Pittsburgh Penguins vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Sunday, March 9, 1980 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6–2 on Sunday, March 9, 1980 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Penguins 40–28.
Dale McCourt scored twice and Mike Foligno scored twice. Gregg Sheppard, Peter Mahovlich, Ross Lonsberry and Dan Labraaten also scored.
Rogie Vachon made 26 saves on 28 shots for the win; Nick Ricci stopped 34 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Dale McCourt (24)John Ogrodnick (16)0–108:14 DET · 
Gregg Sheppard (12)Peter Lee (27), Mark Johnson (1)1–113:05 PIT · 
Mike Foligno (31)Dale McCourt (43), Dan Labraaten (25)1–219:39 DET
2nd period
Peter Mahovlich (14)Jean Hamel (2), Barry Long (13)1–305:13 DET
Ross Lonsberry (15)Orest Kindrachuk (23), Rick Kehoe (25)2–312:53 PIT
Dan Labraaten (28)Peter Mahovlich (43), Vaclav Nedomansky (35)2–419:05 DET ·
3rd period
- Dale McCourt (25)Mike Foligno (31)2–504:44 DET
- Mike Foligno (32)John Ogrodnick (17), Reed Larson (35)2–607:19 DET ·
Team stats
PITDET
2840
0%0%
1/62/5
2214
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:15 into the first period
Thommie Bergman · interference2 min - 9:28 into the first period
Mario Faubert · holding2 min - 12:19 into the first periodGreg Joly · holding2 min
- 14:17 into the first periodRuss Anderson · holding2 min
- 16:49 into the first periodBarry Long · tripping2 min
- 6:07 into the second periodBarry Long · tripping2 min
- 14:09 into the second periodPat Hughes · high sticking2 min
- 17:58 into the second periodRuss Anderson · hooking2 min
- 6:54 into the third periodBob Stewart · interference2 min
- 10:52 into the third periodGreg Joly · holding2 min
- 18:10 into the third periodWillie Huber · roughing2 min
- 18:10 into the third periodJim Korn · roughing2 min
- 18:10 into the third periodKim Davis · game misconduct10 min
- 18:10 into the third periodRod Schutt · roughing2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 9Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Peter LeeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Rick KehoeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Ross LonsberryL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 19Gregg SheppardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 26Orest KindrachukC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11George FergusonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 14Nick LibettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Paul MarshallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Kim DavisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 24Pat HughesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 27Rod SchuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Ron StackhouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 5Mario FaubertD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 6Kim ClacksonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Russ AndersonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 8Bob StewartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rob HollandG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Nick RicciG | L | 40 | 6 | .850 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 10Dale McCourtC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 11Peter MahovlichC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 21Dan LabraatenL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 2Barry LongD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Jean HamelD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 8 | – |
| 8Dennis PolonichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Errol ThompsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Bill HogaboamC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Thommie BergmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 24Greg JolyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jim RutherfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Rogie VachonG | W | 28 | 2 | .929 |