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All NHL game summaries from December 23, 1970



Team123F
Boston Bruins (23-5-5) 2 0 0 2
Detroit Red Wings (10-18-4) 0 0 1 1

1: BOS,Ed Westfall 10 (Garnet "Ace" Bailey), :41
BOS,Fred Stanfield 11 (Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito), 6:04 - PP
2: no scoring
3: DET,Frank Mahovlich 13 (Gary Bergman, Alex Delvecchio), 2:34
Penalties:

1: Gary Bergman, DET [Interference] 5:59
Gerry Hart, DET [Elbowing] 8:23
John McKenzie, BOS [Hi-sticking] 8:23
Gordie Howe, DET [Holding] 14:57
Dallas Smith, BOS [Interference] 17:20
2: Tom Webster, DET [Tripping] 7:54
John McKenzie, BOS [Hi-sticking] 10:38
3: Gerry Hart, DET [Hooking] 5:12
Penalty time: BOS: 6 minutes DET: 10 minutes
BOS Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Eddie Johnston 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bobby Orr 4 D 0 1 1 0 1 5
Ted Green 6 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Phil Esposito 7 C 0 1 1 0 -1 8
Ken Hodge 8 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Johnny Bucyk 9 LW 0 0 0 0 0 5
Rick Smith 10 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wayne Cashman 12 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Garnet "Ace" Bailey 14 LW 0 1 1 0 1 6
Derek Sanderson 16 C 0 0 0 0 1 2
Fred Stanfield 17 LW 1 0 1 0 0 3
Ed Westfall 18 RW 1 0 1 0 1 4
John McKenzie 19 RW 0 0 0 4 0 1
Dallas Smith 20 D 0 0 0 2 1 2
Don Marcotte 21 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Don Awrey 26 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 5 defensemen)039
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 5 defensemen)039

DET Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gary Bergman 2 D 0 1 1 2 1 2
Dale Rolfe 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Larry Brown 4 D 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Serge Lajeunesse 5 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Garry Unger 7 C 0 0 0 0 -1 6
Tom Webster 8 RW 0 0 0 2 1 5
Gordie Howe 9 RW 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Alex Delvecchio 10 C 0 1 1 0 1 1
Don Luce 11 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bruce MacGregor 12 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nick Libett 14 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Ron Harris 16 D 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Wayne Connelly 17 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Gerry Hart 18 D 0 0 0 4 1 0
Hank Monteith 19 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Billy Dea 21 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frank Mahovlich 27 LW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Jim Rutherford 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)023
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)023
Shots: BOS: 16-10-13-39 DET: 11- 7- 5-23 Goalies: BOS: Eddie Johnston (W, 12-2-1) DET: Jim Rutherford (L, 0-3-1) Referee: Bruce Hood Linesmen: John D'Amico, Claude Bechard Attendance: 14,596



Team123F
Chicago Blackhawks (22-6-5) 1 1 4 6
Los Angeles Kings (9-17-5) 1 2 1 4

1: LA ,Lucien Grenier 2 (Larry Cahan), 7:29 - SH
CHI,Pit Martin 14 (Gerry Pinder), 10:42
2: LA ,Bill Flett 8 (Gilles Marotte, Ross Lonsberry), 10:12 - PP
CHI,Jim Pappin 3 (Gerry Pinder, Pat Stapleton), 14:31
LA ,Bob Pulford 12 (Noel Price), 16:35 - PP
3: CHI,Chico Maki 12 (Bobby Hull), 3:09
LA ,Bob Berry 11 (Dale Hoganson, Juha Widing), 4:43
CHI,Pit Martin 15 (Pat Stapleton), 4:58
CHI,Bobby Hull 18, 7:52
CHI,Bobby Hull 19 (Lou Angotti, Bill White), 19:32 - EN
Penalties:

