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All NHL game summaries from December 23, 1976



Team123F
New York Rangers (14-13-10) 0 2 1 3
Boston Bruins (21-11-3) 1 1 1 3

1: BOS,Earl Anderson 2 (Matti Hagman, Don Marcotte), 5:11
2: BOS,Terry O'Reilly 5 (Don Marcotte, Gregg Sheppard), :43
NYR,Don Murdoch 26 (Phil Esposito, Mike McEwen), 7:44
NYR,Don Murdoch 27 (Walt Tkaczuk, Greg Polis), 15:45
3: BOS,Johnny Bucyk 13, 4:15
NYR,Steve Vickers 11 (Wayne Dillon), 12:40
Penalties:

1: Nick Fotiu, NYR [Interference] 0:56
Bobby Schmautz, BOS [Hi-sticking] 6:40
Rick Smith, BOS [Hi-sticking] 6:40
Nick Fotiu, NYR [Hi-sticking, Misconduct] 6:40
2: none
3: Rod Gilbert, NYR [Misconduct] 4:15
Mike Milbury, BOS [Fighting] 7:29
Walt Tkaczuk, NYR [Game misconduct] 7:29
Don Murdoch, NYR [Roughing] 7:29
Brad Park, BOS [Hi-sticking] 12:35
Carol Vadnais, NYR [Hi-sticking] 12:35
Penalty time: NYR: 38 minutes BOS: 11 minutes
NYR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Dave Farrish 3 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
Ron Greschner 4 D 0 0 0 0 2 0
Carol Vadnais 5 D 0 0 0 2 -2 0
Rod Gilbert 7 RW 0 0 0 10 -2 1
Steve Vickers 8 LW 1 0 1 0 -1 1
Wayne Dillon 9 C 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Bill Goldsworthy 12 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Don Murdoch 14 RW 2 0 2 2 2 7
Pat Hickey 16 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Walt Tkaczuk 18 C 0 1 1 10 1 0
Greg Polis 20 RW 0 1 1 0 2 1
Pete Stemkowski 21 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Nick Fotiu 22 LW 0 0 0 14 -1 0
Dave Maloney 26 D 0 0 0 0 -2 4
Mike McEwen 27 D 0 1 1 0 1 4
Gilles Gratton 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Phil Esposito 77 C 0 1 1 0 1 5
Ken Hodge 88 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-127
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)-127

BOS Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Peter McNab 8 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Johnny Bucyk 9 LW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Jean Ratelle 10 C 0 0 0 0 1 1
Bobby Schmautz 11 RW 0 0 0 2 -1 1
Wayne Cashman 12 LW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Rick Middleton 16 RW 0 0 0 0 1 0
Hank Nowak 18 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Gregg Sheppard 19 C 0 1 1 0 0 3
Dallas Smith 20 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Don Marcotte 21 LW 0 2 2 0 2 4
Brad Park 22 D 0 0 0 2 0 1
Rick Smith 23 D 0 0 0 2 -1 2
Terry O'Reilly 24 RW 1 0 1 0 1 4
Gary Doak 25 D 0 0 0 0 0 4
Mike Milbury 26 D 0 0 0 5 2 0
Earl Anderson 27 RW 1 0 1 0 -2 2
Matti Hagman 28 C 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Gerry Cheevers 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)131
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)131
Shots: NYR: 9-11- 7-27 BOS: 8-11-12-31 Goalies: NYR: Gilles Gratton (T, 6-8-4) BOS: Gerry Cheevers (T, 12-4-2) Referee: Wally Harris Linesmen: Ron Finn, Gerard Gauthier Attendance: 12,718



Team123F
Toronto Maple Leafs (16-14-6) 2 0 0 2
Buffalo Sabres (22-8-3) 1 0 3 4

1: TOR,Bob Neely 8 (Ian Turnbull), 4:52
TOR,Dave "Tiger" Williams 12 (Jack Valiquette, Jim McKenny), 5:25
BUF,Rick Martin 22, 17:13
2: no scoring
3: BUF,Andre Savard 14 (Jim Lorentz, Rick Martin), 4:10
BUF,Rene Robert 10 (Don Luce), 15:14
BUF,Craig Ramsay 7 (Gilbert Perreault, Danny Gare), 19:04 - EN
Penalties:

