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Sunday, December 31, 1978 · Detroit Olympia

Penguins 5 at Red Wings 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 79OVR Peter Lee Penguins First Star 1G · 2A · 6 SOG C 83OVR Peter Mahovlich Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG L 74OVR Errol Thompson Red Wings Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:25 Bill Lochead (4) Dennis Polonich (2), Willie Huber (7) PIT 0 – 1 DET
  2. 14:14 Dale McCourt (15) PPG Vaclav Nedomansky (19), Errol Thompson (19) PIT 0 – 2 DET

2nd Period

  1. 12:44 Robert Plumb (1) Bill Lochead (6), Dennis Polonich (3) PIT 0 – 3 DET
  2. 15:11 Errol Thompson (13) Dale McCourt (24), Reed Larson (21) PIT 0 – 4 DET
  3. 17:48 Peter Mahovlich (9) Dale Tallon (15) PIT 1 – 4 DET

3rd Period

  1. 11:35 Peter Lee (19) Greg Malone (10) PIT 2 – 4 DET
  2. 17:06 Greg Malone (13) Peter Lee (10), Rod Schutt (14) PIT 3 – 4 DET
  3. 18:17 Gregg Sheppard (5) Peter Mahovlich (24), Tom Bladon (11) PIT 4 – 4 DET
  4. 19:53 Randy Carlyle (6) Peter Lee (11) PIT 5 – 4 DET

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Lee R 1 2 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.75
Peter Mahovlich C 1 1 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.75
Greg Malone C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Randy Carlyle D 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Gregg Sheppard C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Rod Schutt L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Dale Tallon D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Tom Bladon D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Dave Schultz L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Jacques Cossette R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Blair Chapman R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rick Kehoe R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Ross Lonsberry L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Russ Anderson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
George Ferguson C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen W 23 19 4 .826 60:00 -1.10

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Errol Thompson L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Dennis Polonich C 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
Dale McCourt C 1 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.45
Bill Lochead L 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.45
Robert Plumb L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Reed Larson D 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Willie Huber D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
John Hilworth D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Thommie Bergman D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Jean Hamel D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Nick Libett L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dan Bolduc R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul Woods C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Andre St. Laurent C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dan Labraaten L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Perry Miller D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford L 30 25 5 .833 52:21 -1.25
Rogie Vachon — 2 2 0 1.000 7:39 0.20