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Sunday, December 26, 1971 · Madison Square Garden

Canadiens 1 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Rod Gilbert Rangers First Star 2A · 7 SOG G 85OVR Gilles Villemure Rangers Second Star 26 SV · .963 R 76OVR Bobby Rousseau Rangers Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:51 Vic Hadfield (23) PPG Jean Ratelle (36), Rod Gilbert (28) MTL 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 16:27 Ted Irvine (8) Bobby Rousseau (18), Gary Doak (5) MTL 0 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 7:19 Glen Sather (1) Bill Fairbairn (12), Gilles Villemure (2) MTL 0 – 3 NYR
  2. 8:17 Vic Hadfield (24) Rod Gilbert (29) MTL 0 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 12:41 Pierre Jarry (3) Bobby Rousseau (19), Jim Neilson (19) MTL 0 – 5 NYR
  2. 15:45 Yvan Cournoyer (15) Jacques Lemaire (21), Frank Mahovlich (21) MTL 1 – 5 NYR

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Yvan Cournoyer R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Jacques Lemaire C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Frank Mahovlich L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Lawrence Pleau C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Rejean Houle L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Chuck Lefley R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Guy Lapointe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jimmy Roberts R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Claude Larose R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Henri Richard C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Chuck Arnason R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Terry Harper D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Peter Mahovlich C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Jacques Laperriere D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Marc Tardif L 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Dryden L 46 41 5 .891 60:00 0.35

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rod Gilbert R 0 2 7 0 0 +1 0:00 1.93
Bobby Rousseau R 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.78
Vic Hadfield L 2 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.73
Jim Neilson D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Glen Sather L 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Pierre Jarry L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Ted Irvine L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Bill Fairbairn R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Gary Doak D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Jean Ratelle C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Brad Park D 0 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.53
Bruce MacGregor C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Rod Seiling D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.37
Gene Carr C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ab DeMarco D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Villemure W 27 26 1 .963 60:00 1.85