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Thursday, October 18, 1979 · Madison Square Garden

Canucks 3 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 82OVR Phil Esposito Rangers First Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG L 85OVR Don Maloney Rangers Second Star 3A · 1 SOG C 92OVR Thomas Gradin Canucks Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:58 Dave Maloney (1) Ron Duguay (1), Carol Vadnais (3) VAN 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 2:20 Phil Esposito (2) Ron Greschner (2), Don Maloney (1) VAN 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 8:51 Ron Duguay (1) Walt Tkaczuk (2) VAN 0 – 3 NYR
  4. 15:56 Anders Hedberg (3) Doug Sulliman (1), Phil Esposito (2) VAN 0 – 4 NYR
  5. 17:58 Stan Smyl (3) Jere Gillis (4), Thomas Gradin (3) VAN 1 – 4 NYR
  6. 18:52 Thomas Gradin (2) Dennis Kearns (2), Lars Lindgren (2) VAN 2 – 4 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:32 Chris Oddleifson (1) Curt Fraser (1), Brent Ashton (1) VAN 3 – 4 NYR
  2. 7:19 Phil Esposito (3) Don Maloney (2), Mike McEwen (3) VAN 3 – 5 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 10:42 Phil Esposito (4) PPG Don Maloney (3), Ron Greschner (3) VAN 3 – 6 NYR

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Thomas Gradin C 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Stan Smyl R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Jere Gillis L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Curt Fraser L 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Brent Ashton L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Lars Lindgren D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Dennis Kearns D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Chris Oddleifson C 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.60
Don Lever C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
John Hughes D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Kevin McCarthy D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bill Derlago C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Rick Vaive R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Bob Manno D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ron Sedlbauer L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -1.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glen Hanlon L 33 27 6 .818 60:00 -1.80

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Esposito C 3 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.73
Don Maloney L 0 3 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Ron Greschner D 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Ron Duguay C 1 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.30
Anders Hedberg R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Dave Maloney D 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.05
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Doug Sulliman L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Don Murdoch R 0 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 0.68
Mike McEwen D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Tim Bothwell D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.30
Pat Hickey L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Warren Miller R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Mario Marois D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Doug Soetaert W 23 20 3 .870 60:00 -0.25