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Sunday, December 22, 1968 · Boston Garden

Canadiens 5 at Bruins 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 80OVR Ed Westfall Bruins First Star 3A · 4 SOG C 88OVR Derek Sanderson Bruins Second Star 2G · 6 SOG R 55OVR Claude Provost Canadiens Third Star 2G · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:03 Dick Duff (6) Serge Savard (7) MTL 1 – 0 BOS
  2. 12:15 Bobby Rousseau (13) Henri Richard (15) MTL 2 – 0 BOS
  3. 14:18 Claude Provost (4) Mickey Redmond (6), Jacques Laperriere (6) MTL 3 – 0 BOS
  4. 18:00 Phil Esposito (21) PPG Ted Green (8) MTL 3 – 1 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 3:59 Henri Richard (5) Bobby Rousseau (20), Jacques Laperriere (7) MTL 4 – 1 BOS
  2. 6:56 Wayne Cashman (2) Ted Green (9), Ed Westfall (11) MTL 4 – 2 BOS
  3. 8:43 Phil Esposito (22) Ken Hodge (17), Ron Murphy (20) MTL 4 – 3 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 0:09 Derek Sanderson (10) Glen Sather (2) MTL 4 – 4 BOS
  2. 7:51 Bobby Orr (10) John McKenzie (7) MTL 4 – 5 BOS
  3. 9:51 Derek Sanderson (11) Glen Sather (3), Ed Westfall (12) MTL 4 – 6 BOS
  4. 13:02 Claude Provost (5) Ralph Backstrom (10), Ted Harris (4) MTL 5 – 6 BOS
  5. 19:41 Johnny Bucyk (8) Ed Westfall (13) MTL 5 – 7 BOS

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Claude Provost R 2 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 2.10
Bobby Rousseau R 1 1 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.90
Henri Richard C 1 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Jacques Laperriere D 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
Dick Duff L 1 0 7 0 0 -2 0:00 0.98
Ralph Backstrom C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Serge Savard D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Mickey Redmond R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Ted Harris D 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Jude Drouin C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bob Berry L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Hillman D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Yvan Cournoyer R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Jacques Lemaire C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jean Beliveau C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tony Esposito L 49 43 6 .878 59:24 -0.20

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ed Westfall R 0 3 4 0 0 +4 0:00 2.78
Derek Sanderson C 2 0 6 0 0 +3 0:00 2.40
Glen Sather L 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Ted Green D 0 2 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Bobby Orr D 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.35
Johnny Bucyk L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Wayne Cashman L 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
John McKenzie R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Phil Esposito C 2 0 5 0 0 -3 0:00 0.53
Dallas Smith D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.52
Ron Murphy L 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Ken Hodge R 0 1 2 0 0 -3 0:00 0.18
Fred Stanfield L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Don Awrey D 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Tom Webster R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jean Gauthier D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gerry Cheevers W 38 33 5 .868 60:00 -0.45