All WHA game summaries from May 5, 1978

Team	1	2	3	F
New England Whalers (51-33-5)	4	2	1	7
Quebec Nordiques (45-42-3)	2	0	1	3
New England Whalers lead, 3 games to 1 (best of 7)

1:	NE ,	Alan Hangsleben 1 (Gordie Howe), 6:18
	QUE,	Marc Tardif 6 (J.C. Tremblay, Serge Bernier), 8:34
	QUE,	Real Cloutier 9 (Serge Bernier, Marc Tardif), 10:03
	NE ,	Dave Keon 4 (Brad Selwood, Mike Antonovich), 12:38
	NE ,	Mark Howe 4 (Alan Hangsleben, Gordie Howe), 16:21
	NE ,	Dave Keon 5 (Brad Selwood), 18:04
2:	NE ,	Mike Rogers 5 (Larry Pleau), 6:27
	NE ,	Mike Antonovich 8 (Dave Keon, Gordie Roberts), 15:23
3:	NE ,	Larry Pleau 4 (Mike Rogers, Dan Bolduc), :57
	QUE,	Alain Cote 1 (Garry Lariviere, Real Cloutier), 14:43

Penalties:

1:	Curt Brackenbury, QUE 4:27
	Gordie Roberts, NE 8:15
	Alan Hangsleben, NE 9:30
	Alan Hangsleben, NE 11:55
	Steve Sutherland, QUE 11:55
2:	Curt Brackenbury, QUE 7:55
	Alan Hangsleben, NE 11:11
	John McKenzie, NE 15:23
	Mike Antonovich, NE 15:23
	Paul Baxter, QUE [match penalty] 15:23
3:	Steve Carlson, NE 14:16

Penalty time: NE : 14 minutes QUE: 16 minutes

NE Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Dave Keon	2	1	3	0	0	0
Alan Hangsleben	1	1	2	6	0	0
Mike Antonovich	1	1	2	2	0	0
Mike Rogers	1	1	2	0	0	0
Larry Pleau	1	1	2	0	0	0
Gordie Howe	0	2	2	0	0	0
Brad Selwood	0	2	2	0	0	0
Mark Howe	1	0	1	0	0	0
Gordie Roberts	0	1	1	2	0	0
Dan Bolduc	0	1	1	0	0	0
John McKenzie	0	0	0	2	0	0
Steve Carlson	0	0	0	2	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

QUE Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Marc Tardif	1	1	2	0	0	0
Real Cloutier	1	1	2	0	0	0
Serge Bernier	0	2	2	0	0	0
Alain Cote	1	0	1	0	0	0
Garry Lariviere	0	1	1	0	0	0
J.C. Tremblay	0	1	1	0	0	0
Paul Baxter	0	0	0	10	0	0
Curt Brackenbury	0	0	0	4	0	0
Steve Sutherland	0	0	0	2	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

Shots: NE : 16-10-13-39 QUE: 8- 6- 8-22 Goalies: NE : Louis Levasseur (W, 6-2-0) QUE: Richard Brodeur (L, 5-3-0) Attendance: 11,751