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Wednesday, January 4, 1978 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Rangers 5 at North Stars 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 81OVR Roland Eriksson North Stars First Star 2G · 8 SOG C 92OVR Walt Tkaczuk Rangers Second Star 2G · 6 SOG C 66OVR Ron Duguay Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:20 Walt Tkaczuk (16) Don Murdoch (17) NYR 1 – 0 MNS
  2. 4:04 Ron Duguay (7) Greg Polis (11) NYR 2 – 0 MNS
  3. 8:40 Dean Talafous (8) Pierre Jarry (15), Brad Maxwell (12) NYR 2 – 1 MNS
  4. 17:00 Phil Esposito (15) PPG Pat Hickey (12), Mike McEwen (7) NYR 3 – 1 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 2:26 Walt Tkaczuk (17) Dallas Smith (1), Dave Maloney (14) NYR 4 – 1 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 6:06 Roland Eriksson (10) PPG Pierre Jarry (16), Dean Talafous (10) NYR 4 – 2 MNS
  2. 16:08 Roland Eriksson (11) Brad Maxwell (13) NYR 4 – 3 MNS
  3. 17:08 Lucien DeBlois (16) Greg Polis (12), Ron Duguay (10) NYR 5 – 3 MNS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Walt Tkaczuk C 2 0 6 +1 2.10
Ron Duguay C 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Greg Polis R 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Lucien DeBlois C 1 0 2 +2 1.20
Dave Maloney D 0 1 0 +3 1.08
Don Murdoch R 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Phil Esposito C 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Pat Hickey L 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Dallas Smith D 0 1 2 0 0.63
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Mike McEwen D 0 1 0 0 0.18
Steve Vickers L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Wayne Dillon C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dan Newman R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Don Awrey D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas W 37 34 3 .919 60:00 1.15

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Roland Eriksson C 2 0 8 0 2.10
Dean Talafous C 1 1 5 0 1.75
Brad Maxwell D 0 2 4 0 1.40
Pierre Jarry L 0 2 3 0 1.33
Tim Young C 0 0 5 0 0.38
Doug Hicks D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Fred Barrett D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Alex Pirus R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Steve Jensen L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Glen Sharpley C 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Ron Zanussi R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tom Younghans R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Kent-Erik Andersson R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Harvey Bennett C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Per-Olov Brasar C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Lou Nanne D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Jerry Engele D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pete Lopresti L 28 23 5 .821 60:00 -1.45