1: Brian Glennie, TOR [Hooking] 10:29
2: Bill Hajt, BUF [Tripping] 4:23
Danny Gare, BUF [Tripping] 15:27
3: Mike Palmateer, TOR [Interference] 6:23
Rene Robert, BUF [Roughing] 6:23
Penalty time: TOR: 4 minutes BUF: 6 minutes
TOR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Ian Turnbull 2 D 0 1 1 0 -2 1
Bob Neely 3 RW 1 0 1 0 0 2
Lanny McDonald 7 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Jack Valiquette 8 C 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Don Ashby 9 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Inge Hammarstrom 11 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 3
Stan Weir 14 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Pat Boutette 15 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Jim McKenny 18 D 0 1 1 0 0 0
Borje Salming 21 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Dave "Tiger" Williams 22 LW 1 0 1 0 -1 6
Randy Carlyle 23 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Brian Glennie 24 D 0 0 0 2 1 0
Scott Garland 25 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Darryl Sittler 27 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Mike Palmateer 29 G 0 0 0 2 0 0
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1118
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1118

BUF Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jerry Korab 4 D 0 0 0 0 0 4
Lee Fogolin 5 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Jim Schoenfeld 6 D 0 0 0 0 0 6
Rick Martin 7 LW 1 1 2 0 1 1
Jim Lorentz 8 C 0 1 1 0 1 2
Craig Ramsay 10 LW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Gilbert Perreault 11 C 0 1 1 0 1 3
Andre Savard 12 C 1 0 1 0 1 1
Rene Robert 14 RW 1 0 1 2 0 6
Gary McAdam 15 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Fred Stanfield 17 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Danny Gare 18 RW 0 1 1 2 1 1
Don Luce 20 C 0 1 1 0 0 1
Brian Spencer 21 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jocelyn Guevremont 22 D 0 0 0 0 1 4
Bill Hajt 24 D 0 0 0 2 2 1
Terry Martin 25 LW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Gerry Desjardins 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)1039
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)1039
Shots: TOR: 8- 5- 9-22 BUF: 11-10-18-39 Goalies: TOR: Mike Palmateer (L, 12-5-3) BUF: Gerry Desjardins (W, 22-5-3) Referee: Bruce Hood Linesmen: Leon Stickle, Ray Scapinello Attendance: 16,433



Team123F
Pittsburgh Penguins (14-16-5) 0 0 2 2
Detroit Red Wings (12-18-4) 0 1 4 5

1: no scoring
2: DET,Bill Lochead 5 (Rick Lapointe), 7:07
3: PIT,Greg Malone 6 (Ron Stackhouse, Pierre Larouche), 3:34 - PP
PIT,Pierre Larouche 12 (Mike Corrigan, Rick Kehoe), 4:50
DET,Walt McKechnie 14 (Nick Libett, Al Cameron), 10:34
DET,Bill Lochead 6 (Dennis Hextall), 11:57
DET,Jim Nahrgang 2 (Fred "Buster" Harvey), 19:00 - SH-EN
DET,Rick Wilson 2 (Dennis Hextall, Fred "Buster" Harvey), 19:43 - EN
Penalties:

1: Dan Maloney, DET [Fighting] 9:59
Ron Stackhouse, PIT [Fighting] 9:59
Bill Lochead, DET [Fighting] 13:00
Russ Anderson, PIT [Fighting] 13:00
Rick Wilson, DET [Holding] 19:24
2: none
3: Dennis Hextall, DET [Tripping] 2:07
Dennis Polonich, DET [Roughing] 17:08
Penalty time: PIT: 10 minutes DET: 16 minutes
PIT Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Denis Herron 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ron Stackhouse 3 D 0 1 1 5 -3 0
Dave Burrows 4 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Steve Lyon 5 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russ Anderson 7 D 0 0 0 5 0 0
Rick Kehoe 8 RW 0 1 1 0 0 3
Blair Chapman 9 RW 0 0 0 0 -3 0
Pierre Larouche 10 C 1 1 2 0 -1 5
Greg Malone 12 C 1 0 1 0 -2 2
Wayne Bianchin 14 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Lew Morrison 16 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Ron Schock 17 C 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Bob Kelly 22 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Don Awrey 24 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Dennis Owchar 25 D 0 0 0 0 -3 0
Syl Apps 26 C 0 0 0 0 -3 4
Mike Corrigan 27 LW 0 1 1 0 0 1
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)-2221
TOTAL   (10 forwards, 6 defensemen)-2221

