Chicago Blackhawks vs Colorado Rockies
Regular season · Saturday, October 25, 1980 · McNichols Sports Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5–3 on Saturday, October 25, 1980 at McNichols Sports Arena. The Rockies outshot the Blackhawks 36–23.
Florent Robidoux scored twice. Jack Hughes, Paul Gagne, Darryl Sutter, Lucien DeBlois, Mike McEwen and Merlin Malinowski also scored.
Al Smith made 20 saves on 23 shots for the win; Tony Esposito stopped 31 of 35.
Scoring
1st period
Florent Robidoux (2)Rich Preston (4), Mike O'connell (5)1–002:29 CHI · 
Jack Hughes (1)Joel Quenneville (3), Randy Pierce (5)1–104:07 CLR · - Florent Robidoux (3)Tom Lysiak (6), Doug Wilson (4)2–107:56 CHI
Paul Gagne (4)Rob Ramage (7), Mike McEwen (2)2–215:06 CLR ·
2nd period
Darryl Sutter (4)Bob Murray (5), Grant Mulvey (3)3–206:08 CHI ·
3rd period
Lucien DeBlois (2)Joel Quenneville (4), Walt McKechnie (4)3–310:32 CLR
Mike McEwen (4)Doug Berry (1)3–412:53 CLR
Merlin Malinowski (3)Unassisted3–518:53 CLR ·
Team stats
CHICLR
2336
0%0%
2/32/7
146
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:13 into the first period
Mike Kitchen · holding2 min - 3:54 into the first period
Bob Murray · slashing2 min - 10:24 into the first periodMike O'connell · holding2 min
- 14:00 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 17:55 into the first periodDoug Wilson · interference2 min
- 19:29 into the first periodPaul Gagne · hooking2 min
- 5:17 into the second periodJack Hughes · holding2 min
- 12:25 into the second periodJohn Marks · holding2 min
- 16:38 into the second periodDoug Wilson · interference2 min
- 17:15 into the second periodBench · delaying game bench2 min
Season series
Chicago Blackhawks
| 25Florent RobidouxL | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Tom LysiakC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Rich PrestonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Grant MulveyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 27Darryl SutterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 6Bob MurrayD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 14Mike O'connellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Doug WilsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 8Terry RuskowskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 10Reg KerrC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11John MarksR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Tim HigginsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Denis SavardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Ted BulleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Greg FoxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Keith BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Dave HutchisonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Murray BannermanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tony EspositoG | L | 35 | 4 | .886 |
Colorado Rockies
| 4Mike McEwenD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 22Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Randy PierceR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Doug BerryC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Merlin MalinowskiC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 23Lucien DeBloisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 2Jack HughesD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 9Lanny McDonaldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 12Gary DillonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike GillisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 27Ron DelormeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Yvon VautourR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Trevor JohansenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hardy AstromG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Al SmithG | W | 23 | 3 | .870 |