Boston Bruins vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Wednesday, March 18, 1981 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Boston Bruins 3–2 on Wednesday, March 18, 1981 at Madison Square Garden. The Bruins outshot the Rangers 32–22.
Goals came from Barry Beck, Ron Greschner, Ulf Nilsson, Peter McNab and Ray Bourque.
Steve Baker made 30 saves on 32 shots for the win; Rogie Vachon stopped 19 of 22.
Scoring
2nd period
Barry Beck (10)Eddie Johnstone (37), Steve Vickers (38)0–102:25 NYR
Ron Greschner (24)Ulf Nilsson (24)0–209:48 NYR
Ulf Nilsson (13)Ron Greschner (38), Anders Hedberg (37)0–317:06 NYR
3rd period
Peter McNab (34)Terry O'Reilly (28)1–301:11 BOS
Ray Bourque (24)Brad Park (50), Mike O'connell (31)2–308:50 BOS ·
Team stats
BOSNYR
3222
0%0%
1/50/3
812
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:41 into the first period
Chris Kotsopoulos · cross checking2 min - 6:20 into the first period
Steve Kasper · slashing2 min - 6:20 into the first periodLance Nethery · slashing2 min
- 14:43 into the first periodKeith Crowder · hooking2 min
- 18:31 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 0:22 into the second periodTerry O'Reilly · slashing2 min
- 4:31 into the second periodDave Maloney · cross checking2 min
- 13:40 into the second periodChris Kotsopoulos · hooking2 min
- 8:15 into the third periodMike Allison · tripping2 min
- 10:02 into the third periodDick Redmond · slashing2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 8Peter McNabC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 24Terry O'ReillyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 22Brad ParkD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 10Jean RatelleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Mike GillisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Stan JonathanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Bobby LalondeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Don MarcotteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Dwight FosterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 6Dick RedmondD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 29Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rogie VachonG | L | 22 | 3 | .864 |
| 31Marco BaronG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Rangers
| 11Ulf NilssonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 8Steve VickersL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Anders HedbergR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 17Eddie JohnstoneR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Barry BeckD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 6Jere GillisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron DuguayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Mike AllisonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Dean TalafousC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Lance NetheryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Peter WallinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Carol VadnaisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 23Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Chris KotsopoulosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Steve BakerG | W | 32 | 2 | .938 |