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Wednesday, January 2, 1974 · St. Louis Arena

Canadiens 4 at Blues 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 80OVR Garry Unger Blues First Star 2G · 2A · 7 SOG C 80OVR Wayne Merrick Blues Second Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG R 98OVR Yvan Cournoyer Canadiens Third Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:15 Pierre Plante (11) Garry Unger (16), Ab DeMarco (7) MTL 0 – 1 STL
  2. 2:22 Lou Angotti (10) Barclay Plager (5) MTL 0 – 2 STL
  3. 7:13 Jacques Lemaire (14) PPG Yvan Cournoyer (15) MTL 1 – 2 STL
  4. 7:23 Wayne Merrick (8) Unassisted MTL 1 – 3 STL
  5. 12:22 Floyd Thomson (5) Larry Giroux (10), Wayne Merrick (5) MTL 1 – 4 STL

2nd Period

  1. 6:00 Garry Unger (15) PPG Pierre Plante (10), Ab DeMarco (8) MTL 1 – 5 STL
  2. 12:41 Wayne Merrick (9) Bob Plager (8), Floyd Thomson (10) MTL 1 – 6 STL
  3. 13:37 Yvan Cournoyer (23) Jacques Lemaire (27), Jacques Laperriere (8) MTL 2 – 6 STL
  4. 16:43 Don Awrey (3) SHG Garry Unger (17), Pierre Plante (11) MTL 2 – 7 STL
  5. 19:02 Garry Unger (16) Don Awrey (8) MTL 2 – 8 STL

3rd Period

  1. 5:16 Chuck Lefley (12) Yvan Cournoyer (16), Pierre Bouchard (3) MTL 3 – 8 STL
  2. 9:07 Murray Wilson (6) Pierre Bouchard (4), Chuck Lefley (14) MTL 4 – 8 STL

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Yvan Cournoyer R 1 2 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.60
Chuck Lefley R 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Pierre Bouchard D 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Jacques Lemaire C 1 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 1.38
Murray Wilson L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Larry Robinson D 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Jacques Laperriere D 0 1 2 0 0 -3 0:00 0.33
Yvon Lambert L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Henri Richard C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.08
Bob Gainey L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Frank Mahovlich L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Guy Lafleur R 0 0 7 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.07
Claude Larose R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jimmy Roberts R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Steve Shutt L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Peter Mahovlich C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.52
Guy Lapointe D 0 0 2 0 0 -5 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 16 12 4 .750 40:00 -1.80
Michel Larocque — 17 13 4 .765 20:00 -1.70

St. Louis Blues

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Garry Unger C 2 2 7 0 0 +2 0:00 3.58
Wayne Merrick C 2 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.65
Pierre Plante R 1 2 4 0 0 +1 0:00 2.45
Don Awrey D 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Floyd Thomson L 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Ab DeMarco D 0 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.48
Lou Angotti C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Barclay Plager D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Bob Plager D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Larry Giroux D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Butch Williams R 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.45
Jean Hamel D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Gary Sabourin R 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Chris Evans D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Glen Sather L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Steve Durbano D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.22
Nick Harbaruk R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Stephenson W 44 40 4 .909 60:00 1.00