DICE Hockey - NHL - Feb 16th 1963

Saturday February 16th 1963

	1st	2nd	3rd	T
BOS	0	0	0	0
DET	2	0	2	4

Hank Bassen earns his first shutout of the season in his twelfth appearance with a 5-5-1 record. It was easy going for the Red Wings, shutting out the Bruins for the second time in Detroit, as Boston only managed thirteen shots in the first and third periods combined.

SCORING SUMMARY
1st Period
  8:48 DET M Pronovost (5), Fonteyne, Barkley
17:10 DET PPG P MacDonald (34), Delvecchio
3rd Period
13:29 DET P MacDonald (35), Ullman, Delvecchio
19:00 DET PPG Ullman (26), Smith

POWERPLAY
BOS 0/1
DET 2/5

SAVES
BOS Perreault 41/45
DET Bassen 27/27
-------------------------------------------------------------

	1st	2nd	3rd	T
CHI	1	1	0	2
MON	2	0	0	2

Cesare Maniago stopped forty shots against league leading Chicago but the Canadiens missed out on the chance to close the gap at the top to nine points after blowing a two goal lead. Gilles Tremblay (17+12) leads his brother Jean-Claude (4+19) in points and they both combined for the first goal three minutes before Montreal's points leader Jean Beliveau made it 2-0 with his twenty-second of the year. Bobby Hull has been struggling for goals all year but his ninth of the season brought about a change in momentum leading to Chicago outshooting Montreal 35-18 through the remainder of the game. Maniago was only going to be beaten once more - Murray Balfour (16) late in the second - as the Canadiens backup brought his A game.

SCORING SUMMARY
1st Period
  7:15 MON G Tremblay (17), Beliveau, JC Tremblay
10:20 MON Richard (22), Gauthier, Marshall
11:04 CHI Hull (9), Mikita, Wharram
2nd Period
18:54 CHI Balfour (16), Fleming

POWERPLAY
CHI 0/4
MON 0/1

SAVES
CHI Hall 28/30
MON Maniago 40/42
--------------------------------------------------------------

	1st	2nd	3rd	T
NYR	0	2	1	3
TOR	1	1	3	5

New York has won just one of their last six and are now three points back of the Red Wings for the final playoff spot. The good news for them is that Don McKenney has finally scored for the Rangers twenty-four days after his trade from the Boston Bruins, but a third period collapse allowed the Maple Leafs to score three goals in the final period. Two of them came on the powerplay as New York found themselves in penalty trouble after failing to convert on four powerplays of their own through the second period before they eventually tied the game. Toronto have put their troubled start to the season behind them and are now in second place.

SCORING SUMMARY
1st Period
14:34 TOR Stewart (10), Kelly, Litzenberger
2nd Period
  0:59 TOR Mahovlich (30), Horton, Keon
17:11 NYR Neilson (6), Hebenton
18:37 NYR McKenney (23), Langlois
3rd Period
  3:20 TOR PPG Keon (36), Douglas, Pulford
  7:21 TOR PPG Mahovlich (31), Brewer, Keon
17:22 NYR Neilson (7), Cahan
19:16 TOR Brewer (4) - Penalty Shot

POWERPLAY
NYR 0/4
TOR 2/4

SAVES
NYR Worsley 33/38
TOR Simmons 33/36
 

	GP	W	L	T	Pts
Chicago Blackhawks	55	32	17	6	70
Toronto Maple Leafs	55	27	22	6	60
Montreal Canadiens	55	25	21	9	59
Detroit Red Wings	53	25	23	5	55
New York Rangers	54	23	25	6	52
Boston Bruins	56	13	37	6	32