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Saturday, October 21, 1961 · Detroit Olympia

Rangers 4 at Red Wings 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Gordie Howe Red Wings First Star 1G · 1A · 8 SOG L 50OVR Jean-Guy Gendron Rangers Second Star 2G · 4 SOG C 65OVR Ed Litzenberger Maple Leafs Third Star 2G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:02 Earl Ingarfield (3) PPG Dean Prentice (2), Doug Harvey (4) NYR 1 – 0 DET
  2. 6:45 Ed Litzenberger (5) PPG Bill Gadsby (4), Norm Ullman (2) NYR 1 – 1 DET
  3. 12:02 Jean-Guy Gendron (4) Unassisted NYR 2 – 1 DET

2nd Period

  1. 9:31 Ed Litzenberger (6) Gordie Howe (5), Pete Goegan (1) NYR 2 – 2 DET
  2. 9:52 Andy Bathgate (4) Dean Prentice (3), Earl Ingarfield (4) NYR 3 – 2 DET
  3. 16:48 Gordie Howe (2) Pete Goegan (2), Alex Delvecchio (3) NYR 3 – 3 DET
  4. 18:21 Allan Johnson (1) Marcel Pronovost (5), Norm Ullman (3) NYR 3 – 4 DET

3rd Period

  1. 5:13 Jean-Guy Gendron (5) Jean Ratelle (1), Ken Schinkel (5) NYR 4 – 4 DET

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Jean-Guy Gendron L 2 0 4 +2 2.10
Earl Ingarfield C 1 1 3 -1 1.45
Dean Prentice L 0 2 4 -1 1.40
Jean Ratelle C 0 1 4 +2 1.23
Ken Schinkel R 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Andy Bathgate R 1 0 5 -1 0.98
Doug Harvey D 0 1 2 -1 0.48
Larry Cahan D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Pat Hannigan L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Vic Hadfield L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Irv Spencer D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Andy Hebenton R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Camille Henry C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Ted Hampson C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Harry Howell D 0 0 0 +1 -0.15
Al Langlois D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gump Worsley — 17 15 2 .882 30:51 0.00
Dan Olesevich T 19 17 2 .895 29:09 0.20

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Gordie Howe R 1 1 8 +1 2.13
Ed Litzenberger C 2 0 5 0 1.73
Norm Ullman C 0 2 1 +1 1.48
Pete Goegan D 0 2 1 0 1.33
Alex Delvecchio C 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Allan Johnson R 1 0 3 0 0.98
Bill Gadsby D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Marcel Pronovost D 0 1 1 0 0.70
Leo Labine R 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Howie Glover R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Val Fonteyne L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Parker MacDonald C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Howie Young D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Gerry Odrowski D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bruce MacGregor C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Vic Stasiuk L 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Warren Godfrey D 0 0 3 0 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Terry Sawchuk T 27 23 4 .852 60:00 -0.70