Wednesday March 7, 1979
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All NHL game summaries from March 7, 1979



Team123F
Detroit Red Wings (15-35-14) 0 1 0 1
Minnesota North Stars (24-29-11) 1 3 1 5

1: MIN,Kris Manery 12 (Mike Fidler, Glen Sharpley), 16:09
2: MIN,Al MacAdam 18, 3:25
MIN,Steve Payne 13 (Bobby Smith, Bryan Maxwell), 11:35
MIN,Steve Payne 14 (Bobby Smith, Bryan Maxwell), 11:45
DET,Bill Hogaboam 4 (Dan Bolduc, Paul Woods), 17:38
3: MIN,Al MacAdam 19 (Bobby Smith), 13:03
Penalties:

1: Tim Young, MIN [Hi-sticking] 4:54
Jean Hamel, DET [Holding] 11:18
Brad Maxwell, MIN [Holding] 19:03
2: Fred Barrett, MIN [Holding] 9:19
3: Dennis Polonich, DET [Slashing] 4:55
Greg Smith, MIN [Slashing] 4:55
Dennis Polonich, DET [Fighting] 6:55
Greg Smith, MIN [Fighting] 6:55
Andre St. Laurent, DET [Elbowing] 7:28
Brad Maxwell, MIN [Roughing] 7:28
Reed Larson, DET [Holding] 8:19
Andre St. Laurent, DET [Fighting] 9:28
Brad Maxwell, MIN [Fighting] 9:28
Fred Barrett, MIN [Elbowing] 10:36
Andre St. Laurent, DET [Slashing] 17:54
Tim Young, MIN [Slashing] 17:54
Penalty time: DET: 20 minutes MIN: 24 minutes
DET Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jim Rutherford 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Terry Harper 2 D 0 0 0 0 -5 1
Perry Miller 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jean Hamel 5 D 0 0 0 2 -3 1
Willie Huber 7 D 0 0 0 0 0 5
Dennis Polonich 8 C 0 0 0 7 -2 1
Dale McCourt 10 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Errol Thompson 12 LW 0 0 0 0 -3 3
Paul Woods 15 C 0 1 1 0 0 1
Andre St. Laurent 16 C 0 0 0 9 -2 1
Dan Bolduc 19 RW 0 1 1 0 0 6
Vaclav Nedomansky 20 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Dan Labraaten 21 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bill Hogaboam 22 C 1 0 1 0 -1 3
Greg Joly 24 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Greg Carroll 25 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Reed Larson 28 D 0 0 0 2 0 6
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)-2035
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)-2035

MIN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Bill Butters 2 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
Fred Barrett 3 D 0 0 0 4 0 1
Brad Maxwell 5 D 0 0 0 9 1 2
Glen Sharpley 7 C 0 1 1 0 1 2
Mike Fidler 12 LW 0 1 1 0 0 3
Per-Olov Brasar 14 C 0 0 0 0 0 3
Bobby Smith 15 C 0 3 3 0 4 0
Mike Polich 16 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Tim Young 17 C 0 0 0 4 0 1
Bryan Maxwell 20 D 0 2 2 0 2 1
Gary Sargent 22 D 0 0 0 0 2 2
Greg Smith 23 D 0 0 0 7 2 1
Kris Manery 24 RW 1 0 1 0 1 4
Al MacAdam 25 RW 2 0 2 0 4 2
Steve Payne 26 LW 2 0 2 0 4 7
Gilles Meloche 27 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jim Roberts 28 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Tom Younghans 29 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)2031
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)2031
Shots: DET: 10-12-13-35 MIN: 10-11-10-31 Goalies: DET: Jim Rutherford (L, 5-10-3) MIN: Gilles Meloche (W, 18-17-6) Referee: Bruce Hood Linesmen: Bob Luther, Jim Christison Attendance: 13,234



