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Saturday, January 28, 1961 · Montreal Forum

Red Wings 3 at Canadiens 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 61OVR Ralph Backstrom Canadiens First Star 2G · 5 SOG R 94OVR Gordie Howe Red Wings Second Star 2G · 7 SOG R 60OVR Howie Glover Red Wings Third Star 1G · 4 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 10:05 Cliff Pennington (1) PPG Jean Beliveau (37) DET 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 18:34 Ralph Backstrom (9) Al Langlois (9) DET 0 – 2 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 2:59 Howie Glover (17) Norm Ullman (35) DET 1 – 2 MTL
  2. 3:11 Ralph Backstrom (10) Tom Johnson (9), Bill Hicke (20) DET 1 – 3 MTL
  3. 7:31 Gordie Howe (12) Howie Young (1), Vic Stasiuk (27) DET 2 – 3 MTL
  4. 19:35 Gordie Howe (13) Unassisted DET 3 – 3 MTL

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Gordie Howe R 2 0 7 +2 2.03
Howie Glover R 1 0 4 +2 1.20
Norm Ullman C 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Vic Stasiuk L 0 1 2 +2 0.93
Alex Delvecchio C 0 0 7 +2 0.68
Howie Young D 0 1 0 -1 0.32
Allan Johnson R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Parker MacDonald C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Len Lunde C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Warren Godfrey D 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Gerry Odrowski D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Claude Laforge L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Val Fonteyne L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Gerry Melnyk C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Leo Labine R 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Marcel Pronovost D 0 0 0 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Terry Sawchuk T 32 29 3 .906 60:00 0.65

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ralph Backstrom C 2 0 5 +2 2.18
Bill Hicke R 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Cliff Pennington C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Tom Johnson D 0 1 5 -1 0.70
Al Langlois D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Jean Beliveau C 0 1 3 -1 0.55
Gilles Tremblay L 0 0 2 +2 0.45
Donnie Marshall L 0 0 4 0 0.30
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 3 0 0.07
Marcel Bonin L 0 0 4 -1 0.00
Phil Goyette C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dickie Moore L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bob Turner D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Claude Provost R 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Jean-Guy Gendron L 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Henri Richard C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Jean-Guy Talbot D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Charlie Hodge T 34 31 3 .912 60:00 0.85