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Tuesday, February 27, 1979 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Canadiens 3 at Islanders 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 97OVR Clark Gillies Islanders First Star 3G · 4 SOG R 98OVR Mike Bossy Islanders Second Star 4A · 1 SOG D 99OVR Denis Potvin Islanders Third Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:10 Larry Robinson (16) Guy Lafleur (55), Jacques Lemaire (19) MTL 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 17:42 Stefan Persson (7) PPG Denis Potvin (50), Bryan Trottier (57) MTL 1 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 1:25 Denis Potvin (22) PPG Mike Bossy (40), Bryan Trottier (58) MTL 1 – 2 NYI
  2. 5:33 Clark Gillies (28) Mike Bossy (41) MTL 1 – 3 NYI
  3. 17:57 Mario Tremblay (24) Guy Lapointe (32), Yvon Lambert (33) MTL 2 – 3 NYI
  4. 19:12 Bobby Nystrom (14) Stefan Persson (45) MTL 2 – 4 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 7:45 Clark Gillies (29) Bryan Trottier (59), Mike Bossy (42) MTL 2 – 5 NYI
  2. 13:53 Billy Harris (11) Denis Potvin (51) MTL 2 – 6 NYI
  3. 18:41 Clark Gillies (30) Mike Bossy (43), Gerry Hart (12) MTL 2 – 7 NYI
  4. 19:41 Bob Gainey (15) Rejean Houle (33), Doug Jarvis (8) MTL 3 – 7 NYI

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Guy Lapointe D 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Mario Tremblay R 1 0 5 0 0.98
Bob Gainey L 1 0 2 0 0.90
Rejean Houle L 0 1 3 0 0.85
Doug Jarvis C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Larry Robinson D 1 0 5 -1 0.83
Guy Lafleur R 0 1 7 -3 0.70
Yvon Lambert L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Jacques Lemaire C 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Pierre Mondou C 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Pierre Larouche C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Brian Engblom D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Doug Risebrough C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rick Chartraw D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Steve Shutt L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Serge Savard D 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Dryden L 35 28 7 .800 60:00 -2.45

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Clark Gillies L 3 0 4 +3 3.00
Mike Bossy R 0 4 1 +2 2.88
Denis Potvin D 1 2 2 +1 2.30
Bryan Trottier C 0 3 1 +2 2.25
Stefan Persson D 1 1 2 +3 1.83
Bobby Nystrom R 1 0 7 +1 1.43
Gerry Hart D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Billy Harris R 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Ed Westfall R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Lorne Henning C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bob Lorimer D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bob Bourne C 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Dave Lewis D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Garry Howatt L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
John Tonelli L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 41 38 3 .927 60:00 1.55