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Wednesday, February 21, 1979 · Capital Centre

Red Wings 4 at Capitals 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 94OVR Dennis Maruk Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 8 SOG R 79OVR Dan Bolduc Red Wings Second Star 2G · 2 SOG G 48OVR Rogie Vachon Red Wings Third Star 42 SV · .933

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:00 Dan Bolduc (11) Willie Huber (19), Paul Woods (15) DET 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 4:28 Bill Hogaboam (3) Dennis Polonich (11), Greg Carroll (13) DET 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 7:20 Dale McCourt (22) Perry Miller (12), Vaclav Nedomansky (27) DET 3 – 0 WSH
  4. 12:24 Dennis Maruk (22) PPG Guy Charron (33), Gary Inness (2) DET 3 – 1 WSH
  5. 12:59 Dennis Maruk (23) PPG Robert Picard (36), Tom Rowe (25) DET 3 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 0:27 Tom Rowe (20) Dennis Maruk (39), Greg Polis (6) DET 3 – 3 WSH
  2. 13:51 Dan Bolduc (12) Paul Woods (16), Reed Larson (30) DET 4 – 3 WSH

3rd Period

No scoring

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dan Bolduc R 2 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.95
Paul Woods C 0 2 0 0 0 +2 0:00 1.40
Reed Larson D 0 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.22
Bill Hogaboam C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Dale McCourt C 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.13
Dennis Polonich C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Willie Huber D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Greg Carroll C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Perry Miller D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.77
Nick Libett L 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Andre St. Laurent C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
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
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Joly D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Thommie Bergman D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rogie Vachon W 45 42 3 .933 60:00 1.95

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dennis Maruk C 2 1 8 0 0 -2 0:00 2.28
Tom Rowe R 1 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 1.53
Guy Charron C 0 1 9 0 0 0 0:00 1.30
Robert Picard D 0 1 7 0 0 +1 0:00 1.30
Greg Polis R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Ryan Walter C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Mark Lofthouse R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Bob Sirois R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Leif Svensson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Blair Stewart L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Yvon Labre D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Gary Rissling L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Gord Lane D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Rick Green D 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Inness L 25 21 4 .840 59:00 -0.90