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All NHL game summaries from October 18, 1972



Team123F
Minnesota North Stars (2-2-1) 2 1 3 6
Atlanta Flames (1-4-1) 0 0 0 0

1: MIN,J.P. Parise 3 (Ted Harris), 6:33
MIN,Dennis Hextall 1 (Tom Reid, J.P. Parise), 11:34
2: MIN,Dennis Hextall 2 (J.P. Parise), :20
3: MIN,Bill Goldsworthy 3 (Barry Gibbs, Dennis Hextall), 1:45
MIN,Bill Goldsworthy 4 (Dennis Hextall, J.P. Parise), 13:16
MIN,Lou Nanne 1 (Murray Oliver), 17:22
Penalties:

1: Barry Gibbs, MIN [Interference] 11:50
2: Ron Harris, ATL [Hooking] 6:43
3: Lou Nanne, MIN [Hooking] 5:54
Penalty time: MIN: 4 minutes ATL: 2 minutes
MIN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Barry Gibbs 2 D 0 1 1 2 3 1
Ted Harris 4 D 0 1 1 0 3 2
Dennis O'Brien 5 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
Doug Mohns 6 D 0 0 0 0 2 1
Bill Goldsworthy 8 RW 2 0 2 0 5 3
Charlie Burns 9 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Murray Oliver 10 C 0 1 1 0 1 3
J.P. Parise 11 LW 1 3 4 0 5 2
Jerry Byers 12 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jude Drouin 16 C 0 0 0 0 0 5
Bob Nevin 17 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fred "Buster" Harvey 18 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tom Reid 20 D 0 1 1 0 3 1
Danny Grant 21 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Dennis Hextall 22 C 2 2 4 0 5 4
Lou Nanne 23 RW 1 0 1 2 1 1
Dean Prentice 29 LW 0 0 0 0 1 2
Cesare Maniago 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)3029
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)3029

ATL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Bill Plager 2 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Pat Quinn 3 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Noel Price 4 D 0 0 0 0 -3 2
Ron Harris 5 D 0 0 0 2 -4 1
Bob Paradise 6 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Randy Manery 7 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Lew Morrison 8 RW 0 0 0 0 -3 0
Keith McCreary 9 RW 0 0 0 0 -4 0
Norm Gratton 10 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Ernie Hicke 12 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Jacques Richard 15 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Bob Leiter 16 C 0 0 0 0 -5 5
John Stewart 17 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Rey Comeau 18 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Morris Stefaniw 19 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Billy MacMillan 20 RW 0 0 0 0 0 4
Dan Bouchard 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)-3024
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)-3024
Shots: MIN: 8-10-11-29 ATL: 11- 5- 8-24 Goalies: MIN: Cesare Maniago (W, 1-1-1) ATL: Dan Bouchard (L, 0-3-0) Referee: Bryan Lewis Linesmen: Terry Pierce, Jim Christison Attendance: 8,852



Team123F
Philadelphia Flyers (2-2-1) 1 2 1 4
Los Angeles Kings (1-6-0) 1 0 2 3

1: PHI,Jean Potvin 1 (Brent Hughes, Bill Clement), 2:48
LA ,Mike Corrigan 4 (Juha Widing, Serge Bernier), 8:41 - PP
2: PHI,Bill Flett 4 (Barry Ashbee), 7:21 - SH
PHI,Dave Schultz 2 (Brent Hughes), 9:05
3: LA ,Bob Berry 6 (Gilles Marotte, Juha Widing), 9:02
LA ,Butch Goring 3 (Mike Corrigan, Ralph Backstrom), 15:01
PHI,Bill Flett 5 (Simon Nolet, Brent Hughes), 19:29 - PP
Penalties:

