St. Louis Blues vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Sunday, March 16, 1980 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the St. Louis Blues 5–2 on Sunday, March 16, 1980 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Blues 29–23.
Ron Duguay scored twice. Eddie Johnstone, Anders Hedberg, Brian Sutter, Don Maloney and Rick Lapointe also scored.
John Davidson made 21 saves on 23 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 24 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Ron Duguay (23)Ron Greschner (31), Barry Beck (46)0–104:43 NYR · 
Eddie Johnstone (13)Barry Beck (47)0–217:43 NYR
2nd period
- Ron Duguay (24)Carol Vadnais (19), Eddie Johnstone (19)0–304:10 NYR
3rd period
Anders Hedberg (32)Steve Vickers (31), Ulf Nilsson (39)0–408:50 NYR
Brian Sutter (22)Wayne Babych (30), Tony Currie (14)1–414:42 STL · 
Don Maloney (21)Dean Talafous (14), Phil Esposito (37)1–516:01 NYR
Rick Lapointe (6)Unassisted2–518:24 STL
Team stats
STLNYR
2329
0%0%
1/71/2
1421
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:10 into the first period
Larry Patey · spearing5 min - 5:38 into the first period
Ron Greschner · hooking2 min - 9:16 into the first periodBrian Sutter · hooking2 min
- 12:24 into the first periodRon Duguay · slashing2 min
- 12:24 into the first periodRon Duguay · fighting5 min
- 12:24 into the first periodBrian Sutter · slashing2 min
- 12:24 into the first periodBrian Sutter · fighting5 min
- 13:23 into the first periodRay Markham · interference2 min
- 17:56 into the first periodRon Greschner · tripping2 min
- 14:47 into the second periodPhil Esposito · roughing2 min
- 16:47 into the second periodPhil Esposito · high sticking2 min
- 5:23 into the third periodBarry Beck · slashing2 min
- 13:07 into the third periodCam Connor · roughing2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 10Wayne BabychR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Tony CurrieR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 6Larry PateyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 14Blair ChapmanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 19Blake DunlopC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 21Mike ZukeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike CrombeenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Ralph KlassenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Terry HarperD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Bryan MaxwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Neil KomadoskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 33Dick LambyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |
| 31Ed StaniowskiG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Rangers
| 10Ron DuguayC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 17Eddie JohnstoneR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 3Barry BeckD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 8Steve VickersL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 11Ulf NilssonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Anders HedbergR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Dean TalafousC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 77Phil EspositoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 5Carol VadnaisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Walt TkaczukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20Cam ConnorR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Ray MarkhamC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Mario MaroisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30John DavidsonG | W | 23 | 2 | .913 |
| 35Steve BakerG | 0 | 0 | – |