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Sunday, March 18, 1979 · Madison Square Garden

Penguins 5 at Rangers 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 96OVR Ron Stackhouse Penguins First Star 3G · 4 SOG G 91OVR Denis Herron Penguins Second Star 28 SV · .966 C 80OVR Orest Kindrachuk Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:22 Ross Lonsberry (23) Rick Kehoe (14), Orest Kindrachuk (39) PIT 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 17:44 Don Maloney (6) PPG Anders Hedberg (39), Don Murdoch (17) PIT 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 0:31 Ron Stackhouse (7) PPG Rick Kehoe (15) PIT 2 – 1 NYR
  2. 9:53 Ron Stackhouse (8) PPG Randy Carlyle (28) PIT 3 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 3:19 Orest Kindrachuk (17) George Ferguson (23), Gregg Sheppard (21) PIT 4 – 1 NYR
  2. 8:25 Ron Stackhouse (9) PPG Rod Schutt (21), Gregg Sheppard (22) PIT 5 – 1 NYR

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Stackhouse D 3 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 2.25
Orest Kindrachuk C 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.60
Gregg Sheppard C 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Rick Kehoe R 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
George Ferguson C 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Ross Lonsberry L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Randy Carlyle D 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Rod Schutt L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Tom Bladon D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Blair Chapman R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Peter Lee R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Greg Malone C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Gary McAdam R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jacques Cossette R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Colin Campbell D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Russ Anderson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Paradise D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron W 29 28 1 .966 60:00 2.05

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Don Maloney L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Don Murdoch R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Anders Hedberg R 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Pat Hickey L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Phil Esposito C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mario Marois D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Ron Duguay C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dave Farrish D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Pierre Plante R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mike McEwen D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Steve Vickers L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 29 24 5 .828 60:00 -1.35