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Sunday, October 15, 1978 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Red Wings 3 at Sabres 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 86OVR Danny Gare Sabres First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG L 75OVR Errol Thompson Red Wings Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG C 65OVR Andre St. Laurent Red Wings Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 16:15 Dan Labraaten (2) PPG Errol Thompson (3), Andre St. Laurent (1) DET 1 – 0 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 0:44 Tony McKegney (2) Danny Gare (2), Gilbert Perreault (3) DET 1 – 1 BUF
  2. 2:53 Dale McCourt (2) PPG Dan Labraaten (1), Reed Larson (2) DET 2 – 1 BUF
  3. 14:02 Errol Thompson (1) Andre St. Laurent (2), Thommie Bergman (1) DET 3 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 18:20 Danny Gare (2) Rick Martin (2) DET 3 – 2 BUF

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Errol Thompson L 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Andre St. Laurent C 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Dan Labraaten L 1 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 1.15
Reed Larson D 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Dale McCourt C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Thommie Bergman D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Nick Libett L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Fern LeBlanc C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brent Peterson C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Paul Woods C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Willie Huber D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
David Hanson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Terry Harper D 0 0 5 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.07
Al Cameron D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Perry Miller D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rogie Vachon W 27 25 2 .926 60:00 1.00

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Danny Gare R 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Tony McKegney L 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.13
Gilbert Perreault C 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Rick Martin L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Bill Stewart D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Ric Seiling R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Jacques Richard L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Richie Dunn D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ken Breitenbach D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Derek Smith C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Terry Martin L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Gary McAdam R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Don Luce C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Jerry Korab D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Lee Fogolin D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards L 34 31 3 .912 60:00 0.85