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Thursday, March 15, 1979 · Boston Garden

Rangers 7 at Bruins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Phil Esposito Rangers First Star 4G · 5 SOG R 93OVR Anders Hedberg Rangers Second Star 3A · 1 SOG R 80OVR Don Murdoch Rangers Third Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:37 Phil Esposito (36) PPG Don Maloney (14), Anders Hedberg (36) NYR 1 – 0 BOS
  2. 11:20 Phil Esposito (37) Carol Vadnais (32) NYR 2 – 0 BOS
  3. 15:08 Rick Middleton (36) Bob Miller (30) NYR 2 – 1 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 3:54 Walt Tkaczuk (13) Steve Vickers (28), Anders Hedberg (37) NYR 3 – 1 BOS
  2. 4:13 Mike McEwen (16) Eddie Johnstone (3), Dean Talafous (16) NYR 4 – 1 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 1:34 Wayne Cashman (23) PPG Dick Redmond (20) NYR 4 – 2 BOS
  2. 6:41 Phil Esposito (38) Don Murdoch (15) NYR 5 – 2 BOS
  3. 8:09 Don Murdoch (14) PPG Carol Vadnais (33), Anders Hedberg (38) NYR 6 – 2 BOS
  4. 12:03 Phil Esposito (39) Don Murdoch (16), Don Maloney (15) NYR 7 – 2 BOS
  5. 17:36 Al Secord (12) PPG Peter McNab (43), Stan Jonathan (5) NYR 7 – 3 BOS
  6. 18:01 Rick Smith (5) PPG Stan Jonathan (6), Bob Miller (31) NYR 7 – 4 BOS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 4 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 3.53
Anders Hedberg R 0 3 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Don Murdoch R 1 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 2.23
Carol Vadnais D 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Walt Tkaczuk C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Don Maloney L 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.03
Mike McEwen D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Steve Vickers L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dean Talafous C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Eddie Johnstone R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Ron Duguay C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Pierre Plante R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Dave Farrish D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Pat Hickey L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dave Maloney D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Mario Marois D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas W 25 21 4 .840 60:00 -0.90

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bob Miller C 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Al Secord L 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.13
Stan Jonathan L 0 2 0 0 0 -1 0:00 1.10
Rick Middleton R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Peter McNab C 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.78
Rick Smith D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
Wayne Cashman L 1 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.38
Brad Park D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Dick Redmond D 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.25
Jean Ratelle C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bobby Schmautz R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Dennis O'Brien D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dwight Foster R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Mike Milbury D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Gary Doak D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.23
Don Marcotte L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Terry O'Reilly R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Pettie L 22 15 7 .682 60:00 -3.75