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December 20th, 1982



Montreal Canadiens (22-16-2) at New York Rangers (18-17-4)

Montreal goes to Madison Square Garden to face the Rangers. We have played the Rangers once and lost 4-3 this season. Montreal will have LD Marc-Andre Berube back in the line-up today but LW Lorenzo Bocci is still not cleared to play.

Montreal has demoted RW Deric Dufour and LW Dave Lyon to the AHL. Montreal has promoted LW Petr Svestka and C Jiri Reichel.

The 19 year old Svestka has 18 goals and 31 points in 35 games in the AHL. A strong goal scorer who is a good skater had 68 goals in 136 games with the Gatineau Olympiques of the QMJHL. He was Montreals 117th overall pick in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft.

The 19 year old Reichel has 9 goals and 16 points in 17 games in the AHL this season. He was Montreal's 44th overall pick in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. In 128 games with the Sudbury Wolves of the OHL, he had 57 goals and 152 points. Reichel is a two-way player, a strong defensive player with great physical strength.

Svestka will play on the LW on the 3rd line with C Ronnie Marvin and RW Rob Lynch while Jiri Reichel will C the 4th line with LW Tom Gaskell and RW Melvin Swiney.

The Rangers are exactly what the Canadiens PP doesn't need. The Rangers are ranked 4th in the NHL with a 88.6% kill success rate while the Habs PP struggles. The Rangers do give up goals thought, they are ranked 23rd with 2.87 GAA per game. The Rangers are 11th in the Eastern Conference, 6 points out of the final playoff spot.

RW Dominik Juran leads the team with 14 goals this season. Juran also has 13 assists for 27 points in 39 games. The 31 year old is a strong skater and can log long minutes. In his 3rd year in the NHL, 2 with the Rangers and 1 with the Kings before signing as a free agent, he has 77 goals for 154 points with 116 PIMs and a -4 rating in 198 NHL games.

RW John Herrod leads the Rangers with 23 assists and 34 points. He also has 11 goals this year. The 23 year old is another strong skater who is very mobile. He is in his 3rd season with the Rangers totaling 203 games. Over that time he has 41 goals for 153 points with 137 PIMs and a -7 rating.

RD Lance Turgeon is 3rd on the Rangers with 23 points, including 4 goals. The 31 year old Turgeon is a great playmaker with a pretty good ability to read the play. Also in his 3rd year as a Ranger, he has 18 goals and 86 points with 60 PIMs and a -29 rating in 153 NHL games.

Montreal will start G Richard Day today. He has 2 wins in 3 starts with a .945 save %. The Rangers are starting G Dewey Shelton, he has 11 wins in 26 starts with a .913 save %.

The Rangers break the ice at 16:07 when RW John Herrod gets his 12th of the year to make it 1-0 Rangers. The shots finish 12 to 7 for Montreal. Montreal is 0 for 2 on the PP while New York is 0 for 1.

The Rangers make it 2-0 at 17:50 of the 2nd period when RW Dominik Juran gets his 15th of the year. The shots were 6 to 3 in the 2nd period. There were no penalties or PP chances for either team in the 2nd period.

The Rangers are now up 3-0 as RW Dominik Juran gets his 2nd goal of the game at 4:20 of the 3rd period. Montreal gets on the board with a 5 on PP, RW Al Ladd scores his 14th at 11:43. Montreal's LW Petr Svestka scores in his NHL debute at 18:09 to make it 3-2 for the Rangers. C Jiri Reichel gets his 1st NHL assist. We now have a game. Montreal cannot complete the comeback and lose 3-2. The shots were 11 to 6 in favour of the Rangers in the 3rd. Montreal had lots of PP chances, but were only 1 for 7.

Rangers RW Dominik Juran was named the 1st star with his 2 goals. The 31 year old now has 16 goals and 29 points in 40 games. Juran now has 79 career goals in 199 NHL games.

Rangers 3 Montreal 2

PER	TEAM	GOAL	#	ASSIST	ASSIST
1st	NYR	John Herrod	12	Dave Clarke	Kamil Kolecek
2nd	NYR	Dominik Juran	15	Carl Ward	Micheal Bryshun
3rd	NYR	Dominik Juran	16	Terry Frere
3rd	MTL	Al Ladd (PP)	14	Dave Wright	Chris Hughes
3rd	MTL	Petr Svestka	1	Ronnie Marvin	Jiri Reichel

TEAM	GOALIE	SA	GA
MTL	Richard Day	24	3
NYR	Dewey Shelton	21	2