Colorado Rockies vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Wednesday, February 25, 1981 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Colorado Rockies 9–5 on Wednesday, February 25, 1981 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs outshot the Rockies 40–39.
Terry Martin scored twice and Ron Sedlbauer scored twice. Mike McEwen, Rocky Saganiuk, Bob Miller, Pat Hickey, Wilf Paiement, Bill Derlago, Rob Ramage, Darryl Sittler, Lucien DeBlois and Randy Pierce also scored.
Jiri Crha made 34 saves on 39 shots for the win; Jari Kaarela stopped 17 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Terry Martin (13)Wilf Paiement (42)0–101:01 TOR
Mike McEwen (10)Unassisted1–101:48 CLR
Rocky Saganiuk (12)Bruce Boudreau (9)1–211:41 TOR
Bob Miller (5)Craig Norwich (14), Lanny McDonald (34)2–217:46 CLR ·
2nd period
Pat Hickey (15)Mike Kaszycki (2), Jiri Crha (1)2–303:41 TOR
Wilf Paiement (30)Darryl Sittler (36), Borje Salming (49)2–405:44 TOR
Bill Derlago (27)Ian Turnbull (34), Pat Hickey (29)2–505:59 TOR
Ron Sedlbauer (16)Bruce Boudreau (10), Rocky Saganiuk (17)2–607:32 TOR
Rob Ramage (16)Mike McEwen (33), Ron Delorme (16)3–614:57 CLR · 
Darryl Sittler (34)Wilf Paiement (43), Borje Salming (50)3–719:02 TOR
3rd period
Lucien DeBlois (21)Yvon Vautour (17), Al Smith (2)4–705:13 CLR- Terry Martin (14)Darryl Sittler (37), Wilf Paiement (44)4–806:40 TOR
- Ron Sedlbauer (17)Darryl Sittler (38), Vitezslav Duris (8)4–918:29 TOR
Randy Pierce (9)Doug Berry (10), Trevor Johansen (6)5–919:39 CLR
Team stats
CLRTOR
3940
0%0%
2/40/3
1315
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 7:57 into the first period
Craig Norwich · hooking2 min - 17:41 into the first period
Dave Farrish · high sticking2 min - 18:59 into the first periodEd Cooper · fighting5 min
- 18:59 into the first periodWilf Paiement · fighting5 min
- 1:06 into the second periodBill Derlago · hooking2 min
- 11:17 into the second periodDave Farrish · cross checking2 min
- 14:18 into the second periodDave Farrish · hooking2 min
- 19:20 into the second periodLucien DeBlois · interference2 min
- 2:07 into the third periodCraig Norwich · holding2 min
- 13:14 into the third periodMike Kitchen · roughing2 min
- 13:14 into the third periodWilf Paiement · roughing2 min
Season series
Colorado Rockies
| 4Mike McEwenD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 7Randy PierceR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 8Doug BerryC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Lanny McDonaldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −5 | 1 | – |
| 18Bob MillerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 19Yvon VautourR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 23Lucien DeBloisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27Ron DelormeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Craig NorwichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −6 | 4 | – |
| 24Trevor JohansenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 12Ed CooperL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 15Jack ValiquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 16Merlin MalinowskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 2 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 22Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −6 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Al SmithG | 16 | 2 | .875 | |
| 35Jari KaarelaG | L | 24 | 7 | .708 |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +5 | 4 | – |
| 99Wilf PaiementR | 1 | 3 | 4 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 7Rocky SaganiukR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Bruce BoudreauC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 16Pat HickeyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 18Ron SedlbauerL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +5 | 3 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Mike KaszyckiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Ian TurnbullD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 24Vitezslav DurisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +6 | 1 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Paul MarshallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Robert PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jim RutherfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Jiri CrhaG | W | 39 | 5 | .872 |