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Thursday, January 27, 1972 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Red Wings 3 at Sabres 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 90OVR Nick Libett Red Wings First Star 3G · 8 SOG C 93OVR Marcel Dionne Red Wings Second Star 2A · 3 SOG RC G 64OVR Al Smith Red Wings Third Star 21 SV · .955

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:36 Rick Martin (34) Al Hamilton (17) DET 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 17:01 Nick Libett (15) Larry Johnston (10), Marcel Dionne (28) DET 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 8:51 Nick Libett (16) Bill Collins (15), Arnie Brown (12) DET 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 19:13 Nick Libett (17) Marcel Dionne (29), Ron Stackhouse (18) DET 3 – 1 BUF

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Nick Libett L 3 0 8 0 0 +2 0:00 3.00
Marcel Dionne C 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.78
Arnie Brown D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Bill Collins R 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Ron Stackhouse D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.70
Larry Johnston D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Red Berenson C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Al Karlander C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mickey Redmond R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bob Wall D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Alex Delvecchio C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Guy Charron C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Leon Rochefort R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tim Ecclestone L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Doug Volmar R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gary Bergman D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Harris D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Al Smith W 22 21 1 .955 60:00 1.35

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Martin L 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Al Hamilton D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Don Luce C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Byers R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Steve Atkinson R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Danny Lawson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gerry Meehan C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Kevin O'Shea R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Randy Wyrozub C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jim Watson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Eddie Shack L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Chris Evans D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Jim Lorentz C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Larry Hillman D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Terry Ball D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roger Crozier L 26 24 2 .923 59:03 0.90