Chicago Blackhawks vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Sunday, December 7, 1980 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5–4 on Sunday, December 7, 1980 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Blackhawks 34–28.
Reg Kerr scored a hat trick and Steve Vickers scored twice. Don Maloney, Ed Hospodar, Rick Paterson and Eddie Johnstone also scored.
Doug Soetaert made 24 saves on 28 shots for the win; Murray Bannerman stopped 29 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Reg Kerr (13)Denis Savard (20), Keith Brown (13)1–019:01 CHI
2nd period
Don Maloney (4)Eddie Johnstone (10), Walt Tkaczuk (8)1–107:52 NYR
Steve Vickers (8)Walt Tkaczuk (9)1–211:40 NYR- Steve Vickers (9)Dave Maloney (10), Mike Allison (11)1–314:05 NYR ·
3rd period
- Reg Kerr (14)Bob Murray (14), Terry Ruskowski (25)2–301:46 CHI
Ed Hospodar (2)Mike Allison (12), Tom Laidlaw (6)2–404:45 NYR
Rick Paterson (1)Terry Ruskowski (26), Keith Brown (14)3–407:24 CHI · 
Eddie Johnstone (4)Steve Vickers (11), Walt Tkaczuk (10)3–510:12 NYR- Reg Kerr (15)Denis Savard (21), Bob Murray (15)4–515:54 CHI ·
Team stats
CHINYR
2834
0%0%
1/61/6
1616
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:57 into the first period
Greg Fox · high sticking2 min - 11:58 into the first period
Tom Laidlaw · cross checking2 min - 15:47 into the first periodGreg Fox · holding2 min
- 0:53 into the second periodMike O'connell · holding2 min
- 4:25 into the second periodDave Maloney · holding2 min
- 5:24 into the second periodWalt Tkaczuk · hooking2 min
- 13:59 into the second periodTom Lysiak · interference2 min
- 17:02 into the second periodBob Murray · holding2 min
- 6:04 into the third periodMike O'connell · slashing2 min
- 11:04 into the third periodRon Greschner · tripping2 min
- 13:12 into the third periodChris Kotsopoulos · holding2 min
- 13:56 into the third periodTerry Ruskowski · high sticking2 min
- 13:56 into the third periodTerry Ruskowski · roughing2 min
- 13:56 into the third periodCarol Vadnais · high sticking2 min
- 13:56 into the third periodCarol Vadnais · roughing2 min
- 14:27 into the third periodBarry Beck · cross checking2 min
Season series
Chicago Blackhawks
| 10Reg KerrC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 8Terry RuskowskiC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Denis SavardC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Keith BrownD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 6Bob MurrayD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 26Rick PatersonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Tom LysiakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 15Tim HigginsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 19Ron SedlbauerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Grant MulveyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Florent RobidouxL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Darryl SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 29Ted BulleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2Greg FoxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Dave HutchisonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 14Mike O'connellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 24Doug WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Murray BannermanG | L | 34 | 5 | .853 |
| 35Tony EspositoG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Rangers
| 8Steve VickersL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Walt TkaczukC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 14Mike AllisonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 17Eddie JohnstoneR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Ed HospodarD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 6Jere GillisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Doug SullimanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Anders HedbergR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 16Dave SilkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 77Phil EspositoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Barry BeckD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 5Carol VadnaisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 24Chris KotsopoulosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wayne ThomasG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Doug SoetaertG | W | 28 | 4 | .857 |