Hartford Whalers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 6, 1981 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–3 on Friday, March 6, 1981 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Whalers 47–25.
Danny Gare scored twice and Rick Meagher scored twice. Tony McKegney, Blaine Stoughton, Don Nachbaur and Pat Boutette also scored.
John Garrett made 25 saves on 26 shots for the win; Bob Sauve stopped 20 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Danny Gare (32)Derek Smith (38)0–107:45 BUF
Tony McKegney (30)Danny Gare (30), Richie Dunn (36)0–208:48 BUF
2nd period
Rick Meagher (3)Mark Howe (38), Blaine Stoughton (27)1–214:36 HFD
Blaine Stoughton (33)Dave Keon (26), Gilles Lupien (2)2–215:58 HFD- Danny Gare (33)Tony McKegney (26)2–318:44 BUF
3rd period
- Rick Meagher (4)Blaine Stoughton (28), Mike Fidler (19)3–302:34 HFD
Don Nachbaur (10)Tom Rowe (21), Jeff Brubaker (2)4–303:30 HFD
Pat Boutette (25)Mike Rogers (57), Stuart Smith (6)5–319:10 HFD ·
Team stats
HFDBUF
2547
0%0%
0/10/4
2620
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 12:23 into the first period
Gilles Hamel · interference2 min - 13:05 into the first period
Pat Boutette · hooking2 min - 19:09 into the first periodRic Seiling · roughing2 min
- 19:09 into the first periodPat Boutette · high sticking2 min
- 19:09 into the first periodPat Boutette · roughing2 min
- 8:40 into the second periodPat Boutette · elbowing2 min
- 8:56 into the second periodAndre Savard · slashing2 min
- 8:56 into the second periodJohn Garrett · slashing2 min
- 9:18 into the third periodGilles Hamel · fighting5 min
- 9:18 into the third periodDon Nachbaur · fighting5 min
- 14:37 into the third periodRic Seiling · high sticking2 min
- 14:37 into the third periodRic Seiling · fighting5 min
- 14:37 into the third periodTom Rowe · high sticking2 min
- 14:37 into the third periodTom Rowe · fighting5 min
- 18:11 into the third periodAndre Savard · high sticking2 min
- 18:11 into the third periodNorm Barnes · high sticking2 min
- 19:57 into the third periodAl Sims · cross checking2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 21Blaine StoughtonL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 20Rick MeagherC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 12Tom RoweR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 14Dave KeonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Mike RogersC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Jeff BrubakerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 26Don NachbaurC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 28Pat BoutetteL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 31Mike FidlerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Mark HoweD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 23Gilles LupienD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 33Stuart SmithD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Dave DebolC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 27Warren MillerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Al SimsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Norm BarnesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Jack McIlhargeyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike VeisorG | 21 | 2 | .905 | |
| 35John GarrettG | W | 26 | 1 | .962 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 18Danny GareR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 7 | – |
| 8Tony McKegneyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 19Derek SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3Richie DunnD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Jean-Francois SauveC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 12Andre SavardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 14Alan HaworthC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 15Rob McClanahanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 17Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Don LuceC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4John Van BoxmeerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 6Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Don EdwardsG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 28Bob SauveG | L | 24 | 4 | .833 |