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Wednesday, January 3, 1979 · Civic Arena

Canucks 5 at Penguins 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 66OVR Don Lever Canucks First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG G 58OVR Dunc Wilson Canucks Second Star 48 SV · .941 L 85OVR Ron Sedlbauer Canucks Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:37 Tom Bladon (3) Rick Kehoe (5), Randy Carlyle (10) VAN 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 16:38 Orest Kindrachuk (11) SHG George Ferguson (16) VAN 0 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 4:10 Stan Smyl (4) PPG Don Lever (14), Lars Lindgren (11) VAN 1 – 2 PIT
  2. 6:10 Ron Sedlbauer (25) Don Kozak (1) VAN 2 – 2 PIT
  3. 6:27 Don Lever (11) Don Kozak (2) VAN 3 – 2 PIT
  4. 6:57 Peter Lee (20) Rod Schutt (15), Greg Malone (11) VAN 3 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 2:19 Thomas Gradin (13) Stan Smyl (13) VAN 4 – 3 PIT
  2. 17:21 Don Lever (12) Ron Sedlbauer (9), Thomas Gradin (13) VAN 5 – 3 PIT

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Don Lever C 2 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.65
Ron Sedlbauer L 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Don Kozak R 0 2 0 0 0 +2 0:00 1.55
Stan Smyl R 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Thomas Gradin C 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.53
Lars Lindgren D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.30
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Drew Callander R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Curt Fraser L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Pit Martin C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Chris Oddleifson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jere Gillis L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Manno D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rick Blight R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dunc Wilson W 51 48 3 .941 60:00 2.55

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Lee R 1 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 1.05
Rick Kehoe R 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.00
Orest Kindrachuk C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Tom Bladon D 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Randy Carlyle D 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.78
Rod Schutt L 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Greg Malone C 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
George Ferguson C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Ross Lonsberry L 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Wayne Bianchin R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Blair Chapman R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gregg Sheppard C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dave Schultz L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dale Tallon D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Russ Anderson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Peter Mahovlich C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen L 26 21 5 .808 58:51 -1.65