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Sunday, January 22, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

Capitals 3 at Red Wings 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Dale McCourt Red Wings First Star 3G · 1A · 9 SOG RC R 88OVR Bob Sirois Capitals Second Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG D 75OVR Greg Joly Red Wings Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:27 Dennis Hextall (5) SHG Unassisted WSH 0 – 1 DET
  2. 1:59 Bill Riley (4) PPG Gerry Meehan (16), Bob Sirois (19) WSH 1 – 1 DET
  3. 8:06 Bob Sirois (18) Unassisted WSH 2 – 1 DET
  4. 12:16 Gerry Meehan (12) Bob Sirois (20) WSH 3 – 1 DET

2nd Period

  1. 2:07 Dale McCourt (12) Greg Joly (12) WSH 3 – 2 DET
  2. 9:39 Andre St. Laurent (19) PPG Dennis Hextall (17), Dale McCourt (25) WSH 3 – 3 DET
  3. 15:38 Dale McCourt (13) SHG Terry Harper (10) WSH 3 – 4 DET

3rd Period

  1. 19:31 Greg Joly (6) Paul Woods (11) WSH 3 – 5 DET
  2. 19:50 Dale McCourt (14) Bill Lochead (9) WSH 3 – 6 DET

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bob Sirois R 1 2 4 0 0 -3 0:00 1.85
Gerry Meehan C 1 1 3 0 0 -3 0:00 1.15
Bill Riley R 1 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.53
Bob Girard L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Bill Collins R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Craig Patrick R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bryan Watson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Larry Bolonchuk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Mike Marson R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Rick Bragnalo C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Gord Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Dave Forbes R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Jean Lemieux D 0 0 2 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.45
Guy Charron C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Bedard L 34 30 4 .882 59:42 0.00

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dale McCourt C 3 1 9 0 0 +3 0:00 4.00
Greg Joly D 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Dennis Hextall C 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Paul Woods C 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Terry Harper D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Bill Lochead L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Andre St. Laurent C 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Reed Larson D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Nick Libett L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dan Maloney L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rick Bowness R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dennis Hull L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Wright C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Perry Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Al Cameron D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.60
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 21 18 3 .857 60:00 -0.45