NHL game summary from December 6, 1978

Team	1	2	3	F
St. Louis Blues (6-17-4)	1	2	1	4
New York Rangers (14-6-4)	3	3	1	7

1: NYR, Phil Esposito 11 (Steve Vickers, Lucien DeBlois), 2:55
   STL, Bernie Federko 12 (Wayne Babych, Bob Stewart), 5:41
   NYR, Phil Esposito 12 (Steve Vickers, Mike McEwen), 8:24
   NYR, Steve Vickers 7 (Carol Vadnais, Lucien DeBlois), 14:16
2: NYR, Pat Hickey 11 (Anders Hedberg), :32
   NYR, Anders Hedberg 10 (Ulf Nilsson, Mike McEwen), 3:54
   STL, Jack Brownschidle 1 (Inge Hammarstrom), 5:59
   STL, Inge Hammarstrom 2 (Bruce Affleck, Curt Bennett), 11:36
   NYR, Ron Duguay 7 (Walt Tkaczuk, Carol Vadnais), 19:31 - SH
3: NYR, Walt Tkaczuk 3, 4:03
   STL, Curt Bennett 7 (Bernie Federko, Larry Patey), 18:56 - PP

Penalties:

1: Ron Greschner, NYR [Hooking] 7:09
   Garry Unger, STL [Slashing] 7:09
   Dave Maloney, NYR [Roughing] 9:16
   Bob Murdoch, STL [Hooking] 17:25
2: Dave Farrish, NYR [Hooking] 18:13
3: Larry Giroux, STL [Slashing] 1:43
   Lucien DeBlois, NYR [Slashing] 15:53
   Bench penalty, NYR [Too many men on the ice] 17:11
   Ron Greschner, NYR [Slashing] 18:41

Penalty time: STL: 6 minutes
              NYR: 12 minutes

STL Player Data	#	Pos	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Phil Myre	1	G	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Stewart	2	D	0	1	1	0	-2	0
Bruce Affleck	4	D	0	1	1	0	0	2
Larry Giroux	5	D	0	0	0	2	1	1
Larry Patey	6	C	0	1	1	0	0	3
Garry Unger	7	C	0	0	0	2	-2	3
Wayne Babych	10	RW	0	1	1	0	-3	3
Brian Sutter	11	LW	0	0	0	0	-3	2
Rick Bowness	12	RW	0	0	0	0	-1	0
Jack Brownschidle	16	D	1	0	1	0	-2	2
Inge Hammarstrom	17	LW	1	1	2	0	2	1
Harvey Bennett	18	C	0	0	0	0	0	0
Curt Bennett	19	RW	1	1	2	0	-1	4
Barry Gibbs	22	D	0	0	0	0	-4	0
Bernie Federko	24	C	1	1	2	0	-2	1
Bob Murdoch	25	RW	0	0	0	2	-1	3
Doug Palazzari	27	C	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Smrke	33	LW	0	0	0	0	-1	1
TOTAL (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)							-19	26

NYR Player Data	#	Pos	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Dave Farrish	3	D	0	0	0	2	0	0
Ron Greschner	4	D	0	0	0	4	0	3
Carol Vadnais	5	D	0	2	2	0	1	3
Mike Korney	6	D	0	0	0	0	-1	1
Steve Vickers	8	LW	1	2	3	0	2	2
Ron Duguay	10	C	1	0	1	0	1	2
Ulf Nilsson	11	C	0	1	1	0	2	2
Anders Hedberg	15	RW	1	1	2	0	2	3
Pat Hickey	16	LW	1	0	1	0	2	4
Walt Tkaczuk	18	C	1	1	2	0	1	1
Dean Talafous	19	C	0	0	0	0	-1	1
Lucien DeBlois	23	C	0	2	2	2	1	2
Pierre Plante	24	RW	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mario Marois	25	D	0	0	0	0	3	2
Dave Maloney	26	D	0	0	0	2	0	1
Mike McEwen	27	D	0	2	2	0	4	2
Doug Soetaert	33	G	0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Esposito	77	C	2	0	2	0	1	4
TOTAL (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)							18	33


Shots: STL:  6- 9-11-26
       NYR: 12-10-11-33

Goalies: STL: Phil Myre (L, 3-10-3)
         NYR: Doug Soetaert (W, 2-0-1)

Referee: Bob Kilger
Linesmen: Gerard Gauthier, Bob Hodges

Attendance: 16,497

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