Detroit Red Wings vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, January 8, 1981 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings 7–4 on Thursday, January 8, 1981 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the Red Wings 34–19.
Mike Foligno scored twice. Don Marcotte, Reed Larson, Dick Redmond, Rick Middleton, Vaclav Nedomansky, Mike O'connell, Peter McNab, Douglas Morrison and Ray Bourque also scored.
Jim Craig made 15 saves on 19 shots for the win; Gilles Gilbert stopped 24 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Don Marcotte (10)Rick Middleton (32), Dwight Foster (13)0–104:33 BOS
Reed Larson (15)Mark Kirton (6), Vaclav Nedomansky (10)1–110:51 DET · 
Dick Redmond (9)Stan Jonathan (13), Jean Ratelle (12)1–219:33 BOS
2nd period
Rick Middleton (16)Ray Bourque (9), Dick Redmond (8)1–306:07 BOS · 
Vaclav Nedomansky (6)Mark Kirton (7), Dan Labraaten (8)2–309:35 DET
Mike O'connell (6)Unassisted2–411:48 BOS
3rd period
Peter McNab (17)Rick Middleton (33), Ray Bourque (10)2–502:46 BOS · 
Douglas Morrison (7)Jean Ratelle (13), Dick Redmond (9)2–610:34 BOS
Ray Bourque (7)Don Marcotte (7), Dwight Foster (14)2–711:31 BOS
Mike Foligno (18)Willie Huber (20), Jim Korn (6)3–715:16 DET · - Mike Foligno (19)John Ogrodnick (19), Dale McCourt (28)4–718:53 DET
Team stats
DETBOS
1934
0%0%
2/52/4
1214
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:12 into the first period
Brad Park · tripping2 min - 12:50 into the first period
Paul Woods · holding2 min - 16:23 into the first periodBrad McCrimmon · high sticking2 min
- 16:59 into the first periodMike Foligno · interference2 min
- 5:23 into the second periodJim Korn · holding2 min
- 13:51 into the second periodKeith Crowder · roughing2 min
- 13:51 into the second periodPerry Miller · roughing2 min
- 15:23 into the second periodMike Milbury · holding2 min
- 2:03 into the third periodWillie Huber · broken stick2 min
- 12:56 into the third periodMike O'connell · roughing2 min
- 12:56 into the third periodMike O'connell · slashing2 min
- 12:56 into the third periodDan Labraaten · roughing2 min
- 19:37 into the third periodRay Bourque · slashing2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 17Mike FolignoR | 2 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Mark KirtonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Dale McCourtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Dan LabraatenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 14Mike BlaisdellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Glenn HicksL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 29Joe PatersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Perry MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Jean HamelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gilles GilbertG | L | 31 | 7 | .774 |
| 31Larry LozinskiG | 3 | 0 | 1.000 |
Boston Bruins
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 6Dick RedmondD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 10Jean RatelleC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Don MarcotteL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 27Dwight FosterR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 8Peter McNabC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 17Stan JonathanL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Douglas MorrisonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 12Wayne CashmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 24Terry O'ReillyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Brad ParkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rogie VachonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Jim CraigG | W | 19 | 4 | .789 |