Thursday December 8, 1977
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All NHL game summaries from December 8, 1977



Team123F
Detroit Red Wings (9-13-3) 0 3 1 4
Boston Bruins (16-5-5) 1 3 2 6

1: BOS,Mike Milbury 2 (Peter McNab, Wayne Cashman), 8:08
2: DET,Dan Maloney 5 (Reed Larson, Dennis Hextall), 1:40
BOS,Jean Ratelle 10 (Terry O'Reilly, Brad Park), 3:13
BOS,Terry O'Reilly 7 (Jean Ratelle, Rick Middleton), 6:32
BOS,Terry O'Reilly 8 (Rick Middleton, Jean Ratelle), 9:31
DET,Perry Miller 1 (Andre St. Laurent), 12:29
DET,Vaclav Nedomansky 1 (Dennis Hull, Dennis Polonich), 14:03
3: DET,Nick Libett 5 (Dennis Hextall), 2:57
BOS,Bob Miller 4 (Mike Milbury), 8:12
BOS,Rick Middleton 5 (Jean Ratelle, Terry O'Reilly), 12:16
Penalties:

1: Mike Forbes, BOS [Hooking] 15:24
Reed Larson, DET [Hooking] 19:21
2: none
3: Bench penalty, DET [Too many men on the ice] 6:46
Terry O'Reilly, BOS [Hi-sticking] 7:47
Penalty time: DET: 4 minutes BOS: 4 minutes
DET Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Terry Harper 2 D 0 0 0 0 3 0
Perry Miller 3 D 1 0 1 0 -1 4
Dan Maloney 7 LW 1 0 1 0 -1 2
Dennis Polonich 8 C 0 1 1 0 0 1
Dale McCourt 10 C 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Rick Bowness 11 RW 0 0 0 0 1 1
Fern LeBlanc 12 C 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Nick Libett 14 LW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Paul Woods 15 C 0 0 0 0 -2 3
Andre St. Laurent 16 C 0 1 1 0 -2 2
Dennis Hull 19 LW 0 1 1 0 0 4
Vaclav Nedomansky 20 C 1 0 1 0 0 1
Dennis Hextall 22 C 0 2 2 0 2 0
Greg Joly 24 D 0 0 0 0 1 2
Al Cameron 26 D 0 0 0 0 -4 1
Reed Larson 28 D 0 1 1 2 -2 0
Tim Sheehy 29 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Ed Giacomin 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-923
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-923

BOS Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Mike Forbes 6 D 0 0 0 2 -1 2
Peter McNab 8 C 0 1 1 0 0 2
Jean Ratelle 10 C 1 3 4 0 3 6
Bobby Schmautz 11 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Wayne Cashman 12 LW 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Bob Miller 14 C 1 0 1 0 -1 3
Rick Middleton 16 RW 1 2 3 0 3 3
John Wensink 18 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Don Marcotte 21 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Brad Park 22 D 0 1 1 0 3 1
Rick Smith 23 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Terry O'Reilly 24 RW 2 2 4 2 3 3
Mike Milbury 26 D 1 1 2 0 3 2
Doug Halward 29 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ron Grahame 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (9 forwards, 5 defensemen)935
TOTAL   (9 forwards, 5 defensemen)935
Shots: DET: 5-10- 8-23 BOS: 5-13-17-35 Goalies: DET: Ed Giacomin (L, 3-4-1) BOS: Ron Grahame (W, 6-2-3) Referee: Bryan Lewis Linesmen: Gerard Gauthier, Ryan Bozak Attendance: 10,692



Team123F
Cleveland Barons (8-15-3) 1 1 0 2
Buffalo Sabres (17-6-3) 3 1 1 5

1: CLE,Bob Murdoch 6 (Al MacAdam), 3:14 - PP
BUF,Ric Seiling 5, 5:05
BUF,Don Luce 12 (Danny Gare, Craig Ramsay), 5:34
BUF,Gary McAdam 4 (Gilbert Perreault, Rene Robert), 6:02
2: CLE,Kris Manery 7 (Bob Stewart, Greg Smith), 14:16
BUF,Andre Savard 4 (Bill Hajt, Rick Martin), 17:53
3: BUF,Gary McAdam 5 (Rene Robert, Gilbert Perreault), 12:24
Penalties:

