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Tuesday, February 28, 1978 · Montreal Forum

Red Wings 3 at Canadiens 9

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Guy Lafleur Canadiens First Star 3G · 3A · 7 SOG L 97OVR Steve Shutt Canadiens Second Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG L 85OVR Rejean Houle Canadiens Third Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:33 Dennis Hextall (9) Jean Hamel (3) DET 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 4:56 Guy Lafleur (44) Jacques Lemaire (51) DET 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 7:24 Rejean Houle (24) Bob Gainey (14) DET 1 – 2 MTL
  4. 10:30 Bill Lochead (16) Vaclav Nedomansky (13), Paul Woods (16) DET 2 – 2 MTL
  5. 12:55 Jacques Lemaire (26) Unassisted DET 2 – 3 MTL
  6. 18:33 Guy Lafleur (45) Steve Shutt (26), Serge Savard (23) DET 2 – 4 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 1:32 Doug Risebrough (14) Yvan Cournoyer (22) DET 2 – 5 MTL
  2. 5:19 Andre St. Laurent (24) Dan Maloney (26) DET 3 – 5 MTL
  3. 9:15 Steve Shutt (37) Serge Savard (24), Guy Lafleur (56) DET 3 – 6 MTL
  4. 13:38 Rejean Houle (25) PPG Guy Lafleur (57), Jacques Lemaire (52) DET 3 – 7 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 9:56 Steve Shutt (38) PPG Guy Lafleur (58), Guy Lapointe (16) DET 3 – 8 MTL
  2. 19:59 Guy Lafleur (46) PPG Rejean Houle (24), Steve Shutt (27) DET 3 – 9 MTL

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Andre St. Laurent C 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Dan Maloney L 0 1 4 0 0.93
Dennis Hextall C 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Bill Lochead L 1 0 3 0 0.83
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Paul Woods C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Jean Hamel D 0 1 1 0 0.55
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Reed Larson D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Nick Libett L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Rick Bowness R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Larry Wright C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Roland Cloutier C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Dennis Hull L 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Greg Joly D 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Al Cameron D 0 0 1 -2 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ron Low L 45 36 9 .800 60:00 -3.15

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Guy Lafleur R 3 3 7 +3 4.95
Steve Shutt L 2 2 4 +3 3.50
Rejean Houle L 2 1 4 +1 2.58
Jacques Lemaire C 1 2 3 +2 2.53
Serge Savard D 0 2 2 +4 2.00
Yvan Cournoyer R 0 1 5 +1 1.00
Bob Gainey L 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Doug Risebrough C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Larry Robinson D 0 0 3 +4 0.83
Guy Lapointe D 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Pierre Mondou C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Pierre Larouche C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Bill Nyrop D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 3 0 0.07
Mario Tremblay R 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Michel Larocque W 28 25 3 .893 60:00 0.25