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Thursday, December 7, 1961 · Boston Garden

Blackhawks 5 at Bruins 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 71OVR Ab McDonald Blackhawks First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 68OVR Charlie Burns Bruins Second Star 2G · 3 SOG L 66OVR Ron Murphy Blackhawks Third Star 1G · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:08 Ab McDonald (8) PPG Moose Vasko (8), Stan Mikita (15) CHI 1 – 0 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 5:54 Bill Hay (4) Unassisted CHI 2 – 0 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 5:58 Charlie Burns (4) PPG Cliff Pennington (14), Jerry Toppazzini (11) CHI 2 – 1 BOS
  2. 7:17 Gerry Melnyk (4) Bobby Hull (9) CHI 3 – 1 BOS
  3. 15:02 Bronco Horvath (8) Ab McDonald (6), Kenny Wharram (5) CHI 4 – 1 BOS
  4. 16:27 Ron Murphy (5) Jack Evans (5) CHI 5 – 1 BOS
  5. 17:08 Charlie Burns (5) SHG Jerry Toppazzini (12) CHI 5 – 2 BOS

Chicago Blackhawks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ab McDonald L 1 1 3 0 1.60
Ron Murphy L 1 0 7 +1 1.43
Bronco Horvath C 1 0 5 0 1.13
Bill Hay C 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Bobby Hull L 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Gerry Melnyk C 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Kenny Wharram R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Jack Evans D 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Stan Mikita C 0 1 5 -1 0.85
Moose Vasko D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Murray Balfour R 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Pierre Pilote D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Dollard St. Laurent D 0 0 0 +3 0.30
Eric Nesterenko R 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Bob Turner D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Reg Fleming D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Hall W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Charlie Burns C 2 0 3 -1 1.58
Jerry Toppazzini R 0 2 1 0 1.33
Cliff Pennington C 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Terry Gray R 0 0 4 0 0.30
Don McKenney C 0 0 4 0 0.30
Andre Pronovost L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Murray Oliver C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Wayne Connelly C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Ed Westfall R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Johnny Bucyk L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Doug Mohns L 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Ted Green D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Leo Boivin D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Dick Meissner R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Bob Beckett C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Pat Stapleton D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Head L 29 24 5 .828 60:00 -1.35