Colorado Rockies vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Saturday, January 24, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Colorado Rockies 6–2 on Saturday, January 24, 1981 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Rockies 38–19.
Mark Kirton scored twice and Reed Larson scored twice. Glenn Hicks, Brent Peterson, Lucien DeBlois and Rob Ramage also scored.
Larry Lozinski made 17 saves on 19 shots for the win; Al Smith stopped 32 of 38.
Scoring
1st period
Mark Kirton (5)Gary McAdam (10), Paul Woods (10)0–105:58 DET
2nd period
Glenn Hicks (3)Reed Larson (21), Brent Peterson (6)0–201:46 DET
Mark Kirton (6)Unassisted0–311:04 DET
Reed Larson (17)Dale McCourt (30), Glenn Hicks (5)0–418:32 DET
Brent Peterson (1)Mike Blaisdell (6), John Barrett (3)0–518:59 DET
3rd period
Lucien DeBlois (16)Merlin Malinowski (18), Mike Gillis (6)1–506:04 CLR
Reed Larson (18)Brent Peterson (7), Jean Hamel (4)1–616:20 DET
Rob Ramage (14)Unassisted2–619:42 CLR
Team stats
CLRDET
1938
0%0%
0/30/2
911
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 11:28 into the first period
Mike Kitchen · holding2 min
- 17:13 into the first period
Yvon Vautour · fighting5 min
- 17:13 into the first period
Jim Korn · fighting5 min
- 11:23 into the second period
Mike McEwen · holding2 min
- 12:31 into the second period
Jim Korn · interference2 min
- 13:54 into the second period
John Barrett · cross checking2 min
- 7:57 into the third period
Paul Woods · tripping2 min
Season series
Colorado Rockies
| 16Merlin MalinowskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike GillisL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Lucien DeBloisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 9Lanny McDonaldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 10Bobby SheehanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 12Ed CooperL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 14Rene RobertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 19Yvon VautourR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Barry SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Bob AttwellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Jack HughesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 22Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hardy AstromG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Al SmithG | L | 38 | 6 | .842 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 12Brent PetersonC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 9 | – |
| 22Glenn HicksL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 23Mark KirtonC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 10Dale McCourtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 14Mike BlaisdellR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 19Gary McAdamR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 2John BarrettD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 5Jean HamelD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 3Perry MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Claude LegrisG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Larry LozinskiG | W | 19 | 2 | .895 |