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Sunday, March 12, 1978 · Madison Square Garden

Capitals 2 at Rangers 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Phil Esposito Rangers First Star 2G · 1A · 8 SOG R 77OVR Mark Heaslip Rangers Second Star 4A · 0 SOG RC D 52OVR Dave Farrish Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:10 Don Murdoch (26) Ron Greschner (34), Walt Tkaczuk (30) WSH 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 1:21 Walt Tkaczuk (25) Don Murdoch (27), Steve Vickers (34) WSH 0 – 2 NYR
  2. 7:03 Phil Esposito (26) Dan Newman (8), Mark Heaslip (6) WSH 0 – 3 NYR
  3. 9:42 Dave Farrish (2) SHG Mark Heaslip (7), Phil Esposito (37) WSH 0 – 4 NYR
  4. 14:19 Bill Riley (11) Gerry Meehan (22) WSH 1 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 1:13 Bob Sirois (19) Guy Charron (25), Bob Girard (12) WSH 2 – 4 NYR
  2. 1:59 Dan Newman (5) Mark Heaslip (8) WSH 2 – 5 NYR
  3. 3:54 Mike McEwen (4) PPG Unassisted WSH 2 – 6 NYR
  4. 18:44 Phil Esposito (27) PPG Mark Heaslip (9), Dave Farrish (4) WSH 2 – 7 NYR
  5. 19:21 Eddie Johnstone (9) Ron Greschner (35), Nick Fotiu (6) WSH 2 – 8 NYR

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Gerry Meehan C 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.00
Bill Riley R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Bob Sirois R 1 0 3 0 0 -4 0:00 0.38
Dave Forbes R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bryan Watson D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Guy Charron C 0 1 1 0 0 -4 0:00 0.10
Bob Girard L 0 1 0 0 0 -4 0:00 0.03
Rick Bragnalo C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tom Rowe R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bill Collins R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Garnet Bailey L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Robert Picard D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gord Smith D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Rick Green D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Yvon Labre D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Bedard L 28 20 8 .714 60:00 -4.00

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 2 1 8 0 0 +2 0:00 3.03
Mark Heaslip R 0 4 0 0 0 +2 0:00 2.80
Dave Farrish D 1 1 3 0 0 +4 0:00 2.20
Ron Greschner D 0 2 2 0 0 +4 0:00 1.85
Walt Tkaczuk C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.68
Don Murdoch R 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Dan Newman R 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Eddie Johnstone R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Mike McEwen D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Steve Vickers L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Nick Fotiu L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Wayne Dillon C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dave Maloney D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Pat Hickey L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Don Awrey D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Duguay C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson W 22 20 2 .909 60:00 0.50