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All NHL game summaries from December 31, 1977



Team123F
Boston Bruins (23-7-6) 4 1 2 7
Detroit Red Wings (11-18-5) 0 0 0 0

1: BOS,Peter McNab 15 (Brad Park, Ron Grahame), 4:04 - PP
BOS,Bobby Schmautz 18 (Rick Smith), 8:06
BOS,Bob Miller 8, 18:44
BOS,Bob Miller 9 (Don Marcotte, Terry O'Reilly), 19:29
2: BOS,Peter McNab 16 (John Wensink, Mike Milbury), 5:47
3: BOS,Bob Miller 10 (Don Marcotte, Rick Middleton), 8:06
BOS,John Wensink 6 (Gary Doak, Wayne Cashman), 15:02
Penalties:

1: Terry Harper, DET [Hooking] 2:08
Terry O'Reilly, BOS [Elbowing] 12:28
Larry Giroux, DET [Interference] 16:42
2: Rick Smith, BOS [Holding] 2:14
Mike Milbury, BOS [Tripping] 16:06
3: Stan Jonathan, BOS [Tripping] 10:40
Penalty time: BOS: 8 minutes DET: 4 minutes
BOS Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Peter McNab 8 C 2 0 2 0 2 2
Johnny Bucyk 9 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jean Ratelle 10 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bobby Schmautz 11 RW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Wayne Cashman 12 LW 0 1 1 0 2 1
Bob Miller 14 C 3 0 3 0 4 6
Rick Middleton 16 RW 0 1 1 0 1 0
Stan Jonathan 17 LW 0 0 0 2 0 2
John Wensink 18 LW 1 1 2 0 2 3
Don Marcotte 21 LW 0 2 2 0 4 2
Brad Park 22 D 0 1 1 0 2 4
Rick Smith 23 D 0 1 1 2 4 2
Terry O'Reilly 24 RW 0 1 1 2 2 2
Gary Doak 25 D 0 1 1 0 4 1
Mike Milbury 26 D 0 1 1 2 2 0
Doug Halward 29 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ron Grahame 31 G 0 1 1 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)3028
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)3028

DET Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Terry Harper 2 D 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Perry Miller 3 D 0 0 0 0 -2 3
Larry Giroux 4 D 0 0 0 2 -4 1
Dan Maloney 7 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Dennis Polonich 8 C 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Dale McCourt 10 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Nick Libett 14 LW 0 0 0 0 -3 0
Paul Woods 15 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Andre St. Laurent 16 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Dennis Hull 19 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Danny Grant 21 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Dennis Hextall 22 C 0 0 0 0 -3 1
Bill Lochead 23 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Greg Joly 24 D 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Larry Wright 25 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Al Cameron 26 D 0 0 0 0 -4 0
Tim Sheehy 29 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Ron Low 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-3016
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-3016
Shots: BOS: 11- 7-10-28 DET: 5- 3- 8-16 Goalies: BOS: Ron Grahame (W, 7-2-3) DET: Ron Low (L, 6-5-3) Referee: Bruce Hood Linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Don Koharski Attendance: 15,227



Team123F
Montreal Canadiens (25-7-4) 0 3 1 4
New York Islanders (20-9-8) 1 1 0 2

1: NYI,Mike Bossy 25 (Bryan Trottier, Clark Gillies), 8:54
2: MTL,Pierre Larouche 12 (Yvon Lambert, Guy Lafleur), :26 - PP
NYI,Bryan Trottier 28 (J.P. Parise, Gerry Hart), 5:54
MTL,Yvan Cournoyer 12 (Doug Risebrough, Pierre Mondou), 8:12
MTL,Guy Lafleur 27 (Jacques Lemaire, Serge Savard), 9:22
3: MTL,Rejean Houle 8 (Jacques Lemaire), 16:36
Penalties:

1: Rejean Houle, MTL [Hooking] 0:33
Gerry Hart, NYI [Cross checking] 6:10
Gilles Lupien, MTL [Holding] 10:45
Jean Potvin, NYI [Elbowing] 19:35
2: Bob Bourne, NYI [Holding] 2:31
Larry Robinson, MTL [Cross checking] 10:55
Brian Engblom, MTL [Holding] 19:54
3: none
Penalty time: MTL: 8 minutes NYI: 6 minutes
MTL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Brian Engblom 3 D 0 0 0 2 0 0
Pierre Mondou 6 C 0 1 1 0 1 3
Doug Risebrough 8 C 0 1 1 0 1 0
Guy Lafleur 10 RW 1 1 2 0 1 3
Yvon Lambert 11 LW 0 1 1 0 -1 0
Yvan Cournoyer 12 RW 1 0 1 0 0 2
Rejean Houle 15 LW 1 0 1 2 0 2
Serge Savard 18 D 0 1 1 0 0 0
Larry Robinson 19 D 0 0 0 2 0 1
Doug Jarvis 21 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Steve Shutt 22 LW 0 0 0 0 1 0
Bob Gainey 23 LW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Gilles Lupien 24 D 0 0 0 2 1 0
Jacques Lemaire 25 C 0 2 2 0 2 3
Pierre Bouchard 26 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rick Chartraw 27 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
Pierre Larouche 28 C 1 0 1 0 -1 1
Ken Dryden 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)519
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)519

