Pittsburgh Penguins vs Colorado Rockies
Regular season · Friday, February 6, 1981 · McNichols Sports Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Rockies beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6–4 on Friday, February 6, 1981 at McNichols Sports Arena. The Penguins outshot the Rockies 34–24.
Lanny McDonald scored a hat trick. Ross Lonsberry, Paul Gardner, Lucien DeBlois, Errol Thompson, Gregg Sheppard, Mike Gillis and Randy Pierce also scored.
Al Smith made 30 saves on 34 shots for the win; Nick Ricci stopped 18 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Lanny McDonald (23)Merlin Malinowski (22)0–105:22 CLR
Ross Lonsberry (12)Rick Kehoe (22)1–110:57 PIT
Paul Gardner (20)Mark Johnson (17), Randy Carlyle (52)2–115:15 PIT · 
Lucien DeBlois (18)Merlin Malinowski (23), Lanny McDonald (29)2–217:40 CLR ·
2nd period
- Lanny McDonald (24)Paul Gagne (10), Walt McKechnie (21)2–304:27 CLR
Errol Thompson (15)Gregg Sheppard (7), Paul Baxter (7)3–305:33 PIT
Gregg Sheppard (4)Unassisted4–309:55 PIT
Mike Gillis (11)Bob Attwell (4), Lanny McDonald (30)4–414:28 CLR
3rd period
Randy Pierce (8)Merlin Malinowski (24)4–506:24 CLR · - Lanny McDonald (25)Unassisted4–619:19 CLR ·
Team stats
PITCLR
3424
0%0%
1/72/5
3337
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:03 into the first period
Lucien DeBlois · roughing2 min - 3:03 into the first periodLucien DeBlois · slashing2 min
- 3:03 into the first periodLucien DeBlois · fighting5 min
- 3:03 into the first period
Gary Rissling · high sticking2 min - 3:03 into the first periodGary Rissling · fighting5 min
- 13:11 into the first periodRob Ramage · interference2 min
- 13:11 into the first periodRob Ramage · roughing2 min
- 13:11 into the first periodRob Ramage · fighting5 min
- 13:11 into the first periodPeter Lee · fighting5 min
- 14:18 into the first periodJoel Quenneville · tripping2 min
- 16:19 into the first periodGeorge Ferguson · tripping2 min
- 18:03 into the first periodYvon Vautour · roughing2 min
- 18:03 into the first periodBennett Wolf · roughing2 min
- 19:31 into the first periodGeorge Ferguson · interference2 min
- 6:38 into the second periodTrevor Johansen · interference2 min
- 16:16 into the second periodRick Kehoe · tripping2 min
- 16:26 into the second periodCraig Norwich · holding2 min
- 0:05 into the third periodYvon Vautour · fighting5 min
- 0:05 into the third periodGary Rissling · fighting5 min
- 2:24 into the third periodLucien DeBlois · interference2 min
- 2:35 into the third periodGreg Malone · hooking2 min
- 3:17 into the third periodPat Hughes · slashing2 min
- 3:55 into the third periodLanny McDonald · interference2 min
- 4:36 into the third periodRon Stackhouse · interference2 min
- 15:37 into the third periodMike Gillis · slashing2 min
- 15:37 into the third periodGreg Malone · slashing2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 19Gregg SheppardC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 6Errol ThompsonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 9Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 17Rick KehoeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Ross LonsberryL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 20Paul GardnerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Paul BaxterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Randy CarlyleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 10Peter LeeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11George FergusonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 12Greg MaloneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 23Gary RisslingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Pat HughesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 27Rod SchuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Ron StackhouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Dave BurrowsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Bennett WolfD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Greg MillenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Nick RicciG | L | 23 | 5 | .783 |
Colorado Rockies
| 9Lanny McDonaldR | 3 | 2 | 5 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 16Merlin MalinowskiC | 0 | 3 | 3 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 7Randy PierceR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 20Mike GillisL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Lucien DeBloisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 28Bob AttwellR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Yvon VautourR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Barry SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Ron DelormeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3Craig NorwichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 22Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 24Trevor JohansenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hardy AstromG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Al SmithG | W | 34 | 4 | .882 |