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Saturday, November 24, 1979 · Capital Centre

Sabres 6 at Capitals 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 97OVR Danny Gare Sabres First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG D 73OVR Richie Dunn Sabres Second Star 3A · 2 SOG L 93OVR Rick Martin Sabres Third Star 2G · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:14 Guy Charron (2) Rick Green (6), Mike Gartner (7) BUF 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 12:01 Danny Gare (12) Derek Smith (9), Richie Dunn (6) BUF 1 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 3:24 Danny Gare (13) Tony McKegney (7), John Van Boxmeer (16) BUF 2 – 1 WSH
  2. 3:37 Derek Smith (7) Danny Gare (16) BUF 3 – 1 WSH
  3. 15:22 Gilbert Perreault (14) Richie Dunn (7) BUF 4 – 1 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 10:33 Rick Martin (8) Gilbert Perreault (13), Ric Seiling (6) BUF 5 – 1 WSH
  2. 14:04 Rick Martin (9) Ric Seiling (7), Richie Dunn (8) BUF 6 – 1 WSH

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Danny Gare R 2 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.80
Richie Dunn D 0 3 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.33
Rick Martin L 2 0 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Derek Smith C 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Gilbert Perreault C 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Ric Seiling R 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Tony McKegney L 0 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.22
John Van Boxmeer D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Jerry Korab D 0 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 0.60
John Gould R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.15
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bill Hajt D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Don Luce C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Robert Mongrain C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Sauve W 24 23 1 .958 60:00 1.55

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Guy Charron C 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Rick Green D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Mike Gartner R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Ryan Walter C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Greg Polis R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Antero Lehtonen R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Tom Rowe R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Leif Svensson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Gary Rissling L 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Tim Coulis L 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Mark Lofthouse R 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Wes Jarvis C 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Greg Theberge D 0 0 2 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.45
Robert Picard D 0 0 4 0 0 -5 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Stephenson L 31 25 6 .806 60:00 -2.00