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Monday, January 2, 1989 · Madison Square Garden

Whalers 4 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Ron Francis Whalers First Star 3A · 4 SOG R 89OVR Kevin Dineen Whalers Second Star 2G · 6 SOG D 82OVR David Shaw Rangers Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:32 Kevin Dineen (20) Mark Reeds (2), Ron Francis (25) HFD 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 4:45 David Shaw (2) PPG Brian Leetch (25), Brian Mullen (19) HFD 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 9:43 Kevin Dineen (21) Ron Francis (26), Brian Lawton (13) HFD 2 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 9:45 Tomas Sandstrom (14) James Patrick (18), Carey Wilson (17) HFD 2 – 2 NYR
  2. 14:34 Paul Macdermid (7) Dave Tippett (15) HFD 3 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 4:51 Carey Wilson (14) Tony Granato (12), Tomas Sandstrom (22) HFD 3 – 3 NYR
  2. 7:28 David Shaw (3) PPG Brian Leetch (26), Kelly Kisio (21) HFD 3 – 4 NYR
  3. 18:41 Tony Granato (20) Unassisted HFD 3 – 5 NYR
  4. 19:35 Ray Ferraro (17) Ron Francis (27) HFD 4 – 5 NYR

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ron Francis C 0 3 4 +3 2.48
Kevin Dineen R 2 0 6 +3 2.40
Paul Macdermid R 1 0 2 +2 1.05
Brian Lawton C 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Mark Reeds R 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Ray Ferraro C 1 0 1 -2 0.53
Dave Tippett L 0 1 0 -2 0.33
Brent Peterson C 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Tom Martin L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Norm MacIver D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Jody Hull R 0 0 1 0 0.08
John Anderson R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dave Babych D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 3 0 0.07
Scot Kleinendorst C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Joel Quenneville D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Scott Young R 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Randy Ladouceur D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Peter Sidorkiewicz L 40 35 5 .875 59:07 -0.25

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
David Shaw D 2 0 4 +1 1.95
Tony Granato R 1 1 5 +1 1.75
Carey Wilson C 1 1 1 0 1.45
Tomas Sandstrom R 1 1 2 0 1.38
Brian Leetch D 0 2 3 -1 1.33
Brian Mullen R 0 1 6 0 1.08
Kelly Kisio C 0 1 1 0 0.70
James Patrick D 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Marcel Dionne C 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Kevin Miller C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Mark Hardy D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Ulf Dahlen R 0 0 1 0 0.08
John Ogrodnick L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Ron Greschner D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jan Erixon L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Dean Kennedy D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 28 24 4 .857 60:00 -0.60