1: Dale Hoganson, LA [Tripping] 2:51
Noel Price, LA [Tripping] 6:45
Dan Maloney, CHI [Boarding, Misconduct] 14:46
2: Bob Berry, LA [Interference] 1:34
Jim Pappin, CHI [Hi-sticking major] 6:38
Gilles Marotte, LA [Tripping] 8:01
Paul Shmyr, CHI [Fighting] 13:37
Dale Hoganson, LA [Fighting] 13:37
Bill White, CHI [Holding] 15:20
Gilles Marotte, LA [Interference] 18:27
3: Dan Maloney, CHI [Charging, Fighting] 8:59
Paul Curtis, LA [Fighting] 8:59
Juha Widing, LA [Interference] 13:15
Stan Mikita, CHI [Slashing] 13:15
Stan Mikita, CHI [Roughing, Slashing] 19:36
Bob Pulford, LA [Roughing, Slashing] 19:36
Penalty time: CHI: 37 minutes LA : 26 minutes
CHI Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gerry Desjardins 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill White 2 D 0 1 1 2 4 0
Keith Magnuson 3 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Lou Angotti 6 C 0 1 1 0 2 1
Pit Martin 7 C 2 0 2 0 2 3
Jim Pappin 8 RW 1 0 1 5 2 2
Bobby Hull 9 LW 2 1 3 0 2 5
Dennis Hull 10 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Doug Mohns 11 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pat Stapleton 12 D 0 2 2 0 3 2
Bryan Campbell 14 C 0 0 0 0 1 5
Eric Nesterenko 15 RW 0 0 0 0 1 0
Chico Maki 16 RW 1 0 1 0 2 2
Gerry Pinder 18 LW 0 2 2 0 2 3
Dan Maloney 19 LW 0 0 0 19 0 1
Cliff Koroll 20 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Stan Mikita 21 C 0 0 0 6 -1 1
Jerry Korab 22 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Paul Shmyr 23 D 0 0 0 5 0 1
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)2032
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)2032

LA Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Dale Hoganson 2 D 0 1 1 7 -3 2
Larry Cahan 3 D 0 1 1 0 0 3
Gilles Marotte 4 D 0 1 1 4 -1 3
Noel Price 5 D 0 1 1 2 -2 0
Paul Curtis 6 D 0 0 0 5 -1 0
Ross Lonsberry 8 LW 0 1 1 0 -3 0
Gord Labossiere 9 C 0 0 0 0 -3 3
Doug Robinson 11 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Larry Mickey 12 RW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Lucien Grenier 14 RW 1 0 1 0 0 4
Juha Widing 15 C 0 1 1 2 -1 2
Bill Flett 17 RW 1 0 1 0 -3 2
Bob Berry 18 LW 1 0 1 2 -1 1
Bob Pulford 20 LW 1 0 1 4 -1 5
Mike Byers 24 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Denis DeJordy 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 5 defensemen)-2229
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 5 defensemen)-2229
Shots: CHI: 11- 9-12-32 LA : 5-15- 9-29 Goalies: CHI: Gerry Desjardins (W, 8-2-1) LA : Denis DeJordy (L, 7-12-5) Referee: Bill Friday Linesmen: Malcolm Ashford, Rob Waddell Attendance: 12,198



Team123F
Pittsburgh Penguins (8-16-10) 0 0 1 1
New York Rangers (23-6-5) 3 1 2 6

1: NYR,Jack Egers 7 (Rod Gilbert, Brad Park), 4:55 - PP
NYR,Walt Tkaczuk 9 (Dave Balon, Arnie Brown), 6:55
NYR,Pete Stemkowski 7 (Brad Park, Arnie Brown), 9:31 - PP
2: NYR,Rod Gilbert 9 (Brad Park), 7:02
3: NYR,Jim Neilson 3 (Walt Tkaczuk), 14:16
NYR,Jean Ratelle 18 (Tim Horton, Jack Egers), 15:51
PIT,Keith McCreary 11 (Bob Woytowich, Andy Bathgate), 17:54
Penalties:

1: Glen Sather, PIT [Holding] 3:41
Bob Blackburn, PIT [Hooking] 8:51
Rod Gilbert, NYR [Elbowing] 8:58
Dunc McCallum, PIT [Elbowing] 8:58
2: Jim Krulicki, NYR [Elbowing] 9:20
Bryan Watson, PIT [Elbowing] 9:20
Tim Horton, NYR [Holding] 11:21
Duane Rupp, PIT [Hi-sticking] 15:46
3: none
Penalty time: PIT: 10 minutes NYR: 6 minutes
PIT Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Duane Rupp 2 D 0 0 0 2 -2 1
Bob Woytowich 3 D 0 1 1 0 0 1
Bob Blackburn 4 D 0 0 0 2 0 1
Bryan Watson 5 D 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Dunc McCallum 6 D 0 0 0 2 -2 2
Bryan Hextall 7 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Andy Bathgate 9 RW 0 1 1 0 -1 3
Keith McCreary 10 RW 1 0 1 0 0 2
Nick Harbaruk 11 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Ken Schinkel 12 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Glen Sather 16 LW 0 0 0 2 0 2
Wally Boyer 18 C 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Jean Pronovost 19 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Dean Prentice 20 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Greg Polis 22 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Rick Kessell 23 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Jim Morrison 27 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Al Smith 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1524
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1524

