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Friday, January 5, 1979 · Madison Square Garden

Canucks 4 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Ulf Nilsson Rangers First Star 3G · 3 SOG R 57OVR Pierre Plante Rangers Second Star 2A · 3 SOG R 42OVR Rick Blight Canucks Third Star 3A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:12 Ulf Nilsson (15) Ron Greschner (28) VAN 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 1:12 Harold Snepsts (3) PPG Rick Blight (6), Ron Sedlbauer (10) VAN 1 – 1 NYR
  2. 5:57 Ulf Nilsson (16) SHG Carol Vadnais (20), Anders Hedberg (22) VAN 1 – 2 NYR
  3. 8:56 Walt Tkaczuk (6) Unassisted VAN 1 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 9:26 Phil Esposito (21) Pierre Plante (17), Dean Talafous (11) VAN 1 – 4 NYR
  2. 9:49 Ulf Nilsson (17) Mike McEwen (15), Anders Hedberg (23) VAN 1 – 5 NYR
  3. 14:09 Don Lever (13) Rick Blight (7), Lars Lindgren (12) VAN 2 – 5 NYR
  4. 18:08 Dave Maloney (4) PPG Pierre Plante (18), Phil Esposito (16) VAN 2 – 6 NYR
  5. 18:59 Pit Martin (10) Rick Blight (8) VAN 3 – 6 NYR
  6. 19:41 Ron Sedlbauer (26) Dennis Kearns (15), Don Lever (15) VAN 4 – 6 NYR

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Blight R 0 3 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.88
Ron Sedlbauer L 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Don Lever C 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Dennis Kearns D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Lars Lindgren D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Pit Martin C 1 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.53
Harold Snepsts D 1 0 3 0 0 -4 0:00 0.38
Don Kozak R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Jere Gillis L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Thomas Gradin C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Stan Smyl R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Curt Fraser L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Drew Callander R 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Bob Manno D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Chris Oddleifson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dunc Wilson L 28 22 6 .786 60:00 -2.30

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ulf Nilsson C 3 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.40
Pierre Plante R 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.92
Phil Esposito C 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Anders Hedberg R 0 2 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.48
Dave Maloney D 1 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.20
Dean Talafous C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Mike McEwen D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Walt Tkaczuk C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Ron Greschner D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Mario Marois D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Pat Hickey L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Duguay C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dave Farrish D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.45
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert W 26 22 4 .846 60:00 -0.80