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Sunday, December 23, 1979 · Madison Square Garden

Bruins 4 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 63OVR Bobby Lalonde Bruins First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 94OVR Peter McNab Bruins Second Star 2A · 2 SOG D 98OVR Ray Bourque Bruins Third Star 2A · 4 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:47 Mario Marois (5) Don Maloney (26), Phil Esposito (17) BOS 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 1:23 Rick Middleton (13) Rick Smith (5), Craig MacTavish (3) BOS 1 – 1 NYR
  2. 3:46 Don Murdoch (16) PPG Steve Vickers (14), Carol Vadnais (10) BOS 1 – 2 NYR
  3. 18:06 Anders Hedberg (19) Ulf Nilsson (28) BOS 1 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 1:09 Terry O'Reilly (10) PPG Peter McNab (16), Ray Bourque (19) BOS 2 – 3 NYR
  2. 2:13 Bobby Lalonde (3) PPG Ray Bourque (20) BOS 3 – 3 NYR
  3. 13:36 Stan Jonathan (6) Bobby Lalonde (9), Peter McNab (17) BOS 4 – 3 NYR

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bobby Lalonde C 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Peter McNab C 0 2 2 0 1.40
Ray Bourque D 0 2 4 -1 1.40
Rick Middleton R 1 0 5 +1 1.28
Stan Jonathan L 1 0 2 0 0.90
Craig MacTavish C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Terry O'Reilly R 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Rick Smith D 0 1 0 +2 0.48
John Wensink L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Dwight Foster R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Thomas Songin R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bob Miller C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dick Redmond D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Gary Doak D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike Milbury D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Al Secord L 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gerry Cheevers W 17 14 3 .824 60:00 -0.85

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Anders Hedberg R 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Mario Marois D 1 0 2 0 0.90
Steve Vickers L 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Ulf Nilsson C 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Don Maloney L 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Don Murdoch R 1 0 1 -2 0.53
Phil Esposito C 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Ron Greschner D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Ron Duguay C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Frank Beaton L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Warren Miller R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ray Markham C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dean Talafous C 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Ed Hospodar D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Eddie Johnstone R 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Dave Maloney D 0 0 1 +1 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Davidson L 24 20 4 .833 60:00 -1.00