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Wednesday, December 20, 1978 · Chicago Stadium

Canadiens 5 at Blackhawks 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 96OVR Steve Shutt Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG R 98OVR Guy Lafleur Canadiens Second Star 2A · 1 SOG C 95OVR Pierre Mondou Canadiens Third Star 1G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:22 Pierre Mondou (14) Steve Shutt (20), Larry Robinson (18) MTL 1 – 0 CHI
  2. 4:03 Rick Chartraw (2) Doug Risebrough (8) MTL 2 – 0 CHI
  3. 10:20 Steve Shutt (11) PPG Guy Lapointe (18), Guy Lafleur (29) MTL 3 – 0 CHI

2nd Period

  1. 0:58 John Marks (11) PPG Bob Murray (16), Stan Mikita (17) MTL 3 – 1 CHI
  2. 14:58 Steve Shutt (12) Guy Lafleur (30) MTL 4 – 1 CHI

3rd Period

  1. 4:56 Grant Mulvey (6) Darcy Rota (7), Keith Magnuson (4) MTL 4 – 2 CHI
  2. 5:06 Ivan Boldirev (14) Tim Higgins (2) MTL 4 – 3 CHI
  3. 19:36 Bob Gainey (7) Unassisted MTL 5 – 3 CHI

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Steve Shutt L 2 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.80
Guy Lafleur R 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Pierre Mondou C 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Bob Gainey L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Guy Lapointe D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Rick Chartraw D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Larry Robinson D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Doug Risebrough C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Mario Tremblay R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Serge Savard D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.08
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Pat Hughes R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Brian Engblom D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Rejean Houle L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Cam Connor R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Michel Larocque W 33 30 3 .909 60:00 0.75

Chicago Blackhawks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bob Murray D 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Ivan Boldirev C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
John Marks R 1 0 6 0 0 -3 0:00 0.75
Grant Mulvey R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Darcy Rota L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Tim Higgins R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.55
Keith Magnuson D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Stan Mikita C 0 1 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.40
Reg Kerr C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Alain Daigle R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Cliff Koroll R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Bob Kelly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Ted Bulley L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Phil Russell D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
David Logan D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.30
Doug Wilson D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Doug Hicks D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tony Esposito L 32 28 4 .875 59:39 -0.20