Toronto Maple Leafs vs Calgary Flames
Regular season · Sunday, January 4, 1981 · Stampede Corral
Game summary
The Calgary Flames beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8–5 on Sunday, January 4, 1981 at Stampede Corral. The Flames outshot the Maple Leafs 44–32.
Paul Reinhart scored twice. Kent Nilsson, Eric Vail, Rick Vaive, Brad Smith, Pat Hickey, Ian Turnbull, William McCreary, Don Lever, Bob MacMillan, Laurie Boschman and Willi Plett also scored.
Rejean Lemelin made 27 saves on 32 shots for the win; Vincent Tremblay stopped 36 of 44.
Scoring
1st period
Kent Nilsson (17)Unassisted0–103:20 CGY
Eric Vail (16)Unassisted0–204:50 CGY
Rick Vaive (18)Pat Hickey (14)1–205:06 TOR
Paul Reinhart (7)Don Lever (15), Willi Plett (12)1–319:25 CGY ·
2nd period
Brad Smith (6)Bob Murdoch (11), Brad Marsh (6)1–404:49 CGY
Pat Hickey (9)Rick Vaive (14), Ian Turnbull (25)2–410:52 TOR
3rd period
- Paul Reinhart (8)Pekka Rautakallio (25), Kent Nilsson (34)2–503:59 CGY ·
Ian Turnbull (9)Laurie Boschman (15), Rocky Saganiuk (8)3–514:37 TOR · 
William McCreary (1)Darryl Sittler (17), Wilf Paiement (21)4–514:56 TOR
Don Lever (12)Kent Nilsson (35), Paul Reinhart (18)4–615:08 CGY
Bob MacMillan (11)Eric Vail (16), Jim Peplinski (10)4–715:53 CGY
Laurie Boschman (11)Rocky Saganiuk (9)5–716:48 TOR
Willi Plett (22)Kent Nilsson (36), Don Lever (16)5–818:08 CGY
Team stats
TORCGY
3244
0%0%
1/22/4
1814
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:45 into the first period
Brad Smith · fighting5 min - 3:45 into the first period
Barry Melrose · fighting5 min - 8:45 into the first periodRocky Saganiuk · holding2 min
- 12:05 into the first periodBrad Smith · fighting5 min
- 12:05 into the first periodRocky Saganiuk · fighting5 min
- 18:43 into the first periodIan Turnbull · tripping2 min
- 1:45 into the second periodPekka Rautakallio · hooking2 min
- 2:55 into the third periodLaurie Boschman · hooking2 min
- 4:39 into the third periodDarryl Sittler · holding2 min
- 13:45 into the third periodBert Wilson · hooking2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 7Rocky SaganiukR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 12Laurie BoschmanC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 16Pat HickeyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 2Ian TurnbullD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28William McCrearyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 99Wilf PaiementR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 6Ron EllisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Dave ShandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Robert PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 26Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Vincent TremblayG | L | 44 | 8 | .818 |
| 31Jiri CrhaG | 0 | 0 | – |
Calgary Flames
| 14Kent NilssonC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 12Don LeverC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 23Paul ReinhartD | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25Willi PlettR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 27Eric VailL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 11Bob MacMillanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 18Brad SmithR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Jim PeplinskiL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Pekka RautakallioD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 20Bob MurdochD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 22Brad MarshD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 6Ken HoustonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 8Bert WilsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 10Bill ClementC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Kevin LavalleeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Alex McKendryL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Phil RussellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Rejean LemelinG | W | 32 | 5 | .844 |