Toronto Maple Leafs vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Wednesday, February 18, 1981 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8–3 on Wednesday, February 18, 1981 at Madison Square Garden. The Maple Leafs outshot the Rangers 35–30.
Lance Nethery scored twice and Ulf Nilsson scored twice. Ron Duguay, Darryl Sittler, Ron Greschner, Don Maloney, Bruce Boudreau, Dave Silk and Rocky Saganiuk also scored.
Steve Baker made 32 saves on 35 shots for the win; Jim Rutherford stopped 22 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Ron Duguay (8)Anders Hedberg (26), Ulf Nilsson (17)0–106:22 NYR
Darryl Sittler (33)Mike Kaszycki (1)1–109:48 TOR · 
Ron Greschner (19)Anders Hedberg (27), Ron Duguay (12)1–219:06 NYR · 
Lance Nethery (4)Dean Talafous (10), Steve Vickers (28)1–319:31 NYR
2nd period
Don Maloney (21)Mike Allison (26), Ron Greschner (31)1–403:37 NYR ·
3rd period
Ulf Nilsson (9)Anders Hedberg (28), Dave Maloney (27)1–506:47 NYR
Bruce Boudreau (7)Unassisted2–510:38 TOR- Ulf Nilsson (10)Anders Hedberg (29)2–613:20 NYR
Dave Silk (14)Nick Fotiu (6), Chris Kotsopoulos (9)2–713:28 NYR
Rocky Saganiuk (10)John Anderson (17), Bruce Boudreau (6)3–714:23 TOR · - Lance Nethery (5)Nick Fotiu (7)3–817:14 NYR
Team stats
TORNYR
3530
0%0%
1/82/5
2036
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:33 into the first period
Barry Beck · interference2 min - 8:14 into the first period
Bruce Boudreau · holding2 min - 15:32 into the first periodNick Fotiu · roughing2 min
- 17:02 into the first periodEd Hospodar · slashing2 min
- 18:08 into the first periodBorje Salming · hooking2 min
- 3:21 into the second periodVitezslav Duris · tripping2 min
- 4:29 into the second periodNick Fotiu · tripping2 min
- 10:39 into the second periodRon Greschner · roughing2 min
- 10:39 into the second periodBarry Melrose · roughing2 min
- 11:32 into the second periodJohn Anderson · tripping2 min
- 12:29 into the second periodDon Maloney · slashing2 min
- 17:26 into the second periodNick Fotiu · high sticking2 min
- 17:26 into the second periodBarry Melrose · high sticking2 min
- 18:10 into the second periodWilf Paiement · tripping2 min
- 4:50 into the third periodNick Fotiu · high sticking2 min
- 4:50 into the third periodNick Fotiu · roughing2 min
- 4:50 into the third periodBorje Salming · high sticking2 min
- 13:46 into the third periodNick Fotiu · tripping2 min
- 18:48 into the third periodDave Maloney · game misconduct10 min
- 18:48 into the third periodUlf Nilsson · high sticking2 min
- 18:48 into the third periodUlf Nilsson · roughing2 min
- 18:48 into the third periodDarryl Sittler · high sticking2 min
- 18:48 into the third periodDarryl Sittler · roughing2 min
- 19:56 into the third periodBarry Beck · interference2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 11Bruce BoudreauC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 7Rocky SaganiukR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 20Mike KaszyckiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 15Paul MarshallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Pat HickeyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 99Wilf PaiementR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 2Ian TurnbullD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 4Robert PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 24Vitezslav DurisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jim RutherfordG | L | 30 | 8 | .733 |
| 31Jiri CrhaG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Rangers
| 15Anders HedbergR | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 11Ulf NilssonC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 10Ron DuguayC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 21Lance NetheryC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 22Nick FotiuL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 8Steve VickersL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 14Mike AllisonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Dave SilkR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 19Dean TalafousC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 24Chris KotsopoulosD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 17Eddie JohnstoneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 3Barry BeckD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 23Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Steve BakerG | W | 35 | 3 | .914 |