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Wednesday, October 11, 1978 · Pacific Coliseum

Rockies 2 at Canucks 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 83OVR Thomas Gradin Canucks First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG RC D 75OVR Dennis Kearns Canucks Second Star 3A · 2 SOG L 69OVR Curt Fraser Canucks Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:14 Thomas Gradin (1) Dennis Kearns (1) CLR 0 – 1 VAN
  2. 13:06 Pit Martin (1) Dennis Ververgaert (1), John Grisdale (1) CLR 0 – 2 VAN

2nd Period

  1. 4:31 Thomas Gradin (2) Curt Fraser (1) CLR 0 – 3 VAN
  2. 11:16 Hilliard Graves (1) PPG Pit Martin (1) CLR 0 – 4 VAN
  3. 12:27 Curt Fraser (1) Thomas Gradin (1), Stan Smyl (1) CLR 0 – 5 VAN
  4. 14:25 Roland Eriksson (1) Dennis Kearns (2), Chris Oddleifson (1) CLR 0 – 6 VAN
  5. 17:23 Hilliard Graves (2) PPG Bob Manno (1) CLR 0 – 7 VAN

3rd Period

  1. 6:34 Ron Delorme (1) Mike Christie (1), John Van Boxmeer (1) CLR 1 – 7 VAN
  2. 16:58 Joe Contini (1) PPG Larry Skinner (1), Dennis Owchar (1) CLR 2 – 7 VAN
  3. 18:29 Dennis Ververgaert (1) Dennis Kearns (3), Ron Sedlbauer (1) CLR 2 – 8 VAN

Colorado Rockies

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Joe Contini C 1 0 3 -2 0.68
Ron Delorme C 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Mike Christie D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Dennis Owchar D 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Larry Skinner C 0 1 1 -3 0.25
John Van Boxmeer D 0 1 3 -3 0.25
Paul Messier C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Mike Kitchen D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Nelson Pyatt C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Rey Comeau C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Mike Dwyer L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Ralph Klassen C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Gary Croteau R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Wilf Paiement R 0 0 3 -2 -0.23
Randy Pierce R 0 0 4 -2 -0.30
Joe Watson D 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Barry Beck D 0 0 6 -4 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Favell L 23 16 7 .696 39:44 -3.65
Bill Oleschuk — 9 8 1 .889 20:00 0.05

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Thomas Gradin C 2 1 2 +2 2.58
Dennis Kearns D 0 3 2 +4 2.48
Curt Fraser L 1 1 2 +3 1.98
Pit Martin C 1 1 2 +2 1.83
Dennis Ververgaert R 1 1 3 +2 1.75
Hilliard Graves R 2 0 3 0 1.58
Roland Eriksson C 1 0 5 +1 1.28
Ron Sedlbauer L 0 1 3 +1 1.00
John Grisdale D 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Chris Oddleifson C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Stan Smyl R 0 1 0 +2 0.78
Bob Manno D 0 1 2 0 0.63
Bill Derlago C 0 0 6 0 0.45
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 0 +3 0.30
Don Lever C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Jere Gillis L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 +1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Bromley W 36 34 2 .944 60:00 1.90