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Saturday, February 12, 1972 · Montreal Forum

Kings 5 at Canadiens 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 84OVR Ralph Backstrom Kings First Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG D 90OVR Guy Lapointe Canadiens Second Star 3A · 7 SOG C 53OVR Lawrence Pleau Canadiens Third Star 2G · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:08 Yvan Cournoyer (29) PPG Frank Mahovlich (35), J.C. Tremblay (41) LAK 0 – 1 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 5:07 Mike Corrigan (12) Unassisted LAK 1 – 1 MTL
  2. 16:11 Peter Mahovlich (21) PPG Guy Lapointe (22), J.C. Tremblay (42) LAK 1 – 2 MTL
  3. 19:06 Lawrence Pleau (3) J.C. Tremblay (43), Guy Lapointe (23) LAK 1 – 3 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 2:23 Serge Bernier (13) Ralph Backstrom (22), Harry Howell (12) LAK 2 – 3 MTL
  2. 5:21 Lawrence Pleau (4) Yvan Cournoyer (23), Serge Savard (3) LAK 2 – 4 MTL
  3. 6:36 Bob Pulford (12) Juha Widing (21), Bob Woytowich (7) LAK 3 – 4 MTL
  4. 7:42 Henri Richard (10) Guy Lapointe (24) LAK 3 – 5 MTL
  5. 12:51 Ralph Backstrom (10) PPG Bill Lesuk (7), Bob Woytowich (8) LAK 4 – 5 MTL
  6. 15:58 Ralph Backstrom (11) Serge Bernier (15) LAK 5 – 5 MTL
  7. 19:38 Guy Lafleur (22) Frank Mahovlich (36), Peter Mahovlich (19) LAK 5 – 6 MTL

Los Angeles Kings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ralph Backstrom C 2 1 6 0 0 +1 0:00 2.58
Serge Bernier C 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Bob Woytowich D 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.33
Bob Pulford L 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.98
Mike Corrigan L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Bill Lesuk R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Harry Howell D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Juha Widing C 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.78
Jim Johnson C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Butch Goring C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Real Lemieux L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Lucien Grenier R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Berry L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gilles Marotte D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Paul Curtis D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Doug Barrie D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith L 48 42 6 .875 59:52 -0.30

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Guy Lapointe D 0 3 7 0 0 +1 0:00 2.25
Lawrence Pleau C 2 0 7 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
J.C. Tremblay D 0 3 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.88
Yvan Cournoyer R 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Peter Mahovlich C 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Frank Mahovlich L 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Guy Lafleur R 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.13
Henri Richard C 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.13
Serge Savard D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Jacques Lemaire C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Claude Larose R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Rey Comeau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jacques Laperriere D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Murdoch D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jimmy Roberts R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rejean Houle L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Dryden W 33 28 5 .848 60:00 -0.95