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Sunday, April 2, 1972 · Madison Square Garden

Canadiens 6 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Peter Mahovlich Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG C 89OVR Walt Tkaczuk Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG R 89OVR Bill Fairbairn Rangers Third Star 3A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:54 Peter Mahovlich (34) Rejean Houle (17), Frank Mahovlich (53) MTL 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 1:19 Jacques Lemaire (32) Yvan Cournoyer (36) MTL 2 – 0 NYR
  3. 5:30 Walt Tkaczuk (24) Bill Fairbairn (35), Brad Park (48) MTL 2 – 1 NYR
  4. 14:14 Jimmy Roberts (12) SHG Lawrence Pleau (10), Terry Harper (12) MTL 3 – 1 NYR
  5. 14:51 Peter Mahovlich (35) SHG Jimmy Roberts (22) MTL 4 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 12:12 Vic Hadfield (49) Rod Gilbert (54), Brad Park (49) MTL 4 – 2 NYR
  2. 13:32 Rod Seiling (5) SHG Walt Tkaczuk (41), Bill Fairbairn (36) MTL 4 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 2:47 Marc Tardif (31) Peter Mahovlich (32), Guy Lafleur (34) MTL 5 – 3 NYR
  2. 8:37 Lawrence Pleau (7) Guy Lafleur (35) MTL 6 – 3 NYR
  3. 13:21 Brad Park (24) Walt Tkaczuk (42), Bill Fairbairn (37) MTL 6 – 4 NYR
  4. 14:46 Vic Hadfield (50) Rod Seiling (36), Jim Neilson (30) MTL 6 – 5 NYR

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Mahovlich C 2 1 6 0 0 +1 0:00 2.73
Lawrence Pleau C 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Jimmy Roberts R 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Guy Lafleur R 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Terry Harper D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Rejean Houle L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Marc Tardif L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Jacques Lemaire C 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Frank Mahovlich L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Yvan Cournoyer R 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Bob Murdoch D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dale Hoganson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Serge Savard D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Guy Lapointe D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Henri Richard C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Claude Larose R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Denis DeJordy W 46 41 5 .891 60:00 0.35

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Walt Tkaczuk C 1 2 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.53
Bill Fairbairn R 0 3 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.40
Vic Hadfield L 2 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Brad Park D 1 2 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.93
Rod Seiling D 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Jim Neilson D 0 1 8 0 0 +1 0:00 1.38
Rod Gilbert R 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Dale Rolfe D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ron Stewart R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bruce MacGregor C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bobby Rousseau R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ted Irvine L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Glen Sather L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Gene Carr C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Ab DeMarco D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Phil Goyette C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ed Giacomin — 13 9 4 .692 30:55 -2.10
Gilles Villemure L 9 7 2 .778 29:05 -0.80