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Friday, December 23, 1977 · Capital Centre

Red Wings 2 at Capitals 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 91OVR Bob Sirois Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG G 52OVR Bernie Wolfe Capitals Second Star 36 SV · .947 D 51OVR Rick Green Capitals Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:22 Vaclav Nedomansky (2) PPG Larry Giroux (2), Andre St. Laurent (11) DET 1 – 0 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 1:44 Bob Sirois (13) Guy Charron (11), Bob Girard (8) DET 1 – 1 WSH
  2. 2:01 Bob Sirois (14) Guy Charron (12), Rick Green (7) DET 1 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 9:39 Rick Green (3) PPG Bob Sirois (13), Gerry Meehan (11) DET 1 – 3 WSH
  2. 14:36 Andre St. Laurent (9) Dennis Polonich (7), Terry Harper (3) DET 2 – 3 WSH

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Andre St. Laurent C 1 1 2 +1 1.68
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 0 3 0 0.98
Terry Harper D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Dan Maloney L 0 0 5 +1 0.53
Larry Giroux D 0 1 3 -2 0.40
Perry Miller D 0 0 4 +1 0.30
Paul Woods C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dennis Hull L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dennis Polonich C 0 1 0 +1 0.10
Dale McCourt C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Larry Wright C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Greg Joly D 0 0 7 -2 0.08
Bill Lochead L 0 0 3 0 0.07
Al Cameron D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Timothy Sheehy R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Nick Libett L 0 0 1 -2 -0.38
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 0 -2 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford L 18 15 3 .833 59:09 -0.75

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bob Sirois R 2 1 4 +2 2.73
Rick Green D 1 1 2 +2 1.68
Guy Charron C 0 2 2 +2 1.55
Bob Girard L 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Gerry Meehan C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Robert Picard D 0 0 3 0 0.07
Craig Patrick R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tom Rowe R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Forbes R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Eddy Godin R 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Bill Collins R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mike Marson R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Larry Bolonchuk D 0 0 0 +2 -0.15
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Bryan Watson D 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Gord Smith D 0 0 1 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bernie Wolfe W 38 36 2 .947 60:00 2.10