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Sunday, October 29, 1972 · Boston Garden

Islanders 1 at Bruins 9

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 54OVR Terry O'Reilly Bruins First Star 1G · 3A · 2 SOG RC C 90OVR Gregg Sheppard Bruins Second Star 3G · 6 SOG RC L 83OVR Don Marcotte Bruins Third Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:06 Brian Spencer (1) Brian Marchinko (3) NYI 1 – 0 BOS
  2. 16:01 Gregg Sheppard (1) Don Marcotte (4), Don Awrey (4) NYI 1 – 1 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 9:26 Don Marcotte (6) Terry O'Reilly (1), Carol Vadnais (5) NYI 1 – 2 BOS
  2. 11:38 Johnny Bucyk (4) Mike Walton (4), Fred Stanfield (10) NYI 1 – 3 BOS
  3. 14:56 Terry O'Reilly (1) Dallas Smith (2) NYI 1 – 4 BOS
  4. 17:41 Phil Esposito (6) Ken Hodge (8), Carol Vadnais (6) NYI 1 – 5 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 2:14 Ken Hodge (6) Wayne Cashman (5) NYI 1 – 6 BOS
  2. 5:53 Gregg Sheppard (2) Terry O'Reilly (2), Don Awrey (5) NYI 1 – 7 BOS
  3. 14:22 Gregg Sheppard (3) Don Marcotte (5), Terry O'Reilly (3) NYI 1 – 8 BOS
  4. 15:00 Johnny Bucyk (5) Mike Walton (5), Fred Stanfield (11) NYI 1 – 9 BOS

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Brian Marchinko C 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Brian Spencer L 1 0 2 -1 0.45
Don Blackburn L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Ron Smith D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bryan Lefley D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Terry Crisp C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Ed Westfall R 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Tom Miller C 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Arnie Brown D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Dave Hudson C 0 0 3 -4 -0.38
Jim Mair D 0 0 3 -4 -0.38
Brian Lavender L 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Craig Cameron R 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Germain Gagnon L 0 0 1 -4 -0.53
Bill Mikkelson D 0 0 0 -4 -0.60
Ken Murray D 0 0 1 -5 -0.68
Billy Harris R 0 0 0 -4 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith L 39 30 9 .769 60:00 -3.75

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Terry O'Reilly R 1 3 2 +5 3.53
Gregg Sheppard C 3 0 6 +4 3.30
Don Marcotte L 1 2 1 +4 2.68
Johnny Bucyk L 2 0 2 +3 2.10
Carol Vadnais D 0 2 1 +4 1.93
Fred Stanfield L 0 2 4 +2 1.85
Don Awrey D 0 2 2 +3 1.85
Mike Walton C 0 2 3 +1 1.63
Ken Hodge R 1 1 3 +2 1.60
Phil Esposito C 1 0 9 +2 1.42
Dallas Smith D 0 1 1 +4 1.15
Wayne Cashman L 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Nick Beverley D 0 0 0 +4 0.60
Ron Jones D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Garnet Bailey L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Fred O'Donnell R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Chris Oddleifson C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eddie Johnston — 4 4 0 1.000 10:26 0.40
Ross Brooks W 12 11 1 .917 49:34 0.35