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Wednesday, March 14, 1979 · Capital Centre

Red Wings 4 at Capitals 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 75OVR Jim Rutherford Red Wings First Star 32 SV · .970 D 63OVR Willie Huber Red Wings Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG RC L 65OVR Blair Stewart Capitals Third Star 1G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:49 Paul Woods (11) Bill Hogaboam (5) DET 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 8:29 Dan Labraaten (14) Vaclav Nedomansky (29) DET 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 12:38 Dale McCourt (25) PPG Willie Huber (22), Andre St. Laurent (26) DET 3 – 0 WSH
  4. 18:29 Willie Huber (7) Unassisted DET 4 – 0 WSH

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 12:45 Blair Stewart (5) Jack Lynch (4), Dennis Maruk (52) DET 4 – 1 WSH

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Willie Huber D 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Paul Woods C 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Dan Labraaten L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Dale McCourt C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Andre St. Laurent C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Bill Hogaboam C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Errol Thompson L 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Perry Miller D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Dan Bolduc R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Reed Larson D 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Jean Hamel D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Joly D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
J.P. Leblanc C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Greg Carroll C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 33 32 1 .970 60:00 2.45

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Blair Stewart L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Jack Lynch D 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.00
Dennis Maruk C 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Chuck Arnason R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Robert Picard D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Ryan Walter C 0 0 6 0 0 -2 0:00 0.15
Leif Svensson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Sirois R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Yvon Labre D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Guy Charron C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Rick Green D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Tom Rowe R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Inness L 33 29 4 .879 60:00 -0.10