Pittsburgh Penguins vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Sunday, October 21, 1979 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6–3 on Sunday, October 21, 1979 at Madison Square Garden.
Rick Kehoe scored twice. Phil Esposito, Don Murdoch, Dave Maloney, Ron Greschner, Gregg Sheppard, Pat Hickey and Ron Duguay also scored.
Doug Soetaert made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Rob Holland stopped 25 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Rick Kehoe (2)Orest Kindrachuk (4), Randy Carlyle (5)1–006:42 PIT · 
Phil Esposito (5)Don Maloney (4), Mario Marois (3)1–116:56 NYR · 
Don Murdoch (2)Don Maloney (5), Mario Marois (4)1–217:43 NYR
2nd period
Dave Maloney (2)Ron Duguay (4), Eddie Johnstone (1)1–300:49 NYR
Ron Greschner (2)Ron Duguay (5), Warren Miller (1)1–409:08 NYR- Rick Kehoe (3)Orest Kindrachuk (5), Russ Anderson (5)2–413:19 PIT
3rd period
Gregg Sheppard (1)Unassisted3–405:45 PIT
Pat Hickey (1)Ron Greschner (4), Don Murdoch (2)3–513:02 NYR
Ron Duguay (2)Dave Maloney (1), Carol Vadnais (4)3–615:05 NYR
Team stats
PITNYR
3131
0%0%
1/51/3
1317
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:33 into the first period
Pat Hickey · tripping2 min - 10:37 into the first periodWarren Miller · holding2 min
- 15:11 into the first period
Kim Clackson · holding2 min - 4:03 into the second periodRod Schutt · holding2 min
- 9:59 into the second periodMario Marois · holding2 min
- 18:07 into the second periodDave Maloney · slashing2 min
- 18:07 into the second periodOrest Kindrachuk · slashing2 min
- 0:41 into the third periodMario Marois · hooking2 min
- 16:50 into the third periodDon Maloney · fighting5 min
- 16:50 into the third periodKim Clackson · fighting5 min
- 17:59 into the third periodPat Hickey · tripping2 min
- 18:15 into the third periodGregg Sheppard · hooking2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 17Rick KehoeR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Orest KindrachukC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 19Gregg SheppardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 7Russ AndersonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25Randy CarlyleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 2 | – |
| 10Peter LeeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 11George FergusonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Greg MaloneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 14Nick LibettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 16Gary McAdamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Ross LonsberryL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Paul MarshallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 23Rod SchuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Pat HughesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 2Tom BladonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 3Ron StackhouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 6Kim ClacksonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rob HollandG | L | 31 | 6 | .806 |
New York Rangers
| 10Ron DuguayC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 25Mario MaroisD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Pat HickeyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Eddie JohnstoneR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 24Warren MillerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 77Phil EspositoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 5Carol VadnaisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Steve VickersL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 11Ulf NilssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Anders HedbergR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 18Walt TkaczukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 27Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30John DavidsonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Doug SoetaertG | W | 31 | 3 | .903 |