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Sunday, December 17, 1978 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Canucks 3 at Sabres 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 56OVR Gary McAdam Penguins First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG C 94OVR Gilbert Perreault Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG R 73OVR Stan Smyl Canucks Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:07 Danny Gare (10) Unassisted VAN 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 8:41 Terry Martin (2) Gary McAdam (3), Jacques Richard (5) VAN 0 – 2 BUF
  3. 15:04 Gary McAdam (3) Unassisted VAN 0 – 3 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 4:09 Don Luce (11) PPG Craig Ramsay (9), Gary McAdam (4) VAN 0 – 4 BUF
  2. 17:28 Curt Fraser (10) Unassisted VAN 1 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 7:15 Ron Sedlbauer (22) PPG Stan Smyl (10), Don Lever (11) VAN 2 – 4 BUF
  2. 8:55 Derek Smith (6) Gilbert Perreault (20), Tony McKegney (5) VAN 2 – 5 BUF
  3. 13:41 Stan Smyl (3) Don Lever (12), Chris Oddleifson (15) VAN 3 – 5 BUF
  4. 17:57 Gilbert Perreault (11) Unassisted VAN 3 – 6 BUF

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stan Smyl R 1 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.30
Don Lever C 0 2 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.18
Curt Fraser L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Ron Sedlbauer L 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Chris Oddleifson C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Rick Blight R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Pit Martin C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Roland Eriksson C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dennis Ververgaert R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Jere Gillis L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Thomas Gradin C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Randy Holt D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Lars Lindgren D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Bromley L 31 25 6 .806 60:00 -2.00

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Gary McAdam R 1 2 4 0 0 0 0:00 2.30
Gilbert Perreault C 1 1 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.13
Derek Smith C 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Jacques Richard L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Tony McKegney L 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Don Luce C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Terry Martin L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Danny Gare R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.75
Craig Ramsay L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Bill Stewart D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 1 0 0 +3 0:00 0.37
Ric Seiling R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Jerry Korab D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Lee Fogolin D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Richie Dunn D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rick Martin L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards — 8 8 0 1.000 20:00 0.80
Bob Sauve W 19 16 3 .842 40:00 -0.65