WHA game summary from January 23, 1977

Team	1	2	3	4	F
Cincinnati Stingers (22-21-2)	2	1	0	0	3
New England Whalers (18-26-5)	1	2	0	1	4

1:	CIN,	Dennis Sobchuk 25 (Bill Steele), 5:23
	NE ,	Dave Keon 14 (Ralph Backstrom, Thommy Abrahamsson), 7:41
	CIN,	Blaine Stoughton 31 (Greg Carroll), 14:58
2:	NE ,	Steve Carlson 6 (Tommy Earl), 9:12
	NE ,	Jack Carlson 5 (Steve Carlson), 9:34
	CIN,	Bill Steele 6 (Ron Plumb, Dennis Sobchuk), 17:17
3:	no scoring
4:	NE ,	Dave Hynes 4 (Ralph Backstrom, Mike Rogers), 4:43

Penalties:

Penalty time: CIN: 2 minutes NE : 4 minutes

CIN Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Bill Steele	1	1	2	0	0	0
Dennis Sobchuk	1	1	2	0	0	0
Blaine Stoughton	1	0	1	0	0	0
Ron Plumb	0	1	1	2	0	0
Greg Carroll	0	1	1	0	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

NE Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Steve Carlson	1	1	2	0	0	0
Ralph Backstrom	0	2	2	0	0	0
Jack Carlson	1	0	1	0	0	0
Dave Hynes	1	0	1	0	0	0
Dave Keon	1	0	1	0	0	0
Thommy Abrahamsson	0	1	1	0	0	0
Mike Rogers	0	1	1	0	0	0
Tommy Earl	0	1	1	0	0	0
Alan Hangsleben	0	0	0	2	0	0
Gordie Roberts	0	0	0	2	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

Shots: CIN: 12-14-11- 2-39 NE : 16-10-15- 3-44 Goalies: CIN: Normand Lapointe (L, 17-13-0) NE : Christer Abrahamsson (W, 13-10-3) Attendance: 10,083