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Saturday, February 24, 1979 · Capital Centre

Sabres 6 at Capitals 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 77OVR Rene Robert Sabres First Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG D 74OVR Ken Breitenbach Sabres Second Star 2A · 2 SOG C 94OVR Gilbert Perreault Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:01 Danny Gare (18) Ken Breitenbach (1), Gilbert Perreault (36) BUF 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 10:45 Greg Polis (12) Dennis Maruk (40) BUF 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 18:47 Bob Sirois (24) PPG Guy Charron (34), Dennis Maruk (41) BUF 1 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 0:49 Gilbert Perreault (19) PPG Rene Robert (27), Jerry Korab (28) BUF 2 – 2 WSH
  2. 6:50 Tom Rowe (21) PPG Dennis Maruk (42), Leif Svensson (19) BUF 2 – 3 WSH
  3. 7:49 Bob Sirois (25) Guy Charron (35) BUF 2 – 4 WSH
  4. 9:03 Ric Seiling (15) Ken Breitenbach (2), Bill Stewart (15) BUF 3 – 4 WSH
  5. 15:13 Rick Martin (15) Rene Robert (28) BUF 4 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 14:56 Rene Robert (13) Andre Savard (6) BUF 5 – 4 WSH
  2. 17:09 Rene Robert (14) Andre Savard (7) BUF 6 – 4 WSH

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rene Robert R 2 2 4 0 0 +1 0:00 3.05
Ken Breitenbach D 0 2 2 0 0 +5 0:00 2.15
Gilbert Perreault C 1 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.90
Rick Martin L 1 0 6 0 0 +2 0:00 1.50
Bill Stewart D 0 1 1 0 0 +5 0:00 1.45
Ric Seiling R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Danny Gare R 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Andre Savard C 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.73
Jerry Korab D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Don Luce C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Rick Dudley L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Dave Schultz L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Terry Martin L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Lee Fogolin D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Mike Boland D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Larry Playfair D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Sauve W 32 28 4 .875 60:00 -0.20

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dennis Maruk C 0 3 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.88
Bob Sirois R 2 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.73
Guy Charron C 0 2 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.63
Tom Rowe R 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.98
Greg Polis R 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Leif Svensson D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Blair Stewart L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Rick Green D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Ryan Walter C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mark Lofthouse R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Robert Picard D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Yvon Labre D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Inness L 37 31 6 .838 60:00 -1.40