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Wednesday, November 9, 1977 · Madison Square Garden

Sabres 4 at Rangers 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Phil Esposito Rangers First Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG R 87OVR Don Murdoch Rangers Second Star 1G · 3A · 1 SOG L 91OVR Pat Hickey Rangers Third Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:10 Don Murdoch (5) Carol Vadnais (8), Phil Esposito (14) BUF 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 14:00 Pat Hickey (8) Phil Esposito (15), Don Murdoch (8) BUF 0 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 1:55 Gilbert Perreault (8) Rick Martin (9) BUF 1 – 2 NYR
  2. 4:28 Rene Robert (5) PPG Fred Stanfield (4), Jocelyn Guevremont (4) BUF 2 – 2 NYR
  3. 4:57 Phil Esposito (5) Don Murdoch (9), Pat Hickey (5) BUF 2 – 3 NYR
  4. 6:46 Ron Greschner (4) Greg Polis (6), Lucien DeBlois (1) BUF 2 – 4 NYR
  5. 8:37 Walt Tkaczuk (6) Unassisted BUF 2 – 5 NYR
  6. 9:12 Greg Polis (5) Ron Greschner (6) BUF 2 – 6 NYR
  7. 19:44 Phil Esposito (6) PPG Carol Vadnais (9) BUF 2 – 7 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 0:16 Craig Ramsay (6) Jim Schoenfeld (4), Jerry Korab (7) BUF 3 – 7 NYR
  2. 7:55 Ric Seiling (2) Rick Martin (10), Gilbert Perreault (8) BUF 4 – 7 NYR
  3. 16:57 Pat Hickey (9) Don Murdoch (10) BUF 4 – 8 NYR

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Martin L 0 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.48
Gilbert Perreault C 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.38
Jocelyn Guevremont D 0 1 7 0 0 -1 0:00 1.00
Fred Stanfield L 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Rene Robert R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Ric Seiling R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Jerry Korab D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Craig Ramsay L 1 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 0.45
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 1 4 0 0 -4 0:00 0.33
Jim Lorentz C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bill Hajt D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Andre Savard C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Ron Schock C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gary McAdam R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Lee Fogolin D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Don Luce C 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.15
Danny Gare R 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards L 19 13 6 .684 29:12 -3.20
Gerry Desjardins — 7 5 2 .714 30:48 -1.00

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 2 2 4 0 0 +3 0:00 3.50
Don Murdoch R 1 3 1 0 0 +3 0:00 3.15
Pat Hickey L 2 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.88
Ron Greschner D 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Greg Polis R 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Carol Vadnais D 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.33
Lucien DeBlois C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Walt Tkaczuk C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Don Awrey D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Dave Farrish D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Rod Gilbert R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Steve Vickers L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Benoit Gosselin L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dave Maloney D 0 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 0.15
Bill Goldsworthy R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Greg Holst C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike McEwen D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas W 44 40 4 .909 60:00 1.00