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Sunday, December 31, 1978 · Madison Square Garden

Flames 6 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 94OVR Tom Lysiak Blackhawks First Star 2G · 2A · 3 SOG C 98OVR Guy Chouinard Flames Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG D 96OVR Ron Greschner Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:42 Phil Esposito (19) PPG Ron Duguay (19), Mario Marois (8) AFM 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 6:33 Tom Lysiak (19) SHG Bobby Lalonde (14) AFM 1 – 1 NYR
  2. 9:54 Tom Lysiak (20) PPG Bobby Lalonde (15), Bob MacMillan (39) AFM 2 – 1 NYR
  3. 12:05 Phil Esposito (20) PPG Steve Vickers (15), Carol Vadnais (18) AFM 2 – 2 NYR
  4. 17:51 Ron Greschner (15) Unassisted AFM 2 – 3 NYR
  5. 18:30 Ron Duguay (10) SHG Dean Talafous (9) AFM 2 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 0:54 Pat Hickey (20) PPG Carol Vadnais (19), Ron Greschner (27) AFM 2 – 5 NYR
  2. 4:50 Eric Vail (16) Bob MacMillan (40), Guy Chouinard (29) AFM 3 – 5 NYR
  3. 7:59 Eric Vail (17) Guy Chouinard (30) AFM 4 – 5 NYR
  4. 14:03 Guy Chouinard (25) PPG Tom Lysiak (26), Bobby Lalonde (16) AFM 5 – 5 NYR
  5. 17:42 Willi Plett (12) Harold Phillipoff (8), Tom Lysiak (27) AFM 6 – 5 NYR

Atlanta Flames

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Tom Lysiak C 2 2 3 +1 3.13
Guy Chouinard C 1 2 2 +1 2.15
Bobby Lalonde C 0 3 0 0 1.88
Eric Vail L 2 0 4 +1 1.65
Bob MacMillan R 0 2 2 +1 1.55
Harold Phillipoff L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Willi Plett R 1 0 4 0 0.75
Dave Shand D 0 0 1 +4 0.52
Jean Pronovost R 0 0 4 0 0.30
Brad Marsh D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Rod Seiling D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bill Clement C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Pat Ribble D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ken Houston R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Gene Carr C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Greg Fox D 0 0 1 +1 -0.08
Ed Kea D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Yves Belanger W 27 22 5 .815 60:00 -1.55

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ron Greschner D 1 1 7 0 1.90
Ron Duguay C 1 1 2 0 1.53
Phil Esposito C 2 0 3 -1 1.43
Carol Vadnais D 0 2 2 -1 1.10
Dean Talafous C 0 1 0 +2 0.78
Pat Hickey L 1 0 2 -2 0.60
Mario Marois D 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Steve Vickers L 0 1 0 -2 0.33
Pierre Plante R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Dave Farrish D 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Mike McEwen D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Anders Hedberg R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 27 21 6 .778 58:25 -2.40