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Saturday, December 23, 1972 · Montreal Forum

Penguins 3 at Canadiens 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 95OVR Frank Mahovlich Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG D 97OVR Guy Lapointe Canadiens Second Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG L 48OVR Steve Cardwell Penguins Third Star 2G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:00 Guy Lapointe (6) Pierre Bouchard (1), Frank Mahovlich (23) PIT 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 8:27 Marc Tardif (17) Rejean Houle (18), Henri Richard (11) PIT 0 – 2 MTL
  3. 16:15 Guy Lafleur (8) Peter Mahovlich (22) PIT 0 – 3 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 0:27 Frank Mahovlich (13) Guy Lapointe (15), Guy Lafleur (12) PIT 0 – 4 MTL
  2. 3:53 Guy Lapointe (7) Jacques Lemaire (22), Chuck Lefley (17) PIT 0 – 5 MTL
  3. 19:21 Frank Mahovlich (14) Serge Savard (14), Peter Mahovlich (23) PIT 0 – 6 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 4:36 Steve Cardwell (1) Ron Schock (18), Nick Harbaruk (9) PIT 1 – 6 MTL
  2. 8:10 Steve Cardwell (2) Ron Schock (19), Duane Rupp (5) PIT 2 – 6 MTL
  3. 12:59 Syl Apps (17) Lowell MacDonald (18), Duane Rupp (6) PIT 3 – 6 MTL

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Steve Cardwell L 2 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
Duane Rupp D 0 2 4 0 0 -1 0:00 1.40
Ron Schock C 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.33
Syl Apps C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Lowell MacDonald L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Nick Harbaruk R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Al McDonough R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dave Burrows D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Darryl Edestrand D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Eddie Shack L 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.15
Jack Lynch D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Robin Burns L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Ken Schinkel R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Bryan Hextall C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Rick Kessell C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Greg Polis R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Bryan Watson D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford L 32 26 6 .812 60:00 -1.90

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Frank Mahovlich L 2 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.80
Guy Lapointe D 2 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.65
Peter Mahovlich C 0 2 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.70
Guy Lafleur R 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.53
Serge Savard D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Marc Tardif L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Chuck Lefley R 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Rejean Houle L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Pierre Bouchard D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Jacques Lemaire C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Henri Richard C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Yvan Cournoyer R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Jimmy Roberts R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Claude Larose R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Murray Wilson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dale Hoganson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Murdoch D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Dryden W 26 23 3 .885 60:00 0.05