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Thursday, December 14, 1972 · Boston Garden

Rangers 2 at Bruins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Phil Esposito Bruins First Star 2A · 15 SOG G 86OVR Gilles Villemure Rangers Second Star 51 SV · .927 L 81OVR Wayne Cashman Bruins Third Star 2G · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:06 Gene Carr (3) Bruce MacGregor (2) NYR 1 – 0 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 12:17 Mike Walton (15) Fred Stanfield (29) NYR 1 – 1 BOS
  2. 14:11 Wayne Cashman (10) Phil Esposito (27), Bobby Orr (15) NYR 1 – 2 BOS
  3. 14:33 Fred O'Donnell (5) Gregg Sheppard (15), Don Marcotte (17) NYR 1 – 3 BOS
  4. 17:43 Wayne Cashman (11) PPG Bobby Orr (16), Phil Esposito (28) NYR 1 – 4 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 6:22 Jean Ratelle (13) PPG Bobby Rousseau (18), Rod Gilbert (26) NYR 2 – 4 BOS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Gene Carr C 1 0 3 0 0.98
Jean Ratelle C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Bruce MacGregor C 0 1 0 0 0.63
Bobby Rousseau R 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Rod Gilbert R 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Larry Sacharuk D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Rod Seiling D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Ted Irvine L 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Vic Hadfield L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Bill Fairbairn R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 2 +1 0.00
Glen Sather L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Ron Harris D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Randy Legge D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Ab DeMarco D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Villemure L 55 51 4 .927 60:00 2.10

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Phil Esposito C 0 2 15 +1 2.38
Wayne Cashman L 2 0 7 +1 1.87
Bobby Orr D 0 2 7 0 1.78
Mike Walton C 1 0 4 0 1.05
Fred O'Donnell R 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Gregg Sheppard C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Fred Stanfield L 0 1 2 0 0.78
Don Marcotte L 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 5 +2 0.68
Ken Hodge R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Dallas Smith D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Don Awrey D 0 0 2 +2 0.15
Johnny Bucyk L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Garnet Bailey L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Terry O'Reilly R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Doug Roberts R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Nick Beverley D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eddie Johnston W 24 22 2 .917 60:00 0.70