New York Rangers vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, February 5, 1981 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 6–3 on Thursday, February 5, 1981 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the Rangers 29–16.
Don Maloney scored twice and Rick Middleton scored twice. Mike O'connell, Jean Ratelle, Keith Crowder, Eddie Johnstone and Ray Bourque also scored.
Rogie Vachon made 13 saves on 16 shots for the win; Steve Baker stopped 23 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Mike O'connell (7)Unassisted0–108:54 BOS · 
Jean Ratelle (7)Terry O'Reilly (17), Bobby Lalonde (7)0–214:38 BOS
Keith Crowder (6)Brad Park (36), Steve Kasper (21)0–315:42 BOS
2nd period
Don Maloney (17)Eddie Johnstone (25)1–300:33 NYR · - Don Maloney (18)Dave Maloney (25), Dean Talafous (9)2–310:50 NYR
Eddie Johnstone (19)Tom Laidlaw (12)3–311:41 NYR
Rick Middleton (27)Jean Ratelle (16), Terry O'Reilly (18)3–419:38 BOS
3rd period
Ray Bourque (17)Rick Middleton (46), Dwight Foster (20)3–512:00 BOS- Rick Middleton (28)Brad Park (37)3–619:16 BOS ·
Team stats
NYRBOS
1629
0%0%
0/21/4
1915
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:25 into the first period
Mike Milbury · fighting5 min - 0:25 into the first period
Ron Duguay · fighting5 min - 5:00 into the first periodDwight Foster · hooking2 min
- 7:45 into the first periodUlf Nilsson · hooking2 min
- 8:07 into the first periodRon Duguay · holding2 min
- 10:54 into the first periodMike Milbury · interference2 min
- 19:47 into the first periodNick Fotiu · boarding2 min
- 5:09 into the second periodDwight Foster · interference2 min
- 5:09 into the second periodRon Greschner · holding2 min
- 15:00 into the second periodStan Jonathan · roughing2 min
- 15:00 into the second periodSteve Vickers · holding2 min
- 15:00 into the second periodSteve Vickers · roughing2 min
- 6:22 into the third periodDick Redmond · slashing2 min
- 6:22 into the third periodRon Greschner · slashing2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 12Don MaloneyL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 17Eddie JohnstoneR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 19Dean TalafousC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Steve VickersL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Ron DuguayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 11Ulf NilssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Mike AllisonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Anders HedbergR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Dave SilkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 22Nick FotiuL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 27Gary BurnsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3Barry BeckD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 5Carol VadnaisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Steve BakerG | L | 28 | 5 | .821 |
Boston Bruins
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 10Jean RatelleC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 24Terry O'ReillyR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Brad ParkD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Bobby LalondeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Dwight FosterR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 8Peter McNabC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 12Wayne CashmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 17Stan JonathanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Don MarcotteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 6Dick RedmondD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 29Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 5 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rogie VachonG | W | 16 | 3 | .813 |
| 31Marco BaronG | 0 | 0 | – |