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STL

TD GARDEN

4FINAL7

December 6, 1978

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Phil Esposito (11)

Steve Vickers (9), Lucien DeBlois (8)

1-0 NYR

Score

02:55

Time

Bernie Federko (12)

Wayne Babych (18), Bob Stewart (7)

1-1 Tied

Score

05:41

Time

Phil Esposito (12)

Steve Vickers (10), Mike McEwen (10)

2-1 NYR

Score

08:24

Time

Steve Vickers (7)

Carol Vadnais (11), Lucien DeBlois (9)

3-1 NYR

Score

14:16

Time

2nd Period

Pat Hickey (11)

Anders Hedberg (15)

4-1 NYR

Score

00:32

Time

Anders Hedberg (10)

Ulf Nilsson (15), Mike McEwen (11)

5-1 NYR

Score

03:54

Time

Larry Patey (4)

Jack Brownschidle (6), Inge Hammarstrom (8)

5-2 NYR

Score

05:59

Time

Inge Hammarstrom (2)

Bruce Affleck (2), Curt Bennett (10)

5-3 NYR

Score

11:36

Time

Ron Duguay (7) (sh)

Walt Tkaczuk (10), Carol Vadnais (12)

6-3 NYR

Score

19:31

Time

3rd Period

Walt Tkaczuk (3)

Unassisted

7-3 NYR

Score

04:03

Time

Curt Bennett (7) (pp)

Larry Patey (10), Bernie Federko (25)

7-4 NYR

Score

18:56

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	07:09	Ron Greschner – hooking (2 min)
	07:09	Garry Unger – slashing (2 min)
	09:16	Dave Maloney – roughing (2 min)
	17:25	Bob Murdoch – hooking (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	18:13	Dave Farrish – hooking (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	01:43	Larry Giroux – slashing (2 min)
	15:53	Lucien DeBlois – slashing (2 min)
	17:11	Team – too-many-men-on-the-ice (2 min)
	18:41	Ron Greschner – 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	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
4	Ron Greschner	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
5	Carol Vadnais	D	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
6	Mike Korney	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
8	Steve Vickers	L	1	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
10	Ron Duguay	C	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
11	Ulf Nilsson	C	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
15	Anders Hedberg	R	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0/0	0.00%
16	Pat Hickey	L	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%
18	Walt Tkaczuk	C	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
19	Dean Talafous	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
23	Lucien DeBlois	C	0	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
24	Pierre Plante	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
25	Mario Marois	D	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
26	Dave Maloney	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
27	Mike McEwen	D	0	2	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
77	Phil Esposito	C	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%

NYR – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
1	Wayne Thomas						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0:00
33	Doug Soetaert	★	W				22	26	4	3	1	0	.846	0.00	0:00

STL – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
2	Bob Stewart	D	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
4	Bruce Affleck	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
5	Larry Giroux	D	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
6	Larry Patey	C	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
7	Garry Unger	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
10	Wayne Babych	R	0	1	1	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
11	Brian Sutter	L	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
12	Rick Bowness	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
16	Jack Brownschidle	D	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
17	Inge Hammarstrom	L	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
18	Harvey Bennett	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
19	Curt Bennett	R	1	1	2	-1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%
22	Barry Gibbs	D	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
24	Bernie Federko	C	1	1	2	-2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
25	Bob Murdoch	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
27	Doug Palazzari	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
33	John Smrke	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%

STL – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
1	Phil Myre	★	L				26	33	7	6	0	1	.788	0.00	0:00
31	Ed Staniowski						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0:00

NYR

STL

Game Stats

7	Goals	4
33	Shots	26
0.0% (0/2)	Power Play	16.7% (1/6)
10	Penalty Minutes	6
0	Hits	0
0	Blocks	0
0	Giveaways	0
0	Takeaways	0

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	T
	1	2	1	4
	3	3	1	7

Season Series: 3-2-0

STL 4

NYR 7

FINALBoxscoreDEC 6

STL 3

NYR 5

FINALBoxscoreJAN 9

STL 3

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreJAN 20

STL 3

NYR 7

FINALBoxscoreFEB 21

STL 4

NYR 1

FINALBoxscoreFEB 27

As of December 6, 1978

All-Time vs STL

Overall: 39-13-7-0
At NYR: 26-1-3-0

Last 10 vs STL

Overall: 7-1-2-0
At NYR: 8-0-2-0