Quebec Nordiques vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Friday, January 7, 1983 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Quebec Nordiques 5–1 on Friday, January 7, 1983 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Nordiques 31–23.
Goals came from Don Maloney, Vaclav Nedomansky, Wilf Paiement, Mikko Leinonen, Robbie Ftorek and Chris Kontos.
Eddie Mio made 22 saves on 23 shots for the win; Dan Bouchard stopped 26 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Don Maloney (21)Reijo Ruotsalainen (25), Robbie Ftorek (12)0–108:59 NYR
2nd period
Vaclav Nedomansky (4)Mike Rogers (36), Dave Maloney (25)0–205:50 NYR · 
Wilf Paiement (14)Real Cloutier (23)1–207:24 QUE ·
3rd period
Mikko Leinonen (8)Mike Rogers (37), Bill Baker (10)1–305:33 NYR
Robbie Ftorek (8)Don Maloney (20), Reijo Ruotsalainen (26)1–413:27 NYR
Chris Kontos (4)Nick Fotiu (8), Mike Allison (6)1–519:41 NYR
Team stats
QUENYR
2331
0%0%
1/51/2
1210
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 18:03 into the first period
Bill Baker · holding2 min - 3:21 into the second period
Normand Rochefort · tripping2 min - 5:46 into the second periodPierre Aubry · holding2 min
- 7:18 into the second periodDave Maloney · cross checking2 min
- 10:15 into the second periodMikko Leinonen · hooking2 min
- 12:50 into the second periodLouis Sleigher · tripping2 min
- 18:24 into the second periodRon Duguay · roughing double minor4 min
- 18:24 into the second periodRandy Moller · roughing double minor4 min
- 16:11 into the third periodRandy Moller · cross checking2 min
Season series
Quebec Nordiques
| 9Real CloutierR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Wilf PaiementR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 2Wally WeirR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Marc TardifL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Louis SleigherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Pierre AubryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Michel GouletL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Marian StastnyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 19Alain CoteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Anton StastnyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 26Peter StastnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Normand RochefortD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 | – |
| 7Pat PriceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 10Gaston TherrienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 21Randy MollerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Blake WesleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Andre DupontD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1John GarrettG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Dan BouchardG | L | 31 | 5 | .839 |
New York Rangers
| 8Robbie FtorekC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 27Mike RogersC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 29Reijo RuotsalainenD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 14Mike AllisonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Nick FotiuL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Chris KontosC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 28Mikko LeinonenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 34Vaclav NedomanskyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Bill BakerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Scot KleinendorstC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 9Rob McClanahanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Ron DuguayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 15Anders HedbergR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 40Mark PavelichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 25Graeme NicolsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Eddie MioG | W | 23 | 1 | .957 |