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All NHL game summaries from March 4, 1972



Team123F
Boston Bruins (48-8-9) 2 0 3 5
Detroit Red Wings (28-29-9) 1 0 3 4

1: BOS,Wayne Cashman 19 (Phil Esposito), 1:29
DET,Leon Rochefort 12 (Red Berenson, Tim Ecclestone), 17:43
BOS,Mike Walton 23 (Wayne Cashman, Phil Esposito), 18:08
2: no scoring
3: DET,Alex Delvecchio 16 (Marcel Dionne), 4:33 - PP
BOS,Wayne Cashman 20 (Phil Esposito), 7:08
BOS,Dallas Smith 7 (Phil Esposito, Wayne Cashman), 14:22
BOS,Johnny Bucyk 26 (Fred Stanfield), 17:37
DET,Gary Bergman 5 (Alex Delvecchio, Guy Charron), 18:15
DET,Nick Libett 26 (Mickey Redmond, Bill Collins), 19:27 - PP
Penalties:

1: Phil Esposito, BOS [Tripping] 6:51
Bill Collins, DET [Holding] 9:12
Gary Bergman, DET [Tripping] 19:33
2: Carol Vadnais, BOS [Holding] 8:14
Dallas Smith, BOS [Holding] 13:24
Gary Bergman, DET [Delay of game] 17:19
3: Derek Sanderson, BOS [Holding] 4:03
Dallas Smith, BOS [Hooking] 19:23
Penalty time: BOS: 10 minutes DET: 6 minutes
BOS Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Bobby Orr 4 D 0 0 0 0 3 4
Phil Esposito 7 C 0 4 4 2 4 9
Johnny Bucyk 9 LW 1 0 1 0 1 1
Carol Vadnais 10 D 0 0 0 2 0 1
Mike Walton 11 C 1 0 1 0 4 4
Wayne Cashman 12 LW 2 2 4 0 4 4
Garnet "Ace" Bailey 14 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Derek Sanderson 16 C 0 0 0 2 -1 4
Fred Stanfield 17 LW 0 1 1 0 0 3
Ed Westfall 18 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 4
John McKenzie 19 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dallas Smith 20 D 1 0 1 4 0 2
Don Marcotte 21 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Don Awrey 26 D 0 0 0 0 3 1
Gerry Cheevers 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 4 defensemen)1539
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 4 defensemen)1539

DET Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gary Bergman 2 D 1 0 1 4 -3 8
Larry Johnston 3 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Arnie Brown 4 D 0 0 0 0 0 3
Marcel Dionne 5 C 0 1 1 0 -2 4
Red Berenson 7 C 0 1 1 0 1 4
Alex Delvecchio 10 C 1 1 2 0 -2 4
Leon Rochefort 11 RW 1 0 1 0 1 3
Henry Boucha 12 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Nick Libett 14 LW 1 0 1 0 -2 3
Tim Ecclestone 17 LW 0 1 1 0 1 1
Bob Wall 19 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Mickey Redmond 20 RW 0 1 1 0 -2 5
Ron Stackhouse 21 D 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Bill Collins 22 RW 0 1 1 2 -2 5
Guy Charron 23 C 0 1 1 0 -1 3
Doug Volmar 27 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Al Smith 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1546
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1546
Shots: BOS: 20-10- 9-39 DET: 19-15-12-46 Goalies: BOS: Gerry Cheevers (W, 23-3-6) DET: Al Smith (L, 17-18-4) Referee: John Ashley Linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Willard Norris Attendance: 15,785



Team123F
Vancouver Canucks (16-42-6) 0 0 0 0
Montreal Canadiens (38-14-12) 1 3 1 5

1: MTL,Jacques Lemaire 24 (Marc Tardif, J.C. Tremblay), 14:39
2: MTL,Frank Mahovlich 33 (Guy Lafleur, Pete Mahovlich), 4:33
MTL,Yvan Cournoyer 36 (Marc Tardif, Jacques Lemaire), 15:14 - PP
MTL,Jacques Lemaire 25 (J.C. Tremblay, Pete Mahovlich), 19:29 - PP
3: MTL,Frank Mahovlich 34 (Pete Mahovlich), 2:43
Penalties:

