All WHA game summaries from December 17, 1977

Team	1	2	3	F
Soviet All-Stars (1-1-0)	1	2	2	5
Cincinnati Stingers (11-17-0)	2	0	2	4

1:	CIN,	Jamie Hislop 5 (Ron Plumb, Pat Stapleton), 3:00
	CIN,	Rich Leduc 20 (Rick Dudley, Pat Stapleton), 9:23
	SOV,	Aleksandr Volchkov 1 (Anatoli Emeljaneko, Vladimir Popov), 16:14
2:	SOV,	Alexei Volchenkov 1 (Viacheslav Nazarov, Aleksandr Volchkov), 4:57
	SOV,	Vladimir Popov 1 (Alexei Volchenkov), 6:42
3:	CIN,	Blaine Stoughton 6 (Peter Marsh), 4:32
	SOV,	Alexei Volchenkov 2 (Viacheslav Nazarov, Anatoli Emeljaneko), 9:00
	SOV,	Jrek Gimaev 1 (Victor Tumenev, Vladimir Lavrentiev), 16:19
	CIN,	Robbie Ftorek 21 (Rick Dudley, Dennis Abgrall), 16:39

Penalties:

1:	Vasili Spiridinov, SOV 2:32
	Blaine Stoughton, CIN 5:22
	Jrek Gimaev, SOV 8:32
2:	Peter Marsh, CIN 0:47
	Barry Legge, CIN 4:08
	Victor Tumenev, SOV 4:08
	Bench penalty, CIN 4:32
	Rick Dudley, CIN 7:52
3:	Michel Dion, CIN 9:30
	Ron Plumb, CIN 9:30
	Victor Tumenev, SOV [double minor] 9:30
	Blaine Stoughton, CIN 14:27

Penalty time: SOV: 10 minutes CIN: 16 minutes

SOV Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Alexei Volchenkov	2	1	3	0	0	0
Aleksandr Volchkov	1	1	2	0	0	0
Vladimir Popov	1	1	2	0	0	0
Anatoli Emeljaneko	0	2	2	0	0	0
Viacheslav Nazarov	0	2	2	0	0	0
Jrek Gimaev	1	0	1	2	0	0
Victor Tumenev	0	1	1	6	0	0
Vladimir Lavrentiev	0	1	1	0	0	0
Vasili Spiridinov	0	0	0	2	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

CIN Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Rick Dudley	0	2	2	2	0	0
Pat Stapleton	0	2	2	0	0	0
Blaine Stoughton	1	0	1	4	0	0
Jamie Hislop	1	0	1	0	0	0
Robbie Ftorek	1	0	1	0	0	0
Rich Leduc	1	0	1	0	0	0
Peter Marsh	0	1	1	2	0	0
Ron Plumb	0	1	1	2	0	0
Dennis Abgrall	0	1	1	0	0	0
Barry Legge	0	0	0	2	0	0
Michel Dion	0	0	0	2	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

Shots: SOV: 9- 8-11-28 CIN: 10- 6- 9-25 Goalies: SOV: Sergei Babariko (W, 1-0-0) CIN: Mike Liut,
Michel Dion Attendance: 8,044

Team	1	2	3	F
Winnipeg Jets (16-12-1)	2	2	2	6
New England Whalers (20-7-3)	1	0	2	3

1:	NE ,	Jack Carlson 6 (Marty Howe), 2:04
	WIN,	Peter Sullivan 6 (Barry Long, Dave Kryskow), 5:56
	WIN,	Peter Sullivan 7, 17:47
2:	WIN,	Bobby Hull 22 (Lars-Erik Sjoberg, Anders Hedberg), :58
	WIN,	Willy Lindstrom 6 (Dan Labraaten, Dave Dunn), 11:20
3:	WIN,	Lars-Erik Sjoberg 5 (Bobby Hull, Dave Dunn), 9:24
	NE ,	Jack Carlson 7 (Larry Pleau, Mike Rogers), 14:18
	NE ,	Jack Carlson 8, 14:33
	WIN,	Dave Kryskow 7 (Barry Long), 17:38

Penalties:

1:	Mike Antonovich, NE 4:20
	Lars-Erik Sjoberg, WIN 4:20
	Anders Hedberg, WIN 6:34
	Dan Labraaten, WIN [misconduct] 18:58
2:	Bench penalty, NE 8:24
	Rick Ley, NE 15:22
	Bobby Guindon, WIN 18:46
3:	Mike Antonovich, NE 3:53
	Ted Green, WIN 3:53
	Marty Howe, NE 9:24
	Alan Hangsleben, NE [double minor] 9:24
	Lars-Erik Sjoberg, WIN [double minor] 9:24

Penalty time: WIN: 22 minutes NE : 14 minutes

WIN Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Peter Sullivan	2	0	2	0	0	0
Lars-Erik Sjoberg	1	1	2	6	0	0
Dave Kryskow	1	1	2	0	0	0
Bobby Hull	1	1	2	0	0	0
Barry Long	0	2	2	0	0	0
Dave Dunn	0	2	2	0	0	0
Willy Lindstrom	1	0	1	0	0	0
Dan Labraaten	0	1	1	10	0	0
Anders Hedberg	0	1	1	2	0	0
Ted Green	0	0	0	2	0	0
Bobby Guindon	0	0	0	2	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

NE Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	Shots
Jack Carlson	3	0	3	0	0	0
Marty Howe	0	1	1	2	0	0
Larry Pleau	0	1	1	0	0	0
Mike Rogers	0	1	1	0	0	0
Alan Hangsleben	0	0	0	4	0	0
Mike Antonovich	0	0	0	4	0	0
Rick Ley	0	0	0	2	0	0
TOTAL					0	0
TOTAL			0	0

Shots: WIN: 9- 9- 9-27 NE : 10-10-11-31 Goalies: WIN: Gary Bromley (W, 7-2-1) NE : Al Smith (L, 16-3-3) Attendance: 10,507