St. Louis Blues vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, January 22, 1981 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the St. Louis Blues 7–3 on Thursday, January 22, 1981 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the Blues 27–18.
Peter McNab scored twice and Ray Bourque scored twice. Terry O'Reilly, Wayne Babych, Brian Sutter, Dick Redmond, Stan Jonathan and Blake Dunlop also scored.
Rogie Vachon made 15 saves on 18 shots for the win; Ed Staniowski stopped 20 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Terry O'Reilly (5)Peter McNab (26), Ray Bourque (12)0–100:36 BOS
Wayne Babych (32)Blake Dunlop (37), Jorgen Pettersson (14)1–100:58 STL
Peter McNab (21)Terry O'Reilly (14), Mike Milbury (9)1–207:08 BOS
2nd period
Ray Bourque (12)Peter McNab (27), Dick Redmond (11)1–309:57 BOS · 
Brian Sutter (21)Blake Dunlop (38), Joe Micheletti (14)2–318:49 STL ·
3rd period
- Ray Bourque (13)Rick Middleton (39), Brad McCrimmon (13)2–400:42 BOS
- Peter McNab (22)Rick Middleton (40)2–503:49 BOS ·
Dick Redmond (11)Unassisted2–607:12 BOS · 
Stan Jonathan (9)Dwight Foster (16), Rick Middleton (41)2–710:47 BOS
Blake Dunlop (9)Wayne Babych (25), Jorgen Pettersson (15)3–716:33 STL ·
Team stats
STLBOS
1827
0%0%
2/83/5
3137
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:03 into the first period
Brad McCrimmon · holding2 min - 7:58 into the first periodBrad McCrimmon · high sticking2 min
- 11:54 into the first period
Bench · not proceeding directly to penalty box2 min - 11:54 into the first periodBrian Sutter · slashing2 min
- 2:07 into the second periodDwight Foster · tripping2 min
- 5:02 into the second periodMike O'connell · holding2 min
- 8:51 into the second periodJoe Micheletti · delaying game2 min
- 11:40 into the second periodKeith Crowder · tripping2 min
- 17:06 into the second periodStan Jonathan · interference2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodWayne Cashman · high sticking2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodKeith Crowder · roughing2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodMike Milbury · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodMike Milbury · misconduct10 min
- 18:59 into the second periodLarry Patey · high sticking2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodPerry Turnbull · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodPerry Turnbull · misconduct10 min
- 2:55 into the third periodJoe Micheletti · tripping2 min
- 6:22 into the third periodJorgen Pettersson · hooking2 min
- 6:54 into the third periodRay Bourque · high sticking2 min
- 6:54 into the third periodLarry Patey · high sticking2 min
- 13:26 into the third periodStan Jonathan · fighting5 min
- 13:26 into the third periodBill Stewart · fighting5 min
- 16:13 into the third periodTerry O'Reilly · hooking2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 19Blake DunlopC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 10Wayne BabychR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Joe MichelettiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Larry PateyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 14Blair ChapmanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Mike ZukeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 26Mike CrombeenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 28Ralph KlassenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Gerry HartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Bryan MaxwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 17Ed KeaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Bill StewartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Rick HeinzG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Ed StaniowskiG | L | 27 | 7 | .741 |
Boston Bruins
| 8Peter McNabC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 24Terry O'ReillyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 6Dick RedmondD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 17Stan JonathanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Dwight FosterR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Jean RatelleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Wayne CashmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Bobby LalondeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Don MarcotteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 22Brad ParkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rogie VachonG | W | 18 | 3 | .833 |
| 30Jim CraigG | 0 | 0 | – |