NYR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Brad Park 2 D 0 3 3 0 1 4
Tim Horton 3 D 0 1 1 2 1 0
Arnie Brown 4 D 0 2 2 0 2 5
Syl Apps 6 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rod Gilbert 7 RW 1 1 2 2 2 2
Bob Nevin 8 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bill Fairbairn 10 RW 0 0 0 0 1 3
Ron Stewart 12 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jim Neilson 15 D 1 0 1 0 1 7
Rod Seiling 16 D 0 0 0 0 1 2
Dave Balon 17 LW 0 1 1 0 1 3
Walt Tkaczuk 18 C 1 1 2 0 2 2
Jean Ratelle 19 C 1 0 1 0 1 2
Jack Egers 20 RW 1 1 2 0 2 3
Pete Stemkowski 21 C 1 0 1 0 0 7
Jim Krulicki 22 LW 0 0 0 2 0 0
Mike Robitaille 25 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ted Irvine 27 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Gilles Villemure 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)1546
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)1546
Shots: PIT: 5-12- 7-24 NYR: 19- 9-18-46 Goalies: PIT: Al Smith (L, 5-8-3) NYR: Gilles Villemure (W, 11-1-2) Referee: Wally Harris Linesmen: Matt Pavelich Attendance: 17,250



Team123F
Montreal Canadiens (15-11-6) 1 1 0 2
St. Louis Blues (15-8-9) 0 1 1 2

1: MTL,Jacques Lemaire 8 (Yvan Cournoyer, Jean Beliveau), 3:07
2: MTL,Bill Collins 3 (Leon Rochefort), 7:44
STL,Gary Sabourin 8 (Red Berenson, Tim Ecclestone), 13:19 - PP
3: STL,George Morrison 8 (Gary Sabourin, Barclay Plager), 15:24
Penalties:

1: Guy Lapointe, MTL [Holding] 3:51
Noel Picard, STL [Roughing] 13:03
Pete Mahovlich, MTL [Roughing] 19:07
Bill Plager, STL [Roughing] 19:07
2: Bill Sutherland, STL [Tripping] 4:45
J.C. Tremblay, MTL [Tripping] 5:43
Christian Bordeleau, STL [Tripping] 8:27
J.C. Tremblay, MTL [Tripping] 12:27
Jimmy Roberts, STL [Fighting] 13:56
Barclay Plager, STL [Fighting] 13:56
Marc Tardif, MTL [Fighting] 13:56
Pete Mahovlich, MTL [Roughing, Fighting] 13:56
Pierre Bouchard, MTL [Hooking] 18:15
3: Bill Plager, STL [Hooking] 5:20
Rejean Houle, MTL [Hooking] 7:46
Pierre Bouchard, MTL [Holding] 12:39
Penalty time: MTL: 26 minutes STL: 20 minutes
MTL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Rogie Vachon 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
J.C. Tremblay 3 D 0 0 0 4 0 1
Jean Beliveau 4 C 0 1 1 0 1 2
Guy Lapointe 5 D 0 0 0 2 1 1
Ralph Backstrom 6 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bill Collins 10 RW 1 0 1 0 1 3
Marc Tardif 11 LW 0 0 0 5 0 1
Yvan Cournoyer 12 RW 0 1 1 0 1 0
Rejean Houle 14 LW 0 0 0 2 0 1
Henri Richard 16 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Serge Savard 18 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Terry Harper 19 D 0 0 0 0 2 1
Pete Mahovlich 20 C 0 0 0 9 0 2
Leon Rochefort 21 RW 0 1 1 0 1 3
John Ferguson 22 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Mickey Redmond 24 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Jacques Lemaire 25 C 1 0 1 0 1 2
Pierre Bouchard 26 D 0 0 0 4 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)526
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)526

STL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Noel Picard 4 D 0 0 0 2 1 0
Bill Plager 5 D 0 0 0 4 0 1
Jimmy Roberts 6 D 0 0 0 5 -1 0
Red Berenson 7 C 0 1 1 0 -1 9
Barclay Plager 8 D 0 1 1 5 1 4
Frank St. Marseille 9 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 5
George Morrison 10 LW 1 0 1 0 1 3
Gary Sabourin 11 RW 1 1 2 0 1 3
Tim Ecclestone 14 LW 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Bill McCreary 15 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Craig Cameron 16 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
John Arbour 17 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Brit Selby 18 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Jim Lorentz 19 C 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Christian Bordeleau 21 C 0 0 0 2 1 2
Bill Sutherland 22 C 0 0 0 2 -1 2
Bob Plager 23 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ernie Wakely 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-533
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-533
Shots: MTL: 10-10- 6-26 STL: 10-11-12-33 Goalies: MTL: Rogie Vachon (T, 8-5-4) STL: Ernie Wakely (T, 10-4-5) Referee: John Ashley Linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Bob Mclaren Attendance: 18,169