NYI Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Glenn Resch 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gerry Hart 2 D 0 1 1 2 0 0
Jean Potvin 4 D 0 0 0 2 -2 1
Denis Potvin 5 D 0 0 0 0 -1 5
Bert Marshall 6 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stefan Persson 7 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Garry Howatt 8 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Clark Gillies 9 LW 0 1 1 0 0 5
Lorne Henning 10 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
J.P. Parise 12 LW 0 1 1 0 1 2
Bob Bourne 14 C 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Billy Harris 15 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jude Drouin 17 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ed Westfall 18 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Bryan Trottier 19 C 1 1 2 0 1 3
Mike Bossy 22 RW 1 0 1 0 0 6
Bob Nystrom 23 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Dave Lewis 25 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-529
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-529
Shots: MTL: 3-14- 2-19 NYI: 11- 9- 9-29 Goalies: MTL: Ken Dryden (W, 17-5-2) NYI: Glenn Resch (L, 9-6-2) Referee: Andy van Hellemond Linesmen: Ron Finn, Leon Stickle Attendance: 15,317



Team123F
Buffalo Sabres (21-7-7) 1 1 0 2
New York Rangers (12-16-9) 0 2 0 2

1: BUF,Andre Savard 6 (Rick Martin, Bill Hajt), 2:10
2: NYR,Lucien DeBlois 15 (Carol Vadnais, Ron Duguay), 9:32
BUF,Gilbert Perreault 25 (Lee Fogolin), 15:26
NYR,Pat Hickey 19 (Carol Vadnais, Phil Esposito), 16:53
3: no scoring
Penalties:

1: Don Awrey, NYR [Tripping] 17:06
2: Danny Gare, BUF [Hi-sticking] 8:26
Dallas Smith, NYR [Hi-sticking] 8:26
Richie Dunn, BUF [Roughing] 15:09
Don Murdoch, NYR [Roughing] 15:09
3: Andre Savard, BUF [Hooking] 17:31
Penalty time: BUF: 6 minutes NYR: 6 minutes
BUF Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Don Edwards 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Stewart 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jerry Korab 4 D 0 0 0 0 1 4
Lee Fogolin 5 D 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Rick Martin 7 LW 0 1 1 0 0 5
Jim Lorentz 8 C 0 0 0 0 1 2
Craig Ramsay 10 LW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Gilbert Perreault 11 C 1 0 1 0 0 2
Andre Savard 12 C 1 0 1 2 0 4
Gary McAdam 15 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Ric Seiling 16 RW 0 0 0 0 1 1
Fred Stanfield 17 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Danny Gare 18 RW 0 0 0 2 0 6
Derek Smith 19 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Don Luce 20 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ron Schock 21 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Hajt 24 D 0 1 1 0 0 1
Richie Dunn 29 D 0 0 0 2 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)135
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)135

NYR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Wayne Thomas 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carol Vadnais 5 D 0 2 2 0 1 2
Don Awrey 6 D 0 0 0 2 1 4
Steve Vickers 8 LW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Wayne Dillon 9 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ron Duguay 10 C 0 1 1 0 0 2
Don Murdoch 14 RW 0 0 0 2 0 2
Dallas Smith 15 D 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Pat Hickey 16 LW 1 0 1 0 0 3
Ed Johnstone 17 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Walt Tkaczuk 18 C 0 0 0 0 0 6
Greg Polis 20 RW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Nick Fotiu 22 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Lucien DeBlois 23 C 1 0 1 0 0 1
Dan Newman 24 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mike McEwen 27 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Phil Esposito 77 C 0 1 1 0 0 2
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 4 defensemen)-136
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 4 defensemen)-136
Shots: BUF: 14-12- 9-35 NYR: 10-15-11-36 Goalies: BUF: Don Edwards (T, 21-6-7) NYR: Wayne Thomas (T, 5-10-6) Referee: Bob Myers Linesmen: Kevin Collins, Gerard Gauthier Attendance: 17,500



Team123F
Cleveland Barons (10-23-4) 1 2 0 3
Pittsburgh Penguins (11-17-8) 0 4 2 6

