Toronto Maple Leafs vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Sunday, March 2, 1980 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 6–3 on Sunday, March 2, 1980 at Joe Louis Arena. The Maple Leafs outshot the Red Wings 34–22.
Wilf Paiement scored twice and Darryl Sittler scored a hat trick. Borje Salming, Dale McCourt, Mike Foligno and Reed Larson also scored.
Mike Palmateer made 19 saves on 22 shots for the win; Rogie Vachon stopped 29 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Borje Salming (18)Walt McKechnie (36), Darryl Sittler (43)1–007:20 TOR ·
2nd period
Dale McCourt (23)Unassisted1–101:11 DET
Mike Foligno (29)Vaclav Nedomansky (34), Dale McCourt (42)1–205:27 DET · 
Wilf Paiement (22)Darryl Sittler (44)2–211:13 TOR ·
3rd period
Reed Larson (17)Unassisted2–302:33 DET
Darryl Sittler (28)Wilf Paiement (32), Richard Mulhern (8)3–305:08 TOR- Darryl Sittler (29)Wilf Paiement (33), Richard Mulhern (9)4–311:55 TOR
- Wilf Paiement (23)Darryl Sittler (45)5–314:32 TOR
- Darryl Sittler (30)Ian Turnbull (21)6–319:42 TOR ·
Team stats
TORDET
3422
0%0%
2/21/4
139
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 7:15 into the first period
Vaclav Nedomansky · interference2 min - 11:13 into the first period
Dave Burrows · holding2 min - 3:21 into the second periodDave Farrish · hooking2 min
- 4:07 into the second periodRichard Mulhern · hooking2 min
- 9:49 into the second periodReed Larson · holding2 min
- 5:28 into the third periodDennis Polonich · fighting5 min
- 5:28 into the third periodBill Derlago · fighting5 min
- 17:04 into the third periodDan Maloney · roughing2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 3 | 3 | 6 | +4 | 8 | – |
| 99Wilf PaiementR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +4 | 5 | – |
| 8Richard MulhernD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Ian TurnbullD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 6Ron EllisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Rocky SaganiukR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Dan MaloneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 12Laurie BoschmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 14Mike KaszyckiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Pat HickeyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Rick VaiveR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 23Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave BurrowsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Vincent TremblayG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Mike PalmateerG | W | 22 | 3 | .864 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 10Dale McCourtC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 8Dennis PolonichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Peter MahovlichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 12Errol ThompsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 18George LyleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 19Dan BolducR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Dan LabraatenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Glenn HicksL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 2Barry LongD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Thommie BergmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jim RutherfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Rogie VachonG | L | 34 | 5 | .853 |