Team123F
Colorado Rockies (13-46-8) 0 2 1 3
New York Rangers (35-21-8) 4 0 1 5

1: NYR,Pierre Plante 6 (Dave Maloney), 1:22
NYR,Pat Hickey 27 (Mike McEwen, Lucien DeBlois), 9:59
NYR,Walt Tkaczuk 9 (Steve Vickers, Anders Hedberg), 10:13
NYR,Dean Talafous 13 (Pierre Plante, Mike McEwen), 16:05 - SH
2: COL,Randy Pierce 14, 12:03 - SH
COL,Don Saleski 12 (Rey Comeau, Mike Gillis), 18:53
3: COL,John Van Boxmeer 7 (Wilf Paiement, Paul Gardner), 10:00 - PP
NYR,Phil Esposito 34 (Don Murdoch, Don Maloney), 12:50 - PP
Penalties:

1: Dave Maloney, NYR [Hi-sticking] 5:22
Dave Farrish, NYR [Tripping] 14:33
Mike Kitchen, COL [Holding] 18:32
2: Bill Lochead, COL [Tripping] 10:05
Wilf Paiement, COL [Hi-sticking] 14:16
Dave Maloney, NYR [Hi-sticking] 14:16
3: Mario Marois, NYR [Holding] 8:03
Pierre Plante, NYR [Hooking] 8:36
Bill Lochead, COL [Interference] 12:02
Penalty time: COL: 8 minutes NYR: 10 minutes
COL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Nick Beverley 2 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mike Christie 3 D 0 0 0 0 -1 2
John Van Boxmeer 4 D 1 0 1 0 -1 6
Michel Lachance 6 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Randy Pierce 7 RW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Don Saleski 8 RW 1 0 1 0 0 5
Wilf Paiement 9 RW 0 1 1 2 -1 1
Bill Lochead 11 LW 0 0 0 4 -1 1
Mike Gillis 14 LW 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Jack Valiquette 15 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Rey Comeau 17 C 0 1 1 0 0 0
Gary Croteau 18 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Don Awrey 19 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Paul Gardner 21 C 0 1 1 0 -2 0
Merlin Malinowski 23 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Mike Kitchen 26 D 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Ron Delorme 27 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Bill Oleschuk 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Michel Plasse 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1126
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1126

NYR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Wayne Thomas 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Andre Dore 2 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
Dave Farrish 3 D 0 0 0 2 -2 3
Steve Vickers 8 LW 0 1 1 0 0 3
Ron Duguay 10 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Don Maloney 12 LW 0 1 1 0 0 1
Don Murdoch 14 RW 0 1 1 0 1 5
Anders Hedberg 15 RW 0 1 1 0 1 3
Pat Hickey 16 LW 1 0 1 0 0 2
Ed Johnstone 17 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Walt Tkaczuk 18 C 1 0 1 0 0 3
Dean Talafous 19 C 1 0 1 0 1 1
Lucien DeBlois 23 C 0 1 1 0 0 1
Pierre Plante 24 RW 1 1 2 2 1 5
Mario Marois 25 D 0 0 0 2 2 1
Dave Maloney 26 D 0 1 1 4 1 1
Mike McEwen 27 D 0 2 2 0 2 1
Phil Esposito 77 C 1 0 1 0 1 1
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)933
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)933
Shots: COL: 5-10-11-26 NYR: 11- 9-13-33 Goalies: COL: Michel Plasse (L, 9-26-1),
Bill Oleschuk NYR: Wayne Thomas (W, 12-9-2) Referee: Alf Lejeune Linesmen: Kevin Collins, Randy Mitton Attendance: 17,420



Team123F
Los Angeles Kings (29-27-9) 0 1 3 4
Pittsburgh Penguins (27-27-9) 0 0 0 0

1: no scoring
2: LA ,Marcel Dionne 47 (Dave Taylor, Rick Hampton), 3:59
3: LA ,Glenn Goldup 13 (Butch Goring, Mike Murphy), 4:10
LA ,Syl Apps 6 (Murray Wilson, Mike Murphy), 5:09
LA ,Butch Goring 29 (Glenn Goldup), 18:43
Penalties:

