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Saturday, March 3, 1979 · Montreal Forum

Red Wings 5 at Canadiens 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 82OVR Dale McCourt Red Wings First Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG D 94OVR Reed Larson Red Wings Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG R 98OVR Guy Lafleur Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 8 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:52 Yvon Lambert (23) Doug Risebrough (13), Larry Robinson (38) DET 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 19:43 Guy Lafleur (46) Michel Larocque (2) DET 0 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 5:25 Dan Labraaten (12) Reed Larson (33) DET 1 – 2 MTL
  2. 10:39 Errol Thompson (17) Andre St. Laurent (25) DET 2 – 2 MTL
  3. 12:38 Dale McCourt (23) SHG Terry Harper (5) DET 3 – 2 MTL
  4. 19:24 Vaclav Nedomansky (33) Unassisted DET 4 – 2 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 1:40 Steve Shutt (27) Jacques Lemaire (20), Guy Lafleur (58) DET 4 – 3 MTL
  2. 10:04 Reed Larson (13) Dale McCourt (36) DET 5 – 3 MTL

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dale McCourt C 1 1 1 0 0 +4 0:00 2.05
Reed Larson D 1 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Dan Labraaten L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Errol Thompson L 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.45
Paul Woods C 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.45
Willie Huber D 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Thommie Bergman D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Andre St. Laurent C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.33
Terry Harper D 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Perry Miller D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Bill Hogaboam C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Jean Hamel D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Dan Bolduc R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Carroll C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Joly D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 32 29 3 .906 60:00 0.65

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Guy Lafleur R 1 1 8 0 0 -1 0:00 1.83
Larry Robinson D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Steve Shutt L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Yvon Lambert L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Jacques Lemaire C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Doug Risebrough C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.25
Mario Tremblay R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Pierre Mondou C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Serge Savard D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Guy Lapointe D 0 0 5 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.07
Mark Napier R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Bob Gainey L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Pat Hughes R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Brian Engblom D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Rejean Houle L 0 0 4 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Michel Larocque L 29 24 5 .828 60:00 -1.35