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Saturday, January 27, 1979 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Rangers 7 at Islanders 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Ulf Nilsson Rangers First Star 1G · 4A · 4 SOG R 93OVR Anders Hedberg Rangers Second Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG L 92OVR Pat Hickey Rangers Third Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:28 Mike McEwen (13) PPG Ulf Nilsson (30) NYR 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 9:40 Nick Fotiu (3) Carol Vadnais (27), Phil Esposito (23) NYR 2 – 0 NYI
  3. 12:04 Ed Westfall (4) Bert Marshall (5), Wayne Merrick (13) NYR 2 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 3:54 Ulf Nilsson (25) PPG Mike McEwen (24), Mario Marois (12) NYR 3 – 1 NYI
  2. 4:38 Clark Gillies (20) PPG Pat Price (7), Stefan Persson (34) NYR 3 – 2 NYI
  3. 7:12 Anders Hedberg (20) Ulf Nilsson (31), Pat Hickey (29) NYR 4 – 2 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 3:07 Anders Hedberg (21) Ulf Nilsson (32), Mario Marois (13) NYR 5 – 2 NYI
  2. 5:20 Ron Duguay (20) Dave Farrish (13), Pat Hickey (30) NYR 6 – 2 NYI
  3. 8:27 Pat Hickey (22) Ulf Nilsson (33), Anders Hedberg (27) NYR 7 – 2 NYI

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ulf Nilsson C 1 4 4 0 0 +3 0:00 4.00
Anders Hedberg R 2 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.73
Pat Hickey L 1 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.23
Mike McEwen D 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.38
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.30
Ron Duguay C 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Mario Marois D 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.10
Nick Fotiu L 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.98
Phil Esposito C 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Dave Farrish D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Ron Greschner D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Dave Maloney D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Don Murdoch R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Pierre Plante R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dean Talafous C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson W 25 23 2 .920 60:00 0.80

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ed Westfall R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
Pat Price D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Clark Gillies L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.60
Wayne Merrick C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Stefan Persson D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Bert Marshall D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Mike Bossy R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Bryan Trottier C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Dave Lewis D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Richie Hansen C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Bob Bourne C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Billy Harris R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gerry Hart D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Lorne Henning C 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith L 33 26 7 .788 60:00 -2.65