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Tuesday, January 30, 1979 · Pacific Coliseum

Rangers 5 at Canucks 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 66OVR John Davidson Rangers First Star 44 SV · .936 L 85OVR Ron Sedlbauer Canucks Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 93OVR Phil Esposito Rangers Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:47 Phil Esposito (25) Dean Talafous (13), Don Murdoch (2) NYR 1 – 0 VAN
  2. 9:51 Pat Hickey (23) Mike McEwen (25), Ulf Nilsson (34) NYR 2 – 0 VAN

2nd Period

  1. 4:12 Rob Flockhart (1) Ron Sedlbauer (15), Bob Manno (8) NYR 2 – 1 VAN
  2. 15:03 Anders Hedberg (22) Walt Tkaczuk (21), Nick Fotiu (5) NYR 3 – 1 VAN

3rd Period

  1. 2:36 Phil Esposito (26) Dean Talafous (14), Don Murdoch (3) NYR 4 – 1 VAN
  2. 9:13 Ron Duguay (21) Pierre Plante (20), Ron Greschner (34) NYR 5 – 1 VAN
  3. 17:31 Ron Sedlbauer (29) Rick Blight (9), Rob Flockhart (1) NYR 5 – 2 VAN
  4. 18:09 Rick Blight (5) Curt Fraser (14) NYR 5 – 3 VAN

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 2 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 1.65
Don Murdoch R 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Dean Talafous C 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Anders Hedberg R 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Pat Hickey L 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Ron Duguay C 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Mike McEwen D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Ulf Nilsson C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Pierre Plante R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Nick Fotiu L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Ron Greschner D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Mario Marois D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.45
Dave Farrish D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.07
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson W 47 44 3 .936 60:00 2.15

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Sedlbauer L 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Rob Flockhart R 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Rick Blight R 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Curt Fraser L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Bob Manno D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Thomas Gradin C 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Chris Oddleifson C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.23
Stan Smyl R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Brad Gassoff L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Larry Goodenough D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Jere Gillis L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
John Grisdale D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Drew Callander R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Lars Lindgren D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Bromley L 36 31 5 .861 60:00 -0.65