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Wednesday, March 8, 1978 · Montreal Forum

Capitals 3 at Canadiens 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Guy Lafleur Canadiens First Star 2G · 6 SOG R 90OVR Yvan Cournoyer Canadiens Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG L 60OVR Bob Girard Capitals Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:03 Bob Girard (7) Guy Charron (24), Robert Picard (16) WSH 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 4:25 Garnet Bailey (4) Bill Riley (11) WSH 2 – 0 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 1:57 Yvan Cournoyer (22) Steve Shutt (31) WSH 2 – 1 MTL
  2. 4:40 Rick Bragnalo (2) Tom Rowe (5), Gord Lane (9) WSH 3 – 1 MTL
  3. 11:35 Doug Risebrough (15) Yvan Cournoyer (25), Rick Chartraw (8) WSH 3 – 2 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 8:21 Guy Lafleur (49) Serge Savard (28) WSH 3 – 3 MTL
  2. 13:28 Guy Lafleur (50) Guy Lapointe (18) WSH 3 – 4 MTL

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bob Girard L 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Rick Bragnalo C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Tom Rowe R 0 1 3 0 0.85
Guy Charron C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Robert Picard D 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Garnet Bailey L 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Bill Riley R 0 1 3 0 0.55
Gord Lane D 0 1 1 0 0.55
Gerry Meehan C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Gord Smith D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Yvon Labre D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Mike Marson R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Bill Collins R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Rick Green D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Larry Bolonchuk D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bryan Watson D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Bedard L 36 32 4 .889 59:32 0.20

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Guy Lafleur R 2 0 6 +1 2.10
Yvan Cournoyer R 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Steve Shutt L 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Doug Risebrough C 1 0 5 0 0.98
Guy Lapointe D 0 1 3 0 0.85
Serge Savard D 0 1 1 0 0.70
Pierre Mondou C 0 0 2 +3 0.60
Rick Chartraw D 0 1 2 0 0.48
Larry Robinson D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bob Gainey L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jacques Lemaire C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rejean Houle L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bill Nyrop D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Mario Tremblay R 0 0 1 -2 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Michel Larocque W 28 25 3 .893 60:00 0.25