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WSH

TD GARDEN

5FINAL5

December 21, 1977

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Steve Vickers (7)

Walt Tkaczuk (15), Mike McEwen (4)

1-0 NYR

Score

02:29

Time

Walt Tkaczuk (14) (pp)

Steve Vickers (23), Ron Greschner (19)

2-0 NYR

Score

05:04

Time

Pat Hickey (15)

Eddie Johnstone (8), Carol Vadnais (21)

3-0 NYR

Score

10:24

Time

2nd Period

Guy Charron (13)

Bob Girard (6), Gord Smith (3)

3-1 NYR

Score

00:16

Time

Guy Charron (14)

Bob Girard (7), Bob Sirois (12)

3-2 NYR

Score

01:15

Time

Bill Collins (5)

Gord Smith (4), Craig Patrick (3)

3-3 Tied

Score

12:04

Time

Eddy Godin (2)

Gerry Meehan (9), Robert Picard (9)

4-3 WSH

Score

15:15

Time

Eddy Godin (3)

Gerry Meehan (10)

5-3 WSH

Score

15:39

Time

3rd Period

Steve Vickers (8)

Walt Tkaczuk (16), Dave Maloney (13)

5-4 WSH

Score

11:08

Time

Pat Hickey (16)

Eddie Johnstone (9)

5-5 Tied

Score

15:15

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	01:03	Dave Maloney – fighting (5 min)
	01:03	Gord Lane – fighting (5 min)
	03:59	Team – too-many-men-on-the-ice (2 min)
	06:52	Larry Bolonchuk – hooking (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	16:46	Phil Esposito – roughing (2 min)
	16:46	Phil Esposito – slashing (2 min)
	16:46	Gord Smith – slashing (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	02:30	Mike McEwen – roughing (2 min)
	02:30	Gord Smith – roughing (2 min)
	02:30	Gord Smith – slashing (2 min)

NYR – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
3	Dave Farrish	D	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
4	Ron Greschner	D	0	1	1	-2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
5	Carol Vadnais	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
6	Don Awrey	D	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
8	Steve Vickers	L	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
9	Wayne Dillon	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
10	Ron Duguay	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
14	Don Murdoch	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
16	Pat Hickey	L	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
17	Eddie Johnstone	R	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
18	Walt Tkaczuk	C	1	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
20	Greg Polis	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
22	Nick Fotiu	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
23	Lucien DeBlois	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
26	Dave Maloney	D	0	1	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
27	Mike McEwen	D	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
77	Phil Esposito	C	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%

NYR – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
0	John Davidson	★					17	22	5	5	0	0	.773	0.00	0:00
1	Wayne Thomas		T				7	7	0	0	0	0	1.000	0.00	0:00

WSH – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
4	Larry Bolonchuk	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
5	Rick Green	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
6	Gord Smith	D	0	2	2	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
10	Bob Girard	L	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
11	Craig Patrick	R	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
14	Gerry Meehan	C	0	2	2	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
15	Guy Charron	C	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0/0	0.00%
16	Mike Marson	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
17	Tom Rowe	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
18	Eddy Godin	R	2	0	2	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
19	Bryan Watson	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
21	Dave Forbes	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
22	Ron Lalonde	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
24	Robert Picard	D	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
25	Bob Sirois	R	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%
26	Bill Collins	R	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%
28	Gord Lane	D	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%

WSH – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
30	Bernie Wolfe						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0:00
31	Jim Bedard	★	T				24	29	5	4	1	0	.828	0.00	0:00

NYR

WSH

Game Stats

5	Goals	5
29	Shots	29
33.3% (1/3)	Power Play	0.0% (0/3)
11	Penalty Minutes	13
0	Hits	0
0	Blocks	0
0	Giveaways	0
0	Takeaways	0

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	T
	0	5	0	5
	3	0	2	5

Season Series: 2-0-2

WSH 5

NYR 5

FINALBoxscoreDEC 21

WSH 3

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreDEC 30

WSH 2

NYR 8

FINALBoxscoreMAR 12

WSH 4

NYR 11

FINALBoxscoreMAR 24

As of December 21, 1977

All-Time vs WSH

Overall: 6-5-2-0
At NYR: 5-1-1-0

Last 10 vs WSH

Overall: 4-5-1-0
At NYR: 5-1-1-0