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Thursday, December 26, 1968 · Montreal Forum

Maple Leafs 2 at Canadiens 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 80OVR Tony Esposito Canadiens First Star 34 SV · .944 RC R 81OVR Ron Ellis Maple Leafs Second Star 2A · 5 SOG L 85OVR John Ferguson Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:45 Murray Oliver (6) PPG Ron Ellis (13), Larry Mickey (9) TOR 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 11:13 Ralph Backstrom (5) Serge Savard (8), John Ferguson (7) TOR 1 – 1 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 1:43 Norm Ullman (16) Ron Ellis (14) TOR 2 – 1 MTL
  2. 12:39 Henri Richard (6) J.C. Tremblay (14) TOR 2 – 2 MTL
  3. 17:58 Bobby Rousseau (14) Unassisted TOR 2 – 3 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 13:55 John Ferguson (10) Jean Beliveau (22), Yvan Cournoyer (14) TOR 2 – 4 MTL

Toronto Maple Leafs

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ron Ellis R 0 2 5 +1 1.78
Norm Ullman C 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Murray Oliver C 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Larry Mickey R 0 1 4 -2 0.63
Paul Henderson L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Pierre Pilote D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Dave Keon C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Bob Pulford L 0 0 3 0 0.07
Terry Clancy R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Gerry Meehan C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Tim Horton D 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Pat Quinn D 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Bill Sutherland C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
George Armstrong R 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Mike Pelyk D 0 0 2 -1 -0.30
Jim Dorey D 0 0 1 -3 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bruce Gamble L 35 31 4 .886 59:56 0.10

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
John Ferguson L 1 1 2 +1 1.53
Bobby Rousseau R 1 0 7 +2 1.43
Ralph Backstrom C 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Serge Savard D 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Henri Richard C 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Jean Beliveau C 0 1 3 +1 1.00
J.C. Tremblay D 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Yvan Cournoyer R 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Jacques Lemaire C 0 0 3 +2 0.52
Jacques Laperriere D 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Dick Duff L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jude Drouin C 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Mickey Redmond R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Ted Harris D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Claude Provost R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Larry Hillman D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tony Esposito W 36 34 2 .944 60:00 1.90