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Wednesday, December 26, 1979 · Civic Arena

Red Wings 4 at Penguins 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 61OVR Gregg Sheppard Penguins First Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG R 88OVR Rick Kehoe Penguins Second Star 2G · 6 SOG L 88OVR Dan Labraaten Red Wings Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:35 Rick Kehoe (14) Rod Schutt (9), George Ferguson (14) DET 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 7:54 Dan Labraaten (12) Dale McCourt (19), Vaclav Nedomansky (15) DET 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 14:42 Greg Joly (3) Unassisted DET 2 – 1 PIT
  4. 15:47 Peter Lee (8) Gregg Sheppard (7), Bob Stewart (7) DET 2 – 2 PIT
  5. 17:47 Rick Kehoe (15) Ross Lonsberry (11), Orest Kindrachuk (16) DET 2 – 3 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 13:16 Mike Foligno (11) Peter Mahovlich (22) DET 3 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 2:19 Mario Faubert (2) PPG Unassisted DET 3 – 4 PIT
  2. 2:59 Nick Libett (9) Gregg Sheppard (8), Russ Anderson (11) DET 3 – 5 PIT
  3. 13:57 Dan Labraaten (13) PPG Peter Mahovlich (23), Vaclav Nedomansky (16) DET 4 – 5 PIT
  4. 18:02 Gregg Sheppard (7) Unassisted DET 4 – 6 PIT

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dan Labraaten L 2 0 3 0 1.73
Peter Mahovlich C 0 2 3 +1 1.63
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 2 4 0 1.55
Mike Foligno R 1 0 2 0 0.90
Greg Joly D 1 0 3 -2 0.68
Dale McCourt C 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Barry Long D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Reed Larson D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Paul Woods C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Errol Thompson L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dennis Sobchuk C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dan Bolduc R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bill Hogaboam C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jean Hamel D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Glenn Hicks L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Jim Korn D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Willie Huber D 0 0 2 -4 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford L 38 32 6 .842 60:00 -1.30

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Gregg Sheppard C 1 2 1 +3 2.53
Rick Kehoe R 2 0 6 0 1.95
Nick Libett L 1 0 2 +2 1.20
George Ferguson C 0 1 4 0 0.93
Bob Stewart D 0 1 2 +2 0.93
Mario Faubert D 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Orest Kindrachuk C 0 1 5 -1 0.85
Russ Anderson D 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Peter Lee R 1 0 1 0 0.83
Rod Schutt L 0 1 3 0 0.70
Ron Stackhouse D 0 0 3 +3 0.68
Ross Lonsberry L 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Gary McAdam R 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Pat Hughes R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Randy Carlyle D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Kim Clackson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dale Tallon D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Greg Millen W 28 24 4 .857 60:00 -0.60