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Wednesday, January 11, 1978 · Capital Centre

Red Wings 6 at Capitals 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 89OVR Andre St. Laurent Red Wings First Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG L 69OVR Dan Maloney Maple Leafs Second Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG D 92OVR Reed Larson Red Wings Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:27 Dennis Hextall (4) SHG Unassisted DET 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 8:52 Dan Maloney (10) Andre St. Laurent (14) DET 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 9:12 Andre St. Laurent (12) Dan Maloney (14) DET 3 – 0 WSH
  4. 14:11 Andre St. Laurent (13) PPG Reed Larson (19), Vaclav Nedomansky (9) DET 4 – 0 WSH
  5. 18:58 Bill Riley (3) PPG Jean Lemieux (5), Gerry Meehan (14) DET 4 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 0:06 Dan Maloney (11) Andre St. Laurent (15) DET 5 – 1 WSH
  2. 18:30 Reed Larson (11) Unassisted DET 6 – 1 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 15:36 Gerry Meehan (9) PPG Jean Lemieux (6), Guy Charron (17) DET 6 – 2 WSH
  2. 15:58 Bill Collins (6) Craig Patrick (5), Rick Bragnalo (1) DET 6 – 3 WSH

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Andre St. Laurent C 2 2 4 +4 3.50
Dan Maloney L 2 1 3 +3 2.43
Reed Larson D 1 1 4 +2 1.98
Dennis Hextall C 1 0 1 +1 0.83
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 1 0 0 0.63
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 0 +4 0.60
Perry Miller D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Al Cameron D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Dennis Hull L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dale McCourt C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Rick Bowness R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Nick Libett L 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Larry Wright C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Paul Woods C 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Bill Lochead L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Greg Joly D 0 0 0 +2 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 27 24 3 .889 60:00 0.15

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Gerry Meehan C 1 1 6 -2 1.53
Jean Lemieux D 0 2 1 0 1.33
Rick Bragnalo C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Bill Collins R 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Craig Patrick R 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Bill Riley R 1 0 3 -2 0.53
Guy Charron C 0 1 1 -2 0.40
Tom Rowe R 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Dave Forbes R 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bryan Watson D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Gord Smith D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Robert Picard D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Bob Sirois R 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Larry Bolonchuk D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bernie Wolfe L 11 6 5 .545 20:06 -3.15
Jim Bedard — 11 10 1 .909 39:54 0.25