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Sunday, October 17, 1971 · Madison Square Garden

Canadiens 4 at Rangers 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Rod Gilbert Rangers First Star 4A · 3 SOG L 98OVR Vic Hadfield Rangers Second Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG D 88OVR Jim Neilson Rangers Third Star 3A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:09 Jean Ratelle (3) PPG Brad Park (2), Rod Gilbert (5) MTL 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 11:36 Bill Fairbairn (2) Brad Park (3) MTL 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 17:31 Jacques Lemaire (1) PPG Yvan Cournoyer (1), Guy Lapointe (2) MTL 1 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 6:49 Vic Hadfield (3) PPG Rod Gilbert (6), Rod Seiling (2) MTL 1 – 3 NYR
  2. 14:09 Frank Mahovlich (4) Unassisted MTL 2 – 3 NYR
  3. 16:08 Bill Fairbairn (3) Dave Balon (1) MTL 2 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 0:55 Vic Hadfield (4) PPG Rod Gilbert (7), Jim Neilson (3) MTL 2 – 5 NYR
  2. 2:10 Yvan Cournoyer (5) PPG J.C. Tremblay (6), Guy Lafleur (4) MTL 3 – 5 NYR
  3. 7:26 Bruce MacGregor (3) Jim Neilson (4) MTL 3 – 6 NYR
  4. 11:40 Claude Larose (2) Unassisted MTL 4 – 6 NYR
  5. 12:15 Dave Balon (2) Walt Tkaczuk (3), Jim Neilson (5) MTL 4 – 7 NYR
  6. 18:14 Jean Ratelle (4) Rod Gilbert (8), Vic Hadfield (3) MTL 4 – 8 NYR

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Yvan Cournoyer R 1 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.38
Frank Mahovlich L 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Claude Larose R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Jacques Lemaire C 1 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Guy Lapointe D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Guy Lafleur R 0 1 4 0 0 -3 0:00 0.48
J.C. Tremblay D 0 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.25
Henri Richard C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Rejean Houle L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Lawrence Pleau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Peter Mahovlich C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jacques Laperriere D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Phil Roberto R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Terry Harper D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Marc Tardif L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rogie Vachon L 17 13 4 .765 20:00 -1.70
Ken Dryden — 33 29 4 .879 40:00 -0.10

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rod Gilbert R 0 4 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.73
Vic Hadfield L 2 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.50
Jim Neilson D 0 3 2 0 0 +2 0:00 2.33
Jean Ratelle C 2 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 2.10
Bill Fairbairn R 2 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.03
Dave Balon L 1 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Brad Park D 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Rod Seiling D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Bruce MacGregor C 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 0.77
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Dale Rolfe D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Jack Egers R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Glen Sather L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ab DeMarco D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ted Irvine L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.52
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ed Giacomin W 29 25 4 .862 60:00 -0.50