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Wednesday, December 5, 1979 · Detroit Olympia

Jets 4 at Red Wings 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 89OVR Vaclav Nedomansky Red Wings First Star 2G · 2A · 5 SOG D 96OVR Reed Larson Red Wings Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG C 93OVR Dale McCourt Red Wings Third Star 2A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:55 Morris Lukowich (8) Unassisted WIN 1 – 0 DET
  2. 8:55 Reed Larson (6) PPG Peter Mahovlich (17), Vaclav Nedomansky (10) WIN 1 – 1 DET
  3. 15:36 Willy Lindstrom (7) PPG Bobby Hull (4), Peter Sullivan (10) WIN 2 – 1 DET

2nd Period

  1. 2:05 Paul Woods (3) Jim Korn (1), Barry Long (4) WIN 2 – 2 DET
  2. 10:00 Vaclav Nedomansky (15) Reed Larson (14), Barry Long (5) WIN 2 – 3 DET
  3. 15:31 Dan Bolduc (2) Bill Hogaboam (7), Dennis Sobchuk (5) WIN 2 – 4 DET
  4. 18:21 Dan Labraaten (9) Dale McCourt (14), Vaclav Nedomansky (11) WIN 2 – 5 DET
  5. 19:41 Peter Marsh (6) PPG Bobby Hull (5), Peter Sullivan (11) WIN 3 – 5 DET

3rd Period

  1. 8:15 Willy Lindstrom (8) Unassisted WIN 4 – 5 DET
  2. 16:13 Vaclav Nedomansky (16) Dale McCourt (15), Greg Joly (4) WIN 4 – 6 DET

Winnipeg Jets (1979)

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Willy Lindstrom R 2 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 1.50
Peter Sullivan C 0 2 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.18
Bobby Hull L 0 2 2 0 0 -2 0:00 1.10
Peter Marsh R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Morris Lukowich L 1 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.53
Lyle Moffat L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lorne Stamler L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Al Cameron D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jimmy Mann R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bill Lesuk R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Amodeo D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Lars Sjoberg D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Craig Norwich D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Ron Wilson C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Barry Melrose D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Jude Drouin C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Scott Campbell D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Smith L 35 29 6 .829 59:07 -1.60

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vaclav Nedomansky C 2 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 3.43
Reed Larson D 1 1 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.13
Dale McCourt C 0 2 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.85
Barry Long D 0 2 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.70
Dan Labraaten L 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Paul Woods C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Peter Mahovlich C 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Jim Korn D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Greg Joly D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Dan Bolduc R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.68
Dennis Sobchuk C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Bill Hogaboam C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Errol Thompson L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Glenn Hicks L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Dennis Polonich C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Mike Foligno R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Willie Huber D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford W 20 16 4 .800 60:00 -1.40