Montréal Canadiens vs Chicago Blackhawks
Regular season · Thursday, October 23, 1980 · Chicago Stadium
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Chicago Blackhawks 7–2 on Thursday, October 23, 1980 at Chicago Stadium. The Canadiens outshot the Blackhawks 42–25.
Bob Gainey scored twice. Steve Shutt, Denis Savard, Guy Lafleur, Mario Tremblay, Doug Jarvis, Doug Wickenheiser and Tom Lysiak also scored.
Michel Larocque made 23 saves on 25 shots for the win; Tony Esposito stopped 35 of 42.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Shutt (3)Pierre Larouche (4), Guy Lafleur (3)1–002:44 MTL · 
Denis Savard (2)Tim Higgins (4), Keith Brown (3)1–111:59 CHI
Bob Gainey (1)Guy Lapointe (3)2–115:55 MTL ·
2nd period
Guy Lafleur (2)Unassisted3–116:00 MTL · - Bob Gainey (2)Doug Jarvis (1), Rejean Houle (4)4–116:41 MTL
Mario Tremblay (5)Yvon Lambert (2), Larry Robinson (1)5–118:37 MTL
3rd period
Doug Jarvis (2)Bob Gainey (1), Larry Robinson (2)6–105:05 MTL
Doug Wickenheiser (1)Guy Lafleur (4)7–112:25 MTL
Tom Lysiak (4)Darryl Sutter (3), Keith Brown (4)7–214:19 CHI
Team stats
MTLCHI
4225
0%0%
2/60/7
3624
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:42 into the first period
Grant Mulvey · hooking2 min - 4:10 into the first period
Rejean Houle · hooking2 min - 13:52 into the first periodDave Hutchison · high sticking2 min
- 13:52 into the first periodDave Hutchison · game misconduct10 min
- 13:52 into the first periodBench · not proceding to dressing room2 min
- 13:52 into the first periodChris Nilan · abuse of officials2 min
- 13:52 into the first periodChris Nilan · high sticking2 min
- 13:52 into the first periodChris Nilan · misconduct10 min
- 13:52 into the first periodChris Nilan · game misconduct10 min
- 19:35 into the first periodGreg Fox · hooking2 min
- 1:55 into the second periodJohn Marks · roughing2 min
- 8:14 into the second periodKeith Acton · interference2 min
- 14:43 into the second periodTom Lysiak · tripping2 min
- 0:30 into the third periodLarry Robinson · roughing2 min
- 1:27 into the third periodGrant Mulvey · interference2 min
- 9:24 into the third periodRod Langway · interference2 min
- 16:36 into the third periodDoug Wickenheiser · holding2 min
- 18:43 into the third periodTerry Ruskowski · slashing2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 10Guy LafleurR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 21Doug JarvisC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 7 | – |
| 11Yvon LambertL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 15Rejean HouleL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 22Steve ShuttL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 25Doug WickenheiserC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 28Pierre LaroucheC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Guy LapointeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 12Keith ActonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 31Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 3Brian EngblomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 17Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Michel LarocqueG | W | 25 | 2 | .920 |
| 32Denis HerronG | 0 | 0 | – |
Chicago Blackhawks
| 4Keith BrownD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 12Tom LysiakC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Tim HigginsR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Denis SavardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 27Darryl SutterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 7Doug LecuyerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Terry RuskowskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 11John MarksR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 16Rich PrestonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Ron SedlbauerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Grant MulveyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 29Ted BulleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 2Greg FoxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Dave HutchisonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Bob MurrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Mike O'connellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Doug WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Murray BannermanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tony EspositoG | L | 42 | 7 | .833 |