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Saturday, December 16, 1978 · Boston Garden

Rangers 1 at Bruins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 91OVR Al Sims Bruins First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG L 85OVR John Wensink Bruins Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG G 54OVR Gerry Cheevers Bruins Third Star 20 SV · .952

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 2:06 Bob Miller (10) Wayne Cashman (19), Bill Bennett (2) NYR 0 – 1 BOS
  2. 10:19 Al Sims (7) Jean Ratelle (13) NYR 0 – 2 BOS
  3. 14:44 Phil Esposito (14) Nick Fotiu (3), Ron Greschner (21) NYR 1 – 2 BOS
  4. 15:52 John Wensink (20) Terry O'Reilly (26), Al Sims (8) NYR 1 – 3 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 6:33 Peter McNab (20) John Wensink (5), Rick Middleton (23) NYR 1 – 4 BOS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Nick Fotiu L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Ron Greschner D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Mike Korney D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Pat Hickey L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Mario Marois D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Ron Duguay C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Greg Polis R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dave Farrish D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mike McEwen D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Anders Hedberg R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 28 24 4 .857 60:00 -0.60

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Al Sims D 1 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.05
John Wensink L 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Peter McNab C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Rick Middleton R 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Wayne Cashman L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Bill Bennett L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Bob Miller C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Jean Ratelle C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Terry O'Reilly R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Brad Park D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Dick Redmond D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Don Marcotte L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Thomas Songin R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Mike Walton C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rick Smith D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Dennis O'Brien D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mike Milbury D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gerry Cheevers W 21 20 1 .952 60:00 1.25