Colorado Rockies vs Chicago Blackhawks
Regular season · Wednesday, December 17, 1980 · Chicago Stadium
Game summary
The Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6–1 on Wednesday, December 17, 1980 at Chicago Stadium. The Rockies outshot the Blackhawks 37–29.
Paul Gagne scored twice. Dave Hutchison, Joel Quenneville, Lanny McDonald, Merlin Malinowski and Ron Delorme also scored.
Hardy Astrom made 28 saves on 29 shots for the win; Tony Esposito stopped 31 of 37.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Hutchison (2)Rick Paterson (1), Tom Lysiak (23)0–102:41 CHI
Paul Gagne (12)Merlin Malinowski (14), Rob Ramage (21)1–114:28 CLR
Joel Quenneville (4)Hardy Astrom (1)2–116:13 CLR
2nd period
Lanny McDonald (14)Merlin Malinowski (15)3–113:49 CLR
3rd period
- Paul Gagne (13)Merlin Malinowski (16), Joel Quenneville (11)4–102:36 CLR ·
Merlin Malinowski (11)Lanny McDonald (16)5–108:51 CLR
Ron Delorme (9)Yvon Vautour (6)6–118:23 CLR
Team stats
CLRCHI
3729
0%0%
1/20/2
1616
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 19:02 into the first period
Greg Fox · boarding2 min - 2:04 into the second periodTim Higgins · fighting5 min
- 2:04 into the second period
Yvon Vautour · fighting5 min - 13:16 into the second periodKeith Brown · charging2 min
- 13:16 into the second periodMike Gillis · slashing2 min
- 14:28 into the second periodPaul Gagne · hooking2 min
- 16:45 into the second periodPaul Gagne · hooking2 min
- 1:20 into the third periodGrant Mulvey · interference2 min
- 12:16 into the third periodDarryl Sutter · fighting5 min
- 12:16 into the third periodJack Hughes · fighting5 min
Season series
Colorado Rockies
| 16Merlin MalinowskiC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 9Lanny McDonaldR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 22Joel QuennevilleD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 27Ron DelormeC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 29Yvon VautourR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 8Doug BerryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Bobby SheehanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 12Ed CooperL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 14Rene RobertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Mike GillisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Barry SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Bob AttwellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Jack HughesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hardy AstromG | W | 29 | 1 | .966 |
| 31Al SmithG | 0 | 0 | – |
Chicago Blackhawks
| 12Tom LysiakC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Rick PatersonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Dave HutchisonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Terry RuskowskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 10Reg KerrC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Tim HigginsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 18Denis SavardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 19Ron SedlbauerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 22Grant MulveyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 25Florent RobidouxL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Darryl SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 31Ken SolheimL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Greg FoxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Keith BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 6Bob MurrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 14Mike O'connellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 24Doug WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Murray BannermanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tony EspositoG | L | 37 | 6 | .838 |