1: Jocelyn Guevremont, BUF [Hooking] 1:58
Lee Fogolin, BUF [Holding] 16:11
2: Rick Shinske, CLE [Holding] 4:43
3: none
Penalty time: CLE: 2 minutes BUF: 4 minutes
CLE Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Rick Hampton 2 D 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Mike Christie 3 D 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Bob Stewart 4 D 0 1 1 0 -2 0
Greg Smith 5 D 0 1 1 0 -2 0
Dave Gardner 7 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mike Fidler 12 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mike Crombeen 14 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Jim Neilson 15 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Fred Ahern 16 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bob Murdoch 20 RW 1 0 1 0 -1 3
Dennis Maruk 21 C 0 0 0 0 -2 4
Rick Shinske 22 C 0 0 0 2 -2 1
Ken Kuzyk 23 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Kris Manery 24 RW 1 0 1 0 0 5
Al MacAdam 25 RW 0 1 1 0 -3 1
Bob Girard 26 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gilles Meloche 27 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-2023
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-2023

BUF Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Don Edwards 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jerry Korab 4 D 0 0 0 0 0 2
Lee Fogolin 5 D 0 0 0 2 2 0
Jim Schoenfeld 6 D 0 0 0 0 3 0
Rick Martin 7 LW 0 1 1 0 1 4
Jim Lorentz 8 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Craig Ramsay 10 LW 0 1 1 0 1 4
Gilbert Perreault 11 C 0 2 2 0 2 3
Andre Savard 12 C 1 0 1 0 1 5
Rene Robert 14 RW 0 2 2 0 2 2
Gary McAdam 15 RW 2 0 2 0 2 5
Ric Seiling 16 RW 1 0 1 0 1 1
Fred Stanfield 17 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Danny Gare 18 RW 0 1 1 0 1 5
Don Luce 20 C 1 0 1 0 1 2
Ron Schock 21 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jocelyn Guevremont 22 D 0 0 0 2 2 4
Bill Hajt 24 D 0 1 1 0 1 1
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)2041
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)2041
Shots: CLE: 6-10- 7-23 BUF: 14-15-12-41 Goalies: CLE: Gilles Meloche (L, 6-10-1) BUF: Don Edwards (W, 17-5-3) Referee: Bob Kilger Linesmen: Leon Stickle, Bob Luther Attendance: 16,433



Team123F
St. Louis Blues (5-18-3) 1 0 0 1
Montreal Canadiens (17-5-4) 2 4 2 8

1: MTL,Pierre Larouche 7 (Guy Lapointe), 2:35
STL,Garry Unger 9 (Inge Hammarstrom, Jack Brownschidle), 7:35 - PP
MTL,Jacques Lemaire 7 (Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson), 19:12 - PP
2: MTL,Bob Gainey 5 (Doug Risebrough, Yvan Cournoyer), 3:56
MTL,Steve Shutt 13 (Jacques Lemaire, Guy Lafleur), 4:49
MTL,Yvon Lambert 4 (Pierre Larouche, Gilles Lupien), 5:02
MTL,Doug Risebrough 5 (Bob Gainey), 11:30
3: MTL,Steve Shutt 14 (Guy Lafleur, Jacques Lemaire), 2:21
MTL,Yvan Cournoyer 9 (Pierre Mondou), 12:14
Penalties:

1: Bob Gainey, MTL [Elbowing] 6:45
Guy Lapointe, MTL [Hi-sticking] 14:33
Inge Hammarstrom, STL [Hooking] 18:34
2: Gilles Lupien, MTL [Roughing] 9:00
3: Gilles Lupien, MTL [Hooking] 9:33
Penalty time: STL: 2 minutes MTL: 8 minutes
STL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Eddie Johnston 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bruce Affleck 4 D 0 0 0 0 -4 2
Bob Plager 5 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Larry Patey 6 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Garry Unger 7 C 1 0 1 0 -2 3
Red Berenson 9 C 0 0 0 0 -2 3
Jack Brownschidle 10 D 0 1 1 0 -4 2
Brian Sutter 11 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Claude Larose 12 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 5
Rod Seiling 16 D 0 0 0 0 -3 2
Inge Hammarstrom 17 LW 0 1 1 2 -2 1
Floyd Thomson 18 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Doug Palazzari 19 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bob MacMillan 21 RW 0 0 0 0 -3 2
Dick Redmond 22 D 0 0 0 0 -3 2
Bernie Federko 24 C 0 0 0 0 -3 0
Brian Ogilvie 25 C 0 0 0 0 -3 4
Jimmy Roberts 26 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Ed Staniowski 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-3529
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-3529

