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Saturday, March 17, 1979 · Capital Centre

Penguins 5 at Capitals 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Greg Malone Penguins First Star 2G · 2 SOG R 46OVR Blair Chapman Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG D 97OVR Robert Picard Capitals Third Star 2A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:38 Dennis Maruk (28) Robert Picard (40), Tom Rowe (30) PIT 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 3:25 Blair Chapman (10) Orest Kindrachuk (37), Randy Carlyle (27) PIT 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 9:15 Ross Lonsberry (22) Ron Stackhouse (27), Orest Kindrachuk (38) PIT 2 – 1 WSH
  4. 16:54 Greg Malone (27) Russ Anderson (10), Blair Chapman (7) PIT 3 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 1:31 Rick Green (8) Dennis Hextall (14), Robert Picard (41) PIT 3 – 2 WSH
  2. 6:02 Peter Lee (31) Unassisted PIT 4 – 2 WSH
  3. 7:04 Greg Malone (28) Unassisted PIT 5 – 2 WSH

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Greg Malone C 2 0 2 +2 1.95
Blair Chapman R 1 1 2 +3 1.83
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 2 0 +1 1.40
Ross Lonsberry L 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Randy Carlyle D 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Ron Stackhouse D 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Russ Anderson D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Peter Lee R 1 0 1 -1 0.53
George Ferguson C 0 0 2 +2 0.45
Colin Campbell D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Gary McAdam R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Rick Kehoe R 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Jacques Cossette R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bob Paradise D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Gregg Sheppard C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rod Schutt L 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Tom Bladon D 0 0 1 +1 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Robert Picard D 0 2 6 -2 1.40
Rick Green D 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Tom Rowe R 0 1 4 +1 0.93
Dennis Maruk C 1 0 1 0 0.52
Dennis Hextall C 0 1 2 -1 0.48
Bob Sirois R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jack Lynch D 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Guy Charron C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Gord Lane D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Ryan Walter C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Yvon Labre D 0 0 2 0 0.00
Leif Svensson D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Blair Stewart L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bob Girard L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Chuck Arnason R 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Bedard — 8 6 2 .750 40:00 -0.90
Gary Inness L 15 12 3 .800 20:00 -1.05