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Saturday, October 21, 1978 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Rangers 3 at Islanders 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 84OVR John Tonelli Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG D 99OVR Denis Potvin Islanders Second Star 2A · 1 SOG D 70OVR Bob Lorimer Islanders Third Star 1G · 2 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:50 Bob Lorimer (2) Denis Potvin (3), John Tonelli (2) NYR 0 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 4:53 John Tonelli (2) Unassisted NYR 0 – 2 NYI
  2. 7:48 Mike Kaszycki (1) PPG Denis Potvin (4), Stefan Persson (5) NYR 0 – 3 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 1:34 John Tonelli (3) Unassisted NYR 0 – 4 NYI
  2. 4:49 Ulf Nilsson (1) PPG Pat Hickey (3), Mike McEwen (5) NYR 1 – 4 NYI
  3. 7:42 Bryan Trottier (3) PPG Clark Gillies (4), Stefan Persson (6) NYR 1 – 5 NYI
  4. 9:25 Phil Esposito (1) PPG Dave Farrish (1) NYR 2 – 5 NYI
  5. 19:17 Mario Marois (1) PPG Ron Duguay (1), Anders Hedberg (2) NYR 3 – 5 NYI

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Ron Duguay C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Mike McEwen D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Mario Marois D 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Dave Farrish D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Ulf Nilsson C 1 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 0.45
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.25
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Pierre Plante R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Pat Hickey L 0 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.10
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dean Talafous C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Maloney D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Ron Greschner D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 20 15 5 .750 47:42 -2.25
Doug Soetaert — 5 5 0 1.000 12:10 0.50

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John Tonelli L 2 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.35
Denis Potvin D 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Bob Lorimer D 1 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.35
Stefan Persson D 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Bryan Trottier C 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Mike Kaszycki C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 0.60
Clark Gillies L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Billy Harris R 0 0 1 0 0 +3 0:00 0.52
Mike Bossy R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Dave Lewis D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Lorne Henning C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Bourne C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ed Westfall R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Pat Price D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch W 25 22 3 .880 60:00 -0.05