1: Ralph Backstrom, LA [Hi-sticking] 1:02
Barry Ashbee, PHI [Hi-sticking] 1:02
Bob Kelly, PHI [Tripping] 7:46
Mike Corrigan, LA [Hi-sticking] 8:41
Barry Ashbee, PHI [Hi-sticking] 8:41
Vic Venasky, LA [Tripping] 12:27
2: Paul Curtis, LA [Fighting] 6:03
Bob Kelly, PHI [Fighting] 6:03
Don Saleski, PHI [Roughing] 6:03
Neil Komadoski, LA [Interference] 9:42
Bob Berry, LA [Cross checking] 13:29
3: Barry Ashbee, PHI [Tripping] 0:30
Barry Ashbee, PHI [Hooking] 4:49
Mike Corrigan, LA [Roughing] 10:07
Rick MacLeish, PHI [Roughing] 10:07
Neil Komadoski, LA [Holding] 17:53
Mike Corrigan, LA [Misconduct] 19:29
Penalty time: PHI: 19 minutes LA : 29 minutes
PHI Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Doug Favell 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Barry Ashbee 4 D 0 1 1 8 2 0
Brent Hughes 5 D 0 3 3 0 3 4
Wayne Hillman 6 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dave Schultz 8 LW 1 0 1 0 1 1
Bob Kelly 9 LW 0 0 0 7 0 0
Bill Clement 10 C 0 1 1 0 2 4
Don Saleski 11 RW 0 0 0 2 0 1
Gary Dornhoefer 12 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Joe Watson 14 D 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Larry Wright 15 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bobby Clarke 16 C 0 0 0 0 1 1
Simon Nolet 17 RW 0 1 1 0 0 7
Ross Lonsberry 18 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Rick MacLeish 19 C 0 0 0 2 -2 2
Bill Flett 21 RW 2 0 2 0 1 5
Tom Bladon 23 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Jean Potvin 25 D 1 0 1 0 1 1
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)336
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)336

LA Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gary Edwards 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Terry Harper 2 D 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Gilles Marotte 4 D 0 1 1 0 0 4
Harry Howell 5 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Paul Curtis 6 D 0 0 0 5 0 2
Real Lemieux 7 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ralph Backstrom 9 C 0 1 1 2 0 3
Vic Venasky 10 C 0 0 0 2 -1 3
Mike Corrigan 11 LW 1 1 2 14 0 4
Jimmy Peters 12 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Juha Widing 15 C 0 2 2 0 0 3
Bill Lesuk 16 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bob Berry 18 LW 1 0 1 2 0 2
Butch Goring 19 C 1 0 1 0 0 5
Serge Bernier 21 C 0 1 1 0 0 4
Neil Komadoski 23 D 0 0 0 4 1 0
Don Kozak 24 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 1
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-437
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-437
Shots: PHI: 10-18- 8-36 LA : 13- 7-17-37 Goalies: PHI: Doug Favell (W, 2-1-1) LA : Gary Edwards (L, 1-3-0) Referee: Wally Harris Linesmen: Alan Glaspell, Gerard Gauthier Attendance: 7,554



Team123F
Boston Bruins (2-3-0) 0 0 1 1
New York Rangers (3-3-0) 3 0 4 7

1: NYR,Vic Hadfield 2 (Jean Ratelle), 7:35
NYR,Rod Seiling 1 (Rod Gilbert), 9:56
NYR,Jean Ratelle 3 (Rod Gilbert, Brad Park), 19:37 - PP
2: no scoring
3: NYR,Bill Fairbairn 3 (Gene Carr), :21
NYR,Bill Fairbairn 4 (Brad Park, Dale Rolfe), 1:46 - PP
BOS,Fred Stanfield 3 (Johnny Bucyk), 2:38
NYR,Rod Seiling 2 (Glen Sather, Ron Stewart), 9:06
NYR,Gene Carr 1 (Bill Fairbairn, Bobby Rousseau), 10:16
Penalties:

1: Fred O'Donnell, BOS [Fighting] 8:38
Glen Sather, NYR [Fighting] 8:38
Mike Walton, BOS [Game misconduct] 8:38
Gene Carr, NYR [Cross checking] 16:38
Phil Esposito, BOS [Holding] 17:43
2: Bench penalty, BOS [Too many men on the ice] 4:36
Pete Stemkowski, NYR [Tripping] 4:36
Rod Seiling, NYR [Holding] 4:54
Phil Esposito, BOS [Roughing] 8:53
Gene Carr, NYR [Charging, Slashing, Fighting] 9:27
Garnet "Ace" Bailey, BOS [Fighting] 9:27
3: Ken Hodge, BOS [Hooking] 0:37
Rod Seiling, NYR [Holding] 16:36
Penalty time: BOS: 28 minutes NYR: 22 minutes
BOS Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Eddie Johnston 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nick Beverley 6 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Phil Esposito 7 C 0 0 0 4 -2 4
Ken Hodge 8 RW 0 0 0 2 -2 0
Johnny Bucyk 9 LW 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Carol Vadnais 10 D 0 0 0 0 -3 1
Mike Walton 11 C 0 0 0 10 -1 1
Wayne Cashman 12 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Garnet "Ace" Bailey 14 LW 0 0 0 5 -1 1
Fred O'Donnell 16 RW 0 0 0 5 -1 1
Fred Stanfield 17 LW 1 0 1 0 -1 7
Chris Oddleifson 18 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dallas Smith 20 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Don Marcotte 21 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Matt Ravlich 23 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Terry O'Reilly 24 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Don Awrey 26 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-2023
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-2023

