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Wednesday, January 18, 1961 · Chicago Stadium

Canadiens 4 at Blackhawks 0

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 61OVR Ralph Backstrom Canadiens First Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG R 80OVR Bill Hicke Canadiens Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG L 54OVR Gilles Tremblay Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:21 Jean Beliveau (18) PPG Jean-Guy Talbot (18), Gilles Tremblay (4) MTL 1 – 0 CHI
  2. 15:09 Gilles Tremblay (5) Bill Hicke (17), Al Langlois (8) MTL 2 – 0 CHI
  3. 15:44 Bill Hicke (14) Ralph Backstrom (13) MTL 3 – 0 CHI

2nd Period

  1. 9:57 Ralph Backstrom (7) PPG Tom Johnson (8), Dickie Moore (26) MTL 4 – 0 CHI

3rd Period

No scoring

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ralph Backstrom C 1 1 7 +2 2.20
Bill Hicke R 1 1 2 +2 1.83
Gilles Tremblay L 1 1 4 +2 1.83
Jean Beliveau C 1 0 6 0 1.05
Al Langlois D 0 1 2 +2 0.93
Dickie Moore L 0 1 3 0 0.85
Jean-Guy Talbot D 0 1 1 0 0.55
Tom Johnson D 0 1 0 0 0.48
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Claude Provost R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jean-Guy Gendron L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Donnie Marshall L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Phil Goyette C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bob Turner D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Henri Richard C 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Charlie Hodge W 18 18 0 1.000 60:00 1.80

Chicago Blackhawks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Stan Mikita C 0 0 6 0 0.30
Bill Hay C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Ab McDonald L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Kenny Wharram R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Murray Balfour R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ed Litzenberger C 0 0 2 0 0.00
Earl Balfour L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Al Arbour D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Moose Vasko D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jack Evans D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ron Murphy L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Tod Sloan C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Dollard St. Laurent D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Reg Fleming D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Eric Nesterenko R 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Pierre Pilote D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Hall L 33 29 4 .879 60:00 -0.10