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Sunday, February 18, 1979 · Detroit Olympia

Penguins 2 at Red Wings 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 82OVR Dale McCourt Red Wings First Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG C 92OVR Vaclav Nedomansky Red Wings Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG D 63OVR Willie Huber Red Wings Third Star 2A · 3 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:56 Dennis Polonich (10) Greg Carroll (12), Jim Rutherford (1) PIT 0 – 1 DET
  2. 8:57 Nick Libett (13) Perry Miller (11) PIT 0 – 2 DET
  3. 13:04 Dale McCourt (19) Vaclav Nedomansky (25) PIT 0 – 3 DET
  4. 13:27 Vaclav Nedomansky (26) Dale McCourt (33), Jim Rutherford (2) PIT 0 – 4 DET
  5. 16:05 Dale McCourt (20) PPG Vaclav Nedomansky (26), Willie Huber (15) PIT 0 – 5 DET

2nd Period

  1. 8:13 Gregg Sheppard (7) SHG Unassisted PIT 1 – 5 DET
  2. 9:56 Gary McAdam (7) Peter Mahovlich (34), Dale Tallon (21) PIT 2 – 5 DET
  3. 14:16 Dale McCourt (21) Willie Huber (16) PIT 2 – 6 DET

3rd Period

No scoring

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Gregg Sheppard C 1 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 1.05
Peter Mahovlich C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Gary McAdam R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.60
Dale Tallon D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Ross Lonsberry L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Rick Kehoe R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Russ Anderson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rod Schutt L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Peter Lee R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Colin Campbell D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
George Ferguson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Randy Carlyle D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.23
Greg Malone C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Tom Bladon D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Blair Chapman R 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron — 14 13 1 .929 40:00 0.55
Greg Millen L 14 9 5 .643 20:00 -2.85

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dale McCourt C 3 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 3.48
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.68
Willie Huber D 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Nick Libett L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Perry Miller D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Dennis Polonich C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Greg Carroll C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Errol Thompson L 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Dan Bolduc R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Andre St. Laurent C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
J.P. Leblanc C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dan Labraaten L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Reed Larson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Paul Woods C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Bill Hogaboam C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Thommie Bergman D 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 28 26 2 .929 60:00 1.10