FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring:
  1, Hartford, Chase 1 (Ranheim, K Haller), 8:10
  2, Hartford, K Haller 2 (Ranheim, Manderville), 11:01
  3, Hartford, Rice 17 (Primeau), 11:14
Penalties:
  Vorobiev, NYR (hooking), 5:47
  Messier, NYR (double butt ending minor), 8:10
  Chase, HFD (roughing), 8:10
  Featherstone, HFD (tripping), 14:39

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring:
  4, Hartford, Primeau 18 (unassisted), 3:12
  5, Hartford, Cassels 17 (power play) (Emerson, Wesley), 17:20
  6, NY Rangers, Gretzky 17 (Lidster, Eastwood), 17:54
Penalties:
  Oneill, HFD (holding), 5:58
  K Haller, HFD (interference), 12:11
  Oneill, HFD (roughing), 14:58
  Langdon, NYR (high sticking), 14:58
  Samuelsson, NYR (double roughing minor), 14:58
  Rice, HFD (hooking), 16:08
  Messier, NYR (hooking), 17:03

THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring:
  7, Hartford, Wesley 4 (Dineen, Cassels), 0:49
  8, NY Rangers, Graves 22 (Messier, Nemchinov), 13:18
  9, Hartford, Kapanen 7 (unassisted), 16:00
Penalties:
  Chase, HFD (fighting major), 5:56
  Cairns, NYR (fighting major), 5:56
  Langdon, NYR (fighting major, misconduct), 9:25
  Samuelsson, NYR (roughing, misconduct), 9:25
  Featherstone, HFD (roughing, misconduct), 9:25
  Grimson, HFD (fighting major, misconduct), 9:25
  Wesley, HFD (tripping), 16:14

Shots on Goal:
  NY Rangers            12 13 13--38
  Hartford              17  8  7--32

Goalies:
  NY Rangers, Richter (13 shots, 10 saves; record: 25-15-5)
    Healy (11:14 of 1st period, 19, 15)
  Hartford, S Burke (38, 36; record: 13-13-3)

Power-play conversions: NYR - 0 of 4, HFD - 1 of 5
Referee: P Devorski
Linesmen: Collins, Champoux
Attendance: 14,660 (out of 15,635)