Dec. 25, 1964 - Gordie Howe scored his second goal of the game at 4:06 of the final period tonight to pull the Detroit Red Wings into a 2-2 tie with the front-running Montreal Canadiens at the Olympia.
Howe gloved down a high pass from Eddie Joyal just outside the Montreal blue line, and goalie Charlie Hodge stopped the first shot, but Howe fired the rebound along the ice for the equalizer.
Claude Provost and Claude Larose scored for the Canadiens, who remained four points ahead of Detroit.
Both teams scored quickly on power play chances one minute apart, late in the first period.
Howe banged in his own rebound from outside the crease at 16:47, just 10 seconds after Larose drew referee Vern Buffey’s first penalty.
The goals were the eighth and ninth for Howe and his fourth and fifth in the last four games.
Provost, breaking a two-week scoring slump, backhanded the rebound of Bobby Rousseau’s point shot past goalie Roger Crozier one minute after Howe’s goal and 14 seconds after Parker MacDonald was penalized.
The Habs, who have beaten Detroit only once in six tries against three Red Wing victories, took the lead at 5:34 of the second period on Larose’s eighth goal, a shot from the blue line that the screened Crozier never saw.
Both clubs faced the prospect of an all-day train ride to Montreal for the rematch, a ride that will start at 6:35 a.m. and end in Montreal just three hours before game time. All flights were canceled by bad weather.
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