Toronto Maple Leafs vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Tuesday, December 30, 1980 · St. Louis Arena
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–3 on Tuesday, December 30, 1980 at St. Louis Arena. The Maple Leafs outshot the Blues 39–34.
Wayne Babych scored a hat trick. Jorgen Pettersson, Rick Vaive, Tony Currie, Darryl Sittler and John Anderson also scored.
Mike Liut made 36 saves on 39 shots for the win; Jiri Crha stopped 29 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Wayne Babych (23)Blake Dunlop (24), Rick Lapointe (13)0–100:25 STL- Wayne Babych (24)Jorgen Pettersson (6), Blake Dunlop (25)0–208:47 STL ·
Jorgen Pettersson (10)Bill Stewart (9), Rick Lapointe (14)0–312:10 STL
2nd period
Rick Vaive (17)Ian Turnbull (23), Dan Maloney (13)1–302:50 TOR · 
Tony Currie (15)Bernie Federko (39), Joe Micheletti (8)1–404:22 STL- Wayne Babych (25)Blake Dunlop (26), Jorgen Pettersson (7)1–515:27 STL
3rd period
Darryl Sittler (22)John Anderson (10), Wilf Paiement (20)2–508:58 TOR
John Anderson (14)Robert Picard (9), Rocky Saganiuk (7)3–513:40 TOR ·
Team stats
TORSTL
3934
0%0%
2/71/7
2634
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:03 into the first period
Craig Norwich · holding2 min - 8:14 into the first period
Ian Turnbull · holding2 min - 16:55 into the first periodJack Brownschidle · holding2 min
- 18:44 into the first periodWilf Paiement · tripping2 min
- 0:15 into the second periodRick Vaive · tripping2 min
- 0:34 into the second periodTony Currie · holding2 min
- 1:13 into the second periodBrian Sutter · roughing2 min
- 1:13 into the second periodBrian Sutter · fighting5 min
- 1:13 into the second periodWilf Paiement · fighting5 min
- 8:52 into the second periodGerry Hart · roughing2 min
- 8:52 into the second periodDan Maloney · roughing double minor4 min
- 12:42 into the second periodBrian Sutter · slashing2 min
- 16:51 into the second periodBarry Melrose · holding2 min
- 0:36 into the third periodPat Hickey · hooking2 min
- 9:59 into the third periodBrian Sutter · elbowing2 min
- 12:52 into the third periodBrian Sutter · fighting5 min
- 12:52 into the third periodBrian Sutter · match penatly 10 minutes10 min
- 12:52 into the third periodWilf Paiement · fighting5 min
- 16:11 into the third periodRobert Picard · tripping2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 10John AndersonR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 7Rocky SaganiukR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 9Dan MaloneyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 99Wilf PaiementR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2Ian TurnbullD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 4Robert PicardD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 7 | – |
| 6Ron EllisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 12Laurie BoschmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 16Pat HickeyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 28William McCrearyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Dave ShandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 8Greg HothamD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jim RutherfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Jiri CrhaG | L | 34 | 5 | .853 |
St. Louis Blues
| 10Wayne BabychR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 19Blake DunlopC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 15Tony CurrieR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12Joe MichelettiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 20Bill StewartD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 6Larry PateyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 21Mike ZukeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Mike CrombeenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Ralph KlassenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Gerry HartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Craig NorwichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 39 | 3 | .923 |
| 31Ed StaniowskiG | 0 | 0 | – |