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Friday, March 24, 1978 · Capital Centre

Rangers 11 at Capitals 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 69OVR Ron Duguay Rangers First Star 3G · 1A · 6 SOG RC C 88OVR Phil Esposito Rangers Second Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG D 97OVR Ron Greschner Rangers Third Star 4A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:46 Guy Charron (30) SHG Bob Sirois (32), Robert Picard (18) NYR 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 8:19 Mike McEwen (5) PPG Walt Tkaczuk (34), Don Awrey (8) NYR 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 10:00 Phil Esposito (32) Ron Greschner (36), Steve Vickers (37) NYR 2 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 1:45 Phil Esposito (33) Unassisted NYR 3 – 1 WSH
  2. 3:01 Eddie Johnstone (10) Dave Farrish (5), Steve Vickers (38) NYR 4 – 1 WSH
  3. 3:24 Ron Duguay (16) PPG Phil Esposito (39), Pat Hickey (30) NYR 5 – 1 WSH
  4. 6:20 Bill Riley (12) PPG Rick Green (12), Gerry Meehan (23) NYR 5 – 2 WSH
  5. 7:39 Phil Esposito (34) PPG Steve Vickers (39) NYR 6 – 2 WSH
  6. 14:33 Ron Duguay (17) Wayne Dillon (10), Carol Vadnais (40) NYR 7 – 2 WSH
  7. 15:24 Mark Heaslip (4) Ron Greschner (37) NYR 8 – 2 WSH
  8. 18:33 Robert Picard (9) PPG Jim Bedard (1) NYR 8 – 3 WSH
  9. 19:14 Dave Forbes (11) Tom Rowe (6), Yvon Labre (3) NYR 8 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 8:55 Eddie Johnstone (11) Walt Tkaczuk (35), Steve Vickers (40) NYR 9 – 4 WSH
  2. 9:48 Wayne Dillon (4) Ron Greschner (38), Ron Duguay (19) NYR 10 – 4 WSH
  3. 14:12 Ron Duguay (18) PPG Ron Greschner (39), Eddie Johnstone (13) NYR 11 – 4 WSH

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Duguay C 3 1 6 0 0 +1 0:00 3.48
Phil Esposito C 3 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 3.48
Ron Greschner D 0 4 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.88
Steve Vickers L 0 4 0 0 0 +2 0:00 2.80
Eddie Johnstone R 2 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 2.58
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.63
Wayne Dillon C 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Mark Heaslip R 1 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.20
Mike McEwen D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Dave Farrish D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Don Awrey D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Pat Hickey L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.63
Dan Newman R 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 -0.23
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -1.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas W 29 25 4 .862 60:00 -0.50

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Robert Picard D 1 1 5 0 0 -4 0:00 1.15
Guy Charron C 1 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.75
Dave Forbes R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Tom Rowe R 0 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.63
Yvon Labre D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Gerry Meehan C 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Bob Sirois R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Bill Riley R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.45
Rick Green D 0 1 3 0 0 -5 0:00 0.10
Rick Bragnalo C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gord Smith D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Garnet Bailey L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Bob Girard L 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Mike Marson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.75
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.73
Bryan Watson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -2.10
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bernie Wolfe L 11 5 6 .455 27:39 -4.00
Jim Bedard — 14 9 5 .643 31:21 -2.85