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Wednesday, January 3, 1979 · Madison Square Garden

Canadiens 2 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Anders Hedberg Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 96OVR Ulf Nilsson Rangers Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG L 71OVR Steve Vickers Rangers Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:01 Dave Maloney (3) Steve Vickers (16) MTL 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 17:16 Mike McEwen (11) Pierre Plante (15), Dean Talafous (10) MTL 0 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 6:53 Guy Lafleur (26) Pierre Mondou (19) MTL 1 – 2 NYR
  2. 7:09 Nick Fotiu (2) Pierre Plante (16) MTL 1 – 3 NYR
  3. 17:56 Ron Duguay (11) Steve Vickers (17), Walt Tkaczuk (15) MTL 1 – 4 NYR
  4. 19:55 Ulf Nilsson (14) Anders Hedberg (21), Mario Marois (9) MTL 1 – 5 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 0:49 Anders Hedberg (16) Ulf Nilsson (26), Pat Hickey (23) MTL 1 – 6 NYR
  2. 7:47 Pierre Larouche (3) PPG Unassisted MTL 2 – 6 NYR

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Guy Lafleur R 1 0 5 -2 0.83
Pierre Larouche C 1 0 2 0 0.75
Pierre Mondou C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Brian Engblom D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Serge Savard D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rick Chartraw D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Bob Gainey L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Pat Hughes R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rejean Houle L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Steve Shutt L 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Doug Risebrough C 0 0 2 -3 -0.30
Mario Tremblay R 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Guy Lapointe D 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Larry Robinson D 0 0 2 -4 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Dryden L 26 20 6 .769 60:00 -2.50

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Anders Hedberg R 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Ulf Nilsson C 1 1 2 +1 1.68
Steve Vickers L 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Pierre Plante R 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Mike McEwen D 1 0 4 +3 1.50
Ron Duguay C 1 0 3 +2 1.28
Dave Maloney D 1 0 2 +2 1.20
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Mario Marois D 0 1 0 +3 0.93
Dean Talafous C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Pat Hickey L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Nick Fotiu L 1 0 2 +1 0.75
Phil Esposito C 0 0 3 +2 0.52
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Dave Farrish D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ron Greschner D 0 0 2 0 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson W 27 25 2 .926 60:00 1.00