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Saturday, March 4, 1961 · Montreal Forum

Red Wings 4 at Canadiens 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 78OVR Vic Stasiuk Red Wings First Star 1G · 3A · 4 SOG C 92OVR Henri Richard Canadiens Second Star 3A · 5 SOG R 99OVR Bernie Geoffrion Canadiens Third Star 2G · 10 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 16:51 Bernie Geoffrion (42) PPG Jean Beliveau (48), Gilles Tremblay (7) DET 0 – 1 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 2:49 Alex Delvecchio (24) Vic Stasiuk (32) DET 1 – 1 MTL
  2. 7:06 Doug Harvey (6) Ralph Backstrom (16), Marcel Bonin (33) DET 1 – 2 MTL
  3. 11:39 Jean-Guy Gendron (9) Bill Hicke (24), Henri Richard (39) DET 1 – 3 MTL
  4. 12:40 Vic Stasiuk (13) PPG Gordie Howe (40), Bruce MacGregor (1) DET 2 – 3 MTL
  5. 17:42 Pete Goegan (4) PPG Gordie Howe (41), Vic Stasiuk (33) DET 3 – 3 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 2:17 Donnie Marshall (12) Jean Beliveau (49), Henri Richard (40) DET 3 – 4 MTL
  2. 14:12 Howie Glover (20) PPG Gordie Howe (42), Vic Stasiuk (34) DET 4 – 4 MTL
  3. 17:01 Donnie Marshall (13) PPG Jean Beliveau (50), Doug Harvey (28) DET 4 – 5 MTL
  4. 18:51 Bernie Geoffrion (43) Al Langlois (11), Henri Richard (41) DET 4 – 6 MTL

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vic Stasiuk L 1 3 4 0 0 0 0:00 2.93
Gordie Howe R 0 3 9 0 0 -1 0:00 2.25
Alex Delvecchio C 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Pete Goegan D 1 0 6 0 0 -2 0:00 0.90
Howie Glover R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Bruce MacGregor C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Val Fonteyne L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Gerry Melnyk C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Allan Johnson R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Gerry Odrowski D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Parker MacDonald C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Marcel Pronovost D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Leo Labine R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.23
Norm Ullman C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.60
Warren Godfrey D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.98
Howie Young D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -2.10
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Terry Sawchuk L 37 31 6 .838 60:00 -1.40

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Henri Richard C 0 3 5 0 0 +3 0:00 2.55
Bernie Geoffrion R 2 0 10 0 0 0 0:00 2.25
Jean Beliveau C 0 3 6 0 0 0 0:00 2.03
Doug Harvey D 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Donnie Marshall L 2 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.73
Ralph Backstrom C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Bill Hicke R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Al Langlois D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Jean-Guy Gendron L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Gilles Tremblay L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Marcel Bonin L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Tom Johnson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Phil Goyette C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Bob Turner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jean-Guy Talbot D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Plante W 41 37 4 .902 60:00 0.70