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Thursday, December 23, 1976 · Boston Garden

Rangers 3 at Bruins 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 96OVR Don Murdoch Rangers First Star 2G · 7 SOG RC L 78OVR Don Marcotte Bruins Second Star 2A · 4 SOG R 87OVR Terry O'Reilly Bruins Third Star 1G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:11 Earl Anderson (2) Matti Hagman (5), Don Marcotte (10) NYR 0 – 1 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 0:43 Terry O'Reilly (5) Don Marcotte (11), Gregg Sheppard (19) NYR 0 – 2 BOS
  2. 7:44 Don Murdoch (26) Phil Esposito (24), Mike McEwen (14) NYR 1 – 2 BOS
  3. 15:45 Don Murdoch (27) Walt Tkaczuk (20), Greg Polis (15) NYR 2 – 2 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 4:15 Johnny Bucyk (13) Unassisted NYR 2 – 3 BOS
  2. 12:40 Steve Vickers (11) Wayne Dillon (15) NYR 3 – 3 BOS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Don Murdoch R 2 0 7 +2 2.18
Phil Esposito C 0 1 5 +1 1.15
Mike McEwen D 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Greg Polis R 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Steve Vickers L 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Wayne Dillon C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Ron Greschner D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Dave Farrish D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Ken Hodge R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 0 +1 0.03
Bill Goldsworthy R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Maloney D 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Pat Hickey L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Pete Stemkowski C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Rod Gilbert R 0 0 1 -2 -0.98
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 0 -1 -1.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Gratton T 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Don Marcotte L 0 2 4 +2 1.85
Terry O'Reilly R 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Johnny Bucyk L 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Gregg Sheppard C 0 1 3 0 0.85
Matti Hagman C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Earl Anderson R 1 0 2 -2 0.60
Gary Doak D 0 0 4 0 0.30
Jean Ratelle C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Wayne Cashman L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Rick Middleton R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Peter McNab C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Hank Nowak L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Brad Park D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Mike Milbury D 0 0 0 +2 -0.08
Dallas Smith D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Rick Smith D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Bobby Schmautz R 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gerry Cheevers T 27 24 3 .889 60:00 0.15