1: Serge Savard, MTL [Cross checking] 9:20
2: Guy Lafleur, MTL [Slashing] 11:15
John Schella, VAN [Hi-sticking] 14:11
Wayne Connelly, VAN [Hooking] 19:15
3: none
Penalty time: VAN: 4 minutes MTL: 4 minutes
VAN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Dunc Wilson 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jocelyn Guevremont 2 D 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Barry Wilkins 4 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
John Schella 5 D 0 0 0 2 -2 1
Dennis Kearns 6 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Andre Boudrias 7 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Wayne Connelly 8 C 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Dale Tallon 9 D 0 0 0 0 -1 5
Wayne Maki 11 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 6
Ron Stewart 12 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bobby Schmautz 14 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Rosaire Paiement 15 C 0 0 0 0 -1 5
Richard Lemieux 19 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Dave Balon 21 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Gregg Boddy 22 D 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Bobby Lalonde 24 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Orland Kurtenbach 25 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Ed Dyck 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1537
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1537

MTL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jacques Laperriere 2 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
J.C. Tremblay 3 D 0 2 2 0 2 1
Guy Lapointe 5 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Jimmy Roberts 6 D 0 0 0 0 0 3
Guy Lafleur 10 RW 0 1 1 2 2 2
Marc Tardif 11 LW 0 2 2 0 1 2
Yvan Cournoyer 12 RW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Rejean Houle 14 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Claude Larose 15 RW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Henri Richard 16 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Larry Pleau 17 C 0 0 0 0 0 3
Serge Savard 18 D 0 0 0 2 0 3
Pete Mahovlich 20 C 0 3 3 0 2 1
Dale Hoganson 24 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jacques Lemaire 25 C 2 1 3 0 1 4
Pierre Bouchard 26 D 0 0 0 0 2 2
Frank Mahovlich 27 LW 2 0 2 0 2 3
Ken Dryden 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)1532
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)1532
Shots: VAN: 10-14-13-37 MTL: 11-13- 8-32 Goalies: VAN: Dunc Wilson (L, 13-27-2),
Ed Dyck MTL: Ken Dryden (W, 33-6-12) Referee: John McCauley Linesmen: Leon Stickle, Alan Glaspell Attendance: 18,223



Team123F
St. Louis Blues (22-35-9) 1 0 1 2
Philadelphia Flyers (21-32-11) 1 5 0 6

1: STL,Bob Plager 3, 13:18
PHI,Simon Nolet 21 (Rick Foley, Jean Potvin), 16:59 - PP
2: PHI,Joe Watson 2 (Gary Dornhoefer), 1:51
PHI,Jean Potvin 4 (Simon Nolet, Rick Foley), 3:09 - PP
PHI,Brent Hughes 2 (Bobby Clarke), 3:26
PHI,Rick Foley 8 (Gary Dornhoefer, Jean Potvin), 7:17 - PP
PHI,Bill Clement 7 (Willie Brossart, Lew Morrison), 13:38
3: STL,Bob Plager 4 (Frank St. Marseille, Andre Dupont), 8:00
Penalties:

1: Gary Dornhoefer, PHI [Holding] 0:19
Andre Dupont, STL [Hooking] 5:08
Lew Morrison, PHI [Hi-sticking, Fighting] 8:42
Garry Unger, STL [Hi-sticking, Fighting] 8:42
Gary Dornhoefer, PHI [Elbowing] 10:13
Jack Egers, STL [Holding] 10:13
Ross Lonsberry, PHI [Tripping] 11:02
Garry Unger, STL [Holding] 16:32
Joe Watson, PHI [Holding] 19:44
2: Brian Lavender, STL [Interference] 2:23
Gary Sabourin, STL [Hooking] 4:36
Bob Plager, STL [Delay of game] 5:43
Bob Plager, STL [Hooking] 8:03
Gary Dornhoefer, PHI [Tripping] 10:13
Bill Flett, PHI [Cross checking] 11:03
3: Bob Kelly, PHI [Hi-sticking] 5:29
Jack Egers, STL [Elbowing] 6:25
Willie Brossart, PHI [Holding] 6:25
Rick Foley, PHI [Interference] 11:43
Wayne Hillman, PHI [Elbowing] 15:05
Penalty time: STL: 23 minutes PHI: 27 minutes
STL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Andre Dupont 3 D 0 1 1 2 0 2
Bob Plager 5 D 2 0 2 4 1 5
Garry Unger 7 C 0 0 0 9 -1 5
Barclay Plager 8 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Frank St. Marseille 9 RW 0 1 1 0 1 4
Gary Sabourin 11 RW 0 0 0 2 0 5
Mike Murphy 14 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Jack Egers 15 RW 0 0 0 4 0 6
Brian Lavender 16 LW 0 0 0 2 -2 1
Phil Roberto 17 RW 0 0 0 0 0 4
Floyd Thomson 18 LW 0 0 0 0 1 2
Curt Bennett 19 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Gerry Odrowski 20 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Danny O'Shea 22 C 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Bill Plager 23 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
John Arbour 24 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Larry Hornung 25 D 0 0 0 0 -1 5
Jacques Caron 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ernie Wakely 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)-646
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)-646