DET Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jim Rutherford 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jim Nahrgang 3 D 1 0 1 0 1 2
Rick Lapointe 4 D 0 1 1 0 2 1
Jean Hamel 5 D 0 0 0 0 1 2
Dan Maloney 7 LW 0 0 0 5 1 2
Dennis Polonich 8 C 0 0 0 2 1 1
Walt McKechnie 11 C 1 0 1 0 1 3
J.P. Leblanc 12 C 0 0 0 0 1 3
Nick Libett 14 LW 0 1 1 0 1 4
Michel Bergeron 16 RW 0 0 0 0 0 4
Bobby Sheehan 17 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
Rick Wilson 19 D 1 0 1 2 2 3
Dennis Hextall 22 C 0 2 2 2 2 6
Bill Lochead 23 LW 2 0 2 5 2 4
Greg Joly 24 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Mike Bloom 25 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Al Cameron 26 D 0 1 1 0 1 1
Fred "Buster" Harvey 27 RW 0 2 2 0 2 2
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)1942
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)1942
Shots: PIT: 8- 3-10-21 DET: 13-19-10-42 Goalies: PIT: Denis Herron (L, 4-4-0) DET: Jim Rutherford (W, 5-9-3) Referee: Bryan Lewis Linesmen: Matt Pavelich, Bob Luther Attendance: 8,872



Team123F
Washington Capitals (10-19-4) 1 0 1 2
Philadelphia Flyers (20-7-8) 1 2 2 5

1: PHI,Mel Bridgman 11 (Bobby Clarke, Bill Barber), 13:16
WAS,Garnet "Ace" Bailey 11 (Hartland Monahan), 15:11
2: PHI,Don Saleski 6 (Orest Kindrachuk), 10:47 - SH
PHI,Don Saleski 7 (Larry Goodenough, Mel Bridgman), 18:24 - PP
3: PHI,Tom Bladon 4 (Rick MacLeish, Ross Lonsberry), 3:10
PHI,Andre Dupont 1 (Mel Bridgman, Bob Kelly), 10:37
WAS,Ron Lalonde 5 (Bill Collins), 17:05
Penalties:

1: Rick MacLeish, PHI [Slashing, Fighting] 7:04
Bryan Watson, WAS [Slashing, Fighting] 7:04
Mel Bridgman, PHI [Slashing] 11:09
Hartland Monahan, WAS [Hooking] 18:42
2: Bryan Watson, WAS [Fighting] 10:11
Bob Kelly, PHI [Slashing, Fighting] 10:11
Bobby Clarke, PHI [Slashing] 11:42
Ron Lalonde, WAS [Tripping] 13:20
Jack McIlhargey, PHI [Charging] 15:45
Paul Holmgren, PHI [Charging, Fighting, Game misconduct] 15:45
Gord Lane, WAS [Game misconduct] 15:45
Bryan Watson, WAS [Roughing] 15:45
Guy Charron, WAS [Holding] 17:29
3: none
Penalty time: WAS: 30 minutes PHI: 37 minutes
WAS Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jack Lynch 2 D 0 0 0 0 -4 0
Rick Green 5 D 0 0 0 0 0 4
Gord Smith 6 D 0 0 0 0 -3 1
Garnet "Ace" Bailey 9 LW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Doug Patey 10 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Hartland Monahan 12 RW 0 1 1 2 0 3
Gerry Meehan 14 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Guy Charron 15 C 0 0 0 2 0 2
Rick Bragnalo 18 C 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Bryan Watson 19 D 0 0 0 14 1 0
Tony White 20 LW 0 0 0 0 0 3
Ron Lalonde 22 C 1 0 1 2 -1 2
Tom Rowe 24 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Bill Collins 26 RW 0 1 1 0 1 3
Paul Nicholson 27 LW 0 0 0 0 -3 2
Gord Lane 28 D 0 0 0 10 0 1
Bernie Wolfe 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1427
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 5 defensemen)-1427

