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Sunday, February 25, 1979 · Capital Centre

Canadiens 8 at Capitals 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Guy Lafleur Canadiens First Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG D 95OVR Guy Lapointe Canadiens Second Star 3A · 3 SOG L 96OVR Steve Shutt Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:47 Tom Rowe (22) Greg Polis (7), Dennis Maruk (43) MTL 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 1:49 Guy Lafleur (45) PPG Guy Lapointe (29), Jacques Lemaire (18) MTL 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 3:56 Jacques Lemaire (12) Guy Lafleur (53), Steve Shutt (36) MTL 2 – 1 WSH
  4. 7:44 Greg Polis (13) PPG Dennis Maruk (44), Leif Svensson (20) MTL 2 – 2 WSH
  5. 15:31 Yvon Lambert (22) Mario Tremblay (25), Serge Savard (22) MTL 3 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 7:40 Robert Picard (16) Unassisted MTL 3 – 3 WSH
  2. 9:18 Guy Charron (22) Bob Sirois (19) MTL 3 – 4 WSH
  3. 13:19 Mario Tremblay (23) Yvon Lambert (32), Guy Lapointe (30) MTL 4 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 2:52 Brian Engblom (3) Unassisted MTL 5 – 4 WSH
  2. 4:18 Bob Gainey (14) Rejean Houle (32), Guy Lapointe (31) MTL 6 – 4 WSH
  3. 6:18 Larry Robinson (15) PPG Guy Lafleur (54) MTL 7 – 4 WSH
  4. 11:33 Tom Rowe (23) Ryan Walter (19) MTL 7 – 5 WSH
  5. 14:17 Steve Shutt (26) Pierre Mondou (35) MTL 8 – 5 WSH

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Guy Lafleur R 1 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.53
Guy Lapointe D 0 3 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.95
Steve Shutt L 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Mario Tremblay R 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Jacques Lemaire C 1 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 1.60
Larry Robinson D 1 0 3 0 0 +4 0:00 1.58
Yvon Lambert L 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Pierre Mondou C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Serge Savard D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.93
Rejean Houle L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Brian Engblom D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Bob Gainey L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Doug Risebrough C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Rick Chartraw D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dan Newman R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Michel Larocque W 31 26 5 .839 60:00 -1.15

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tom Rowe R 2 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 1.73
Greg Polis R 1 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 1.38
Dennis Maruk C 0 2 3 0 0 -2 0:00 1.18
Ryan Walter C 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Guy Charron C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Leif Svensson D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Robert Picard D 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.68
Bob Sirois R 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Blair Stewart L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Jack Lynch D 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Yvon Labre D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rick Green D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bernie Wolfe — 19 15 4 .789 33:19 -1.50
Gary Inness L 14 10 4 .714 26:41 -2.00