PHI Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Doug Favell 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Willie Brossart 3 D 0 1 1 2 0 0
Barry Ashbee 4 D 0 0 0 0 2 3
Brent Hughes 5 D 1 0 1 0 2 2
Wayne Hillman 6 D 0 0 0 2 -1 2
Michel Parizeau 7 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lew Morrison 8 RW 0 1 1 7 1 0
Bob Kelly 9 LW 0 0 0 2 1 1
Bill Clement 10 C 1 0 1 0 0 3
Gary Dornhoefer 12 RW 0 2 2 6 0 0
Joe Watson 14 D 1 0 1 2 0 2
Bobby Clarke 16 C 0 1 1 0 1 1
Simon Nolet 17 RW 1 1 2 0 -1 4
Ross Lonsberry 18 LW 0 0 0 2 0 3
Eddie Joyal 20 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Flett 21 RW 0 0 0 2 1 5
Rick Foley 22 D 1 2 3 2 0 3
Jean Potvin 25 D 1 2 3 0 0 3
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)632
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 7 defensemen)632
Shots: STL: 17-12-17-46 PHI: 9-15- 8-32 Goalies: STL: Jacques Caron (L, 9-6-3),
Ernie Wakely PHI: Doug Favell (W, 13-22-7) Referee: Bill Friday Linesmen: Matt Pavelich, Terry Pierce Attendance: 14,626



Team123F
Minnesota North Stars (32-23-9) 0 2 0 2
Pittsburgh Penguins (21-35-9) 1 2 1 4

1: PIT,Jean Pronovost 22 (Syl Apps, Val Fonteyne), 11:00 - PP
2: PIT,Steve Cardwell 4 (Ron Schock, Nick Harbaruk), 2:37
PIT,Darryl Edestrand 8 (Al McDonough, Duane Rupp), 8:42 - PP
MIN,J.P. Parise 13 (Jude Drouin, Murray Oliver), 10:46 - PP
MIN,Bill Goldsworthy 27 (J.P. Parise, Danny Grant), 12:13 - PP
3: PIT,Syl Apps 12 (Al McDonough, Duane Rupp), :13 - PP
Penalties:

1: Bryan Hextall, PIT [Holding] 3:39
Dean Prentice, MIN [Hooking] 9:01
J.P. Parise, MIN [Hooking] 13:15
Ted Harris, MIN [Tripping] 16:53
2: Barry Gibbs, MIN [Boarding] 8:10
Tim Horton, PIT [Holding] 10:02
Duane Rupp, PIT [Tripping] 12:04
Lou Nanne, MIN [Interference] 13:20
Doug Mohns, MIN [Holding] 18:51
3: Tom Reid, MIN [Hooking] 6:40
Penalty time: MIN: 14 minutes PIT: 6 minutes
MIN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gump Worsley 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Barry Gibbs 2 D 0 0 0 2 0 0
Ted Harris 4 D 0 0 0 2 0 3
Dennis O'Brien 5 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Doug Mohns 6 D 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Bill Goldsworthy 8 RW 1 0 1 0 0 3
Charlie Burns 9 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Murray Oliver 10 C 0 1 1 0 0 2
J.P. Parise 11 LW 1 1 2 2 0 4
Ted Hampson 12 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jude Drouin 16 C 0 1 1 0 0 5
Bob Nevin 17 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tom Reid 20 D 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Danny Grant 21 LW 0 1 1 0 0 3
Dennis Hextall 22 C 0 0 0 0 -1 5
Lou Nanne 23 RW 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Craig Cameron 28 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dean Prentice 29 LW 0 0 0 2 -1 3
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-532
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-532