1: CLE,Rick Hampton 8 (Rick Shinske), 19:56
2: PIT,Gene Carr 10 (Rick Kehoe, Russ Anderson), :44
PIT,Wayne Bianchin 7 (Blair Chapman, Colin Campbell), 3:29
CLE,Fred Ahern 3 (Dave Gardner), 5:07
CLE,Walt McKechnie 5 (Bob Stewart, Al MacAdam), 6:48
PIT,Pete Mahovlich 14 (Jean Pronovost), 10:35
PIT,Wayne Bianchin 8 (Greg Malone, Dave Burrows), 19:22
3: PIT,Wayne Bianchin 9 (Greg Malone, Tom Edur), 17:55 - PP
PIT,Rick Kehoe 12 (Pete Mahovlich, Dave Schultz), 19:37
Penalties:

1: Gene Carr, PIT [Slashing] 0:57
Walt McKechnie, CLE [Tripping] 1:37
Dave Schultz, PIT [Holding] 14:22
Dave Burrows, PIT [Interference] 16:52
2: none
3: Darcy Regier, CLE [Hooking] 16:46
Penalty time: CLE: 4 minutes PIT: 6 minutes
CLE Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gary Edwards 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rick Hampton 2 D 1 0 1 0 0 4
Mike Christie 3 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Bob Stewart 4 D 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Greg Smith 5 D 0 0 0 0 -1 7
Darcy Regier 6 D 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Dave Gardner 7 C 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Walt McKechnie 8 C 1 0 1 2 1 3
Ralph Klassen 10 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Mike Fidler 12 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 4
Fred Ahern 16 RW 1 0 1 0 -1 2
Bob Murdoch 20 RW 0 0 0 0 1 3
Dennis Maruk 21 C 0 0 0 0 -2 4
Rick Shinske 22 C 0 1 1 0 0 2
Ken Kuzyk 23 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Kris Manery 24 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Al MacAdam 25 RW 0 1 1 0 1 3
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1040
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1040

PIT Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Denis Herron 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tom Edur 2 D 0 1 1 0 1 0
Dave Burrows 4 D 0 1 1 2 1 2
Colin Campbell 6 D 0 1 1 0 0 0
Russ Anderson 7 D 0 1 1 0 1 3
Dave Schultz 8 LW 0 1 1 2 0 3
Blair Chapman 9 RW 0 1 1 0 1 0
Peter Lee 10 RW 0 0 0 0 1 1
Greg Malone 12 C 0 2 2 0 2 4
Wayne Bianchin 14 RW 3 0 3 0 2 6
Rick Kehoe 17 RW 1 1 2 0 0 6
Jean Pronovost 19 RW 0 1 1 0 0 2
Brian Spencer 22 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Jim Hamilton 23 RW 0 0 0 0 1 4
Bob Paradise 24 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
Pete Mahovlich 26 C 1 1 2 0 1 3
Gene Carr 28 C 1 0 1 2 -1 1
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)1035
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)1035
Shots: CLE: 19-13- 8-40 PIT: 5-15-15-35 Goalies: CLE: Gary Edwards (L, 3-9-3) PIT: Denis Herron (W, 8-11-6) Referee: Bob Kilger Linesmen: Swede Knox, Gordon Broseker Attendance: 7,237



Team123F
Philadelphia Flyers (24-7-4) 0 0 2 2
St. Louis Blues (8-24-4) 0 2 1 3

1: no scoring
2: STL,Brian Ogilvie 5 (Red Berenson, Bernie Federko), 9:03 - PP
STL,Curt Bennett 4, 17:10
3: PHI,Rick MacLeish 13 (Paul Holmgren, Andre Dupont), 1:22
STL,Jimmy Roberts 3 (Bob Hess, Larry Patey), 7:54
PHI,Rick Lapointe 2 (Bill Barber, Rick MacLeish), 13:29
Penalties:

1: Garry Unger, STL [Tripping] 20:00
2: Paul Holmgren, PHI [Charging] 2:45
Bob Dailey, PHI [Tripping] 7:39
Dave Hoyda, PHI [Cross checking] 10:06
Dave Hoyda, PHI [Roughing] 15:01
Curt Bennett, STL [Roughing] 15:01
3: none
Penalty time: PHI: 8 minutes STL: 4 minutes
PHI Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Bernie Parent 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bob Dailey 2 D 0 0 0 2 -1 5
Tom Bladon 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 2
Rick Lapointe 5 D 1 0 1 0 0 1
Andre Dupont 6 D 0 1 1 0 1 0
Bill Barber 7 LW 0 1 1 0 0 3
Dave Hoyda 8 LW 0 0 0 4 -1 0
Bob Kelly 9 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mel Bridgman 10 C 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Don Saleski 11 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bobby Clarke 16 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Paul Holmgren 17 RW 0 1 1 2 0 2
Ross Lonsberry 18 LW 0 0 0 0 1 0
Rick MacLeish 19 C 1 1 2 0 2 6
Frank Bathe 21 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kevin McCarthy 25 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Orest Kindrachuk 26 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Reggie Leach 27 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)031
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)031

