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Thursday, February 9, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

Bruins 5 at Red Wings 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 89OVR Mike Milbury Bruins First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG L 43OVR Dennis Hull Red Wings Second Star 3A · 1 SOG C 65OVR Bob Miller Bruins Third Star 2G · 4 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 17:01 Nick Libett (14) Dennis Hull (6), Dennis Hextall (21) BOS 0 – 1 DET

2nd Period

  1. 0:16 Vaclav Nedomansky (6) Nick Libett (9), Dennis Hull (7) BOS 0 – 2 DET
  2. 6:54 Reed Larson (15) Vaclav Nedomansky (11), Dennis Hull (8) BOS 0 – 3 DET
  3. 7:49 Mike Milbury (6) Jean Ratelle (38), Stan Jonathan (12) BOS 1 – 3 DET
  4. 13:42 Bob Miller (13) Rick Middleton (18), Mike Milbury (19) BOS 2 – 3 DET
  5. 13:56 Bob Miller (14) Mike Milbury (20) BOS 3 – 3 DET
  6. 15:17 Gregg Sheppard (11) Wayne Cashman (19), Johnny Bucyk (6) BOS 4 – 3 DET

3rd Period

  1. 8:30 Don Marcotte (17) Gregg Sheppard (17) BOS 5 – 3 DET

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Milbury D 1 2 2 +3 2.60
Bob Miller C 2 0 4 +1 1.95
Gregg Sheppard C 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Don Marcotte L 1 0 3 +3 1.42
Jean Ratelle C 0 1 5 +1 1.15
Johnny Bucyk L 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Wayne Cashman L 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Rick Middleton R 0 1 0 +2 0.78
Rick Smith D 0 0 0 +3 0.45
Stan Jonathan L 0 1 1 +1 0.32
Brad Park D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Peter McNab C 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Al Sims D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Darryl Edestrand D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Clayton Pachal R 0 0 1 0 -0.30
John Wensink L 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Terry O'Reilly R 0 0 1 -1 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Gilbert W 24 21 3 .875 60:00 -0.15

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dennis Hull L 0 3 1 +1 2.10
Nick Libett L 1 1 2 +2 1.83
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 1 2 0 1.53
Dennis Hextall C 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Reed Larson D 1 0 3 -3 0.38
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Jean Hamel D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Perry Miller D 0 0 3 0 0.07
Dale McCourt C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Dan Maloney L 0 0 5 -2 -0.07
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Paul Woods C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Larry Wright C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Andre St. Laurent C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Bill Lochead L 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Greg Joly D 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
John Hilworth D 0 0 0 +1 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford L 34 29 5 .853 60:00 -0.85