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Saturday, January 14, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

Sabres 2 at Red Wings 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 93OVR Reed Larson Red Wings First Star 1G · 2A · 8 SOG RC L 76OVR Nick Libett Red Wings Second Star 2G · 5 SOG D 81OVR Terry Harper Red Wings Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:12 Nick Libett (9) Reed Larson (20) BUF 0 – 1 DET
  2. 5:10 Gary McAdam (12) Unassisted BUF 1 – 1 DET
  3. 6:36 Rick Bowness (4) PPG Dennis Hull (4), Reed Larson (21) BUF 1 – 2 DET
  4. 11:32 Ric Seiling (10) Andre Savard (9), Rick Martin (23) BUF 2 – 2 DET
  5. 16:33 Reed Larson (12) Greg Joly (11), Dan Maloney (15) BUF 2 – 3 DET

2nd Period

  1. 18:13 Andre St. Laurent (14) Unassisted BUF 2 – 4 DET

3rd Period

  1. 3:03 Nick Libett (10) Terry Harper (5), Dennis Hextall (15) BUF 2 – 5 DET
  2. 13:25 Paul Woods (6) Dale McCourt (21), Terry Harper (6) BUF 2 – 6 DET

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Gary McAdam R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Rick Martin L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Ric Seiling R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Andre Savard C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Jim Lorentz C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ron Schock C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Danny Gare R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Derek Smith C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jerry Korab D 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bill Hajt D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Richie Dunn D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Fred Stanfield L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rene Robert R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Lee Fogolin D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards L 28 22 6 .786 53:25 -2.30
Bob Sauve — 2 2 0 1.000 6:35 0.20

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Reed Larson D 1 2 8 0 0 +3 0:00 3.05
Nick Libett L 2 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Terry Harper D 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Andre St. Laurent C 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Greg Joly D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Paul Woods C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Dan Maloney L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Dennis Hextall C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Rick Bowness R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Dale McCourt C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Dennis Hull L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Perry Miller D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Larry Wright C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bill Lochead L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Al Cameron D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 15 14 1 .933 49:13 0.65
Ron Low — 7 6 1 .857 10:47 -0.15