7 4 .636 30:59 -2.30