MARK PAVELICH

Feb. 23, 1983 ny Rangers 11, hartford 3

WHEN PAVELICH SCORED HIS third goal midway through the second period at Madison Square Garden, hundreds of red baseball caps, handouts from a cigarette company, rained down. That was just the start of the party.

Pavelich, a 1980 U.S. Olympian, netted his fifth goal of the game with 11:09 left, just 11 seconds after scoring his fourth. The spree came the night after the three-year anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. “This is important,” Pavelich said, “but the assist I got on Mike Eruzione’s goal that beat the Soviets (4-3 in Lake Placid) is more important to me.”