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Wednesday, March 1, 1978 · Madison Square Garden

Red Wings 2 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Phil Esposito Rangers First Star 2G · 5 SOG C 89OVR Andre St. Laurent Red Wings Second Star 2G · 5 SOG G 83OVR John Davidson Rangers Third Star 34 SV · .944

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:12 Phil Esposito (24) Don Murdoch (25) DET 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 15:09 Ron Duguay (13) Pat Hickey (23), Eddie Johnstone (12) DET 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 18:22 Andre St. Laurent (25) Al Cameron (7), Terry Harper (13) DET 1 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 16:08 Andre St. Laurent (26) Dan Maloney (27) DET 2 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 8:59 Phil Esposito (25) Ron Greschner (32) DET 2 – 3 NYR

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Andre St. Laurent C 2 0 5 +1 2.03
Terry Harper D 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Dan Maloney L 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Al Cameron D 0 1 1 0 0.40
Greg Joly D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Larry Wright C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Nick Libett L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Bill Lochead L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Dennis Hull L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Reed Larson D 0 0 6 -3 0.00
Rick Bowness R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Jean Hamel D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Paul Woods C 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford L 27 24 3 .889 59:16 0.15

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Phil Esposito C 2 0 5 +2 2.18
Don Murdoch R 0 1 4 +2 1.23
Ron Duguay C 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Pat Hickey L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Ron Greschner D 0 1 3 0 0.85
Eddie Johnstone R 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Dave Farrish D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Wayne Dillon C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dan Newman R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Don Awrey D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Maloney D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Mike McEwen D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Mark Heaslip R 0 0 1 -2 -0.98
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson W 36 34 2 .944 60:00 1.90