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Friday, December 23, 1977 · Montreal Forum

Islanders 5 at Canadiens 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Guy Lafleur Canadiens First Star 2G · 2A · 7 SOG D 99OVR Denis Potvin Islanders Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG C 89OVR Pierre Larouche Canadiens Third Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:34 Yvon Lambert (6) Rejean Houle (10), Mario Tremblay (7) NYI 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 3:55 Garry Howatt (1) Ed Westfall (7), Lorne Henning (2) NYI 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 8:41 Pierre Larouche (9) Guy Lafleur (23), Larry Robinson (17) NYI 1 – 2 MTL
  4. 12:48 Pierre Mondou (9) Pierre Larouche (12), Serge Savard (10) NYI 1 – 3 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 2:19 Steve Shutt (17) Jacques Lemaire (25), Guy Lafleur (24) NYI 1 – 4 MTL
  2. 6:58 Guy Lafleur (23) Jacques Lemaire (26), Steve Shutt (14) NYI 1 – 5 MTL
  3. 8:46 Pierre Larouche (10) Pierre Mondou (11), Larry Robinson (18) NYI 1 – 6 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 0:42 Guy Lafleur (24) PPG Larry Robinson (19) NYI 1 – 7 MTL
  2. 1:58 Bryan Trottier (25) PPG Mike Bossy (19), Denis Potvin (25) NYI 2 – 7 MTL
  3. 3:33 Denis Potvin (6) Garry Howatt (4), Billy Harris (18) NYI 3 – 7 MTL
  4. 6:35 J.P. Parise (12) Stefan Persson (12), Lorne Henning (3) NYI 4 – 7 MTL
  5. 16:42 Bob Bourne (11) Denis Potvin (26) NYI 5 – 7 MTL

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Denis Potvin D 1 2 5 +2 2.68
Garry Howatt L 1 1 2 +1 1.68
Lorne Henning C 0 2 0 +1 1.40
Stefan Persson D 0 1 1 +3 1.15
Ed Westfall R 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Bryan Trottier C 1 0 5 -1 0.98
J.P. Parise L 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Billy Harris R 0 1 1 0 0.70
Bob Bourne C 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Mike Bossy R 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Clark Gillies L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Michel Bergeron R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bert Marshall D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Gerry Hart D 0 0 2 -4 -0.60
Pat Price D 0 0 0 -4 -0.60
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 0 -3 -0.98
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch — 16 15 1 .938 31:14 0.75
Billy Smith L 19 13 6 .684 28:46 -3.20

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Guy Lafleur R 2 2 7 +2 3.43
Pierre Larouche C 2 1 2 +1 2.43
Larry Robinson D 0 3 1 +2 2.25
Steve Shutt L 1 1 5 +1 1.90
Jacques Lemaire C 0 2 4 +1 1.70
Pierre Mondou C 1 1 2 0 1.53
Serge Savard D 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Yvon Lambert L 1 0 1 0 0.83
Mario Tremblay R 0 1 1 0 0.70
Rejean Houle L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Brian Engblom D 0 0 4 0 0.30
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Bob Gainey L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bill Nyrop D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rick Chartraw D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Doug Risebrough C 0 0 2 +1 -0.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Dryden W 27 22 5 .815 60:00 -1.55