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Saturday, December 16, 1961 · Montreal Forum

Bruins 4 at Canadiens 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 64OVR Cliff Pennington Bruins First Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG RC R 87OVR Bernie Geoffrion Canadiens Second Star 2G · 1A · 7 SOG C 93OVR Henri Richard Canadiens Third Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:47 Dickie Moore (5) Henri Richard (16) BOS 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 1:14 Cliff Pennington (4) Ed Westfall (3), Bob Beckett (1) BOS 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 10:37 Murray Oliver (3) PPG Cliff Pennington (18), Doug Mohns (15) BOS 2 – 1 MTL
  4. 14:20 Bill Hicke (8) Jean Beliveau (1), Gilles Tremblay (8) BOS 2 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 9:34 Bernie Geoffrion (11) Al MacNeil (4), Henri Richard (17) BOS 2 – 3 MTL
  2. 13:36 Claude Provost (18) Jean Gauthier (1) BOS 2 – 4 MTL
  3. 16:05 Ralph Backstrom (15) Bernie Geoffrion (20), Al MacNeil (5) BOS 2 – 5 MTL
  4. 16:11 Cliff Pennington (5) Unassisted BOS 3 – 5 MTL
  5. 17:35 Henri Richard (10) Dickie Moore (5), Jean-Guy Talbot (15) BOS 3 – 6 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 0:21 Bernie Geoffrion (12) Ralph Backstrom (11), Jean-Guy Talbot (16) BOS 3 – 7 MTL
  2. 18:14 Bob Beckett (6) Cliff Pennington (19), Ed Westfall (4) BOS 4 – 7 MTL
  3. 18:39 Jean Beliveau (1) Bill Hicke (13), Gilles Tremblay (9) BOS 4 – 8 MTL

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Cliff Pennington C 2 2 4 0 0 +1 0:00 3.20
Bob Beckett C 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Ed Westfall R 0 2 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.33
Murray Oliver C 1 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.53
Doug Mohns L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.33
Terry Gray R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Andre Pronovost L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Ted Green D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Charlie Burns C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Don McKenney C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dick Meissner R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jerry Toppazzini R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Johnny Bucyk L 0 0 4 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.30
Leo Boivin D 0 0 4 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.30
Wayne Connelly C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Pat Stapleton D 0 0 3 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Head L 52 44 8 .846 60:00 -1.60

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bernie Geoffrion R 2 1 7 0 0 +2 0:00 2.95
Henri Richard C 1 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.45
Dickie Moore L 1 1 8 0 0 +3 0:00 2.43
Jean Beliveau C 1 1 8 0 0 +1 0:00 2.13
Bill Hicke R 1 1 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.98
Al MacNeil D 0 2 3 0 0 +4 0:00 1.93
Jean-Guy Talbot D 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Gilles Tremblay L 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Ralph Backstrom C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Claude Provost R 1 0 6 0 0 +2 0:00 1.50
Jean Gauthier D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 0.68
Donnie Marshall L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Marcel Bonin L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Phil Goyette C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Plante W 36 32 4 .889 60:00 0.20