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Saturday, October 20, 1979 · Montreal Forum

Rangers 4 at Canadiens 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Guy Lafleur Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG C 98OVR Pierre Larouche Canadiens Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG L 56OVR Bob Gainey Canadiens Third Star 2G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:09 Bob Gainey (1) Mario Tremblay (3) NYR 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 15:22 Guy Lafleur (3) Pierre Larouche (1), Rod Langway (2) NYR 0 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 9:01 Mike McEwen (1) PPG Phil Esposito (3), Steve Vickers (2) NYR 1 – 2 MTL
  2. 11:54 Steve Vickers (2) Ron Duguay (2) NYR 2 – 2 MTL
  3. 14:17 Guy Lafleur (4) PPG Pierre Larouche (2), Larry Robinson (1) NYR 2 – 3 MTL
  4. 14:42 Pierre Larouche (2) Guy Lafleur (2) NYR 2 – 4 MTL
  5. 17:01 Ron Greschner (1) Ron Duguay (3), Jocelyn Guevremont (1) NYR 3 – 4 MTL
  6. 17:29 Bob Gainey (2) Rod Langway (3) NYR 3 – 5 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 8:37 Don Murdoch (1) Walt Tkaczuk (3) NYR 4 – 5 MTL

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Steve Vickers L 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Ron Duguay C 0 2 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.95
Mike McEwen D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Phil Esposito C 0 1 7 0 0 -1 0:00 0.85
Don Murdoch R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Ron Greschner D 1 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 0.45
Jocelyn Guevremont D 0 1 2 0 0 -3 0:00 0.33
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Ulf Nilsson C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Mario Marois D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Don Maloney L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Pat Hickey L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Anders Hedberg R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 32 27 5 .844 59:43 -1.05

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Guy Lafleur R 2 1 5 0 0 +3 0:00 2.95
Pierre Larouche C 1 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.38
Bob Gainey L 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Rod Langway D 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Mario Tremblay R 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Steve Shutt L 0 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 0.60
Larry Robinson D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Serge Savard D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Rejean Houle L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Brian Engblom D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.15
Pierre Mondou C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mark Napier R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Gaston Gingras D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gilles Lupien D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Doug Risebrough C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis Herron W 27 23 4 .852 60:00 -0.70