PIT Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jim Rutherford 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Duane Rupp 2 D 0 2 2 2 1 3
Tim Horton 3 D 0 0 0 2 0 1
Dave Burrows 4 D 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bryan Watson 5 D 0 0 0 0 1 2
Bryan Hextall 7 C 0 0 0 2 0 3
Val Fonteyne 8 LW 0 1 1 0 0 2
Al McDonough 9 RW 0 2 2 0 0 7
Nick Harbaruk 11 RW 0 1 1 0 1 2
Ken Schinkel 12 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ron Schock 17 C 0 1 1 0 1 3
Jean Pronovost 19 RW 1 0 1 0 0 5
Steve Cardwell 20 LW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Greg Polis 22 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bob Leiter 23 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Darryl Edestrand 25 D 1 0 1 0 0 6
Syl Apps 26 C 1 1 2 0 0 4
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)544
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)544
Shots: MIN: 7-12-13-32 PIT: 12-17-15-44 Goalies: MIN: Gump Worsley (L, 13-8-7) PIT: Jim Rutherford (W, 13-14-2) Referee: Bruce Hood Linesmen: Claude Bechard, Ron Finn Attendance: 10,532



Team123F
Los Angeles Kings (16-43-7) 1 1 0 2
Toronto Maple Leafs (28-27-11) 1 2 0 3

1: LA ,Ralph Backstrom 13 (Serge Bernier), :17
TOR,Denis Dupere 7 (Pierre Jarry, Rick Ley), 14:57
2: LA ,Juha Widing 21 (Gilles Marotte, Bob Pulford), 5:33
TOR,Brian Spencer 1 (Denis Dupere), 8:34
TOR,Pierre Jarry 4 (Brian Spencer), 14:08
3: no scoring
Penalties:

1: Rick Ley, TOR [Cross checking] 6:41
Jim Harrison, TOR [Elbowing] 12:40
2: Mike Corrigan, LA [Slashing] 6:05
Norm Ullman, TOR [Hooking] 18:21
3: Brian Glennie, TOR [Interference] 8:37
Mike Corrigan, LA [Hooking] 11:04
Penalty time: LA : 4 minutes TOR: 8 minutes
LA Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gary Edwards 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bob Woytowich 2 D 0 0 0 0 1 3
Doug Barrie 3 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Gilles Marotte 4 D 0 1 1 0 1 2
Harry Howell 5 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Paul Curtis 6 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Real Lemieux 7 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jim Johnson 8 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Ralph Backstrom 9 C 1 0 1 0 1 6
Mike Corrigan 11 LW 0 0 0 4 -3 1
Lucien Grenier 14 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Juha Widing 15 C 1 0 1 0 1 3
Bill Lesuk 16 RW 0 0 0 0 1 5
Bob Berry 18 LW 0 0 0 0 -3 1
Butch Goring 19 C 0 0 0 0 -2 3
Bob Pulford 20 LW 0 1 1 0 1 3
Serge Bernier 21 C 0 1 1 0 2 5
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-536
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-536

TOR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jacques Plante 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rick Ley 2 D 0 1 1 2 2 1
Brad Selwood 3 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Ron Ellis 6 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Jim Harrison 7 C 0 0 0 2 0 4
Pierre Jarry 8 LW 1 1 2 0 2 4
Norm Ullman 9 C 0 0 0 2 -1 3
Billy MacMillan 12 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Dave Keon 14 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Brian Spencer 15 LW 1 1 2 0 3 3
Rick Kehoe 16 RW 0 0 0 0 0 4
Denis Dupere 17 LW 1 1 2 0 3 4
Jim McKenny 18 D 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Paul Henderson 19 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garry Monahan 20 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Bob Baun 21 D 0 0 0 0 1 5
Brian Glennie 24 D 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Darryl Sittler 27 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bernie Parent 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)539
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)539
Shots: LA : 13-13-10-36 TOR: 12-16-11-39 Goalies: LA : Gary Edwards (L, 10-18-4) TOR: Jacques Plante (W, 14-12-4),
Bernie Parent Referee: Bob Sloan Linesmen: John D'Amico, Ron Hoggarth Attendance: 16,485



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