10th National Hockey League All-Star Game

10th NHL All-Star Game

1 2 3 Total All-Star team 0 1 0 1 Montreal Canadiens 0 1 0 1
Date	October 9, 1956
Arena	Montreal Forum
City	Montreal
Attendance	13,095
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The 10th National Hockey League All-Star Game took place at the Montreal Forum, home of the Montreal Canadiens, on October 9, 1956. The Canadiens, winner of the 1956 Stanley Cup Finals, played a team of All-Stars, with the game ending in a 1–1 tie.

Boxscore

	NHL All-Stars	Montreal Canadiens
Final score	1	1
Head coach	Jimmy Skinner (Detroit Red Wings)	Toe Blake (Montreal Canadiens)
Lineup	Starting lineup: 1 - G Glenn Hall (Detroit Red Wings[1] 2 - D Gus Mortson (Chicago Black Hawks) 3 - D Jim Morrison (Toronto Maple Leafs) 4 - D Red Kelly (Detroit Red Wings)[2] 5 - D Hugh Bolton (Toronto Maple Leafs) 6 - LW Dick Duff (Toronto Maple Leafs) 7 - LW Ted Lindsay (Detroit Red Wings)[3] 8 - C Alex Delvecchio (Detroit Red Wings) 9 - RW Leo Labine (Boston Bruins) 10 - RW George Armstrong (Toronto Maple Leafs) 11 - LW Nick Mickoski (Chicago Black Hawks) 12 - C Tod Sloan (Toronto Maple Leafs)[4] 14 - D Fern Flaman (Boston Bruins) 15 - LW Johnny Wilson (Chicago Black Hawks) 16 - D Bill Gadsby (New York Rangers[5]) 18 - RW Wally Hergesheimer (Chicago Black Hawks) 19 - C Dave Creighton (New York Rangers) 20 - C Red Sullivan (Chicago Black Hawks) 24 - G Terry Sawchuk (Boston Bruins)	Starting lineup: 1 - G Jacques Plante[6] 2 - D Doug Harvey[7] 4 - C Jean Beliveau[8] 5 - RW Bernie Geoffrion 6 - RW Floyd Curry 8 - C Jack LeClair 9 - RW Maurice Richard[9], C 10 - D Tom Johnson[10] 11 - D Bob Turner 12 - RW Dickie Moore 14 - RW Claude Provost 15 - LW Bert Olmstead 16 - C Henri Richard 17 - D Jean-Guy Talbot 19 - D Dollard St. Laurent 22 - LW Don Marshall
Scoring summary	Lindsay (Mortson), 18:48 2nd	M. Richard (Olmstead, Harvey), 14:58 2nd (PPG)
Penalties	Flaman, 1:42 1st Mortson, 8:14 2nd Sullivan, 14:25 2nd Labine, 2:17 3rd Mortson, 9:42 3rd	Beliveau, 7:44 1st Beliveau, 18:29 1st
Win/Loss	T - Glenn Hall	T - Jacques Plante

• Referee: Red Storey
• Linesmen: Doug Davies, Bill Roberts

Notes

^1 Named to the first All-Star team in 1955–56.
^2 Named to the second All-Star team in 1955–56.

Further reading

• Podnieks, Andrew (2000), The NHL All-Star Game: Fifty Years of the Great Tradition, Toronto: HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-200058-X