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Sunday, March 5, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

North Stars 3 at Red Wings 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 65OVR Ron Zanussi North Stars First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG RC D 67OVR Brad Maxwell North Stars Second Star 2A · 5 SOG RC C 71OVR Dennis Hextall Red Wings Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:39 Rick Bowness (7) PPG Nick Libett (12), Dennis Hextall (25) MNS 0 – 1 DET
  2. 11:57 Perry Miller (4) SHG Terry Harper (14), Andre St. Laurent (29) MNS 0 – 2 DET
  3. 17:53 Tim Young (14) Ron Zanussi (10), Fred Barrett (8) MNS 1 – 2 DET
  4. 18:53 Dennis Hextall (10) SHG Paul Woods (17) MNS 1 – 3 DET

2nd Period

  1. 3:30 Vaclav Nedomansky (9) Paul Woods (18), Dan Maloney (29) MNS 1 – 4 DET
  2. 14:52 Glen Sharpley (14) Ron Zanussi (11), Brad Maxwell (22) MNS 2 – 4 DET

3rd Period

  1. 10:48 Ron Zanussi (10) PPG Jim Roberts (8), Brad Maxwell (23) MNS 3 – 4 DET

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Zanussi R 1 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 2.30
Brad Maxwell D 0 2 5 0 0 -1 0:00 1.48
Glen Sharpley C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Tim Young C 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Jim Roberts R 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Fred Barrett D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Per-Olov Brasar C 0 0 7 0 0 -1 0:00 0.38
Dean Talafous C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Doug Hicks D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Kent-Erik Andersson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bill Butters D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Nick Beverley D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Harvey Bennett C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Jerry Engele D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Roland Eriksson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Tom Younghans R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Bryan Maxwell D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Smith L 36 32 4 .889 58:59 0.20

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dennis Hextall C 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.45
Paul Woods C 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.33
Perry Miller D 1 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.28
Andre St. Laurent C 0 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.08
Nick Libett L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Rick Bowness R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.75
Reed Larson D 0 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 0.60
Dan Maloney L 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Terry Harper D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Greg Joly D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Larry Wright C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jean Hamel D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bill Lochead L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dennis Hull L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Al Cameron D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 32 29 3 .906 60:00 0.65