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Wednesday, October 18, 1978 · Civic Arena

Islanders 5 at Penguins 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Mike Bossy Islanders First Star 2A · 3 SOG D 93OVR Stefan Persson Islanders Second Star 2A · 2 SOG C 80OVR Orest Kindrachuk Penguins Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:20 Jacques Cossette (2) Orest Kindrachuk (2), Ross Lonsberry (1) NYI 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 10:13 Blair Chapman (1) Orest Kindrachuk (3), Russ Anderson (1) NYI 0 – 2 PIT
  3. 15:13 Garry Howatt (1) Denis Potvin (2), Mike Kaszycki (4) NYI 1 – 2 PIT
  4. 15:24 Greg Malone (1) Dave Schultz (1), George Ferguson (3) NYI 1 – 3 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 19:15 Bryan Trottier (2) PPG Mike Bossy (4), Stefan Persson (3) NYI 2 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 0:44 Bob Lorimer (1) Mike Bossy (5), Clark Gillies (3) NYI 3 – 3 PIT
  2. 11:58 Billy Harris (1) Dave Lewis (1), Stefan Persson (4) NYI 4 – 3 PIT
  3. 17:23 Bobby Nystrom (1) John Tonelli (1) NYI 5 – 3 PIT

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Bossy R 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Stefan Persson D 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Bryan Trottier C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Billy Harris R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Bobby Nystrom R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Bob Lorimer D 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
John Tonelli L 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Clark Gillies L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Mike Kaszycki C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Garry Howatt L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Denis Potvin D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Dave Lewis D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Bob Bourne C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ed Westfall R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Pat Price D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Lorne Henning C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch W 38 35 3 .921 60:00 1.25

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Blair Chapman R 1 0 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.28
Jacques Cossette R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Greg Malone C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Russ Anderson D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Ross Lonsberry L 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Dave Schultz L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
George Ferguson C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Peter Mahovlich C 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Peter Lee R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Wayne Bianchin R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brian Spencer L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Thomas Price D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tom Bladon D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Colin Campbell D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Randy Carlyle D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron L 33 28 5 .848 60:00 -0.95