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Saturday, October 28, 1961 · Montreal Forum

Red Wings 5 at Canadiens 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 75OVR Bill Hicke Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 93OVR Henri Richard Canadiens Second Star 3A · 4 SOG C 54OVR Phil Goyette Canadiens Third Star 3A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:27 Marcel Bonin (2) Henri Richard (3), Claude Provost (7) DET 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 4:24 Donnie Marshall (3) Phil Goyette (4), Bill Hicke (2) DET 0 – 2 MTL
  3. 9:02 Bill Hicke (2) Phil Goyette (5), Gilles Tremblay (1) DET 0 – 3 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 10:19 Gordie Howe (5) PPG Ed Litzenberger (7), Norm Ullman (4) DET 1 – 3 MTL
  2. 12:24 Jean-Guy Talbot (1) PPG Claude Provost (8), Henri Richard (4) DET 1 – 4 MTL
  3. 14:41 Norm Ullman (1) Howie Glover (2) DET 2 – 4 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 2:45 J.C. Tremblay (1) Henri Richard (5) DET 2 – 5 MTL
  2. 3:04 Allan Johnson (3) Marcel Pronovost (6), Howie Glover (3) DET 3 – 5 MTL
  3. 4:25 Val Fonteyne (1) Bruce MacGregor (4), Gerry Odrowski (1) DET 4 – 5 MTL
  4. 7:09 Ralph Backstrom (7) Bernie Geoffrion (8), Donnie Marshall (6) DET 4 – 6 MTL
  5. 8:58 Bill Hicke (3) Gilles Tremblay (2), Phil Goyette (6) DET 4 – 7 MTL
  6. 16:00 Pete Goegan (3) Ed Litzenberger (8) DET 5 – 7 MTL

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ed Litzenberger C 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Norm Ullman C 1 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.30
Howie Glover R 0 2 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.25
Gordie Howe R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Allan Johnson R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Gerry Odrowski D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Val Fonteyne L 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Pete Goegan D 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Alex Delvecchio C 0 0 7 0 0 +1 0:00 0.53
Bruce MacGregor C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Marcel Pronovost D 0 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.25
Warren Godfrey D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bill Gadsby D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Parker MacDonald C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Leo Labine R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Howie Young D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Terry Sawchuk L 32 25 7 .781 60:00 -2.75

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bill Hicke R 2 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 2.58
Henri Richard C 0 3 4 0 0 0 0:00 2.18
Phil Goyette C 0 3 2 0 0 +1 0:00 2.18
Donnie Marshall L 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Bernie Geoffrion R 0 1 7 0 0 +1 0:00 1.30
Gilles Tremblay L 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.25
Ralph Backstrom C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Claude Provost R 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.18
Marcel Bonin L 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Jean-Guy Talbot D 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
J.C. Tremblay D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Tom Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Lou Fontinato D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Al MacNeil D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Plante W 34 29 5 .853 60:00 -0.85