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Friday, December 23, 1977 · Madison Square Garden

Barons 4 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 52OVR Wayne Dillon Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG C 92OVR Dennis Maruk Barons Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG R 88OVR Don Murdoch Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:51 Greg Polis (6) Unassisted CLE 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 3:20 Dennis Maruk (17) Greg Smith (13) CLE 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 8:33 Ron Duguay (6) Greg Polis (10) CLE 1 – 2 NYR
  4. 13:41 Don Murdoch (12) Steve Vickers (24), Wayne Dillon (2) CLE 1 – 3 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:32 Bob Murdoch (7) Dave Gardner (7), Fred Ahern Jr (3) CLE 2 – 3 NYR
  2. 13:22 Wayne Dillon (2) Don Murdoch (16), Carol Vadnais (22) CLE 2 – 4 NYR
  3. 15:11 Kris Manery (12) Dennis Maruk (8), Mike Fidler (12) CLE 3 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 8:20 Ken Kuzyk (3) Randy Holt (2), Rick Shinske (5) CLE 4 – 4 NYR
  2. 10:17 Pat Hickey (17) Phil Esposito (25), Ron Greschner (20) CLE 4 – 5 NYR

Cleveland Barons

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dennis Maruk C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Kris Manery R 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Mike Fidler L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Ken Kuzyk R 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Randy Holt D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.93
Greg Smith D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.77
Bob Murdoch R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Rick Shinske C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Mike Crombeen R 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Dave Gardner C 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Fred Ahern Jr R 0 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.25
Walt McKechnie C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Al MacAdam R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rick Hampton D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bob Stewart D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jim Neilson D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Mike Christie D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Edwards L 23 18 5 .783 60:00 -1.95

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Dillon C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Don Murdoch R 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Greg Polis R 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Ron Duguay C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Phil Esposito C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Steve Vickers L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Pat Hickey L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.53
Ron Greschner D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Mike McEwen D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Don Awrey D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dave Maloney D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dallas Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert W 26 22 4 .846 60:00 -0.80