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Sunday, December 17, 1978 · Capital Centre

Maple Leafs 6 at Capitals 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 98OVR Borje Salming Maple Leafs First Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG C 94OVR Dennis Maruk Capitals Second Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG C 89OVR Walt McKechnie Maple Leafs Third Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:43 Ron Ellis (6) PPG Dave Burrows (5), Dan Maloney (10) TOR 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 15:16 Dennis Maruk (6) PPG Robert Picard (10), Rick Green (13) TOR 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 16:06 Bob Girard (4) Dennis Maruk (20) TOR 1 – 2 WSH
  4. 16:26 Borje Salming (7) Dan Maloney (11), Walt McKechnie (11) TOR 2 – 2 WSH
  5. 18:48 Bob Sirois (14) PPG Robert Picard (11), Dennis Maruk (21) TOR 2 – 3 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 2:05 Michel Bergeron (6) Guy Charron (16) TOR 2 – 4 WSH
  2. 6:22 John Anderson (4) Borje Salming (23), Lanny McDonald (21) TOR 3 – 4 WSH
  3. 8:09 Jerry Butler (5) Pat Boutette (8) TOR 4 – 4 WSH
  4. 12:53 Bob Sirois (15) Unassisted TOR 4 – 5 WSH
  5. 17:05 Guy Charron (10) Robert Picard (12), Michel Bergeron (6) TOR 4 – 6 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 8:07 Dennis Maruk (7) Tom Rowe (10), Rick Green (14) TOR 4 – 7 WSH
  2. 14:54 Walt McKechnie (11) John Anderson (3), Joel Quenneville (3) TOR 5 – 7 WSH
  3. 18:29 Walt McKechnie (12) Borje Salming (24), Ron Ellis (7) TOR 6 – 7 WSH

Toronto Maple Leafs

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Borje Salming D 1 2 5 0 0 +4 0:00 2.98
Walt McKechnie C 2 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.73
Ron Ellis R 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Dan Maloney L 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
John Anderson R 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Jerry Butler R 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Lanny McDonald R 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.85
Joel Quenneville D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Dave Hutchison D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Darryl Sittler C 0 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.30
Garry Monahan L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Pat Boutette L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.03
Jimmy Jones C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bruce Boudreau C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dave Burrows D 0 1 1 0 0 -5 0:00 -0.05
Trevor Johansen D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Ian Turnbull D 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer L 13 11 2 .846 26:17 -0.40
Paul Harrison — 13 8 5 .615 32:53 -2.95

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dennis Maruk C 2 2 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.83
Robert Picard D 0 3 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.95
Bob Sirois R 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Rick Green D 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Guy Charron C 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Michel Bergeron R 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Bob Girard L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Tom Rowe R 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Peter Scamurra D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Bill Riley R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gord Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Carroll C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Leif Svensson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bryan Watson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Mark Lofthouse R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bernie Wolfe W 33 27 6 .818 60:00 -1.80