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Saturday, January 1, 1966 · Montreal Forum

Rangers 1 at Canadiens 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 95OVR Henri Richard Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 88OVR Ralph Backstrom Canadiens Second Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG R 90OVR Claude Provost Canadiens Third Star 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:28 J.C. Tremblay (2) Ralph Backstrom (8), Claude Larose (11) NYR 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 4:58 Henri Richard (9) Claude Provost (16), Terry Harper (3) NYR 0 – 2 MTL
  3. 5:54 Jean Ratelle (8) Rod Gilbert (12), Vic Hadfield (7) NYR 1 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 5:53 Dick Duff (7) PPG Henri Richard (14), Jacques Laperriere (19) NYR 1 – 3 MTL
  2. 9:33 Henri Richard (10) J.C. Tremblay (9), Claude Provost (17) NYR 1 – 4 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 2:57 Ralph Backstrom (10) Claude Larose (12) NYR 1 – 5 MTL

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rod Gilbert R 0 1 4 0 0.93
Jean Ratelle C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Vic Hadfield L 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Garry Peters C 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Bob Nevin R 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Jim Johnson C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Ted Taylor L 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Donnie Marshall L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Harry Howell D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Mike McMahon Jr. D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dunc McCallum D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Earl Ingarfield C 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Bill Hicke R 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
John McKenzie R 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Jim Neilson D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Arnie Brown D 0 0 1 -2 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Simmons L 41 36 5 .878 60:00 -0.15

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Henri Richard C 2 1 4 +2 2.58
Ralph Backstrom C 1 1 7 +2 2.20
Claude Provost R 0 2 4 +2 1.85
J.C. Tremblay D 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Claude Larose R 0 2 2 +2 1.33
Dick Duff L 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Terry Harper D 0 1 1 +2 0.85
Jacques Laperriere D 0 1 3 +1 0.55
Gilles Tremblay L 0 0 3 +2 0.52
John Ferguson L 0 0 2 +2 0.45
Ted Harris D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Jimmy Roberts R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Yvan Cournoyer R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Balon L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jean Beliveau C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Charlie Hodge W 22 21 1 .955 60:00 1.35