1: Richard Mulhern, LA 4:53
Rick Hampton, LA 6:14
Greg Malone, PIT 6:14
Randy Holt, LA 11:24
Tom Bladon, PIT 11:24
Randy Holt, LA [major] 13:43
Russ Anderson, PIT [minor, major] 13:43
Doug Halward, LA 15:46
2: Glenn Goldup, LA 20:00
3: Doug Halward, LA 7:38
Dale Tallon, PIT 13:50
Penalty time: LA : 17 minutes PIT: 13 minutes
LA Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Mario Lessard 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Randy Manery 2 D 0 0 0 0 3 0
Doug Halward 3 D 0 0 0 4 0 0
Randy Holt 4 D 0 0 0 7 0 0
Richard Mulhern 5 D 0 0 0 2 1 2
Rob Palmer 6 D 0 0 0 0 1 2
Mike Murphy 7 RW 0 2 2 0 2 2
Bert Wilson 8 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Murray Wilson 9 LW 0 1 1 0 1 0
Charlie Simmer 11 LW 0 0 0 0 1 1
Syl Apps 14 C 1 0 1 0 1 4
Marcel Dionne 16 C 1 0 1 0 1 6
Dave Taylor 18 RW 0 1 1 0 1 4
Butch Goring 19 C 1 1 2 0 2 3
Glenn Goldup 21 RW 1 1 2 2 2 2
Steve Jensen 22 LW 0 0 0 0 1 3
Rick Hampton 27 D 0 1 1 2 3 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)2029
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)2029

PIT Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Tom Bladon 2 D 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Ron Stackhouse 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 3
Dale Tallon 4 D 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Colin Campbell 6 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Russ Anderson 7 D 0 0 0 7 -1 0
Blair Chapman 9 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Peter Lee 10 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
George Ferguson 11 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Greg Malone 12 C 0 0 0 2 -1 3
Gary McAdam 16 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Rick Kehoe 17 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 6
Ross Lonsberry 18 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Gregg Sheppard 19 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Pete Mahovlich 20 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Rod Schutt 23 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Randy Carlyle 25 D 0 0 0 0 -3 2
Orest Kindrachuk 26 C 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Greg Millen 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-2026
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-2026
Shots: LA : 12- 9- 8-29 PIT: 9- 9- 8-26 Goalies: LA : Mario Lessard (W, 18-11-8) PIT: Greg Millen (L, 13-11-1) Referee: Andy van Hellemond Linesmen: John D'Amico, Leon Stickle Attendance: 11,479



Team123F
New York Islanders (40-13-11) 2 1 2 5
St. Louis Blues (16-40-9) 1 2 2 5

1: NYI,John Tonelli 15 (Mike Bossy, Denis Potvin), 7:00
STL,Bob Stewart 4 (Wayne Babych, Brian Sutter), 14:34
NYI,Billy Harris 13 (Bert Marshall, Lorne Henning), 15:03
2: NYI,Mike Bossy 52 (John Tonelli, Bryan Trottier), 13:11
STL,Brian Sutter 34 (Bernie Federko, Wayne Babych), 18:17
STL,Mike Zuke 5 (Mike Crombeen, John Smrke), 19:31
3: STL,Larry Patey 8 (Brian Sutter, Wayne Babych), 9:13
STL,Larry Patey 9 (Larry Giroux, Wayne Babych), 11:49
NYI,Denis Potvin 25 (Billy Harris, Lorne Henning), 13:07
NYI,Billy Harris 14 (Lorne Henning, Bob Nystrom), 17:32
Penalties:

1: Hector Marini, NYI [Holding] 4:30
Larry Giroux, STL [Holding] 10:17
2: Bernie Federko, STL [Hooking] 14:06
Garry Howatt, NYI [Fighting] 14:21
Larry Giroux, STL [Fighting] 14:21
3: none
Penalty time: NYI: 7 minutes STL: 9 minutes
NYI Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Pat Price 3 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
Bob Lorimer 4 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Denis Potvin 5 D 1 1 2 0 1 3
Bert Marshall 6 D 0 1 1 0 1 0
Stefan Persson 7 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garry Howatt 8 LW 0 0 0 5 -2 1
Lorne Henning 10 C 0 3 3 0 2 2
Wayne Merrick 11 C 0 0 0 0 -4 2
Bob Bourne 14 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Billy Harris 15 RW 2 1 3 0 2 4
Steve Tambellini 16 C 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Hector Marini 17 RW 0 0 0 2 -2 1
Bryan Trottier 19 C 0 1 1 0 1 1
Mike Bossy 22 RW 1 1 2 0 1 5
Bob Nystrom 23 RW 0 1 1 0 2 0
Mike Hordy 26 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
John Tonelli 27 LW 1 1 2 0 1 3
Billy Smith 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)025
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)025

