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Thursday, December 8, 1977 · Boston Garden

Red Wings 4 at Bruins 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 96OVR Jean Ratelle Bruins First Star 1G · 3A · 6 SOG R 95OVR Terry O'Reilly Bruins Second Star 2G · 2A · 3 SOG R 89OVR Rick Middleton Bruins Third Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:08 Mike Milbury (2) Peter McNab (12), Wayne Cashman (9) DET 0 – 1 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 1:40 Dan Maloney (5) Reed Larson (14), Dennis Hextall (9) DET 1 – 1 BOS
  2. 3:13 Jean Ratelle (10) Terry O'Reilly (13), Brad Park (18) DET 1 – 2 BOS
  3. 6:32 Terry O'Reilly (7) Jean Ratelle (15), Rick Middleton (8) DET 1 – 3 BOS
  4. 9:31 Terry O'Reilly (8) Rick Middleton (9), Jean Ratelle (16) DET 1 – 4 BOS
  5. 12:29 Perry Miller (1) Andre St. Laurent (8) DET 2 – 4 BOS
  6. 14:03 Vaclav Nedomansky (1) Dennis Hull (1), Dennis Polonich (5) DET 3 – 4 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 2:57 Nick Libett (5) Dennis Hextall (10) DET 4 – 4 BOS
  2. 8:12 Bob Miller (4) Mike Milbury (11) DET 4 – 5 BOS
  3. 12:16 Rick Middleton (5) Terry O'Reilly (14), Jean Ratelle (17) DET 4 – 6 BOS

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dennis Hextall C 0 2 0 +2 1.55
Nick Libett L 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Dennis Hull L 0 1 4 0 0.93
Perry Miller D 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Dan Maloney L 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Dennis Polonich C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Andre St. Laurent C 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 +3 0.45
Greg Joly D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Rick Bowness R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Reed Larson D 0 1 0 -2 0.18
Paul Woods C 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Timothy Sheehy R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dale McCourt C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Fern LeBlanc C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Al Cameron D 0 0 1 -4 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ed Giacomin L 35 29 6 .829 60:00 -1.60

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Jean Ratelle C 1 3 6 +3 3.53
Terry O'Reilly R 2 2 3 +3 3.28
Rick Middleton R 1 2 3 +3 2.68
Mike Milbury D 1 1 2 +3 1.98
Brad Park D 0 1 1 +3 1.15
Bob Miller C 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Peter McNab C 0 1 2 0 0.78
Wayne Cashman L 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Bobby Schmautz R 0 0 2 0 0.15
John Wensink L 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Don Marcotte L 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Sean Shanahan C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Johnny Bucyk L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Stan Jonathan L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Doug Halward D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rick Smith D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mike Forbes D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ron Grahame W 23 19 4 .826 60:00 -1.10