Toronto Maple Leafs vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Thursday, December 27, 1979 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–3 on Thursday, December 27, 1979 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Maple Leafs 34–25.
Rocky Saganiuk scored twice and Danny Gare scored twice. Richie Dunn, Ron Ellis, Gilbert Perreault and Jerry Korab also scored.
Don Edwards made 22 saves on 25 shots for the win; Paul Harrison stopped 29 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Rocky Saganiuk (7)John Anderson (15)1–001:40 TOR
Richie Dunn (2)Derek Smith (13)1–118:24 BUF ·
2nd period
Ron Ellis (10)Walt McKechnie (25)2–100:28 TOR
Gilbert Perreault (21)Rick Dudley (6), John Van Boxmeer (23)2–212:19 BUF · 
Danny Gare (21)Derek Smith (14), Tony McKegney (11)2–312:30 BUF
Jerry Korab (1)Derek Smith (15), Tony McKegney (12)2–418:15 BUF
3rd period
- Rocky Saganiuk (8)John Anderson (16), Joel Quenneville (4)3–402:34 TOR
- Danny Gare (22)Craig Ramsay (20), Don Luce (19)3–519:12 BUF ·
Team stats
TORBUF
2534
0%0%
0/42/6
1612
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:47 into the first period
Darryl Sittler · high sticking2 min - 14:28 into the first period
Larry Playfair · roughing2 min - 14:28 into the first periodDave Williams · roughing2 min
- 15:39 into the first periodBorje Salming · hooking2 min
- 16:47 into the first periodIan Turnbull · holding2 min
- 19:12 into the first periodIan Turnbull · tripping2 min
- 19:41 into the first periodRick Martin · tripping2 min
- 4:37 into the second periodRocky Saganiuk · tripping2 min
- 8:36 into the second periodDon Luce · hooking2 min
- 10:38 into the second periodDave Williams · interference2 min
- 15:37 into the second periodLindy Ruff · hooking2 min
- 4:09 into the third periodJohn Van Boxmeer · roughing2 min
- 4:09 into the third periodDan Maloney · roughing2 min
- 8:12 into the third periodRick Dudley · hooking2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 8Rocky SaganiukR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Ron EllisR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 7Lanny McDonaldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Dan MaloneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Laurie BoschmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Jerry ButlerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 2Ian TurnbullD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Darryl MaggsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 26Dave BurrowsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Carl BrewerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Vincent TremblayG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Paul HarrisonG | L | 33 | 4 | .879 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 19Derek SmithC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 8Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 18Danny GareR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 9Rick DudleyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 20Don LuceC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 3Richie DunnD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Jerry KorabD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 5John Van BoxmeerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 7Rick MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 17John GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 6Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Don EdwardsG | W | 25 | 3 | .880 |
| 28Bob SauveG | 0 | 0 | – |