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Tuesday, March 30, 1976 · Capital Centre

Red Wings 3 at Capitals 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Gerry Meehan Capitals First Star 2G · 5 SOG D 68OVR Barry Salovaara Red Wings Second Star 1G · 2 SOG C 73OVR Nelson Pyatt Capitals Third Star 1A · 1 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 0:19 Dennis Polonich (11) Walt McKechnie (52), Bryan Watson (18) DET 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 1:22 Mike Lampman (5) Unassisted DET 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 9:45 Gerry Meehan (22) Harvey Bennett (13), Jean Lemieux (22) DET 1 – 2 WSH
  4. 13:27 Rick Bragnalo (2) Nelson Pyatt (23) DET 1 – 3 WSH
  5. 16:59 Mike Lampman (6) PPG Unassisted DET 1 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 10:14 Barry Salovaara (2) Mike Bloom (16) DET 2 – 4 WSH
  2. 11:25 Dan Maloney (25) Dennis Polonich (10), Walt McKechnie (53) DET 3 – 4 WSH
  3. 14:15 Gerry Meehan (23) Garnet Bailey (19) DET 3 – 5 WSH

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Barry Salovaara D 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Walt McKechnie C 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.65
Dennis Polonich C 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Dan Maloney L 1 0 11 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Mike Bloom L 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.18
Danny Grant L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Jean Hamel D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Mike Wong C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Nick Libett L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Brian Watts L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bill Lochead L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Terry Harper D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Buster Harvey R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Rick Lapointe D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Al Cameron D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.83
Bryan Watson D 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -1.25
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ed Giacomin L 26 21 5 .808 60:00 -1.65

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Gerry Meehan C 2 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
Nelson Pyatt C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Garnet Bailey L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Rick Bragnalo C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.75
Jean Lemieux D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Harvey Bennett C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Jack Lynch D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.45
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Mike Lampman L 2 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Hartland Monahan R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Peter Scamurra D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Greg Joly D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Yvon Labre D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.00
Tony White L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Bob Paradise D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bernie Wolfe W 32 29 3 .906 60:00 0.65