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NYR

TD GARDEN

4FINAL9

December 23, 1978

NYI

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Bryan Trottier (20)

Gerry Hart (4)

1-0 NYI

Score

13:40

Time

Ron Greschner (12)

Pierre Plante (10), Dave Farrish (8)

1-1 Tied

Score

15:09

Time

2nd Period

Mike Bossy (24) (pp)

Bryan Trottier (27)

2-1 NYI

Score

01:11

Time

Bryan Trottier (21)

Clark Gillies (26), Mike Bossy (16)

3-1 NYI

Score

03:41

Time

Garry Howatt (8)

Bryan Trottier (28), Gerry Hart (5)

4-1 NYI

Score

05:08

Time

Stefan Persson (6)

Garry Howatt (5), Ed Westfall (6)

5-1 NYI

Score

08:59

Time

Mike Bossy (25)

Bryan Trottier (29), Clark Gillies (27)

6-1 NYI

Score

11:21

Time

Ron Greschner (13)

Pierre Plante (11), Nick Fotiu (4)

6-2 NYI

Score

13:13

Time

Bryan Trottier (22)

Clark Gillies (28), Mike Bossy (17)

7-2 NYI

Score

18:39

Time

Bryan Trottier (23) (pp)

Clark Gillies (29), Stefan Persson (20)

8-2 NYI

Score

19:44

Time

3rd Period

Bryan Trottier (24) (pp)

Mike Bossy (18), Denis Potvin (27)

9-2 NYI

Score

07:38

Time

Mike McEwen (9)

Pierre Plante (12), Walt Tkaczuk (13)

9-3 NYI

Score

11:20

Time

Anders Hedberg (12)

Ulf Nilsson (20), Pat Hickey (19)

9-4 NYI

Score

17:05

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	04:22	Mike Kaszycki – high-sticking (2 min)
	09:27	Dave Farrish – hooking (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	01:08	Ron Duguay – hooking (2 min)
	14:22	Stefan Persson – holding (2 min)
	19:06	Nick Fotiu – tripping (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	03:43	Mike McEwen – hooking (2 min)
	06:53	Garry Howatt – fighting (5 min)
	06:53	Pat Price – fighting (5 min)
	06:53	Ron Duguay – fighting (5 min)
	06:53	Mario Marois – fighting (5 min)
	06:53	Mario Marois – misconduct (10 min)
	06:53	Mario Marois – game-misconduct (10 min)
	06:53	Nick Fotiu – roughing (2 min)
	06:53	Nick Fotiu – game-misconduct (10 min)

NYI – 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	Gerry Hart	D	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
3	Pat Price	D	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
5	Denis Potvin	D	0	1	1	-1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
6	Bert Marshall	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
7	Stefan Persson	D	1	1	2	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0/0	0.00%
8	Garry Howatt	L	1	1	2	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
9	Clark Gillies	L	0	4	4	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
11	Wayne Merrick	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
14	Bob Bourne	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
15	Billy Harris	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
18	Ed Westfall	R	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
19	Bryan Trottier	C	5	3	8	6	0	2	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	8	0/0	0.00%
21	Mike Kaszycki	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
22	Mike Bossy	R	2	3	5	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0/0	0.00%
23	Bobby Nystrom	R	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
25	Dave Lewis	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
27	John Tonelli	L	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%

NYI – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
1	Glenn Resch						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0:00
31	Billy Smith	★	W				27	31	4	4	0	0	.871	0.00	0:00

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	1	1	-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
4	Ron Greschner	D	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%
5	Carol Vadnais	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
8	Steve Vickers	L	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	-3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%
11	Ulf Nilsson	C	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
15	Anders Hedberg	R	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%
16	Pat Hickey	L	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
18	Walt Tkaczuk	C	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
19	Dean Talafous	C	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
22	Nick Fotiu	L	0	1	1	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	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%
24	Pierre Plante	R	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%
25	Mario Marois	D	0	0	0	-2	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%
26	Dave Maloney	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%
27	Mike McEwen	D	1	0	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%
77	Phil Esposito	C	0	0	0	-2	0	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
1	Wayne Thomas	★	L				15	23	8	6	2	0	.652	0.00	0:00
30	John Davidson						12	13	1	0	1	0	.923	0.00	0:00

NYI

NYR

Game Stats

9	Goals	4
36	Shots	31
60.0% (3/5)	Power Play	0.0% (0/2)
14	Penalty Minutes	50
0	Hits	0
0	Blocks	0
0	Giveaways	0
0	Takeaways	0

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	T
	1	1	2	4
	1	7	1	9

Season Series: 3-5-0

NYI 5

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreOCT 21

NYI 5

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreNOV 12

NYI 9

NYR 4

FINALBoxscoreDEC 23

NYI 3

NYR 5

FINALBoxscoreJAN 17

NYI 2

NYR 7

FINALBoxscoreJAN 27

NYI 2

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreFEB 25

NYI 5

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreMAR 17

NYI 5

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreAPR 8

As of December 23, 1978

All-Time vs NYI

Overall: 18-18-2-0
At NYI: 11-7-1-0

Last 10 vs NYI

Overall: 2-8-0
At NYI: 4-6-0