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Thursday, November 23, 1961 · Montreal Forum

Red Wings 3 at Canadiens 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Claude Provost Canadiens First Star 2G · 3 SOG R 79OVR Bill Hicke Canadiens Second Star 2A · 7 SOG C 50OVR Phil Goyette Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:44 Gilles Tremblay (7) Phil Goyette (13), Bill Hicke (8) DET 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 9:23 Gordie Howe (10) PPG Norm Ullman (7), Alex Delvecchio (8) DET 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 10:32 Marc Boileau (2) Gerry Odrowski (3), Vic Stasiuk (7) DET 2 – 1 MTL
  4. 11:30 Bruce MacGregor (3) Bill Gadsby (8), Howie Glover (5) DET 3 – 1 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 5:03 Ralph Backstrom (8) Dickie Moore (3), Bernie Geoffrion (15) DET 3 – 2 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 14:36 Phil Goyette (3) PPG Bernie Geoffrion (16), Bill Hicke (9) DET 3 – 3 MTL
  2. 16:47 Claude Provost (15) Lou Fontinato (6), Henri Richard (11) DET 3 – 4 MTL
  3. 19:27 Claude Provost (16) Unassisted DET 3 – 5 MTL

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bruce MacGregor C 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Marc Boileau C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Norm Ullman C 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.85
Gordie Howe R 1 0 5 0 0 -2 0:00 0.83
Bill Gadsby D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Gerry Odrowski D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Howie Glover R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Vic Stasiuk L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Alex Delvecchio C 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Val Fonteyne L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Howie Young D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Marcel Pronovost D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Leo Labine R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ed Litzenberger C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Allan Johnson R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Pete Goegan D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Warren Godfrey D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Terry Sawchuk L 29 25 4 .862 60:00 -0.50

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Claude Provost R 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Bill Hicke R 0 2 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.78
Phil Goyette C 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Bernie Geoffrion R 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Henri Richard C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Lou Fontinato D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Gilles Tremblay L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Ralph Backstrom C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Dickie Moore L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.33
Marcel Bonin L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Tom Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Donnie Marshall L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jean-Guy Talbot D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Al MacNeil D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Plante W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55