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Friday, December 1, 1978 · Capital Centre

Penguins 7 at Capitals 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 79OVR Peter Lee Penguins First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG D 63OVR Dale Tallon Penguins Second Star 3A · 1 SOG C 83OVR Peter Mahovlich Penguins Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:09 Rick Kehoe (2) PPG Peter Mahovlich (13), Denis Herron (1) PIT 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 19:00 Dennis Maruk (4) Peter Scamurra (2), Bill Riley (1) PIT 1 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 2:30 Bob Sirois (10) Tom Rowe (7), Guy Charron (12) PIT 1 – 2 WSH
  2. 3:56 Ryan Walter (7) Mark Lofthouse (4) PIT 1 – 3 WSH
  3. 5:13 Ron Stackhouse (4) Peter Lee (3), Dale Tallon (7) PIT 2 – 3 WSH
  4. 7:40 George Ferguson (4) Dale Tallon (8), Rod Schutt (4) PIT 3 – 3 WSH
  5. 12:37 Peter Lee (13) Greg Malone (7) PIT 4 – 3 WSH
  6. 16:12 Peter Lee (14) Rod Schutt (5), Randy Carlyle (7) PIT 5 – 3 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 13:40 Ross Lonsberry (9) Orest Kindrachuk (12), Dale Tallon (9) PIT 6 – 3 WSH
  2. 17:27 Guy Charron (6) Robert Picard (7), Bob Sirois (7) PIT 6 – 4 WSH
  3. 18:42 George Ferguson (5) Peter Mahovlich (14) PIT 7 – 4 WSH

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Peter Lee R 2 1 4 +2 2.73
Dale Tallon D 0 3 1 +4 2.55
Peter Mahovlich C 0 2 2 +1 1.55
George Ferguson C 2 0 2 0 1.50
Ron Stackhouse D 1 0 6 +2 1.50
Greg Malone C 0 1 2 +3 1.08
Rod Schutt L 0 2 2 +1 1.03
Rick Kehoe R 1 0 3 0 0.98
Ross Lonsberry L 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Randy Carlyle D 0 1 3 0 0.32
Tom Bladon D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Blair Chapman R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Wayne Bianchin R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jacques Cossette R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Russ Anderson D 0 0 2 -3 -0.75
Dave Schultz L 0 0 0 0 -1.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron W 28 24 4 .857 60:00 -0.60

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Guy Charron C 1 1 3 -1 1.45
Bob Sirois R 1 1 2 -2 1.23
Robert Picard D 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Mark Lofthouse R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Ryan Walter C 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Dennis Maruk C 1 0 3 -1 0.45
Tom Rowe R 0 1 4 0 0.25
Peter Scamurra D 0 1 0 -2 0.18
Greg Carroll C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Gord Smith D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Leif Svensson D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Bill Riley R 0 1 0 0 -0.05
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Rick Green D 0 0 4 -3 -0.15
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 0 +1 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Bedard L 30 24 6 .800 59:39 -2.10