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Thursday, December 20, 1973 · Boston Garden

Penguins 5 at Bruins 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Ken Hodge Bruins First Star 2G · 2A · 5 SOG C 99OVR Phil Esposito Bruins Second Star 1G · 3A · 8 SOG C 83OVR Derek Sanderson Bruins Third Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:01 Lowell MacDonald (14) PPG Al McDonough (17) PIT 1 – 0 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 13:59 Don Marcotte (7) Terry O'Reilly (6) PIT 1 – 1 BOS
  2. 16:07 Derek Sanderson (3) Ken Hodge (24), Phil Esposito (33) PIT 1 – 2 BOS
  3. 17:00 Carol Vadnais (5) Johnny Bucyk (20), Gregg Sheppard (12) PIT 1 – 3 BOS
  4. 18:09 Phil Esposito (35) PPG Ken Hodge (25), Johnny Bucyk (21) PIT 1 – 4 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 3:19 Greg Polis (9) PPG Lowell MacDonald (17), Syl Apps (19) PIT 2 – 4 BOS
  2. 9:18 Ken Hodge (22) Phil Esposito (34), Derek Sanderson (3) PIT 2 – 5 BOS
  3. 10:20 Yvon Labre (1) Ron Lalonde (2), Ted Snell (6) PIT 3 – 5 BOS
  4. 12:40 Ken Hodge (23) Phil Esposito (35), Bobby Orr (35) PIT 3 – 6 BOS
  5. 14:41 Syl Apps (12) PPG Lowell MacDonald (18), Al McDonough (18) PIT 4 – 6 BOS
  6. 16:52 Greg Polis (10) Dave Burrows (7) PIT 5 – 6 BOS

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Greg Polis R 2 0 10 0 0 -1 0:00 2.10
Lowell MacDonald L 1 2 4 0 0 -1 0:00 2.00
Syl Apps C 1 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.30
Al McDonough R 0 2 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.25
Dave Burrows D 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Ted Snell R 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Ron Lalonde C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Yvon Labre D 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.45
Jim Wiley C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Ron Schock C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Bernie Lukowich R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Wayne Bianchin R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Larry Bignell D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jean Pronovost R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Nick Beverley D 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.60
Bryan Hextall C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.68
Bryan Watson D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Rutherford — 29 25 4 .862 40:00 -0.50
Gary Inness L 16 14 2 .875 20:00 -0.10

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ken Hodge R 2 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 3.28
Phil Esposito C 1 3 8 0 0 +2 0:00 3.23
Derek Sanderson C 1 1 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.13
Bobby Orr D 0 1 7 0 0 +4 0:00 1.75
Johnny Bucyk L 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Don Marcotte L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Gregg Sheppard C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Carol Vadnais D 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Darryl Edestrand D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.52
Andre Savard C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Chris Oddleifson C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dallas Smith D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Al Sims D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Fred O'Donnell R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gary Doak D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Terry O'Reilly R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.05
Wayne Cashman L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.80
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Gilbert W 31 26 5 .839 60:00 -1.15