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Thursday, December 15, 1977 · Detroit Olympia

Rangers 5 at Red Wings 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Phil Esposito Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 68OVR Dennis Hextall Red Wings Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG D 97OVR Ron Greschner Rangers Third Star 3A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:42 Walt Tkaczuk (12) Steve Vickers (19), Eddie Johnstone (6) NYR 1 – 0 DET
  2. 5:02 Lucien DeBlois (10) Dan Newman (3), Phil Esposito (23) NYR 2 – 0 DET
  3. 16:24 Bill Lochead (10) Dennis Hextall (11) NYR 2 – 1 DET

2nd Period

  1. 1:23 Phil Esposito (14) PPG Steve Vickers (20), Ron Greschner (16) NYR 3 – 1 DET
  2. 8:31 Walt Tkaczuk (13) SHG Eddie Johnstone (7), Ron Greschner (17) NYR 4 – 1 DET
  3. 17:08 Dennis Hextall (3) Nick Libett (6), Reed Larson (16) NYR 4 – 2 DET
  4. 19:57 Lucien DeBlois (11) Ron Greschner (18), Phil Esposito (24) NYR 5 – 2 DET

3rd Period

  1. 6:40 Dennis Polonich (6) PPG Dan Maloney (12), Reed Larson (17) NYR 5 – 3 DET
  2. 9:10 Nick Libett (6) Dennis Hextall (12), Perry Miller (12) NYR 5 – 4 DET
  3. 13:16 Paul Woods (5) Greg Joly (7), Dale McCourt (15) NYR 5 – 5 DET

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Phil Esposito C 1 2 3 +2 2.53
Ron Greschner D 0 3 6 +1 2.33
Lucien DeBlois C 2 0 3 +2 2.03
Walt Tkaczuk C 2 0 4 +2 1.95
Eddie Johnstone R 0 2 2 +2 1.70
Steve Vickers L 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Dan Newman R 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Don Awrey D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Farrish D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike McEwen D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Wayne Dillon C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dave Maloney D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Ron Duguay C 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Don Murdoch R 0 0 4 -4 -0.45
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 -1 -0.52
Pat Hickey L 0 0 0 -4 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert T 41 36 5 .878 60:00 -0.15

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dennis Hextall C 1 2 2 +2 2.45
Nick Libett L 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Reed Larson D 0 2 5 -1 1.48
Bill Lochead L 1 0 3 +2 1.28
Paul Woods C 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Dale McCourt C 0 1 4 0 0.93
Greg Joly D 0 1 4 +2 0.93
Perry Miller D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Dan Maloney L 0 1 4 -3 0.48
Dennis Polonich C 1 0 2 -3 0.45
Larry Wright C 0 0 2 +2 0.45
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Rick Vasko D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dennis Hull L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Timothy Sheehy R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Terry Harper D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Andre St. Laurent C 0 0 0 -3 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ron Low T 26 21 5 .808 60:00 -1.65