WHA game summary from December 23, 1976

Team	1	2	3	4	F
Cincinnati Stingers (17-14-2)	1	3	1	0	5
Houston Aeros (17-13-4)	2	2	1	1	6

1:	HOU,	Rich Preston 12 (Gordie Howe, Poul Popiel), 4:22
	HOU,	Poul Popiel 7 (Larry Lund, Gordie Howe), 4:38
	CIN,	Dennis Abgrall 14 (Rick Dudley, Dennis Sobchuk), 16:52
2:	HOU,	Terry Ruskowski 11 (Don Larway, Poul Popiel), 5:20
	HOU,	Terry Ruskowski 12 (Don Larway), 6:05
	CIN,	Blaine Stoughton 21 (Greg Carroll, Claude Larose), 8:29
	CIN,	Rich Leduc 17 (Dennis Abgrall), 12:00
	CIN,	Pierre Guite 10, 19:03
3:	CIN,	Rich Leduc 18 (Dennis Abgrall), 11:48
	HOU,	Marty Howe 8 (John Gray, Terry Ruskowski), 14:26
4:	HOU,	Rich Preston 13 (Larry Lund, Poul Popiel), 1:04

Penalties:

Penalty time: CIN: 13 minutes HOU: 13 minutes

CIN Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Dennis Abgrall	1	2	3	0	0	0
Rich Leduc	2	0	2	0	0	0
Pierre Guite	1	0	1	7	0	0
Blaine Stoughton	1	0	1	2	0	0
Dennis Sobchuk	0	1	1	0	0	0
Claude Larose	0	1	1	0	0	0
Rick Dudley	0	1	1	0	0	0
Greg Carroll	0	1	1	0	0	0
John Hughes	0	0	0	4	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

HOU Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Poul Popiel	1	3	4	0	0	0
Terry Ruskowski	2	1	3	2	0	0
Rich Preston	2	0	2	0	0	0
Larry Lund	0	2	2	2	0	0
Don Larway	0	2	2	2	0	0
Gordie Howe	0	2	2	0	0	0
Marty Howe	1	0	1	0	0	0
John Gray	0	1	1	0	0	0
Ted Taylor	0	0	0	7	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

Shots: CIN: 8-11-10- 0-29 HOU: 15-11- 4- 1-31 Goalies: CIN: Normand Lapointe (L, 12-8-0) HOU: Ron Grahame (W, 9-8-1) Attendance: 8,667