St. Louis Blues vs Atlanta Flames
Regular season · Thursday, March 20, 1980 · Omni Coliseum
Game summary
The Atlanta Flames beat the St. Louis Blues 8–4 on Thursday, March 20, 1980 at Omni Coliseum. The Blues outshot the Flames 36–27.
Kent Nilsson scored twice, Bob MacMillan scored a hat trick, Eric Vail scored twice and Perry Turnbull scored twice. Mike Zuke, Wayne Babych and Don Lever also scored.
Dan Bouchard made 32 saves on 36 shots for the win; Ed Staniowski stopped 19 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Kent Nilsson (34)Paul Reinhart (32), Don Lever (26)0–105:41 AFM
Bob MacMillan (15)Guy Chouinard (39), Eric Vail (22)0–208:38 AFM
Eric Vail (26)Guy Chouinard (40), Bob MacMillan (38)0–308:57 AFM
Perry Turnbull (11)Blake Dunlop (23), Rick Lapointe (19)1–317:42 STL ·
2nd period
- Perry Turnbull (12)Blake Dunlop (24)2–300:53 STL
- Eric Vail (27)Guy Chouinard (41), Kent Nilsson (48)2–407:57 AFM ·
Mike Zuke (21)Wayne Babych (31), Terry Harper (1)3–412:13 STL- Bob MacMillan (16)Paul Reinhart (33)3–515:11 AFM
- Bob MacMillan (17)Unassisted3–617:37 AFM ·
3rd period
Wayne Babych (22)Mike Zuke (36), Terry Harper (2)4–601:02 STL
Don Lever (30)Kent Nilsson (49), Pekka Rautakallio (21)4–708:01 AFM- Kent Nilsson (35)Don Lever (27), Ken Houston (26)4–813:11 AFM
Team stats
STLAFM
3627
0%0%
1/41/2
1115
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:24 into the first period
Brad Marsh · roughing2 min - 4:24 into the first periodBrad Marsh · fighting5 min
- 4:24 into the first period
Bryan Maxwell · roughing2 min - 4:24 into the first periodBryan Maxwell · fighting5 min
- 12:48 into the first periodRick Lapointe · tripping2 min
- 16:55 into the first periodBrad Marsh · tripping2 min
- 4:08 into the second periodDave Shand · interference2 min
- 6:51 into the second periodBrian Sutter · hooking2 min
- 15:59 into the second periodWilli Plett · elbowing2 min
- 14:01 into the third periodDave Shand · hooking2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 10Wayne BabychR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 19Blake DunlopC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Mike ZukeC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 2Terry HarperD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 6Larry PateyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 14Blair ChapmanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Tony CurrieR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike CrombeenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 28Ralph KlassenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 4Bryan MaxwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Ed KeaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 33Dick LambyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Ed StaniowskiG | L | 27 | 8 | .704 |
Atlanta Flames
| 11Bob MacMillanR | 3 | 1 | 4 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 14Kent NilssonC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12Don LeverC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Guy ChouinardC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 27Eric VailL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 23Paul ReinhartD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 6Ken HoustonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 4Pekka RautakallioD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 0 | – |
| 7Garry UngerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Jean PronovostR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Bill ClementC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Paul HendersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Willi PlettR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Phil RussellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 5Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Dave ShandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Bob MurdochD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Dan BouchardG | W | 36 | 4 | .889 |
| 31Pat RigginG | 0 | 0 | – |