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Sunday, April 1, 1979 · Civic Arena

Flames 7 at Penguins 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 74OVR Darcy Rota Flames First Star 3G · 5 SOG L 95OVR Eric Vail Flames Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 98OVR Guy Chouinard Flames Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:04 Darcy Rota (16) Ken Houston (28), Phil Russell (26) AFM 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 2:18 Ivan Boldirev (33) Jean Pronovost (36) AFM 2 – 0 PIT
  3. 5:57 Eric Vail (32) Guy Chouinard (54), Bob MacMillan (68) AFM 3 – 0 PIT
  4. 15:32 Darcy Rota (17) Unassisted AFM 4 – 0 PIT
  5. 18:16 Rick Kehoe (25) Tom Bladon (22), Randy Carlyle (31) AFM 4 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 1:33 Eric Vail (33) SHG Ed Kea (16) AFM 5 – 1 PIT
  2. 4:07 Rick Kehoe (26) PPG Orest Kindrachuk (41), Tom Bladon (23) AFM 5 – 2 PIT
  3. 4:26 Guy Chouinard (49) Eric Vail (45), Phil Russell (27) AFM 6 – 2 PIT
  4. 15:02 Darcy Rota (18) Ken Houston (29), Don Laurence (18) AFM 7 – 2 PIT

Atlanta Flames

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Darcy Rota L 3 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.93
Eric Vail L 2 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.88
Guy Chouinard C 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Phil Russell D 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.92
Ken Houston R 0 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.85
Ivan Boldirev C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Bob MacMillan R 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Don Laurence C 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Jean Pronovost R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Ed Kea D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Rod Seiling D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.45
Brad Marsh D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Dave Shand D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Bill Clement C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Bob Murdoch D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Willi Plett R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.08
Bobby Lalonde C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rejean Lemelin W 29 27 2 .931 60:00 1.20

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Kehoe R 2 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 1.73
Tom Bladon D 0 2 4 0 0 -3 0:00 1.10
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Randy Carlyle D 0 1 0 0 0 -3 0:00 0.18
Gregg Sheppard C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Michael Meeker R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Blair Chapman R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Peter Lee R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Jacques Cossette R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Ross Lonsberry L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Colin Campbell D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rod Schutt L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
George Ferguson C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Bob Paradise D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Gary McAdam R 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Greg Malone C 0 0 1 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron L 12 8 4 .667 20:00 -2.20
Greg Millen — 25 22 3 .880 40:00 -0.05