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Saturday, December 23, 1978 · Metropolitan Sports Center

Penguins 3 at North Stars 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 76OVR Brad Maxwell North Stars First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG R 91OVR Al MacAdam North Stars Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 80OVR Orest Kindrachuk Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:12 Al MacAdam (8) Tim Young (17), Ron Zanussi (6) PIT 0 – 1 MNS
  2. 5:31 Orest Kindrachuk (10) Ron Stackhouse (16), Rick Kehoe (4) PIT 1 – 1 MNS
  3. 10:04 Greg Smith (5) Bill Butters (2), Bobby Smith (13) PIT 1 – 2 MNS
  4. 13:26 Steve Payne (3) Al MacAdam (9), Brad Maxwell (13) PIT 1 – 3 MNS
  5. 17:34 Kent-Erik Andersson (8) Tom Younghans (5), Jean Potvin (5) PIT 1 – 4 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 7:48 Greg Malone (12) Peter Lee (8), Rod Schutt (11) PIT 2 – 4 MNS
  2. 12:57 Brad Maxwell (3) Unassisted PIT 2 – 5 MNS
  3. 15:06 Rick Kehoe (7) Orest Kindrachuk (19) PIT 3 – 5 MNS

3rd Period

No scoring

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Orest Kindrachuk C 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Rick Kehoe R 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Ron Stackhouse D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Greg Malone C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Peter Lee R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Rod Schutt L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Ross Lonsberry L 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.52
Colin Campbell D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Blair Chapman R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Peter Mahovlich C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Gregg Sheppard C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Russ Anderson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Dave Schultz L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
George Ferguson C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Jacques Cossette R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dale Tallon D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Tom Bladon D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron L 27 22 5 .815 59:24 -1.55

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brad Maxwell D 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Al MacAdam R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Greg Smith D 1 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 1.50
Kent-Erik Andersson R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Tim Young C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Steve Payne L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Ron Zanussi R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Tom Younghans R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Bill Butters D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Jean Potvin D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Bobby Smith C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Mike Polich C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Glen Sharpley C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
J.P. Parise L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Gary Sargent D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Dan Chicoine R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Per-Olov Brasar C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche W 29 26 3 .897 60:00 0.35