NYR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Brad Park 2 D 0 2 2 0 2 5
Dale Rolfe 5 D 0 1 1 0 2 2
Glen Sather 6 LW 0 1 1 5 1 0
Rod Gilbert 7 RW 0 2 2 0 1 2
Steve Vickers 8 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gene Carr 9 C 1 1 2 11 3 2
Bill Fairbairn 10 RW 2 1 3 0 2 4
Vic Hadfield 11 LW 1 0 1 0 0 5
Ron Stewart 12 RW 0 1 1 0 1 0
Rod Seiling 16 D 2 0 2 4 2 4
Walt Tkaczuk 18 C 0 0 0 0 1 6
Jean Ratelle 19 C 1 1 2 0 1 2
Curt Bennett 20 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pete Stemkowski 21 C 0 0 0 2 1 0
Bobby Rousseau 22 RW 0 1 1 0 1 3
Ab Demarco 24 D 0 0 0 0 2 5
Gilles Villemure 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 4 defensemen)2040
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 4 defensemen)2040
Shots: BOS: 6- 9- 8-23 NYR: 17-10-14-41 Goalies: BOS: Eddie Johnston (L, 2-3-0) NYR: Gilles Villemure (W, 2-0-0) Referee: Art Skov Linesmen: Matt Pavelich, Bob Mclaren Attendance: 17,500



Team123F
Montreal Canadiens (3-0-2) 1 2 1 4
St. Louis Blues (1-2-2) 0 1 3 4

1: MTL,Guy Lapointe 1 (Pete Mahovlich, Claude Larose), 5:59
2: STL,Chris Evans 1 (Frank St. Marseille, Steve Durbano), 2:19
MTL,Jacques Lemaire 5 (Frank Mahovlich, Pete Mahovlich), 14:22 - PP
MTL,Pete Mahovlich 1 (Henri Richard, Guy Lapointe), 19:43
3: STL,Gary Sabourin 1 (Barclay Plager, Frank St. Marseille), :53
STL,Andre Dupont 1 (Mike Murphy), 1:34
STL,Garry Unger 4 (Jack Egers, Andre Dupont), 15:13 - PP
MTL,Frank Mahovlich 2 (Rejean Houle, Pete Mahovlich), 19:01
Penalties:

1: Guy Lapointe, MTL [Slashing] 8:23
Yvan Cournoyer, MTL [Slashing] 11:32
Serge Savard, MTL [Holding] 15:36
Steve Durbano, STL [Hooking] 18:19
2: Chris Evans, STL [Hooking] 3:43
Serge Savard, MTL [Hooking] 10:39
Phil Roberto, STL [Tripping] 12:45
Rejean Houle, MTL [Tripping] 16:03
3: Bob Plager, STL [Hooking] 4:03
Pete Mahovlich, MTL [Tripping] 5:34
Jimmy Roberts, MTL [Hooking] 9:21
Henri Richard, MTL [Holding] 13:54
Penalty time: MTL: 16 minutes STL: 8 minutes
MTL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Guy Lapointe 5 D 1 1 2 2 3 4
Jimmy Roberts 6 D 0 0 0 2 -2 0
Chuck Arnason 8 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Guy Lafleur 10 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marc Tardif 11 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yvan Cournoyer 12 RW 0 0 0 2 -2 1
Rejean Houle 14 LW 0 1 1 2 1 2
Claude Larose 15 RW 0 1 1 0 2 1
Henri Richard 16 C 0 1 1 2 1 0
Serge Savard 18 D 0 0 0 4 1 1
Pete Mahovlich 20 C 1 3 4 2 2 4
Steve Shutt 22 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bob Murdoch 23 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Chuck Lefley 24 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Jacques Lemaire 25 C 1 0 1 0 -2 3
Pierre Bouchard 26 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Frank Mahovlich 27 LW 1 1 2 0 1 6
Ken Dryden 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)024
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)024

