Colorado Rockies vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Monday, December 31, 1979 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Rockies beat the Detroit Red Wings 5–3 on Monday, December 31, 1979 at Joe Louis Arena. The Rockies outshot the Red Wings 31–26.
Lanny McDonald scored twice, Ron Delorme scored twice and George Lyle scored twice. Randy Pierce and Dale McCourt also scored.
Hardy Astrom made 23 saves on 26 shots for the win; Rogie Vachon stopped 26 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Lanny McDonald (16)Rob Ramage (10), Rene Robert (20)1–013:13 CLR ·
2nd period
Randy Pierce (10)Mike McEwen (27), Ron Delorme (12)2–001:03 CLR
Ron Delorme (12)Randy Pierce (11), Rey Comeau (1)3–003:38 CLR
Dale McCourt (12)Jim Korn (6), Reed Larson (21)3–105:48 DET
George Lyle (1)Peter Mahovlich (24), Barry Long (7)3–212:58 DET- Ron Delorme (13)Rey Comeau (2), Randy Pierce (12)4–213:38 CLR
3rd period
- Lanny McDonald (17)Rey Comeau (3)5–215:16 CLR
- George Lyle (2)Reed Larson (22)5–316:47 DET
Team stats
CLRDET
3126
0%0%
1/40/3
1913
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:21 into the first period
Mike Christie · holding2 min - 4:32 into the first periodDean Turner · holding2 min
- 5:18 into the first periodBench · delaying game bench2 min
- 5:18 into the first periodMike Christie · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 9:16 into the first period
Jim Korn · slashing2 min - 10:31 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 11:22 into the first periodWillie Huber · tripping2 min
- 15:22 into the first periodWillie Huber · high sticking2 min
- 16:58 into the first periodLanny McDonald · high sticking2 min
- 11:57 into the second periodMike Christie · fighting5 min
- 11:57 into the second periodMike Foligno · fighting5 min
- 5:26 into the third periodPaul Woods · holding2 min
- 17:11 into the third periodJoel Quenneville · tripping2 min
Season series
Colorado Rockies
| 7Randy PierceR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 19Rey ComeauC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +4 | 0 | – |
| 27Ron DelormeC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Lanny McDonaldR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 14Rene RobertR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 4Mike McEwenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 6Rob RamageD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Doug BerryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Don SaleskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Barry SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike GillisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Bobby SheehanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 3Mike ChristieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Dean TurnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 22Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hardy AstromG | W | 26 | 3 | .885 |
| 31Michel PlasseG | 0 | 0 | – |
Detroit Red Wings
| 18George LyleL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 10Dale McCourtC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Peter MahovlichC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Barry LongD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Errol ThompsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Dennis SobchukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 19Dan BolducR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Dan LabraatenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Glenn HicksL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Jean HamelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Greg JolyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jim RutherfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Rogie VachonG | L | 31 | 5 | .839 |