Team123F
Vancouver Canucks (13-19-3) 2 0 0 2
Toronto Maple Leafs (14-18-1) 1 3 3 7

1: VAN,Andre Boudrias 14 (Ray Cullen, Ed Hatoum), 2:23 - PP
TOR,Mike Pelyk 2 (Rick Ley, Darryl Sittler), 4:52
VAN,Danny Johnson 5 (Dale Tallon, Danny Seguin), 7:03
2: TOR,Ron Ellis 10 (Norm Ullman, Brian Spencer), 9:45
TOR,Darryl Sittler 5 (Jim Harrison), 11:25
TOR,Jim Harrison 7 (Darryl Sittler, Rick Ley), 18:55
3: TOR,George Armstrong 4 (Jim Harrison, Jim McKenny), 3:43
TOR,Norm Ullman 15 (Ron Ellis, Mike Pelyk), 16:05
TOR,Norm Ullman 16 (Ron Ellis, Brian Spencer), 19:19
Penalties:

1: Billy MacMillan, TOR [Interference] 0:31
Norm Ullman, TOR [Slashing] 2:03
Barry Wilkins, VAN [Slashing] 2:03
Jim McKenny, TOR [Tripping] 3:21
Dale Tallon, VAN [Cross checking] 4:08
Poul Popiel, VAN [Holding] 7:50
Gary Doak, VAN [Fighting] 12:33
Brian Spencer, TOR [Fighting] 12:33
Billy MacMillan, TOR [Holding] 13:05
Darryl Sly, VAN [Hi-sticking] 15:37
Pat Quinn, VAN [Hi-sticking] 17:33
Jim Harrison, TOR [Hi-sticking] 17:33
2: Rick Ley, TOR [Interference] 5:36
Jim Harrison, TOR [Elbowing] 15:03
3: Mike Pelyk, TOR [Hi-sticking] 7:47
Dale Tallon, VAN [Hi-sticking] 7:47
Jim Harrison, TOR [Holding] 8:46
Penalty time: VAN: 17 minutes TOR: 23 minutes
VAN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gary Doak 2 D 0 0 0 5 -3 0
Pat Quinn 3 D 0 0 0 2 -3 3
Barry Wilkins 4 D 0 0 0 2 -3 4
Darryl Sly 5 D 0 0 0 2 0 0
Marc Reaume 6 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Andre Boudrias 7 LW 1 0 1 0 -2 3
Danny Johnson 8 C 1 0 1 0 -3 1
Ed Hatoum 9 RW 0 1 1 0 -3 1
Ray Cullen 10 C 0 1 1 0 0 3
Wayne Maki 11 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Mike Corrigan 12 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Rosaire Paiement 15 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Ted Taylor 16 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danny Seguin 17 LW 0 1 1 0 -3 4
Poul Popiel 18 D 0 0 0 2 -2 0
Dale Tallon 19 D 0 1 1 4 -3 2
George Gardner 20 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Murray Hall 23 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Orland Kurtenbach 25 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 7 defensemen)-2929
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 7 defensemen)-2929

TOR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jacques Plante 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rick Ley 2 D 0 2 2 2 4 1
Mike Pelyk 4 D 1 1 2 2 3 3
Ron Ellis 6 RW 1 2 3 0 3 7
Jim Dorey 8 D 0 0 0 0 2 6
Norm Ullman 9 C 2 1 3 2 3 8
George Armstrong 10 RW 1 0 1 0 2 4
Jim Harrison 12 C 1 2 3 6 4 2
Dave Keon 14 C 0 0 0 0 0 5
Brian Spencer 15 LW 0 2 2 5 2 0
Jim McKenny 18 D 0 1 1 2 3 3
Paul Henderson 19 LW 0 0 0 0 1 2
Garry Monahan 20 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Bob Baun 21 D 0 0 0 0 0 2
Billy MacMillan 23 RW 0 0 0 4 -1 3
Darryl Sittler 27 C 1 2 3 0 4 7
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 5 defensemen)2957
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 5 defensemen)2957
Shots: VAN: 11- 9- 9-29 TOR: 21-18-18-57 Goalies: VAN: George Gardner (L, 2-5-1) TOR: Jacques Plante (W, 9-7-1) Referee: Art Skov Linesmen: Pat Shetler, Ron Ego Attendance: 16,485



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