PHI Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Tom Bladon 3 D 1 0 1 0 1 3
Larry Goodenough 5 D 0 1 1 0 2 0
Andre Dupont 6 D 1 0 1 0 1 2
Bill Barber 7 LW 0 1 1 0 0 8
Bob Kelly 9 LW 0 1 1 7 1 0
Mel Bridgman 10 C 1 2 3 2 2 2
Don Saleski 11 RW 2 0 2 0 1 4
Gary Dornhoefer 12 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Joe Watson 14 D 0 0 0 0 2 3
Bobby Clarke 16 C 0 1 1 2 0 2
Paul Holmgren 17 RW 0 0 0 17 0 0
Ross Lonsberry 18 LW 0 1 1 0 1 0
Rick MacLeish 19 C 0 1 1 7 1 1
Harvey Bennett 22 C 0 0 0 0 1 0
Orest Kindrachuk 26 C 0 1 1 0 0 2
Reggie Leach 27 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Jack McIlhargey 29 D 0 0 0 2 0 3
Wayne Stephenson 35 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)1332
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)1332
Shots: WAS: 14- 6- 7-27 PHI: 8-16- 8-32 Goalies: WAS: Bernie Wolfe (L, 3-4-1) PHI: Wayne Stephenson (W, 2-0-0) Referee: Bob Myers Linesmen: Neil Armstrong, Swede Knox Attendance: 17,077



Team123F
St. Louis Blues (15-17-4) 1 2 1 4
Vancouver Canucks (10-24-3) 1 1 0 2

1: STL,Larry Patey 13 (Floyd Thomson, Rod Seiling), 10:18 - SH
VAN,Andy Spruce 7 (Rick Blight, Larry Carriere), 12:55
2: STL,Floyd Thomson 5, 8:10
VAN,Jim Wiley 1, 16:16
STL,Bob Gassoff 2 (Ted Irvine), 19:57
3: STL,Jerry Butler 4 (Bruce Affleck, Ted Irvine), 12:44
Penalties:

1: Pierre Plante, STL [Fighting] 1:41
Dave Fortier, VAN [Fighting] 1:41
Chris Oddleifson, VAN [Hi-sticking] 6:07
Ted Irvine, STL [Tripping] 8:34
Garry Unger, STL [Hi-sticking] 17:00
Rick Blight, VAN [Holding] 17:00
2: Gerry O'Flaherty, VAN [Tripping] 5:52
Pierre Plante, STL [Fighting] 11:47
Harold Snepsts, VAN [Fighting] 11:47
3: Bruce Affleck, STL [Holding] 14:51
Red Berenson, STL [Tripping] 16:06
Ron Sedlbauer, VAN [Cross checking] 17:05
Penalty time: STL: 18 minutes VAN: 18 minutes
STL Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Eddie Johnston 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Joe Zanussi 2 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Bob Gassoff 3 D 1 0 1 0 2 3
Bruce Affleck 4 D 0 1 1 2 1 1
Bob Plager 5 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Larry Patey 6 C 1 0 1 0 1 2
Garry Unger 7 C 0 0 0 2 -1 3
Red Berenson 9 C 0 0 0 2 2 0
Rod Seiling 10 D 0 1 1 0 1 3
Claude Larose 12 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bernie Federko 14 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pierre Plante 16 RW 0 0 0 10 -1 0
Jerry Butler 17 RW 1 0 1 0 2 2
Floyd Thomson 18 LW 1 1 2 0 1 2
Bob MacMillan 21 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Chuck Lefley 25 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ted Irvine 27 LW 0 2 2 2 2 1
Rick Bourbonnais 28 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)922
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 5 defensemen)922

VAN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Mike Robitaille 2 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bob Dailey 3 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Mike Walton 4 C 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Larry Carriere 5 D 0 1 1 0 1 0
Dennis Kearns 6 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Dave Fortier 7 D 0 0 0 5 -1 0
Rick Blight 8 RW 0 1 1 2 1 3
Don Lever 9 C 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Dennis Ververgaert 10 RW 0 0 0 0 -3 4
Jim Wiley 12 C 1 0 1 0 1 3
Chris Oddleifson 14 C 0 0 0 2 0 1
Hilliard Graves 15 RW 0 0 0 0 0 2
Ron Sedlbauer 17 LW 0 0 0 2 -2 2
Bobby Lalonde 20 C 0 0 0 0 0 3
Andy Spruce 22 LW 1 0 1 0 1 2
Gerry O'Flaherty 23 LW 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Harold Snepsts 27 D 0 0 0 5 -1 1
Cesare Maniago 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1024
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1024
Shots: STL: 5- 8- 9-22 VAN: 12- 6- 6-24 Goalies: STL: Eddie Johnston (W, 8-6-3) VAN: Cesare Maniago (L, 4-10-1) Referee: Gregg Madill Linesmen: Malcolm Ashford, Randy Mitton Attendance: 15,613



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