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Wednesday, December 20, 1978 · Madison Square Garden

Sabres 3 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 57OVR Tony McKegney Sabres First Star 3A · 1 SOG RC D 96OVR Mike McEwen Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 75OVR Derek Smith Sabres Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:42 Mike McEwen (8) PPG Mario Marois (5), Ulf Nilsson (18) BUF 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 13:27 Derek Smith (7) Tony McKegney (6), Bill Stewart (9) BUF 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 0:39 Dean Talafous (8) Anders Hedberg (18), Ulf Nilsson (19) BUF 1 – 2 NYR
  2. 9:44 Phil Esposito (15) PPG Lucien DeBlois (11), Mike McEwen (13) BUF 1 – 3 NYR
  3. 15:34 Derek Smith (8) Gilbert Perreault (21), Tony McKegney (7) BUF 2 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 2:01 Dean Talafous (9) PPG Ron Greschner (23), Ron Duguay (16) BUF 2 – 4 NYR
  2. 9:44 Mario Marois (3) Walt Tkaczuk (12), Mike McEwen (14) BUF 2 – 5 NYR
  3. 15:50 Anders Hedberg (11) Pat Hickey (17), Dan Clark (1) BUF 2 – 6 NYR
  4. 17:23 Terry Martin (3) PPG Rene Robert (11), Tony McKegney (8) BUF 3 – 6 NYR

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tony McKegney L 0 3 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Derek Smith C 2 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.10
Gilbert Perreault C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Terry Martin L 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Rene Robert R 0 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Bill Stewart D 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Jerry Korab D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Don Luce C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Danny Gare R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jacques Richard L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Rick Martin L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Gary McAdam R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jocelyn Guevremont D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Ric Seiling R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Lee Fogolin D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Sauve L 34 28 6 .824 60:00 -1.70

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike McEwen D 1 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 2.23
Dean Talafous C 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Anders Hedberg R 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Ulf Nilsson C 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.55
Mario Marois D 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Ron Duguay C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Ron Greschner D 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Dan Clark D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Phil Esposito C 1 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.75
Lucien DeBlois C 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Mike McDougall R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Pierre Plante R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Pat Hickey L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas W 28 25 3 .893 60:00 0.25