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Wednesday, December 22, 1976 · Omni Coliseum

Red Wings 1 at Flames 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 42OVR Jim Rutherford Red Wings First Star 36 SV · .947 G 51OVR Dan Bouchard Flames Second Star 26 SV · .963 C 86OVR Walt McKechnie Red Wings Third Star 1G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 19:29 Willi Plett (11) Rey Comeau (9), Rick Bowness (4) DET 0 – 1 AFM

2nd Period

  1. 13:41 Ken Houston (9) Ed Kea (6), Guy Chouinard (12) DET 0 – 2 AFM
  2. 15:45 Walt McKechnie (13) Nick Libett (11), Dennis Polonich (15) DET 1 – 2 AFM

3rd Period

No scoring

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Walt McKechnie C 1 0 5 +1 1.28
Dennis Polonich C 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Nick Libett L 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Bobby Sheehan C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Buster Harvey R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Michel Bergeron R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Jim Nahrgang D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Greg Joly D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Al Cameron D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bill Lochead L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jean Hamel D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Rick Wilson D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
J.P. Leblanc C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Mike Bloom L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Rick Lapointe D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Dan Maloney L 0 0 4 -1 -0.23
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 2 -1 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford L 38 36 2 .947 59:31 2.10

Atlanta Flames

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Guy Chouinard C 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Rey Comeau C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Ed Kea D 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Ken Houston R 1 0 2 0 0.75
Rick Bowness R 0 1 1 0 0.70
Bobby Simpson L 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Tom Lysiak C 0 0 5 0 0.38
Eric Vail L 0 0 5 0 0.38
Dave Shand D 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Richard Mulhern D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Bill Clement C 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Barry Gibbs D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Tim Ecclestone L 0 0 1 0 0.08
John Gould R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Willi Plett R 1 0 1 +1 0.08
Randy Manery D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Pat Quinn D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dan Bouchard W 27 26 1 .963 60:00 1.85