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Thursday, April 6, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

Penguins 4 at Red Wings 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 92OVR Reed Larson Red Wings First Star 2A · 5 SOG RC C 77OVR Paul Woods Red Wings Second Star 2G · 4 SOG RC C 89OVR Andre St. Laurent Red Wings Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:00 Paul Woods (18) Bill Lochead (16), Dale McCourt (36) PIT 0 – 1 DET
  2. 13:38 Dennis Polonich (16) Dale McCourt (37), Andre St. Laurent (39) PIT 0 – 2 DET
  3. 18:22 Peter Mahovlich (28) PPG Rick Kehoe (20), Gene Carr (36) PIT 1 – 2 DET

2nd Period

  1. 1:01 Paul Woods (19) SHG Reed Larson (40) PIT 1 – 3 DET
  2. 11:10 Vaclav Nedomansky (10) Dennis Hull (9), Thommie Bergman (6) PIT 1 – 4 DET
  3. 13:23 Dennis Hextall (14) PPG Nick Libett (19), Reed Larson (41) PIT 1 – 5 DET
  4. 18:38 Jean Pronovost (39) Gene Carr (37), Ron Stackhouse (14) PIT 2 – 5 DET

3rd Period

  1. 4:29 Rick Kehoe (28) PPG Peter Lee (12), Tom Edur (43) PIT 3 – 5 DET
  2. 11:27 Brian Spencer (9) Greg Malone (43), Ron Stackhouse (15) PIT 4 – 5 DET
  3. 19:32 Andre St. Laurent (31) Unassisted PIT 4 – 6 DET

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Gene Carr C 0 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.48
Rick Kehoe R 1 1 5 0 0 -2 0:00 1.45
Ron Stackhouse D 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Brian Spencer L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Peter Lee R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Peter Mahovlich C 1 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.75
Greg Malone C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Jean Pronovost R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Tom Edur D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Bob Paradise D 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Russ Anderson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Blair Chapman R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Derek Sanderson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dave Burrows D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Wayne Bianchin R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Mario Faubert D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Dave Schultz L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -3.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron L 33 28 5 .848 59:17 -0.95

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Reed Larson D 0 2 5 0 0 +4 0:00 2.23
Paul Woods C 2 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Andre St. Laurent C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Dale McCourt C 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Thommie Bergman D 0 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.15
Dennis Hextall C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Nick Libett L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Dennis Hull L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Bill Lochead L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Al Cameron D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Errol Thompson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rick Bowness R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Wright C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jean Hamel D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Terry Harper D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.53
Dennis Polonich C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 24 20 4 .833 60:00 -1.00