STL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Wayne Stephenson 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Steve Durbano 2 D 0 1 1 2 1 1
Andre Dupont 3 D 1 1 2 0 -1 2
Noel Picard 4 D 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bob Plager 5 D 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Chris Evans 6 D 1 0 1 2 1 6
Garry Unger 7 C 1 0 1 0 -1 5
Barclay Plager 8 D 0 1 1 0 0 1
Frank St. Marseille 9 RW 0 2 2 0 2 3
Gary Sabourin 11 RW 1 0 1 0 1 1
Mike Murphy 14 RW 0 1 1 0 -1 0
Jack Egers 15 RW 0 1 1 0 1 2
Roger Lafreniere 16 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Phil Roberto 17 RW 0 0 0 2 -1 4
Floyd Thomson 18 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Wayne Merrick 20 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Kevin O'Shea 21 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danny O'Shea 22 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jacques Caron 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)031
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)031
Shots: MTL: 7-13- 4-24 STL: 7-10-14-31 Goalies: MTL: Ken Dryden (T, 3-0-2) STL: Wayne Stephenson (T, 1-1-1),
Jacques Caron Referee: Dave Newell Linesmen: Leon Stickle, Ron Finn Attendance: 18,167



Team123F
Pittsburgh Penguins (4-2-0) 2 0 1 3
Toronto Maple Leafs (2-2-1) 1 2 1 4

1: PIT,Greg Polis 2, 2:37
TOR,Darryl Sittler 3 (Denis Dupere, Rick Kehoe), 14:12
PIT,Bryan Hextall 2 (Greg Polis), 17:14
2: TOR,Norm Ullman 3 (Ron Ellis, Paul Henderson), 4:46
TOR,Denis Dupere 2 (Rick Kehoe, Darryl Sittler), 5:19
3: TOR,Pierre Jarry 1 (Garry Monahan, Jim McKenny), 14:14
PIT,Eddie Shack 2 (Ron Schock, Jack Lynch), 19:15
Penalties:

1: Eddie Shack, PIT [Hooking] 4:30
Bryan Hextall, PIT [Slashing] 9:51
2: Rick Kehoe, TOR [Tripping] 5:59
Garry Monahan, TOR [Hooking] 15:26
Dave Burrows, PIT [Interference] 18:32
Bryan Watson, PIT [Hi-sticking] 19:50
3: Mike Pelyk, TOR [Tripping] 5:18
Bench penalty, PIT [Too many men on the ice] 9:07
Bryan Watson, PIT [Roughing, Fighting] 16:02
Darryl Sittler, TOR [Roughing, Fighting] 16:02
Penalty time: PIT: 17 minutes TOR: 13 minutes
PIT Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jim Rutherford 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Duane Rupp 2 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Jack Lynch 3 D 0 1 1 0 1 1
Dave Burrows 4 D 0 0 0 2 0 2
Bryan Watson 5 D 0 0 0 9 -1 1
Bryan Hextall 7 C 1 0 1 2 0 3
Al McDonough 9 RW 0 0 0 0 1 1
Nick Harbaruk 11 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ken Schinkel 12 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Rick Kessell 14 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ron Lalonde 16 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ron Schock 17 C 0 1 1 0 -1 0
Lowell MacDonald 18 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Jean Pronovost 19 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Greg Polis 22 RW 1 1 2 0 1 2
Eddie Shack 23 LW 1 0 1 2 -1 5
Darryl Edestrand 25 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Syl Apps 26 C 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Denis Herron 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-526
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-526

TOR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jacques Plante 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mike Pelyk 4 D 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Ron Ellis 6 RW 0 1 1 0 -2 2
Pierre Jarry 8 LW 1 0 1 0 1 1
Norm Ullman 9 C 1 0 1 0 -1 6
Errol Thompson 12 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dave Keon 14 C 0 0 0 0 0 6
Denis Dupere 15 LW 1 1 2 0 2 6
Rick Kehoe 17 RW 0 2 2 2 2 3
Jim McKenny 18 D 0 1 1 0 2 3
Paul Henderson 19 LW 0 1 1 0 -2 3
Garry Monahan 20 LW 0 1 1 2 1 0
Bob Baun 21 D 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Brian Glennie 24 D 0 0 0 0 2 0
Darryl Sittler 27 C 1 1 2 7 2 3
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 4 defensemen)538
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 4 defensemen)538
Shots: PIT: 6- 7-13-26 TOR: 13-12-13-38 Goalies: PIT: Jim Rutherford,
Denis Herron (L, 2-1-0) TOR: Jacques Plante (W, 2-2-1) Referee: Lloyd Gilmour Linesmen: Neil Armstrong, John D'Amico Attendance: 16,248



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