Saints, meanwhile, enjoyed a 3-0 win over Queen of the South at McDiarmid Park.
"The game got a bit untidy in the last 20 minutes or so, " said the McDiarmid Park manager.
The McDiarmid Park side launched a desperate final foray in the closing stages.
He then signed a professional contract with St Johnstone in September but became a free agent after leaving McDiarmid Park earlier this month.
MacLean's strike against St Johnstone was his second in two games, with the point at McDiarmid Park enough to guarantee Aberdeen's SPL safety.
But Stark signed a new contract after winning promotion to Division Two, Butcher took over at Brentford and Stewart decided to remain at McDiarmid Park.
The pitch at McDiarmid Park passed an early morning inspection after a period of heavy rain but the surface made life difficult for both sides.
Referee Kenny Clark called off the St Johnstone versus Hibernian game at McDiarmid Park after a heavy fall of snow which made visibility poor and the pitch virtually unplayable.
Dodds would have been eligible for a debut at McDiarmid Park, but heavy snow in Perth meant the game joining Dundee's home game with Kilmarnock and Motherwell's match at Aberdeen on the postponed list.
But after Cillian Sheridan's goal gave St Johnstone the win over Aberdeen at McDiarmid Park, the Perth side look more likely than the Reds to challenge Jim Jefferies' men for the lucrative top-six slot.
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