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Sunday, April 1, 1979 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Maple Leafs 6 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Lanny McDonald Maple Leafs First Star 3G · 1A · 7 SOG C 95OVR Darryl Sittler Maple Leafs Second Star 3A · 2 SOG C 94OVR Gilbert Perreault Sabres Third Star 2G · 10 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:17 Paul Gardner (28) Rocky Saganiuk (5), Joel Quenneville (7) TOR 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 6:04 Lanny McDonald (39) PPG Ian Turnbull (51), Borje Salming (55) TOR 2 – 0 BUF
  3. 6:59 Paul Gardner (29) Unassisted TOR 3 – 0 BUF
  4. 16:15 Gilbert Perreault (25) PPG Rene Robert (38), Jerry Korab (39) TOR 3 – 1 BUF
  5. 18:35 Borje Salming (17) PPG Darryl Sittler (43), Lanny McDonald (41) TOR 4 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 13:20 Lanny McDonald (40) Darryl Sittler (44) TOR 5 – 1 BUF
  2. 16:32 Don Luce (26) PPG Rene Robert (39), Craig Ramsay (31) TOR 5 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 8:10 Gilbert Perreault (26) Jacques Richard (12), Larry Playfair (2) TOR 5 – 3 BUF
  2. 18:33 Lanny McDonald (41) Darryl Sittler (45), John Anderson (10) TOR 6 – 3 BUF

Toronto Maple Leafs

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Lanny McDonald R 3 1 7 0 0 +1 0:00 3.55
Darryl Sittler C 0 3 2 0 0 +1 0:00 2.18
Paul Gardner C 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Borje Salming D 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.53
John Anderson R 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Rocky Saganiuk R 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Ian Turnbull D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Joel Quenneville D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dave Williams L 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Walt McKechnie C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jerry Butler R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dave Burrows D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.08
Pat Boutette L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Garry Monahan L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Hutchison D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Ron Ellis R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dan Maloney L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Palmateer W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Gilbert Perreault C 2 0 10 0 0 -1 0:00 2.10
Rene Robert R 0 2 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.48
Jacques Richard L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Jerry Korab D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Don Luce C 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Larry Playfair D 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Craig Ramsay L 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Rick Martin L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Boland D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ric Seiling R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Terry Martin L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Danny Gare R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Bill Stewart D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Andre Savard C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Ken Breitenbach D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dave Schultz L 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards L 29 23 6 .793 60:00 -2.20