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Wednesday, December 6, 1978 · Madison Square Garden

Blues 4 at Rangers 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 71OVR Steve Vickers Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG D 96OVR Mike McEwen Rangers Second Star 2A · 2 SOG C 90OVR Phil Esposito Rangers Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:55 Phil Esposito (11) Steve Vickers (9), Lucien DeBlois (8) STL 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 5:41 Bernie Federko (12) Wayne Babych (18), Bob Stewart (7) STL 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 8:24 Phil Esposito (12) Steve Vickers (10), Mike McEwen (10) STL 1 – 2 NYR
  4. 14:16 Steve Vickers (7) Carol Vadnais (11), Lucien DeBlois (9) STL 1 – 3 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 0:32 Pat Hickey (11) Anders Hedberg (15) STL 1 – 4 NYR
  2. 3:54 Anders Hedberg (10) Ulf Nilsson (15), Mike McEwen (11) STL 1 – 5 NYR
  3. 5:59 Larry Patey (4) Jack Brownschidle (6), Inge Hammarstrom (8) STL 2 – 5 NYR
  4. 11:36 Inge Hammarstrom (2) Bruce Affleck (2), Curt Bennett (10) STL 3 – 5 NYR
  5. 19:31 Ron Duguay (7) SHG Walt Tkaczuk (10), Carol Vadnais (12) STL 3 – 6 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 4:03 Walt Tkaczuk (3) Unassisted STL 3 – 7 NYR
  2. 18:56 Curt Bennett (7) PPG Larry Patey (10), Bernie Federko (25) STL 4 – 7 NYR

St. Louis Blues

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Inge Hammarstrom L 1 1 1 +2 1.75
Larry Patey C 1 1 3 0 1.60
Curt Bennett R 1 1 4 -1 1.53
Bernie Federko C 1 1 1 -2 1.15
Bruce Affleck D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Jack Brownschidle D 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Wayne Babych R 0 1 3 -3 0.40
Bob Stewart D 0 1 0 -2 0.33
Larry Giroux D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Harvey Bennett C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Doug Palazzari C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bob Murdoch R 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
John Smrke L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rick Bowness R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Garry Unger C 0 0 3 -2 -0.23
Brian Sutter L 0 0 2 -3 -0.30
Barry Gibbs D 0 0 0 -4 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Phil Myre L 33 26 7 .788 59:58 -2.65

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Steve Vickers L 1 2 2 +2 2.45
Mike McEwen D 0 2 2 +4 2.00
Phil Esposito C 2 0 4 +1 1.95
Anders Hedberg R 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Carol Vadnais D 0 2 3 +1 1.63
Walt Tkaczuk C 1 1 1 +1 1.60
Lucien DeBlois C 0 2 2 +1 1.40
Pat Hickey L 1 0 4 +2 1.35
Ulf Nilsson C 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Ron Duguay C 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Mario Marois D 0 0 2 +3 0.60
Pierre Plante R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dean Talafous C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Ron Greschner D 0 0 3 0 -0.08
Mike Korney D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Dave Farrish D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert W 26 22 4 .846 60:00 -0.80