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Tuesday, January 16, 1979 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Capitals 2 at Islanders 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 99OVR Denis Potvin Islanders First Star 3G · 4 SOG R 98OVR Mike Bossy Islanders Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG C 99OVR Bryan Trottier Islanders Third Star 3A · 0 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:36 Clark Gillies (17) Dave Lewis (10), Mike Bossy (27) WSH 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 2:12 Denis Potvin (18) PPG Bryan Trottier (42), Stefan Persson (31) WSH 0 – 2 NYI
  3. 10:00 Mike Bossy (36) Bryan Trottier (43), Clark Gillies (42) WSH 0 – 3 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 2:32 Denis Potvin (19) PPG Stefan Persson (32), Billy Harris (25) WSH 0 – 4 NYI
  2. 17:44 Ryan Walter (17) Guy Charron (26), Bob Sirois (12) WSH 1 – 4 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 7:13 Rick Green (7) PPG Ryan Walter (16), Bob Sirois (13) WSH 2 – 4 NYI
  2. 9:24 Denis Potvin (20) Bryan Trottier (44), Mike Bossy (28) WSH 2 – 5 NYI
  3. 13:31 Bob Bourne (18) Mike Kaszycki (13), Lorne Henning (14) WSH 2 – 6 NYI

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bob Sirois R 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
Ryan Walter C 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.38
Guy Charron C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Rick Green D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Greg Polis R 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Robert Picard D 0 0 7 0 0 -3 0:00 0.08
Tom Rowe R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Gord Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Blair Stewart L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gary Rissling L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ron Lalonde C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Yvon Labre D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Michel Bergeron R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Inness L 26 20 6 .769 60:00 -2.50

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Denis Potvin D 3 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.85
Mike Bossy R 1 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 2.45
Bryan Trottier C 0 3 0 0 0 +3 0:00 2.33
Clark Gillies L 1 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.13
Stefan Persson D 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Mike Kaszycki C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Bob Bourne C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Lorne Henning C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Dave Lewis D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Billy Harris R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Garry Howatt L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
John Tonelli L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Pat Price D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Bert Marshall D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40