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Wednesday, December 6, 1978 · Civic Arena

Maple Leafs 4 at Penguins 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 81OVR Orest Kindrachuk Penguins First Star 2G · 2A · 3 SOG L 77OVR Ross Lonsberry Penguins Second Star 2A · 1 SOG R 79OVR Peter Lee Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:43 Peter Mahovlich (4) Dale Tallon (11), Ross Lonsberry (10) TOR 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 15:10 Orest Kindrachuk (6) PPG Peter Mahovlich (17) TOR 0 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 2:25 Ron Ellis (4) Ian Turnbull (21) TOR 1 – 2 PIT
  2. 7:22 Walt McKechnie (9) PPG Darryl Sittler (20), Borje Salming (21) TOR 2 – 2 PIT
  3. 10:25 Rick Kehoe (3) Orest Kindrachuk (13) TOR 2 – 3 PIT
  4. 11:18 Orest Kindrachuk (7) Russ Anderson (4), Rick Kehoe (1) TOR 2 – 4 PIT
  5. 14:43 Dave Burrows (1) Jimmy Jones (3), Jerry Butler (3) TOR 3 – 4 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 2:54 Peter Lee (15) Ross Lonsberry (11), Orest Kindrachuk (14) TOR 3 – 5 PIT
  2. 7:36 Pat Boutette (7) Unassisted TOR 4 – 5 PIT
  3. 9:41 Rod Schutt (8) Peter Lee (4), Greg Malone (8) TOR 4 – 6 PIT

Toronto Maple Leafs

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat Boutette L 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.35
Ian Turnbull D 0 1 7 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Jimmy Jones C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Ron Ellis R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Dave Burrows D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Jerry Butler R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Walt McKechnie C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Borje Salming D 0 1 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.40
Dan Maloney L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Garry Monahan L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Darryl Sittler C 0 1 5 0 0 -4 0:00 0.10
John Anderson R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lorne Stamler L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dave Hutchison D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Trevor Johansen D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Lanny McDonald R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Dave Williams L 0 0 1 0 0 -4 0:00 -1.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Paul Harrison L 23 17 6 .739 58:44 -2.80

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Orest Kindrachuk C 2 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 3.28
Ross Lonsberry L 0 2 1 0 0 +4 0:00 1.93
Peter Lee R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Rick Kehoe R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Peter Mahovlich C 1 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.45
Rod Schutt L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Greg Malone C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Dale Tallon D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Russ Anderson D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Tom Bladon D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Randy Carlyle D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Blair Chapman R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
George Ferguson C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Wayne Bianchin R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jacques Cossette R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dave Schultz L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron W 37 33 4 .892 60:00 0.30