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Wednesday, October 24, 1979 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Penguins 3 at Sabres 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 92OVR John Van Boxmeer Sabres First Star 3A · 5 SOG C 96OVR Gilbert Perreault Sabres Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG R 85OVR Ric Seiling Sabres Third Star 2G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:32 Derek Smith (2) Tony McKegney (2), Jim Schoenfeld (4) PIT 0 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 4:46 Gregg Sheppard (2) Unassisted PIT 1 – 1 BUF
  2. 7:23 Ric Seiling (2) PPG Craig Ramsay (8), John Van Boxmeer (6) PIT 1 – 2 BUF
  3. 14:50 Lindy Ruff (2) PPG Jim Schoenfeld (5), Rick Martin (4) PIT 1 – 3 BUF
  4. 16:42 Randy Carlyle (2) PPG Unassisted PIT 2 – 3 BUF
  5. 17:34 Danny Gare (5) PPG Gilbert Perreault (6), John Van Boxmeer (7) PIT 2 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 1:20 Rick Martin (3) Gilbert Perreault (7), Richie Dunn (2) PIT 2 – 5 BUF
  2. 3:34 Gilbert Perreault (7) PPG Jim Schoenfeld (6), John Van Boxmeer (8) PIT 2 – 6 BUF
  3. 10:36 Ric Seiling (3) Richie Dunn (3) PIT 2 – 7 BUF
  4. 13:48 Nick Libett (2) PPG Randy Carlyle (6), Pat Hughes (2) PIT 3 – 7 BUF

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Randy Carlyle D 1 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.15
Nick Libett L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Gregg Sheppard C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Pat Hughes R 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Gary McAdam R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
George Ferguson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rod Schutt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Peter Lee R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Greg Malone C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rick Kehoe R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ross Lonsberry L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul Marshall L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Tom Bladon D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mario Faubert D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Russ Anderson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rob Holland L 32 25 7 .781 60:00 -2.75

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John Van Boxmeer D 0 3 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.25
Gilbert Perreault C 1 2 5 0 0 0 0:00 2.23
Ric Seiling R 2 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.95
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 3 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.73
Rick Martin L 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Richie Dunn D 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.33
Lindy Ruff L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Danny Gare R 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Derek Smith C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Tony McKegney L 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Craig Ramsay L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Don Luce C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Bill Hajt D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
John Gould R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Robert Mongrain C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dave Schultz L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards W 17 14 3 .824 60:00 -0.85