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Saturday, February 17, 1979 · Pacific Coliseum

Islanders 5 at Canucks 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 99OVR Denis Potvin Islanders First Star 4A · 2 SOG R 62OVR Bobby Nystrom Islanders Second Star 2G · 4 SOG C 99OVR Bryan Trottier Islanders Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:04 Bobby Nystrom (10) Denis Potvin (42), Bob Lorimer (12) NYI 1 – 0 VAN
  2. 7:24 Stan Smyl (9) Thomas Gradin (20) NYI 1 – 1 VAN
  3. 16:42 Bobby Nystrom (11) Denis Potvin (43) NYI 2 – 1 VAN

2nd Period

  1. 15:52 Jere Gillis (11) Chris Oddleifson (25), Bob Manno (10) NYI 2 – 2 VAN

3rd Period

  1. 5:41 Stan Smyl (10) PPG Thomas Gradin (21), Curt Fraser (15) NYI 2 – 3 VAN
  2. 10:26 Mike Bossy (46) Bryan Trottier (51), Denis Potvin (44) NYI 3 – 3 VAN
  3. 12:20 Bryan Trottier (38) Billy Harris (28), Stefan Persson (40) NYI 4 – 3 VAN
  4. 13:30 Bob Lorimer (3) Bob Bourne (21), Denis Potvin (45) NYI 5 – 3 VAN

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Denis Potvin D 0 4 2 0 0 +3 0:00 3.10
Bobby Nystrom R 2 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.25
Bryan Trottier C 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Bob Lorimer D 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.45
Bob Bourne C 0 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.30
Mike Bossy R 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Stefan Persson D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Billy Harris R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Gerry Hart D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dave Lewis D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
John Tonelli L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Clark Gillies L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lorne Henning C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ed Westfall R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Resch W 32 29 3 .906 60:00 0.65

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stan Smyl R 2 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 1.80
Jere Gillis L 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Thomas Gradin C 0 2 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.95
Curt Fraser L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Chris Oddleifson C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Bob Manno D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Don Lever C 0 0 5 0 0 -2 0:00 0.08
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brad Gassoff L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Sedlbauer L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Larry Goodenough D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
John Grisdale D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rob Flockhart R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Don Kozak R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Lars Lindgren D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dunc Wilson L 29 24 5 .828 60:00 -1.35