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Thursday, January 25, 1979 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Rangers 5 at Sabres 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 87OVR Ron Duguay Rangers First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 57OVR Pierre Plante Rangers Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG L 61OVR Jacques Richard Sabres Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:29 Jacques Richard (4) Terry Martin (8), Jim Schoenfeld (11) NYR 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 10:02 Don Luce (15) PPG Danny Gare (21), Craig Ramsay (17) NYR 0 – 2 BUF
  3. 13:46 Pierre Plante (5) Dave Farrish (12), Ron Greschner (33) NYR 1 – 2 BUF
  4. 17:41 Ron Duguay (18) Mike McEwen (23) NYR 2 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 2:14 Gilbert Perreault (16) Rene Robert (22), Bill Hajt (5) NYR 2 – 3 BUF
  2. 5:15 Jacques Richard (5) Ric Seiling (8) NYR 2 – 4 BUF
  3. 13:10 Eddie Johnstone (3) Mario Marois (11) NYR 3 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 12:48 Dave Maloney (7) Ron Duguay (21), Walt Tkaczuk (19) NYR 4 – 4 BUF
  2. 13:09 Ron Duguay (19) Pierre Plante (19), Walt Tkaczuk (20) NYR 5 – 4 BUF

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Duguay C 2 1 4 0 0 +4 0:00 3.03
Pierre Plante R 1 1 2 0 0 +4 0:00 1.98
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 2 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.70
Dave Maloney D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Mike McEwen D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Mario Marois D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Eddie Johnstone R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Ron Greschner D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Dave Farrish D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Phil Esposito C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Don Murdoch R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Anders Hedberg R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Pat Hickey L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Dean Talafous C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson W 39 35 4 .897 60:00 0.50

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jacques Richard L 2 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.80
Rene Robert R 0 1 8 0 0 0 0:00 1.08
Gilbert Perreault C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Ric Seiling R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Bill Hajt D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Don Luce C 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Danny Gare R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Terry Martin L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Rick Martin L 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Craig Ramsay L 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Andre Savard C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Tony McKegney L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Derek Smith C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lee Fogolin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jerry Korab D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Bill Stewart D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards L 21 16 5 .762 60:00 -2.15