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Saturday, December 30, 1978 · Chicago Stadium

Rangers 5 at Blackhawks 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Ulf Nilsson Rangers First Star 1G · 3A · 3 SOG L 92OVR Pat Hickey Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG R 93OVR Anders Hedberg Rangers Third Star 2G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:05 Anders Hedberg (14) Ulf Nilsson (23), Pat Hickey (21) NYR 1 – 0 CHI
  2. 6:42 Ron Duguay (9) Ron Greschner (26) NYR 2 – 0 CHI
  3. 7:10 Ulf Nilsson (13) Pat Hickey (22), Mario Marois (7) NYR 3 – 0 CHI
  4. 15:46 Doug Wilson (2) PPG Stan Mikita (22), J.P. Bordeleau (15) NYR 3 – 1 CHI

2nd Period

  1. 2:33 John Marks (13) PPG Stan Mikita (23), Ivan Boldirev (18) NYR 3 – 2 CHI
  2. 3:59 Pat Hickey (19) Ulf Nilsson (24), Carol Vadnais (17) NYR 4 – 2 CHI
  3. 8:10 Anders Hedberg (15) Ulf Nilsson (25) NYR 5 – 2 CHI
  4. 17:54 Bob Murray (8) PPG Stan Mikita (24), Doug Wilson (14) NYR 5 – 3 CHI

3rd Period

  1. 16:55 Ivan Boldirev (15) Ted Bulley (8) NYR 5 – 4 CHI

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ulf Nilsson C 1 3 3 0 0 +2 0:00 3.15
Pat Hickey L 1 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.38
Anders Hedberg R 2 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Ron Duguay C 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Ron Greschner D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.32
Mike McEwen D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Phil Esposito C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dean Talafous C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Pierre Plante R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Dave Farrish D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Mario Marois D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 -0.58
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson W 35 31 4 .886 59:54 0.10

Chicago Blackhawks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stan Mikita C 0 3 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.95
Ivan Boldirev C 1 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 1.38
Doug Wilson D 1 1 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.23
John Marks R 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Bob Murray D 1 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.53
Cliff Koroll R 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Ted Bulley L 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
J.P. Bordeleau R 0 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.25
Tim Higgins R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Doug Hicks D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bob Kelly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Alain Daigle R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Grant Mulvey R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
David Logan D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Phil Russell D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Darcy Rota L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Veisor L 32 27 5 .844 59:03 -1.05