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Wednesday, January 18, 1978 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Islanders 5 at North Stars 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Mike Bossy Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG RC L 96OVR Clark Gillies Islanders Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG C 99OVR Bryan Trottier Islanders Third Star 3A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:52 Mike Bossy (28) Bryan Trottier (41), Clark Gillies (32) NYI 1 – 0 MNS
  2. 5:26 Tim Young (8) Per-Olov Brasar (13), Fred Barrett (6) NYI 1 – 1 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 8:43 Stefan Persson (3) Clark Gillies (33), Bryan Trottier (42) NYI 2 – 1 MNS
  2. 16:01 Denis Potvin (13) Billy Harris (22), Garry Howatt (5) NYI 3 – 1 MNS
  3. 19:56 Clark Gillies (20) Bryan Trottier (43), Mike Bossy (21) NYI 4 – 1 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 4:32 Mike Bossy (29) Stefan Persson (21), Denis Potvin (31) NYI 5 – 1 MNS
  2. 15:20 Steve Jensen (10) PPG Nick Beverley (7), Roland Eriksson (19) NYI 5 – 2 MNS

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Bossy R 2 1 5 +3 2.80
Clark Gillies L 1 2 5 +3 2.68
Bryan Trottier C 0 3 4 +3 2.33
Denis Potvin D 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Stefan Persson D 1 1 2 +1 1.68
Garry Howatt L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Billy Harris R 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Gerry Hart D 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Dave Lewis D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Bob Bourne C 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Ed Westfall R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Pat Price D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Lorne Henning C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bert Marshall D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch W 34 32 2 .941 60:00 1.70

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Roland Eriksson C 0 1 6 0 1.08
Steve Jensen L 1 0 4 0 1.05
Per-Olov Brasar C 0 1 5 0 1.00
Tim Young C 1 0 3 0 0.98
Nick Beverley D 0 1 3 0 0.85
Fred Barrett D 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Brad Maxwell D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Dean Talafous C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Alex Pirus R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Kent-Erik Andersson R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tom Younghans R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jerry Engele D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Glen Sharpley C 0 0 3 -3 -0.22
Ron Zanussi R 0 0 3 -3 -0.22
Harvey Bennett C 0 0 1 -3 -0.52
Doug Hicks D 0 0 1 -4 -0.53
Tom Reid D 0 0 0 -4 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pete Lopresti L 32 27 5 .844 60:00 -1.05