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Sunday, November 12, 1978 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 5 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 93OVR Stefan Persson Islanders First Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG L 96OVR Clark Gillies Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 97OVR Ulf Nilsson Rangers Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:00 Stefan Persson (2) PPG Unassisted NYI 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 12:35 Ron Greschner (5) PPG Pat Hickey (9), Ulf Nilsson (4) NYI 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 6:35 Lorne Henning (1) Unassisted NYI 2 – 1 NYR
  2. 8:10 Clark Gillies (4) Stefan Persson (9), Richie Hansen (2) NYI 3 – 1 NYR
  3. 11:52 Eddie Johnstone (1) Ron Duguay (8), Carol Vadnais (5) NYI 3 – 2 NYR
  4. 13:03 Bob Bourne (7) PPG Denis Potvin (12), Stefan Persson (10) NYI 4 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 4:16 Mike McEwen (5) PPG Ulf Nilsson (5) NYI 4 – 3 NYR
  2. 12:40 Mike Bossy (8) Clark Gillies (8), Richie Hansen (3) NYI 5 – 3 NYR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stefan Persson D 1 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 2.08
Clark Gillies L 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.60
Richie Hansen C 0 2 0 0 0 +2 0:00 1.40
Mike Bossy R 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Lorne Henning C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Bob Bourne C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Denis Potvin D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Gerry Hart D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Pat Price D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bert Marshall D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Billy Harris R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
John Tonelli L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dave Lewis D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 34 31 3 .912 60:00 0.85

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ulf Nilsson C 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Mike McEwen D 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.98
Ron Duguay C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Eddie Johnstone R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Ron Greschner D 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Pat Hickey L 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Anders Hedberg R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Korney D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Steve Vickers L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Phil Esposito C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Pierre Plante R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dave Farrish D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 21 16 5 .762 59:57 -2.15