Detroit Red Wings vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Thursday, November 20, 1980 · Montreal Forum
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Detroit Red Wings 7–3 on Thursday, November 20, 1980 at Montreal Forum. The Red Wings outshot the Canadiens 32–30.
Rejean Houle scored twice and Steve Shutt scored twice. Bob Gainey, Keith Acton, Mario Tremblay, Glenn Hicks, George Lyle and Mal Davis also scored.
Michel Larocque made 29 saves on 32 shots for the win; Al Jensen stopped 23 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Bob Gainey (6)Doug Jarvis (4), Chris Nilan (2)0–107:37 MTL
Keith Acton (6)Rod Langway (8), Rejean Houle (11)0–211:29 MTL · 
Rejean Houle (6)Rod Langway (9), Mario Tremblay (13)0–313:48 MTL · 
Mario Tremblay (8)Unassisted0–417:43 MTL ·
2nd period
Steve Shutt (13)Doug Wickenheiser (3)0–507:18 MTL
Glenn Hicks (1)Mike Foligno (9)1–510:04 DET · 
George Lyle (8)John Ogrodnick (9)2–512:49 DET · 
Mal Davis (1)Dale McCourt (14), Greg Joly (2)3–515:47 DET
3rd period
- Steve Shutt (14)Guy Lapointe (8), Doug Wickenheiser (4)3–606:47 MTL
- Rejean Houle (7)Doug Wickenheiser (5), Rod Langway (10)3–714:29 MTL ·
Team stats
DETMTL
3230
0%0%
2/92/6
2126
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:35 into the first period
Dale McCourt · interference2 min - 3:49 into the first period
Chris Nilan · slashing2 min - 10:38 into the first periodVaclav Nedomansky · hooking2 min
- 12:32 into the first periodSteve Shutt · hooking2 min
- 16:32 into the first periodChris Nilan · boarding2 min
- 18:47 into the first periodJean Hamel · high sticking2 min
- 18:47 into the first periodJean Hamel · roughing2 min
- 18:47 into the first periodChris Nilan · fighting5 min
- 4:11 into the second periodJean Hamel · interference2 min
- 9:10 into the second periodDoug Jarvis · holding2 min
- 11:15 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 17:14 into the second periodMike Foligno · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 19:46 into the second periodRejean Houle · holding2 min
- 2:29 into the third periodDale McCourt · hooking2 min
- 7:02 into the third periodDennis Polonich · fighting5 min
- 7:02 into the third periodRod Langway · fighting5 min
- 9:17 into the third periodDoug Wickenheiser · holding2 min
- 11:48 into the third periodGuy Lapointe · cross checking2 min
- 12:56 into the third periodMike Foligno · interference2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 10Dale McCourtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 14Mal DavisL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 3 | – |
| 18George LyleL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 29Glenn HicksL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Greg JolyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Dennis PolonichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 11Peter MahovlichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Errol ThompsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 21Dan LabraatenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 4Rick VaskoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 5Jean HamelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 6 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jim RutherfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Al JensenG | L | 30 | 7 | .767 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 15Rejean HouleL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 25Doug WickenheiserC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 17Rod LangwayD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 22Steve ShuttL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 12Keith ActonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 21Doug JarvisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Guy LapointeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 6Pierre MondouC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 31Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 2Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Brian EngblomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 18Serge SavardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 26Bill BakerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Michel LarocqueG | W | 32 | 3 | .906 |
| 33Richard SevignyG | 0 | 0 | – |