STL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Phil Myre 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bob Stewart 2 D 1 0 1 0 0 2
Larry Giroux 5 D 0 1 1 7 2 3
Larry Patey 6 C 2 0 2 0 2 2
Garry Unger 7 C 0 0 0 0 -4 2
Neil Labatte 9 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Wayne Babych 10 RW 0 4 4 0 4 2
Brian Sutter 11 LW 1 2 3 0 4 4
Tony Currie 15 RW 0 0 0 0 -4 0
Jack Brownschidle 16 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Inge Hammarstrom 17 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Neil Komadoski 20 D 0 0 0 0 3 1
Mike Zuke 21 C 1 0 1 0 0 2
Barry Gibbs 22 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Bernie Federko 24 C 0 1 1 2 2 0
Mike Crombeen 26 RW 0 1 1 0 0 1
John Smrke 33 LW 0 1 1 0 -2 2
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)022
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)022
Shots: NYI: 6-10- 9-25 STL: 4- 7-11-22 Goalies: NYI: Billy Smith (T, 21-7-2) STL: Phil Myre (T, 7-20-6) Referee: Charles Banfield Linesmen: Ryan Bozak, Gordon Broseker Attendance: 11,135



Team123F
Vancouver Canucks (19-36-10) 0 0 0 0
Toronto Maple Leafs (27-27-11) 1 0 1 2

1: TOR,Jerry Butler 7, 9:21 - SH
2: no scoring
3: TOR,Ron Ellis 13 (Walt McKechnie, Dan Maloney), 16:29
Penalties:

1: Dave Hutchison, TOR [Cross checking, Roughing] 6:18
Jack McIlhargey, VAN [Roughing] 6:18
Jimmy Jones, TOR [Hi-sticking] 12:34
Larry Goodenough, VAN [Holding] 13:10
Dave Hutchison, TOR [Fighting] 15:46
Jere Gillis, VAN [Roughing] 15:46
2: Rob Tudor, VAN [Tripping] 4:46
Bench penalty, VAN [Too many men on the ice] 12:22
3: Brad Gassoff, VAN [Hooking] 6:33
Penalty time: VAN: 12 minutes TOR: 11 minutes
VAN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Lars Lindgren 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 7
Larry Goodenough 5 D 0 0 0 2 -1 5
Dennis Kearns 6 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Pit Martin 7 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Don Lever 9 C 0 0 0 0 -1 5
Stan Smyl 12 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Brad Gassoff 16 LW 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Ron Sedlbauer 17 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
John Grisdale 18 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rob Tudor 19 C 0 0 0 2 0 5
Jere Gillis 21 LW 0 0 0 2 -1 3
Bob Manno 22 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thomas Gradin 23 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Curt Fraser 24 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Don Kozak 26 RW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Harold Snepsts 27 D 0 0 0 0 -2 4
Jack McIlhargey 29 D 0 0 0 2 0 0
Dunc Wilson 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)-1040
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)-1040

TOR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Ian Turnbull 2 D 0 0 0 0 1 5
Joel Quenneville 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ron Ellis 6 RW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Lanny McDonald 7 RW 0 0 0 0 0 6
Dan Maloney 9 LW 0 1 1 0 1 5
John Anderson 10 RW 0 0 0 0 0 5
Walt McKechnie 11 C 0 1 1 0 1 3
Ron Wilson 14 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Pat Boutette 15 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jimmy Jones 16 C 0 0 0 2 1 0
Jerry Butler 17 RW 1 0 1 0 1 3
Garry Monahan 20 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Borje Salming 21 D 0 0 0 0 2 6
Dave "Tiger" Williams 22 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Dave Hutchison 23 D 0 0 0 9 0 1
Dave Burrows 26 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Darryl Sittler 27 C 0 0 0 0 0 3
Mike Palmateer 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)945
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)945
Shots: VAN: 12-11-17-40 TOR: 12-17-16-45 Goalies: VAN: Dunc Wilson (L, 1-8-1) TOR: Mike Palmateer (W, 19-16-9) Referee: Bryan Lewis Linesmen: Ron Finn, Bob Hodges Attendance: 16,485



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