Montréal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Sunday, November 25, 1979 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Montréal Canadiens 4–2 on Sunday, November 25, 1979 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the Canadiens 32–22.
Goals came from Jean Ratelle, Wayne Cashman, Steve Shutt, Guy Lafleur, Rick Smith and Bob Miller.
Gilles Gilbert made 20 saves on 22 shots for the win; Michel Larocque stopped 28 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Jean Ratelle (11)Rick Middleton (11)0–103:26 BOS · 
Wayne Cashman (5)Rick Middleton (12), Dick Redmond (18)0–206:23 BOS · 
Steve Shutt (13)Guy Lafleur (18), Guy Lapointe (8)1–208:28 MTL · 
Guy Lafleur (18)Steve Shutt (12), Pierre Larouche (13)2–213:08 MTL
Rick Smith (3)Bobby Lalonde (7), Bob Miller (6)2–317:18 BOS
2nd period
Bob Miller (6)Ray Bourque (11)2–405:28 BOS
Team stats
MTLBOS
2232
0%0%
1/32/5
106
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:22 into the first period
Rejean Houle · hooking2 min - 5:43 into the first periodGilles Lupien · high sticking2 min
- 8:14 into the first period
Brad McCrimmon · high sticking2 min - 14:56 into the first periodRejean Houle · hooking2 min
- 19:58 into the first periodBrad McCrimmon · hooking2 min
- 5:48 into the second periodRod Langway · high sticking2 min
- 18:49 into the second periodRay Bourque · high sticking2 min
- 19:03 into the third periodPierre Larouche · tripping2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 10Guy LafleurR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 22Steve ShuttL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 28Pierre LaroucheC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 5Guy LapointeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Pierre MondouC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Yvon LambertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Rejean HouleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Danny GeoffrionR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 31Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Brian EngblomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 18Serge SavardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Gilles LupienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Rick ChartrawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Michel LarocqueG | L | 32 | 4 | .875 |
| 33Richard SevignyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 14Bob MillerC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Jean RatelleC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 12Wayne CashmanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 19Bobby LalondeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Dick RedmondD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Rick SmithD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 8Peter McNabC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Stan JonathanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18John WensinkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Al SecordL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 21Don MarcotteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Terry O'ReillyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Gary DoakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 29Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gilles GilbertG | W | 22 | 2 | .909 |
| 30Gerry CheeversG | 0 | 0 | – |