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Sunday, March 26, 1972 · Boston Garden

Canadiens 4 at Bruins 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 85OVR Mike Walton Bruins First Star 2G · 4 SOG C 99OVR Phil Esposito Bruins Second Star 2A · 5 SOG C 72OVR Henri Richard Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:44 Dallas Smith (8) Johnny Bucyk (48), Fred Stanfield (55) MTL 0 – 1 BOS
  2. 18:19 Yvan Cournoyer (45) PPG Peter Mahovlich (28) MTL 1 – 1 BOS
  3. 19:24 Mike Walton (26) Phil Esposito (66), Carol Vadnais (26) MTL 1 – 2 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 1:37 Derek Sanderson (25) Don Awrey (7) MTL 1 – 3 BOS
  2. 4:07 Rejean Houle (11) Henri Richard (32) MTL 2 – 3 BOS
  3. 6:28 Mike Walton (27) Ken Hodge (36), Phil Esposito (67) MTL 2 – 4 BOS
  4. 12:23 John McKenzie (22) PPG Fred Stanfield (56), Bobby Orr (80) MTL 2 – 5 BOS
  5. 13:20 Marc Tardif (30) Jacques Lemaire (45) MTL 3 – 5 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 7:06 Henri Richard (12) Guy Lapointe (36) MTL 4 – 5 BOS

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Henri Richard C 1 1 2 +1 1.68
Rejean Houle L 1 0 3 +2 1.28
Marc Tardif L 1 0 3 0 0.98
Guy Lapointe D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Jacques Lemaire C 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Yvan Cournoyer R 1 0 3 -2 0.68
Peter Mahovlich C 0 1 4 -2 0.63
Dale Hoganson D 0 0 3 +2 0.52
Claude Larose R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Lawrence Pleau C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jimmy Roberts R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Guy Lafleur R 0 0 3 -1 0.07
J.C. Tremblay D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Frank Mahovlich L 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Serge Savard D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Bob Murdoch D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Jacques Laperriere D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Dryden L 39 34 5 .872 59:45 -0.35

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Walton C 2 0 4 +1 1.95
Phil Esposito C 0 2 5 +1 1.78
Fred Stanfield L 0 2 3 0 1.48
Derek Sanderson C 1 0 7 0 1.28
John McKenzie R 1 0 5 0 1.13
Ken Hodge R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Johnny Bucyk L 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Bobby Orr D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Dallas Smith D 1 0 1 +1 0.83
Carol Vadnais D 0 1 2 0 0.63
Don Awrey D 0 1 1 0 0.25
Garnet Bailey L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Ed Westfall R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Garry Peters C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ted Green D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Don Marcotte L 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eddie Johnston W 40 36 4 .900 60:00 0.60