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Wednesday, December 20, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

Canucks 2 at Red Wings 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 82OVR Dale McCourt Red Wings First Star 3G · 1A · 5 SOG L 71OVR Dan Labraaten Red Wings Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 92OVR Vaclav Nedomansky Red Wings Third Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:02 Willie Huber (1) PPG Dale McCourt (21), Reed Larson (16) VAN 0 – 1 DET
  2. 12:36 Dale McCourt (12) PPG Reed Larson (17), Vaclav Nedomansky (15) VAN 0 – 2 DET
  3. 17:12 Willie Huber (2) PPG Andre St. Laurent (14) VAN 0 – 3 DET

2nd Period

  1. 9:45 Dale McCourt (13) PPG Willie Huber (6), Errol Thompson (15) VAN 0 – 4 DET
  2. 10:13 Pit Martin (9) Harold Snepsts (13) VAN 1 – 4 DET
  3. 12:55 Dan Labraaten (6) Vaclav Nedomansky (16), Thommie Bergman (10) VAN 1 – 5 DET
  4. 13:49 Vaclav Nedomansky (14) Dan Labraaten (9), Nick Libett (12) VAN 1 – 6 DET

3rd Period

  1. 8:35 Rick Blight (4) Dennis Ververgaert (17) VAN 2 – 6 DET
  2. 16:33 Dale McCourt (14) Dan Labraaten (10), Errol Thompson (16) VAN 2 – 7 DET

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dennis Ververgaert R 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Pit Martin C 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.98
Rick Blight R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
Jere Gillis L 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Harold Snepsts D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Ron Sedlbauer L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Don Lever C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Curt Fraser L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Thomas Gradin C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Lars Lindgren D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Stan Smyl R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Roland Eriksson C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Chris Oddleifson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Randy Holt D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Bromley — 17 13 4 .765 40:00 -1.70
Dunc Wilson L 14 11 3 .786 20:00 -1.15

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dale McCourt C 3 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 3.25
Dan Labraaten L 1 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.68
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.23
Willie Huber D 2 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 2.13
Reed Larson D 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Errol Thompson L 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.25
Andre St. Laurent C 0 1 7 0 0 -1 0:00 1.00
Nick Libett L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Thommie Bergman D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
John Taft D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Paul Woods C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Perry Miller D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bill Lochead L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Fern LeBlanc C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dan Bolduc R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
John Hilworth D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rogie Vachon W 22 20 2 .909 59:46 0.50