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Tuesday, January 2, 1979 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Canucks 0 at Islanders 9

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Bryan Trottier Islanders First Star 4A · 3 SOG R 99OVR Mike Bossy Islanders Second Star 3G · 7 SOG G 96OVR Glenn Resch Islanders Third Star 23 SV · 1.000

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:59 Mike Bossy (31) PPG Bryan Trottier (34), Denis Potvin (32) VAN 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 10:16 Mike Bossy (32) PPG Bryan Trottier (35), Clark Gillies (35) VAN 0 – 2 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 6:08 Bob Bourne (13) Lorne Henning (13), Bobby Nystrom (8) VAN 0 – 3 NYI
  2. 11:51 Dave Lewis (2) Garry Howatt (7), Bryan Trottier (36) VAN 0 – 4 NYI
  3. 14:00 Mike Bossy (33) Clark Gillies (36), Bryan Trottier (37) VAN 0 – 5 NYI
  4. 15:57 John Tonelli (11) PPG Wayne Merrick (10), Denis Potvin (33) VAN 0 – 6 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 1:07 Bob Bourne (14) Gerry Hart (6), Bobby Nystrom (9) VAN 0 – 7 NYI
  2. 7:46 Wayne Merrick (8) Billy Harris (19), John Tonelli (18) VAN 0 – 8 NYI
  3. 9:15 Garry Howatt (10) Unassisted VAN 0 – 9 NYI

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Drew Callander R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Stan Smyl R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Chris Oddleifson C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Thomas Gradin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jere Gillis L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Ron Sedlbauer L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Rick Blight R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Don Lever C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Curt Fraser L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Don Kozak R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Bob Manno D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Pit Martin C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Lars Lindgren D 0 0 4 0 0 -5 0:00 -0.45
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 1 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glen Hanlon L 35 26 9 .743 60:00 -4.15

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bryan Trottier C 0 4 3 0 0 +3 0:00 3.18
Mike Bossy R 3 0 7 0 0 +1 0:00 2.93
Bob Bourne C 2 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.10
Wayne Merrick C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Garry Howatt L 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Denis Potvin D 0 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.70
John Tonelli L 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Bobby Nystrom R 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Clark Gillies L 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
Dave Lewis D 1 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.35
Lorne Henning C 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Billy Harris R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Gerry Hart D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.77
Richie Hansen C 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Stefan Persson D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Pat Price D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch W 23 23 0 1.000 60:00 2.30