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Saturday, January 29, 1977 · Detroit Olympia

Barons 3 at Red Wings 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 84OVR Walt McKechnie Red Wings First Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG L 67OVR Bill Lochead Red Wings Second Star 2G · 4 SOG D 47OVR Rick Lapointe Flyers Third Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:29 Bill Lochead (11) Unassisted CLE 0 – 1 DET
  2. 2:36 Mike Fidler (14) Wayne Merrick (24), Mike Christie (12) CLE 1 – 1 DET
  3. 19:16 Walt McKechnie (18) Rick Lapointe (8) CLE 1 – 2 DET

2nd Period

  1. 6:53 Juha Widing (4) Gary Holt (1), Phil Roberto (8) CLE 2 – 2 DET
  2. 18:41 Rick Lapointe (2) PPG Walt McKechnie (27), Nick Libett (18) CLE 2 – 3 DET

3rd Period

  1. 5:03 Bill Lochead (12) Walt McKechnie (28), Rick Lapointe (9) CLE 2 – 4 DET
  2. 8:29 Frank Spring (9) PPG Wayne Merrick (25), Mike Fidler (16) CLE 3 – 4 DET

Cleveland Barons

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Merrick C 0 2 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.78
Mike Fidler L 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.30
Frank Spring R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Juha Widing C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Mike Christie D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Phil Roberto R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Gary Holt L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Brent Meeke D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Ralph Klassen C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Smith D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Len Frig D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Glenn Patrick D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Dave Gardner C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Al MacAdam R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche L 31 27 4 .871 59:12 -0.30

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Walt McKechnie C 1 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 2.53
Bill Lochead L 2 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.25
Rick Lapointe D 1 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.23
Nick Libett L 0 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.30
Rick Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.30
Bobby Sheehan C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Jean Hamel D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Fred Williams R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Greg Joly D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Michel Bergeron R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Buster Harvey R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Danny Grant L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Terry Harper D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Jim Nahrgang D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Al Cameron D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 25 22 3 .880 60:00 -0.05