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Thursday, December 21, 1961 · Boston Garden

Red Wings 2 at Bruins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 59OVR Terry Gray Bruins First Star 2A · 1 SOG RC G 40OVR Don Head Bruins Second Star 28 SV · .933 RC L 82OVR Johnny Bucyk Bruins Third Star 1G · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:26 Johnny Bucyk (8) Pat Stapleton (3), Murray Oliver (12) DET 0 – 1 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 17:38 Alex Delvecchio (8) SHG Gordie Howe (17) DET 1 – 1 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 4:54 Don McKenney (13) Leo Boivin (4), Terry Gray (5) DET 1 – 2 BOS
  2. 6:02 Cliff Pennington (6) Charlie Burns (5) DET 1 – 3 BOS
  3. 7:54 Doug Mohns (10) Terry Gray (6) DET 1 – 4 BOS
  4. 14:18 Bill Gadsby (3) Norm Ullman (16), Howie Glover (7) DET 2 – 4 BOS

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Alex Delvecchio C 1 0 8 -1 1.20
Bill Gadsby D 1 0 2 0 0.90
Norm Ullman C 0 1 2 0 0.78
Gordie Howe R 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Howie Glover R 0 1 3 0 0.55
Marc Boileau C 0 0 5 +1 0.53
Ed Litzenberger C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Allan Johnson R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Val Fonteyne L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bruce MacGregor C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Warren Godfrey D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Gerry Odrowski D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Leo Labine R 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Vic Stasiuk L 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Marcel Pronovost D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Howie Young D 0 0 2 0 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Hank Bassen L 28 24 4 .857 60:00 -0.60

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Terry Gray R 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Johnny Bucyk L 1 0 7 0 1.28
Don McKenney C 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Murray Oliver C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Pat Stapleton D 0 1 1 +2 0.85
Leo Boivin D 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Doug Mohns L 1 0 3 +2 0.83
Cliff Pennington C 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Charlie Burns C 0 1 0 0 0.63
Wayne Connelly C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Dick Meissner R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Bob Beckett C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Andre Pronovost L 0 0 0 +2 -0.08
Jerry Toppazzini R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Ed Westfall R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Ted Green D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Head W 30 28 2 .933 60:00 1.30