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Saturday, February 24, 1979 · Pacific Coliseum

Bruins 4 at Canucks 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 97OVR Rick Middleton Bruins First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 89OVR Terry O'Reilly Bruins Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG R 75OVR Stan Smyl Canucks Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 3:52 Jean Ratelle (23) Wayne Cashman (30) BOS 1 – 0 VAN
  2. 5:56 Rick Middleton (27) PPG Terry O'Reilly (39), Al Sims (16) BOS 2 – 0 VAN
  3. 10:19 Stan Smyl (12) Unassisted BOS 2 – 1 VAN
  4. 16:52 Rick Middleton (28) Peter McNab (36), Terry O'Reilly (40) BOS 3 – 1 VAN
  5. 17:46 Terry O'Reilly (19) Rick Middleton (42), Peter McNab (37) BOS 4 – 1 VAN

3rd Period

  1. 7:56 Thomas Gradin (16) PPG Stan Smyl (20), Harold Snepsts (21) BOS 4 – 2 VAN
  2. 10:04 Don Lever (16) PPG Larry Goodenough (6) BOS 4 – 3 VAN

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rick Middleton R 2 1 4 +1 2.58
Terry O'Reilly R 1 2 3 +1 1.93
Peter McNab C 0 2 0 +1 1.40
Jean Ratelle C 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Wayne Cashman L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Al Sims D 0 1 1 0 0.55
Dick Redmond D 0 0 4 +2 0.45
Mike Milbury D 0 0 2 +2 0.45
Brad Park D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bobby Schmautz R 0 0 3 0 0.07
Rick Smith D 0 0 3 0 0.07
Al Secord L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dwight Foster R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Gary Doak D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bob Miller C 0 0 1 0 -0.08
John Wensink L 0 0 1 +1 -0.08
Stan Jonathan L 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gerry Cheevers W 26 23 3 .885 60:00 0.05

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Stan Smyl R 1 1 2 +1 1.53
Thomas Gradin C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Larry Goodenough D 0 1 3 -2 0.55
Hilliard Graves R 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Don Lever C 1 0 1 -3 0.38
Jere Gillis L 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Brad Gassoff L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Bob Manno D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Robert Tudor C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Curt Fraser L 0 0 2 0 0.00
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Lars Lindgren D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
John Grisdale D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Harold Snepsts D 0 1 0 -2 -0.20
Ron Sedlbauer L 0 0 3 -3 -0.22
Don Kozak R 0 0 0 -3 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Bromley L 25 21 4 .840 60:00 -0.90