STL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Bruce Affleck 4 D 0 0 0 0 1 3
Bob Plager 5 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Larry Patey 6 C 0 1 1 0 0 0
Garry Unger 7 C 0 0 0 2 0 2
Red Berenson 9 C 0 1 1 0 0 1
Brian Sutter 11 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Bill Fairbairn 14 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rod Seiling 16 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Inge Hammarstrom 17 LW 0 0 0 0 0 4
Curt Bennett 19 RW 1 0 1 2 1 3
Barry Gibbs 22 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Bob Hess 23 D 0 1 1 0 0 3
Bernie Federko 24 C 0 1 1 0 0 1
Brian Ogilvie 25 C 1 0 1 0 0 3
Jimmy Roberts 26 D 1 0 1 0 0 1
Phil Myre 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (9 forwards, 6 defensemen)024
TOTAL   (9 forwards, 6 defensemen)024
Shots: PHI: 9- 8-14-31 STL: 6-15- 3-24 Goalies: PHI: Bernie Parent (L, 14-2-3) STL: Phil Myre (W, 4-12-1) Referee: John McCauley Linesmen: Ray Scapinello, Bob Luther Attendance: 10,344



Team123F
Atlanta Flames (12-14-10) 0 2 1 3
Toronto Maple Leafs (21-10-4) 0 0 0 0

1: no scoring
2: ATL,Ken Houston 5 (Harold Phillipoff, Richard Mulhern), 10:47
ATL,Dick Redmond 6 (Eric Vail, Tom Lysiak), 17:38 - PP
3: ATL,Pat Ribble 5 (Tom Lysiak, Bob MacMillan), 16:43
Penalties:

1: John Gould, ATL [Hi-sticking] 5:26
Pat Boutette, TOR [Hi-sticking] 5:26
Bob MacMillan, ATL [Hooking] 14:57
Pat Boutette, TOR [Hooking] 19:25
2: Rey Comeau, ATL [Tripping] 7:25
Bobby Lalonde, ATL [Cross checking] 13:59
Bobby Lalonde, ATL [Interference] 16:33
Borje Salming, TOR [Hooking] 16:48
George Ferguson, TOR [Slashing] 17:26
3: none
Penalty time: ATL: 10 minutes TOR: 8 minutes
ATL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Pat Ribble 3 D 1 0 1 0 1 1
Richard Mulhern 4 D 0 1 1 0 1 1
Dick Redmond 5 D 1 0 1 0 1 1
Ken Houston 6 RW 1 0 1 0 1 1
Bobby Lalonde 7 C 0 0 0 4 1 0
Dave Shand 8 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Bill Clement 10 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bob MacMillan 11 RW 0 1 1 2 1 3
Tom Lysiak 12 C 0 2 2 0 1 2
Rey Comeau 18 C 0 0 0 2 0 0
Ed Kea 19 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
John Gould 21 RW 0 0 0 2 0 3
Bobby Simpson 22 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Miles Zaharko 23 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Harold Phillipoff 24 LW 0 1 1 0 1 1
Willi Plett 25 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Eric Vail 27 LW 0 1 1 0 1 1
Yves Belanger 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)1020
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)1020

TOR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gord McRae 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trevor Johansen 4 D 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Ron Ellis 6 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Lanny McDonald 7 RW 0 0 0 0 0 4
Jack Valiquette 8 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
George Ferguson 10 C 0 0 0 2 0 0
Errol Thompson 12 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Pat Boutette 15 LW 0 0 0 4 0 0
Jimmy Jones 16 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jerry Butler 17 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bruce Boudreau 19 C 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Mike Pelyk 20 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Borje Salming 21 D 0 0 0 2 -1 4
Dave "Tiger" Williams 22 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Randy Carlyle 23 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Brian Glennie 24 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Darryl Sittler 27 C 0 0 0 0 0 3
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1023
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1023
Shots: ATL: 4- 8- 8-20 TOR: 4- 6-13-23 Goalies: ATL: Yves Belanger (W, 2-3-0) TOR: Gord McRae (L, 3-2-0) Referee: Bryan Lewis Linesmen: John D'Amico, Bob Hodges Attendance: 16,485



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