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Sunday, October 14, 1979 · Madison Square Garden

Capitals 5 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Dennis Maruk Capitals First Star 4G · 5 SOG G 60OVR Gary Inness Capitals Second Star 43 SV · .935 C 94OVR Ulf Nilsson Rangers Third Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 19:21 Jocelyn Guevremont (1) Ulf Nilsson (2), Ron Greschner (1) WSH 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 1:58 Dennis Maruk (3) PPG Tom Rowe (2), Robert Picard (1) WSH 1 – 1 NYR
  2. 3:02 Dennis Maruk (4) Tom Rowe (3) WSH 2 – 1 NYR
  3. 5:32 Ulf Nilsson (2) PPG Carol Vadnais (2), Mike McEwen (1) WSH 2 – 2 NYR
  4. 8:55 Dennis Maruk (5) Robert Picard (2), Errol Rausse (1) WSH 3 – 2 NYR
  5. 11:26 Rolf Edberg (2) Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (2), Bob Sirois (1) WSH 4 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 0:24 Anders Hedberg (2) Mike McEwen (2), Ulf Nilsson (3) WSH 4 – 3 NYR
  2. 19:56 Dennis Maruk (6) Unassisted WSH 5 – 3 NYR

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dennis Maruk C 4 0 5 +3 3.83
Robert Picard D 0 2 4 +2 1.70
Tom Rowe R 0 2 0 +2 1.40
Errol Rausse L 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Bob Sirois R 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Rolf Edberg C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Peter Scamurra D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Ryan Walter C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Leif Svensson D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Paul MacKinnon D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Mike Gartner R 0 0 4 0 0.15
Guy Charron C 0 0 2 0 0.00
Dennis Hextall C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Greg Polis R 0 0 0 0 -1.13
Yvon Labre D 0 0 0 0 -1.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Inness W 46 43 3 .935 60:00 2.05

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ulf Nilsson C 1 2 3 -2 1.93
Mike McEwen D 0 2 3 -2 1.03
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 3 0 0.70
Anders Hedberg R 1 0 3 -2 0.68
Jocelyn Guevremont D 1 0 3 -2 0.68
Ron Greschner D 0 1 5 -2 0.55
Ron Duguay C 0 0 4 0 0.30
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Don Murdoch R 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Steve Vickers L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Don Maloney L 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Mario Marois D 0 0 4 0 -0.23
Phil Esposito C 0 0 3 -2 -0.45
Dave Maloney D 0 0 0 0 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 25 21 4 .840 59:06 -0.90