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Wednesday, January 24, 1979 · Capital Centre

Rangers 1 at Capitals 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 97OVR Robert Picard Capitals First Star 2G · 6 SOG D 49OVR Rick Green Capitals Second Star 2A · 3 SOG L 65OVR Blair Stewart Capitals Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:18 Ryan Walter (19) Blair Stewart (6), Guy Charron (28) NYR 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 17:46 Ron Duguay (17) Dave Farrish (11), Steve Vickers (22) NYR 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 19:46 Robert Picard (12) PPG Rick Green (21), Guy Charron (29) NYR 1 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 10:33 Greg Polis (4) PPG Tom Rowe (18) NYR 1 – 3 WSH
  2. 19:07 Robert Picard (13) Blair Stewart (7), Yvon Labre (4) NYR 1 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 18:53 Tom Rowe (18) Gord Lane (9), Rick Green (22) NYR 1 – 5 WSH

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Steve Vickers L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Ron Duguay C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Dave Farrish D 0 1 2 -1 0.48
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Pat Hickey L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Anders Hedberg R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dean Talafous C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Ron Greschner D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mike McEwen D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Don Murdoch R 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Phil Esposito C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Mario Marois D 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 0 -2 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson L 34 29 5 .853 60:00 -0.85

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Robert Picard D 2 0 6 +1 2.10
Rick Green D 0 2 3 +1 1.63
Blair Stewart L 0 2 1 +1 1.48
Tom Rowe R 1 1 4 +1 1.30
Guy Charron C 0 2 0 +1 1.25
Greg Polis R 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Yvon Labre D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Ryan Walter C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Gord Lane D 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Dennis Maruk C 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Bob Sirois R 0 0 4 0 0.30
Gary Rissling L 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Mark Lofthouse R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 3 0 0.07
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jack Lynch D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Gord Smith D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Inness W 18 17 1 .944 60:00 0.95