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Monday, December 26, 1988 · Hartford Civic Center

Penguins 4 at Whalers 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG L 69OVR Don Maloney Whalers Second Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG G 80OVR Tom Barrasso Penguins Third Star 37 SV · .925

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:51 Zarley Zalapski (8) PPG Paul Coffey (34), Mario Lemieux (57) PIT 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 13:41 Don Maloney (5) Unassisted PIT 1 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 0:19 Paul Macdermid (5) Ray Ferraro (17), Dave Tippett (13) PIT 1 – 2 HFD
  2. 19:05 Dave Hannan (4) Randy Cunneyworth (15), Jay Caufield (3) PIT 2 – 2 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 4:44 Mario Lemieux (37) PPG Zarley Zalapski (18), John Cullen (24) PIT 3 – 2 HFD
  2. 5:52 Ron Francis (13) Don Maloney (10) PIT 3 – 3 HFD

Overtime

  1. 1:39 Rob Brown (26) Phil Bourque (12), Mario Lemieux (58) PIT 4 – 3 HFD

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mario Lemieux C 1 2 1 -1 1.93
Zarley Zalapski D 1 1 2 -1 1.23
Dave Hannan C 1 0 4 +1 1.05
Rob Brown R 1 0 2 0 0.90
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 1 3 0 0.85
Phil Bourque L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Paul Coffey D 0 1 5 -1 0.85
Jay Caufield R 0 1 2 0 0.78
John Cullen C 0 1 0 0 0.63
Steve Dykstra L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Gord Dineen D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bob Errey L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Scott Bjugstad L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rod Buskas D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jim Johnson D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Randy Hillier D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Dan Quinn C 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Troy Loney L 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso W 40 37 3 .925 61:39 1.45

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Don Maloney L 1 1 5 +1 1.90
Ron Francis C 1 0 6 +1 1.35
Paul Macdermid R 1 0 3 0 0.98
Dave Tippett L 0 1 4 0 0.93
Ray Ferraro C 0 1 0 0 0.48
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Scott Young R 0 0 5 0 0.38
Randy Ladouceur D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Dave Babych D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Brent Peterson C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 4 0 0.15
Norm MacIver D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jody Hull R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dallas Gaume C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Joel Quenneville D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brian Lawton C 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Grant Jennings D 0 0 2 0 -0.15
Tom Martin L 0 0 0 0 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Liut L 27 23 4 .852 61:39 -0.70