Montréal Canadiens vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Wednesday, January 28, 1981 · Northlands Coliseum
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Montréal Canadiens 9–1 on Wednesday, January 28, 1981 at Northlands Coliseum. The Canadiens outshot the Oilers 31–27.
Matti Hagman scored twice and Jari Kurri scored a hat trick. Pat Price, Blair MacDonald, Doug Risebrough, Wayne Gretzky and Roy Sommer also scored.
Eddie Mio made 30 saves on 31 shots for the win; Richard Sevigny stopped 18 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Pat Price (7)Jari Kurri (21), Wayne Gretzky (59)0–116:03 EDM
Blair MacDonald (11)Matti Hagman (20), Mark Messier (14)0–217:37 EDM
Matti Hagman (13)Mark Messier (15)0–317:49 EDM
2nd period
Jari Kurri (16)Brett Callighen (15), Wayne Gretzky (60)0–408:21 EDM- Jari Kurri (17)Wayne Gretzky (61), Paul Coffey (10)0–518:00 EDM ·
3rd period
Doug Risebrough (7)Yvon Lambert (24), Mario Tremblay (32)1–504:04 MTL · 
Wayne Gretzky (26)Blair MacDonald (19)1–611:14 EDM
Roy Sommer (1)Blair MacDonald (20), Pat Price (18)1–711:57 EDM- Matti Hagman (14)Mark Messier (16), Blair MacDonald (21)1–814:35 EDM
- Jari Kurri (18)Wayne Gretzky (62), Brett Callighen (16)1–919:21 EDM
Team stats
MTLEDM
3127
0%0%
1/61/4
2024
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:40 into the first period
Rick Chartraw · hooking2 min - 11:56 into the first period
Doug Hicks · interference2 min - 13:36 into the first periodDave Hunter · hooking2 min
- 18:04 into the first periodDoug Hicks · roughing2 min
- 18:04 into the first periodPierre Mondou · holding2 min
- 18:27 into the first periodPat Price · tripping2 min
- 1:11 into the second periodGuy Lafleur · hooking2 min
- 5:41 into the second periodLee Fogolin · interference2 min
- 13:32 into the second periodKeith Acton · high sticking2 min
- 16:35 into the second periodRoy Sommer · fighting5 min
- 16:35 into the second periodKeith Acton · interference2 min
- 16:35 into the second periodRod Langway · fighting5 min
- 2:06 into the third periodRisto Siltanen · holding2 min
- 5:32 into the third periodLee Fogolin · tripping2 min
- 7:56 into the third periodMark Messier · fighting5 min
- 7:56 into the third periodDoug Risebrough · fighting5 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 8Doug RisebroughC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 11Yvon LambertL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 6Pierre MondouC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Guy LafleurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 12Keith ActonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Rejean HouleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 21Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Steve ShuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 28Pierre LaroucheC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 31Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | 0 | – |
| 3Brian EngblomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 17Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 18Serge SavardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | 3 | – |
| 27Rick ChartrawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Denis HerronG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Richard SevignyG | L | 27 | 9 | .667 |
Edmonton Oilers
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 4 | 5 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 14Blair MacDonaldR | 1 | 3 | 4 | +5 | 4 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 3 | 1 | 4 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 10Matti HagmanC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 18Brett CallighenC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 26Pat PriceD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 28Roy SommerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 12Dave HunterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 15Curt BrackenburyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Dave LumleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Stan WeirC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Lee FogolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +5 | 0 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Doug HicksD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete LoprestiG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Eddie MioG | W | 31 | 1 | .968 |