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Saturday, December 9, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

Rangers 4 at Red Wings 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Ron Duguay Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG R 72OVR Dan Bolduc Red Wings Second Star 2G · 3 SOG L 73OVR Nick Libett Red Wings Third Star 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:54 Pat Hickey (13) Ulf Nilsson (17), Anders Hedberg (17) NYR 1 – 0 DET
  2. 10:56 Ron Greschner (9) PPG Ron Duguay (14), Dean Talafous (7) NYR 2 – 0 DET
  3. 14:12 Ron Duguay (8) Dave Farrish (6), Nick Fotiu (2) NYR 3 – 0 DET
  4. 15:28 Bill Lochead (3) Dennis Polonich (1) NYR 3 – 1 DET

2nd Period

  1. 7:13 Dale McCourt (11) PPG Vaclav Nedomansky (12), Reed Larson (13) NYR 3 – 2 DET
  2. 13:01 Thommie Bergman (5) John Taft (1), Nick Libett (10) NYR 3 – 3 DET

3rd Period

  1. 0:42 Dan Bolduc (1) Andre St. Laurent (10), John Taft (2) NYR 3 – 4 DET
  2. 10:46 Walt Tkaczuk (5) Ron Greschner (18), Steve Vickers (12) NYR 4 – 4 DET
  3. 16:46 Dan Bolduc (2) Nick Libett (11) NYR 4 – 5 DET

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ron Duguay C 1 1 7 0 1.90
Ron Greschner D 1 1 2 +1 1.53
Walt Tkaczuk C 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 3 0 0.85
Steve Vickers L 0 1 2 0 0.78
Dean Talafous C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Dave Farrish D 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Nick Fotiu L 0 1 0 0 0.63
Pat Hickey L 1 0 1 -1 0.53
Ulf Nilsson C 0 1 1 -1 0.40
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Mike Korney D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Mike McEwen D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Phil Esposito C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Mario Marois D 0 0 0 -1 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson L 35 30 5 .857 58:57 -0.75

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dan Bolduc R 2 0 3 +1 1.88
Nick Libett L 0 2 5 +1 1.78
John Taft D 0 2 1 +1 1.33
Thommie Bergman D 1 0 2 +2 1.20
Dale McCourt C 1 0 5 0 1.13
Bill Lochead L 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 1 2 0 0.78
Reed Larson D 0 1 6 -2 0.77
Dennis Polonich C 0 1 0 +1 0.40
Andre St. Laurent C 0 1 1 0 0.40
Dan Labraaten L 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Willie Huber D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Mal Davis L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Paul Woods C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Perry Miller D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
John Hilworth D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Errol Thompson L 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rogie Vachon W 30 26 4 .867 60:00 -0.40