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Sunday, March 26, 1978 · Capital Centre

Red Wings 4 at Capitals 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Dale McCourt Red Wings First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG RC D 75OVR Greg Joly Red Wings Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG G 66OVR Jim Rutherford Red Wings Third Star 19 SV · .950

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:39 Tom Rowe (8) Rick Bragnalo (9) DET 0 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 0:11 Dale McCourt (30) PPG Dennis Hextall (29), Nick Libett (16) DET 1 – 1 WSH
  2. 1:59 Greg Joly (7) Dennis Hextall (30), Dale McCourt (33) DET 2 – 1 WSH
  3. 6:35 Errol Thompson (21) PPG Dale McCourt (34), Greg Joly (20) DET 3 – 1 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 19:23 Andre St. Laurent (30) Unassisted DET 4 – 1 WSH

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dale McCourt C 1 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.23
Greg Joly D 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.38
Dennis Hextall C 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.95
Nick Libett L 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Errol Thompson L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Andre St. Laurent C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Reed Larson D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Bill Lochead L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Al Cameron D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dennis Hull L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Paul Woods C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Wright C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Thommie Bergman D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Rick Bowness R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.20
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 20 19 1 .950 60:00 1.15

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tom Rowe R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Rick Bragnalo C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Robert Picard D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Bob Sirois R 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Rick Green D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Guy Charron C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Mike Marson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Garnet Bailey L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Gerry Meehan C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bryan Watson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.08
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gord Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Yvon Labre D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Bill Riley R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.52
Dave Forbes R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -1.05
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Bedard L 31 28 3 .903 59:52 0.55