Minnesota North Stars vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Wednesday, December 17, 1980 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Minnesota North Stars 4–2 on Wednesday, December 17, 1980 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs outshot the North Stars 34–31.
Goals came from Tom Younghans, Rocky Saganiuk, Tom McCarthy, Bruce Boudreau, Dan Maloney and Ron Ellis.
Jiri Crha made 29 saves on 31 shots for the win; Don Beaupre stopped 30 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Tom Younghans (3)Paul Shmyr (3)1–008:24 MNS
2nd period
Rocky Saganiuk (8)Paul Marshall (2), Borje Salming (30)1–119:48 TOR ·
3rd period
Tom McCarthy (13)Kent-Erik Andersson (13)2–107:49 MNS
Bruce Boudreau (1)John Anderson (9), Rocky Saganiuk (6)2–209:14 TOR
Dan Maloney (13)Bill Derlago (18), Ron Ellis (3)2–318:01 TOR
Ron Ellis (1)Darryl Sittler (15), Ian Turnbull (18)2–419:10 TOR ·
Team stats
MNSTOR
3134
0%0%
0/31/3
4363
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:24 into the first period
Ian Turnbull · holding2 min - 7:13 into the first period
Steve Payne · tripping2 min - 11:38 into the first periodIan Turnbull · slashing2 min
- 15:40 into the first periodAl MacAdam · elbowing2 min
- 16:08 into the first periodBench · player leaves bench2 min
- 16:08 into the first periodGordie Roberts · fighting5 min
- 16:08 into the first periodMike Polich · misconduct10 min
- 16:08 into the first periodPaul Shmyr · misconduct10 min
- 16:08 into the first periodTom Younghans · misconduct10 min
- 16:08 into the first periodBench · player leaves bench2 min
- 16:08 into the first periodBorje Salming · misconduct10 min
- 16:08 into the first periodRick Vaive · misconduct10 min
- 16:08 into the first periodRick Vaive · game misconduct10 min
- 16:08 into the first periodDan Maloney · misconduct10 min
- 16:08 into the first periodDarryl Sittler · fighting5 min
- 16:08 into the first periodIan Turnbull · misconduct10 min
- 17:53 into the second periodRon Zanussi · holding2 min
- 11:10 into the third periodBill Derlago · cross checking2 min
Season series
Minnesota North Stars
| 8Kent-Erik AnderssonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Tom McCarthyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Tom YounghansR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Paul ShmyrD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 7Glen SharpleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 9Ron ZanussiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Mike PolichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Tim YoungC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Dino CiccarelliR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 25Al MacAdamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Steve PayneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 3Fred BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Craig HartsburgD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 10Gordie RobertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Greg SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Gilles MelocheG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Don BeaupreG | L | 33 | 3 | .909 |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 6Ron EllisR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 7Rocky SaganiukR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 9Dan MaloneyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Bruce BoudreauC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 15Paul MarshallL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 2Ian TurnbullD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Pat HickeyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Dave ShandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Robert PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 23Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jim RutherfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Jiri CrhaG | W | 31 | 2 | .935 |