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Saturday, December 2, 1978 · Montreal Forum

Sabres 1 at Canadiens 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 95OVR Steve Shutt Canadiens First Star 1G · 4A · 5 SOG R 98OVR Guy Lafleur Canadiens Second Star 3G · 1A · 7 SOG C 95OVR Pierre Mondou Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:48 Jocelyn Guevremont (2) Derek Smith (2), Gilbert Perreault (14) BUF 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 6:29 Mario Tremblay (8) Gilles Lupien (3), Yvon Lambert (11) BUF 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 11:39 Pierre Mondou (10) Steve Shutt (9), Guy Lafleur (21) BUF 1 – 2 MTL
  4. 12:58 Guy Lafleur (14) Bob Gainey (3) BUF 1 – 3 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 3:51 Guy Lafleur (15) Steve Shutt (10), Larry Robinson (13) BUF 1 – 4 MTL
  2. 8:29 Steve Shutt (7) Pierre Mondou (8), Rick Chartraw (5) BUF 1 – 5 MTL
  3. 17:00 Guy Lafleur (16) PPG Steve Shutt (11), Jacques Lemaire (14) BUF 1 – 6 MTL
  4. 17:38 Doug Jarvis (4) Steve Shutt (12) BUF 1 – 7 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 13:10 Bob Gainey (5) Jacques Lemaire (15) BUF 1 – 8 MTL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Jocelyn Guevremont D 1 0 5 0 0.98
Gilbert Perreault C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Derek Smith C 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Gary McAdam R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ric Seiling R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tony McKegney L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Rene Robert R 0 0 4 -3 -0.15
Danny Gare R 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Terry Martin L 0 0 3 -3 -0.22
Don Luce C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Jerry Korab D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Andre Savard C 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Bill Stewart D 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Richie Dunn D 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Lee Fogolin D 0 0 0 -4 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Sauve L 26 19 7 .731 40:00 -3.35
Randy Ireland — 11 10 1 .909 20:00 0.25

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Steve Shutt L 1 4 5 +4 4.23
Guy Lafleur R 3 1 7 +3 3.85
Pierre Mondou C 1 1 3 +4 2.20
Jacques Lemaire C 0 2 3 +1 1.63
Bob Gainey L 1 1 1 +1 1.60
Larry Robinson D 0 1 1 +4 1.30
Rick Chartraw D 0 1 2 +3 1.22
Mario Tremblay R 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Doug Jarvis C 1 0 1 +2 1.13
Yvon Lambert L 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Gilles Lupien D 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Brian Engblom D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Rod Langway D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Cam Connor R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Mark Napier R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Serge Savard D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Rejean Houle L 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Dryden W 19 18 1 .947 60:00 1.05