MTL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Michel Larocque 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Nyrop 2 D 0 0 0 0 2 0
Guy Lapointe 5 D 0 1 1 2 3 2
Pierre Mondou 6 C 0 1 1 0 1 2
Doug Risebrough 8 C 1 1 2 0 2 1
Guy Lafleur 10 RW 0 3 3 0 2 1
Yvon Lambert 11 LW 1 0 1 0 2 5
Yvan Cournoyer 12 RW 1 1 2 0 3 1
Rejean Houle 15 LW 0 0 0 0 2 1
Larry Robinson 19 D 0 1 1 0 2 2
Doug Jarvis 21 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Steve Shutt 22 LW 2 0 2 0 2 4
Bob Gainey 23 LW 1 1 2 2 3 1
Gilles Lupien 24 D 0 1 1 4 2 1
Jacques Lemaire 25 C 1 2 3 0 2 4
Pierre Bouchard 26 D 0 0 0 0 2 3
Rick Chartraw 27 D 0 0 0 0 3 1
Pierre Larouche 28 C 1 1 2 0 2 4
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)3533
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)3533
Shots: STL: 11- 9- 9-29 MTL: 11-13- 9-33 Goalies: STL: Eddie Johnston (L, 4-6-1),
Ed Staniowski MTL: Michel Larocque (W, 5-2-2) Referee: Dave Newell Linesmen: Ray Scapinello, Swede Knox Attendance: 15,556



Team123F
New York Rangers (10-13-4) 1 1 2 4
Philadelphia Flyers (17-4-4) 1 0 6 7

1: NYR,Walt Tkaczuk 11 (Steve Vickers), 2:34
PHI,Don Saleski 14 (Bob Dailey), 7:36 - SH
2: NYR,Lucien DeBlois 9 (Phil Esposito), 11:37
3: PHI,Reggie Leach 12 (Bobby Clarke, Bill Barber), 1:41
PHI,Don Saleski 15 (Barry Dean, Joe Watson), 4:48
NYR,Jerry Byers 1 (Mike McEwen, Don Awrey), 11:15
PHI,Ross Lonsberry 8 (Bob Dailey, Paul Holmgren), 11:45
PHI,Reggie Leach 13 (Bill Barber, Rick MacLeish), 12:20
PHI,Ross Lonsberry 9 (Mel Bridgman, Kevin McCarthy), 14:24
PHI,Bobby Clarke 9 (Reggie Leach, Joe Watson), 16:43
NYR,Don Murdoch 10 (Phil Esposito, Ron Greschner), 18:21 - PP
Penalties:

1: Don Awrey, NYR [Roughing] 4:06
Andre Dupont, PHI [Roughing double minor] 4:06
Dave Maloney, NYR [Tripping] 10:36
Ross Lonsberry, PHI [Hooking] 19:56
2: Paul Holmgren, PHI [Charging] 4:52
Mel Bridgman, PHI [Fighting] 4:52
Carol Vadnais, NYR [Fighting, Hi-sticking major] 4:52
Andre Dupont, PHI [Interference] 9:00
3: Bob Dailey, PHI [Hi-sticking] 15:12
Phil Esposito, NYR [Hooking] 15:12
Bob Dailey, PHI [Slashing] 17:20
Penalty time: NYR: 16 minutes PHI: 19 minutes
NYR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Wayne Thomas 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dave Farrish 3 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Ron Greschner 4 D 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Carol Vadnais 5 D 0 0 0 10 -3 0
Don Awrey 6 D 0 1 1 2 -2 0
Steve Vickers 8 LW 0 1 1 0 -2 1
Wayne Dillon 9 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ron Duguay 10 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Don Murdoch 14 RW 1 0 1 0 -2 5
Jerry Byers 15 LW 1 0 1 0 -1 1
Pat Hickey 16 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Ed Johnstone 17 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Walt Tkaczuk 18 C 1 0 1 0 -1 5
Nick Fotiu 22 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lucien DeBlois 23 C 1 0 1 0 1 2
Dave Maloney 26 D 0 0 0 2 -1 2
Mike McEwen 27 D 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Phil Esposito 77 C 0 2 2 2 -1 3
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1924
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1924

