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Saturday, January 8, 1972 · St. Louis Arena

Bruins 3 at Blues 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Garry Unger Blues First Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG C 99OVR Phil Esposito Bruins Second Star 2G · 6 SOG R 82OVR Gary Sabourin Blues Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:39 Garry Unger (23) Bob Plager (5) BOS 0 – 1 STL
  2. 5:24 Mike Murphy (8) Garry Unger (16), Jack Egers (15) BOS 0 – 2 STL

2nd Period

  1. 5:32 Phil Esposito (33) PPG Johnny Bucyk (19), Fred Stanfield (36) BOS 1 – 2 STL
  2. 7:25 Garry Unger (24) PPG George Morrison (8), Mike Murphy (8) BOS 1 – 3 STL
  3. 10:51 Fred Stanfield (10) Johnny Bucyk (20), John McKenzie (24) BOS 2 – 3 STL
  4. 16:03 Gary Sabourin (14) Terry Crisp (11) BOS 2 – 4 STL

3rd Period

  1. 3:41 Gary Sabourin (15) Frank St. Marseille (13) BOS 2 – 5 STL
  2. 10:52 Phil Esposito (34) Ken Hodge (28), Dallas Smith (13) BOS 3 – 5 STL

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Phil Esposito C 2 0 6 +1 2.10
Fred Stanfield L 1 1 2 -1 1.38
Johnny Bucyk L 0 2 3 -1 1.33
Ken Hodge R 0 1 4 +1 1.08
John McKenzie R 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Dallas Smith D 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Bobby Orr D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Wayne Cashman L 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Garnet Bailey L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Don Marcotte L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Reggie Leach R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Matt Ravlich D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rick Smith D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Mike Walton C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Derek Sanderson C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Ed Westfall R 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Ted Green D 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eddie Johnston L 31 26 5 .839 60:00 -1.15

St. Louis Blues

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Garry Unger C 2 1 6 +1 2.73
Gary Sabourin R 2 0 3 +1 1.88
Mike Murphy R 1 1 2 +2 1.83
Jack Egers R 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Frank St. Marseille R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Terry Crisp C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
George Morrison L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Bob Plager D 0 1 0 +1 0.63
John Arbour D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Phil Roberto R 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Andre Dupont D 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Barclay Plager D 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Floyd Thomson L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Gerry Odrowski D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bill Plager D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Brian Lavender L 0 0 3 -1 -0.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Caron W 24 21 3 .875 60:00 -0.15