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Saturday, February 11, 1978 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Red Wings 5 at Islanders 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 99OVR Denis Potvin Islanders First Star 3G · 2A · 9 SOG R 84OVR Billy Harris Islanders Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 93OVR Dale McCourt Red Wings Third Star 2G · 5 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:49 Dennis Polonich (9) Andre St. Laurent (20), Dan Maloney (20) DET 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 4:22 Billy Harris (16) Garry Howatt (8), Denis Potvin (43) DET 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 11:27 Michel Bergeron (9) Bryan Trottier (55) DET 1 – 2 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 2:57 Andre St. Laurent (20) Unassisted DET 2 – 2 NYI
  2. 7:52 Denis Potvin (17) Bob Bourne (22), Bobby Nystrom (14) DET 2 – 3 NYI
  3. 11:45 Dale McCourt (18) Reed Larson (28), Paul Woods (13) DET 3 – 3 NYI
  4. 12:23 Terry Harper (2) Unassisted DET 4 – 3 NYI
  5. 14:54 Bryan Trottier (35) PPG Denis Potvin (44), Stefan Persson (31) DET 4 – 4 NYI
  6. 18:38 Denis Potvin (18) Billy Harris (27), Michel Bergeron (6) DET 4 – 5 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 5:52 Mike Kaszycki (8) Bob Bourne (23), Stefan Persson (32) DET 4 – 6 NYI
  2. 7:10 Denis Potvin (19) Billy Harris (28) DET 4 – 7 NYI
  3. 14:54 Dale McCourt (19) SHG Unassisted DET 5 – 7 NYI
  4. 15:26 Bobby Nystrom (17) PPG Bob Bourne (24), Mike Kaszycki (19) DET 5 – 8 NYI

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dale McCourt C 2 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
Andre St. Laurent C 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Reed Larson D 0 1 6 0 0 +2 0:00 1.38
Dennis Polonich C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Terry Harper D 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Paul Woods C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Dan Maloney L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Nick Libett L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Perry Miller D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Rick Bowness R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bill Lochead L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dennis Hull L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Jean Hamel D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Larry Wright C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Greg Joly D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ron Low L 31 23 8 .742 60:00 -3.70

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Denis Potvin D 3 2 9 0 0 +1 0:00 4.33
Billy Harris R 1 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.68
Michel Bergeron R 1 1 2 0 0 +4 0:00 1.98
Bob Bourne C 0 3 2 0 0 -2 0:00 1.73
Bryan Trottier C 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Bobby Nystrom R 1 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 1.38
Stefan Persson D 0 2 0 0 0 0 0:00 1.25
Garry Howatt L 0 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.22
Mike Kaszycki C 1 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 1.15
Clark Gillies L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bert Marshall D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.15
Lorne Henning C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Gerry Hart D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jude Drouin C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ed Westfall R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Pat Price D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 31 26 5 .839 60:00 -1.15