NHL game summary from December 23, 1978

Team	1	2	3	F
New York Rangers (18-11-4)	1	1	2	4
New York Islanders (21-4-7)	1	7	1	9

1: NYI, Bryan Trottier 20 (Gerry Hart), 13:40
   NYR, Ron Greschner 12 (Pierre Plante, Dave Farrish), 15:09
2: NYI, Mike Bossy 24 (Bryan Trottier), 1:11 - PP
   NYI, Bryan Trottier 21 (Clark Gillies, Mike Bossy), 3:41
   NYI, Garry Howatt 8 (Bryan Trottier, Gerry Hart), 5:08
   NYI, Stefan Persson 6 (Garry Howatt, Ed Westfall), 8:59
   NYI, Mike Bossy 25 (Bryan Trottier, Clark Gillies), 11:21
   NYR, Ron Greschner 13 (Pierre Plante, Nick Fotiu), 13:13
   NYI, Bryan Trottier 22 (Clark Gillies, Mike Bossy), 18:39
   NYI, Bryan Trottier 23 (Stefan Persson, Clark Gillies), 19:44 - PP
3: NYI, Bryan Trottier 24 (Mike Bossy, Denis Potvin), 7:38 - PP
   NYR, Mike McEwen 9 (Pierre Plante, Walt Tkaczuk), 11:20
   NYR, Anders Hedberg 12 (Ulf Nilsson, Pat Hickey), 17:05

Penalties:

1: Mike Kaszycki, NYI [Hi-sticking] 4:22
   Dave Farrish, NYR [Hooking] 9:27
2: Ron Duguay, NYR [Hooking] 1:08
   Stefan Persson, NYI [Holding] 14:22
   Nick Fotiu, NYR [Tripping] 19:06
3: Mike McEwen, NYR [Hooking] 3:43
   Pat Price, NYI [Fighting] 6:53
   Garry Howatt, NYI [Fighting] 6:53
   Ron Duguay, NYR [Fighting] 6:53
   Mario Marois, NYR [Fighting, Misconduct, Game misconduct] 6:53
   Nick Fotiu, NYR [Roughing, Game misconduct] 6:53

Penalty time: NYR: 50 minutes
              NYI: 14 minutes

NYR Player Data	#	Pos	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Wayne Thomas	1	G	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Farrish	3	D	0	1	1	2	-2	2
Ron Greschner	4	D	2	0	2	0	0	4
Carol Vadnais	5	D	0	0	0	0	0	1
Steve Vickers	8	LW	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Duguay	10	C	0	0	0	7	-3	3
Ulf Nilsson	11	C	0	1	1	0	1	2
Anders Hedberg	15	RW	1	0	1	0	1	4
Pat Hickey	16	LW	0	1	1	0	1	2
Walt Tkaczuk	18	C	0	1	1	0	0	1
Dean Talafous	19	C	0	0	0	0	-3	0
Nick Fotiu	22	LW	0	1	1	14	0	1
Lucien DeBlois	23	C	0	0	0	0	-2	2
Pierre Plante	24	RW	0	3	3	0	1	1
Mario Marois	25	D	0	0	0	25	-2	2
Dave Maloney	26	D	0	0	0	0	1	0
Mike McEwen	27	D	1	0	1	2	-1	4
John Davidson	30	G	0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Esposito	77	C	0	0	0	0	-2	2
TOTAL (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)							-10	31

NYI Player Data	#	Pos	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Gerry Hart	2	D	0	2	2	0	2	2
Pat Price	3	D	0	0	0	5	-1	1
Denis Potvin	5	D	0	1	1	0	-1	3
Bert Marshall	6	D	0	0	0	0	0	1
Stefan Persson	7	D	1	1	2	2	3	2
Garry Howatt	8	LW	1	1	2	5	3	2
Clark Gillies	9	LW	0	4	4	0	3	2
Wayne Merrick	11	C	0	0	0	0	-2	1
Bob Bourne	14	C	0	0	0	0	-2	2
Billy Harris	15	RW	0	0	0	0	-1	1
Ed Westfall	18	RW	0	1	1	0	2	0
Bryan Trottier	19	C	5	3	8	0	6	8
Mike Kaszycki	21	C	0	0	0	2	-1	0
Mike Bossy	22	RW	2	3	5	0	3	8
Bob Nystrom	23	RW	0	0	0	0	-3	2
Dave Lewis	25	D	0	0	0	0	1	0
John Tonelli	27	LW	0	0	0	0	-2	1
Billy Smith	31	G	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)							10	36


Shots: NYR:  7-14-10-31
       NYI:  7-16-13-36

Goalies: NYR: Wayne Thomas (L, 8-6-1), John Davidson
         NYI: Billy Smith (W, 10-3-1)

Referee: Bruce Hood
Linesmen: Matt Pavelich, Willard Norris

Attendance: 14,995

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