PHI Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Bernie Parent 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bob Dailey 2 D 0 2 2 4 1 4
Tom Bladon 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Andre Dupont 6 D 0 0 0 6 0 1
Bill Barber 7 LW 0 2 2 0 2 4
Bob Kelly 9 LW 0 0 0 0 0 4
Mel Bridgman 10 C 0 1 1 5 0 3
Don Saleski 11 RW 2 0 2 0 1 2
Joe Watson 14 D 0 2 2 0 2 0
Bobby Clarke 16 C 1 1 2 0 2 4
Paul Holmgren 17 RW 0 1 1 2 0 0
Ross Lonsberry 18 LW 2 0 2 2 0 4
Rick MacLeish 19 C 0 1 1 0 1 3
Jimmy Watson 20 D 0 0 0 0 2 2
Kevin McCarthy 25 D 0 1 1 0 3 2
Orest Kindrachuk 26 C 0 0 0 0 1 2
Reggie Leach 27 RW 2 1 3 0 3 4
Barry Dean 29 LW 0 1 1 0 0 1
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)1841
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)1841
Shots: NYR: 8- 8- 8-24 PHI: 13- 8-20-41 Goalies: NYR: Wayne Thomas (L, 5-7-3) PHI: Bernie Parent (W, 10-1-3) Referee: Wally Harris Linesmen: Willard Norris, Matt Pavelich Attendance: 17,077



Team123F
Los Angeles Kings (13-8-5) 1 1 3 5
Pittsburgh Penguins (8-12-6) 1 1 1 3

1: LA ,Glenn Goldup 3 (Mike Murphy, Dave Hutchison), 15:45
PIT,Dave Burrows 2 (Gene Carr, Jean Pronovost), 16:17
2: LA ,Don Kozak 5 (Syl Apps, Ernie Hicke), 6:21
PIT,Wayne Bianchin 3 (Mike Corrigan, Gene Carr), 14:37
3: LA ,Syl Apps 8 (Dave Hutchison), 4:53
LA ,Ernie Hicke 7, 11:11
LA ,Don Kozak 6 (Syl Apps, Ernie Hicke), 12:03
PIT,Pete Mahovlich 10 (Jean Pronovost, Tom Edur), 12:14
Penalties:

1: Dave Burrows, PIT [Holding] 7:17
Gary Sargent, LA [Tripping] 8:20
Jean Pronovost, PIT [Interference] 10:05
Bert Wilson, LA [Hi-sticking] 17:02
Russ Anderson, PIT [Hi-sticking] 17:02
Neil Komadoski, LA [Slashing] 17:02
2: none
3: none
Penalty time: LA : 6 minutes PIT: 6 minutes
LA Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Randy Manery 2 D 0 0 0 0 3 3
Larry Brown 3 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Dave Hutchison 4 D 0 2 2 0 5 2
Bob Murdoch 5 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Mike Murphy 7 RW 0 1 1 0 1 2
Bert Wilson 8 LW 0 0 0 2 -3 2
Ernie Hicke 9 LW 1 2 3 0 4 2
Vic Venasky 10 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pete Stemkowski 11 C 0 0 0 0 -3 3
Hartland Monahan 12 RW 0 0 0 0 -3 1
Syl Apps 14 C 1 2 3 0 4 1
Butch Goring 19 C 0 0 0 0 1 4
Glenn Goldup 21 RW 1 0 1 0 1 4
Gary Sargent 22 D 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Neil Komadoski 23 D 0 0 0 2 0 1
Don Kozak 24 RW 2 0 2 0 4 3
Rogie Vachon 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)1030
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)1030

PIT Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Tom Edur 2 D 0 1 1 0 0 3
Dave Burrows 4 D 1 0 1 2 -3 2
Russ Anderson 7 D 0 0 0 2 1 0
Dave Schultz 8 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blair Chapman 9 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Peter Lee 10 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Greg Malone 12 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Wayne Bianchin 14 RW 1 0 1 0 -1 1
Rick Kehoe 17 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Lowell MacDonald 18 LW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Jean Pronovost 19 RW 0 2 2 2 0 0
Brian Spencer 22 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Bob Paradise 24 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Tom Price 25 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pete Mahovlich 26 C 1 0 1 0 0 5
Mike Corrigan 27 LW 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Gene Carr 28 C 0 2 2 0 0 1
Dunc Wilson 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1027
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1027
Shots: LA : 7-12-11-30 PIT: 12- 9- 6-27 Goalies: LA : Rogie Vachon (W, 11-5-4) PIT: Dunc Wilson (L, 3-6-2) Referee: Bruce Hood Linesmen: Ron Finn, Gordon Broseker Attendance: 9,117



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