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Sunday, December 17, 1978 · Madison Square Garden

Bruins 4 at Rangers 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Rick Middleton Bruins First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG L 71OVR Don Marcotte Bruins Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 88OVR Jean Ratelle Bruins Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 6:50 Rick Middleton (14) Brad Park (8), Jean Ratelle (14) BOS 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 7:38 Pat Hickey (14) Ron Greschner (22), Dave Maloney (5) BOS 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 9:55 Mike Walton (8) Bob Miller (15) BOS 2 – 1 NYR
  4. 19:49 Don Marcotte (12) Rick Middleton (24), Rick Smith (13) BOS 3 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 15:22 Rick Middleton (15) Jean Ratelle (15), Don Marcotte (14) BOS 4 – 1 NYR

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Middleton R 2 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.65
Don Marcotte L 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Jean Ratelle C 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Bob Miller C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Mike Walton C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Brad Park D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Rick Smith D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Al Sims D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Wayne Cashman L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Terry O'Reilly R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dick Redmond D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
John Wensink L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Peter McNab C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Thomas Songin R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bill Bennett L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Mike Milbury D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dennis O'Brien D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Pettie W 19 18 1 .947 60:00 1.05

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat Hickey L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
Ron Greschner D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Dave Maloney D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Mario Marois D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike McEwen D 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Phil Esposito C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Steve Vickers L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Anders Hedberg R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Korney D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dean Talafous C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Pierre Plante R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Ron Duguay C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson L 27 23 4 .852 60:00 -0.70