WHA game summary from January 2, 1977

Team	1	2	3	F
Cincinnati Stingers (17-17-2)	1	0	1	2
New England Whalers (17-18-4)	1	1	1	3

1:	CIN,	Ron Plumb 6 (Barry Legge, Claude Larose), 6:05
	NE ,	Ralph Backstrom 11 (Gary MacGregor), 16:29
2:	NE ,	George Lyle 24 (Mike Rogers, Doug Roberts), 15:28
3:	CIN,	Claude Larose 15 (Rich Leduc, Blaine Stoughton), 2:01
	NE ,	Tommy Earl 5 (Larry Pleau), 15:04

Penalties:

Penalty time: CIN: 11 minutes NE : 13 minutes

CIN Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Claude Larose	1	1	2	0	0	0
Ron Plumb	1	0	1	0	0	0
Blaine Stoughton	0	1	1	4	0	0
Rich Leduc	0	1	1	0	0	0
Barry Legge	0	1	1	0	0	0
Dave Inkpen	0	0	0	7	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

NE Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
George Lyle	1	0	1	0	0	0
Tommy Earl	1	0	1	0	0	0
Ralph Backstrom	1	0	1	0	0	0
Mike Rogers	0	1	1	0	0	0
Larry Pleau	0	1	1	0	0	0
Doug Roberts	0	1	1	0	0	0
Gary MacGregor	0	1	1	0	0	0
Jim Troy	0	0	0	5	0	0
Ron Busniuk	0	0	0	4	0	0
Brett Callighen	0	0	0	2	0	0
Alan Hangsleben	0	0	0	2	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

Shots: CIN: 9-14-13-36 NE : 16-16-13-45 Goalies: CIN: Normand Lapointe (L, 12-10-0) NE : Christer Abrahamsson (W, 12-8-3) Attendance: 8,978