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Friday, December 7, 1979 · Capital Centre

Penguins 5 at Capitals 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 72OVR Wes Jarvis Capitals First Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG RC L 57OVR Paul Mulvey Capitals Second Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG C 80OVR George Ferguson Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:07 Nick Libett (7) George Ferguson (9) PIT 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 6:50 Rick Kehoe (10) Randy Carlyle (13), Ross Lonsberry (8) PIT 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 9:32 George Ferguson (6) Gregg Sheppard (5) PIT 3 – 0 WSH
  4. 18:30 Paul Mulvey (3) Wes Jarvis (5), Tony Cassolato (2) PIT 3 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 13:57 Tom Bladon (2) Nick Libett (4) PIT 4 – 1 WSH
  2. 16:11 Mike Gartner (7) Wes Jarvis (6), Paul Mulvey (4) PIT 4 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 3:32 Wes Jarvis (3) Paul Mulvey (5), Mike Gartner (9) PIT 4 – 3 WSH
  2. 5:32 Greg Malone (8) Rod Schutt (8) PIT 5 – 3 WSH

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
George Ferguson C 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Nick Libett L 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Gregg Sheppard C 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Rick Kehoe R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Tom Bladon D 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.98
Ross Lonsberry L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Randy Carlyle D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Rod Schutt L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Greg Malone C 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.53
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Gary McAdam R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Russ Anderson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bob Stewart D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Pat Hughes R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Peter Lee R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Kim Clackson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen W 24 21 3 .875 60:00 -0.15

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wes Jarvis C 1 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 2.53
Paul Mulvey L 1 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 2.23
Mike Gartner R 1 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Tony Cassolato R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Robert Picard D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Rick Green D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Greg Theberge D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mark Lofthouse R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Leif Svensson D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Errol Rausse L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Greg Polis R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Peter Scamurra D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ryan Walter C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Brent Tremblay D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 1 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.53
Tom Rowe R 0 0 3 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gary Inness L 24 22 2 .917 50:28 0.70
Wayne Stephenson — 6 3 3 .500 9:32 -1.95