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Saturday, December 16, 1978 · Civic Arena

Canucks 5 at Penguins 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 83OVR Peter Mahovlich Penguins First Star 1G · 2A · 8 SOG C 66OVR Don Lever Canucks Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG C 83OVR George Ferguson Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:36 Don Lever (9) Roland Eriksson (10) VAN 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 10:09 Russ Anderson (1) Dave Schultz (7), Peter Mahovlich (20) VAN 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 13:21 Peter Mahovlich (6) PPG Dale Tallon (14), Rod Schutt (10) VAN 1 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 1:52 Pit Martin (8) Jere Gillis (6), Dennis Ververgaert (16) VAN 2 – 2 PIT
  2. 3:54 Thomas Gradin (11) Don Lever (9), Stan Smyl (9) VAN 3 – 2 PIT
  3. 5:27 Ron Sedlbauer (20) Chris Oddleifson (14) VAN 4 – 2 PIT
  4. 7:52 Rick Kehoe (6) Orest Kindrachuk (16), Ross Lonsberry (12) VAN 4 – 3 PIT
  5. 9:08 Blair Chapman (4) Peter Mahovlich (21) VAN 4 – 4 PIT
  6. 10:46 George Ferguson (8) SHG Unassisted VAN 4 – 5 PIT
  7. 11:57 Ron Sedlbauer (21) PPG Roland Eriksson (11), Don Lever (10) VAN 5 – 5 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 3:56 Wayne Bianchin (5) George Ferguson (13), Colin Campbell (5) VAN 5 – 6 PIT

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Don Lever C 1 2 2 0 0 -1 0:00 2.00
Ron Sedlbauer L 2 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.58
Roland Eriksson C 0 2 4 0 0 -1 0:00 1.40
Jere Gillis L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Pit Martin C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Thomas Gradin C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Chris Oddleifson C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Stan Smyl R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Dennis Ververgaert R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.40
Rick Blight R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.07
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Curt Fraser L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Lars Lindgren D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Randy Holt D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glen Hanlon L 40 34 6 .850 59:25 -1.10

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Mahovlich C 1 2 8 0 0 +1 0:00 2.75
George Ferguson C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Blair Chapman R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Wayne Bianchin R 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Dale Tallon D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Dave Schultz L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Ross Lonsberry L 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.78
Rod Schutt L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Colin Campbell D 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Rick Kehoe R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Jacques Cossette R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Russ Anderson D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Greg Malone C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Tom Bladon D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Peter Lee R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen W 30 25 5 .833 60:00 -1.25