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Sunday, January 2, 1972 · Detroit Olympia

Canadiens 4 at Red Wings 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 96OVR Jacques Lemaire Canadiens First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG L 57OVR Rejean Houle Canadiens Second Star 2G · 8 SOG R 97OVR Yvan Cournoyer Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:19 Yvan Cournoyer (17) Jacques Lemaire (22), Henri Richard (15) MTL 1 – 0 DET
  2. 4:43 Red Berenson (12) PPG Tim Ecclestone (17), Ron Stackhouse (14) MTL 1 – 1 DET
  3. 5:42 Larry Johnston (3) Unassisted MTL 1 – 2 DET
  4. 8:05 Mickey Redmond (19) PPG Marcel Dionne (22), Gary Bergman (10) MTL 1 – 3 DET
  5. 12:11 Rejean Houle (7) Jacques Lemaire (23), Marc Tardif (5) MTL 2 – 3 DET
  6. 12:58 Mickey Redmond (20) Larry Johnston (6), Alex Delvecchio (18) MTL 2 – 4 DET
  7. 15:40 Jacques Lemaire (13) Yvan Cournoyer (12), Henri Richard (16) MTL 3 – 4 DET

2nd Period

  1. 4:41 Rejean Houle (8) Unassisted MTL 4 – 4 DET
  2. 17:25 Leon Rochefort (7) Tim Ecclestone (18), Arnie Brown (8) MTL 4 – 5 DET
  3. 19:09 Marcel Dionne (8) PPG Gary Bergman (11), Red Berenson (23) MTL 4 – 6 DET

3rd Period

No scoring

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Jacques Lemaire C 1 2 4 +3 2.75
Rejean Houle L 2 0 8 +1 2.25
Yvan Cournoyer R 1 1 5 +2 1.90
Henri Richard C 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Marc Tardif L 0 1 2 +2 0.77
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 3 +2 0.52
Jacques Laperriere D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Jimmy Roberts R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Guy Lafleur R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Chuck Arnason R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Claude Larose R 0 0 5 -1 0.08
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Lawrence Pleau C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Chuck Lefley R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Terry Harper D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Frank Mahovlich L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Peter Mahovlich C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Phil Myre L 34 28 6 .824 59:00 -1.70

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Red Berenson C 1 1 2 +2 1.83
Larry Johnston D 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Tim Ecclestone L 0 2 2 +2 1.70
Mickey Redmond R 2 0 2 0 1.65
Gary Bergman D 0 2 1 +1 1.48
Marcel Dionne C 1 1 5 -2 1.45
Leon Rochefort R 1 0 3 0 0.98
Alex Delvecchio C 0 1 0 0 0.63
Arnie Brown D 0 1 6 -2 0.32
Guy Charron C 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Ron Harris D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Ron Stackhouse D 0 1 1 -3 0.25
Danny Johnson C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Doug Volmar R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Nick Libett L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Al Karlander C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Bill Collins R 0 0 2 -3 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Joe Daley — 21 18 3 .857 20:00 -0.45
Al Smith W 22 21 1 .955 40:00 1.35