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Sunday, April 9, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

Canadiens 0 at Red Wings 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 66OVR Jim Rutherford Red Wings First Star 28 SV · 1.000 L 72OVR Bill Lochead Red Wings Second Star 2G · 4 SOG L 73OVR Nick Libett Red Wings Third Star 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:33 Dennis Hextall (16) Nick Libett (21), Vaclav Nedomansky (17) MTL 0 – 1 DET
  2. 3:36 Bill Lochead (19) Dale McCourt (38) MTL 0 – 2 DET
  3. 4:23 Bill Lochead (20) Dale McCourt (39), Jean Hamel (6) MTL 0 – 3 DET

2nd Period

  1. 18:39 Vaclav Nedomansky (11) Dennis Hextall (33), Nick Libett (22) MTL 0 – 4 DET

3rd Period

No scoring

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Pierre Mondou C 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Rejean Houle L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rick Chartraw D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jacques Lemaire C 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Serge Savard D 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Doug Risebrough C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Mario Tremblay R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Larry Robinson D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Guy Lafleur R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Steve Shutt L 0 0 5 -3 -0.22
Bill Nyrop D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Guy Lapointe D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Brian Engblom D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Michel Larocque L 29 25 4 .862 60:00 -0.50

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bill Lochead L 2 0 4 +2 2.10
Nick Libett L 0 2 4 +2 1.85
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 1 2 +2 1.83
Dennis Hextall C 1 1 4 +2 1.83
Dale McCourt C 0 2 3 +2 1.78
Jean Hamel D 0 1 1 +3 1.15
Paul Woods C 0 0 3 +2 0.52
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 +3 0.30
Thommie Bergman D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Reed Larson D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Errol Thompson L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Rick Bowness R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Andre St. Laurent C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Greg Joly D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Al Cameron D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dennis Hull L 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 28 28 0 1.000 60:00 2.80