Montréal Canadiens vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Wednesday, March 11, 1981 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2–1 on Wednesday, March 11, 1981 at Civic Arena. The Canadiens outshot the Penguins 41–27.
Goals came from Guy Lafleur, Greg Malone and Rod Langway.
Richard Sevigny made 26 saves on 27 shots for the win; Greg Millen stopped 39 of 41.
Scoring
1st period
Guy Lafleur (23)Serge Savard (13), Pierre Larouche (24)1–000:15 MTL
2nd period
Greg Malone (17)Peter Lee (28), Pat Price (25)1–112:17 PIT
3rd period
Rod Langway (10)Brian Engblom (22), Pierre Mondou (21)2–114:08 MTL ·
Team stats
MTLPIT
4127
0%0%
1/30/5
4217
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:28 into the first period
Guy Lapointe · boarding2 min - 4:28 into the first periodSteve Shutt · roughing2 min
- 4:28 into the first period
Paul Baxter · roughing2 min - 9:51 into the first periodDoug Risebrough · roughing2 min
- 9:51 into the first periodGary Rissling · roughing2 min
- 9:51 into the first periodGary Rissling · slashing2 min
- 9:40 into the second periodDoug Risebrough · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 9:40 into the second periodDoug Risebrough · fighting5 min
- 9:40 into the second periodDoug Risebrough · gross misconduct10 min
- 9:40 into the second periodGary Rissling · fighting5 min
- 1:25 into the third periodGuy Lafleur · high sticking5 min
- 3:26 into the third periodPat Price · hooking2 min
- 6:45 into the third periodMario Faubert · hooking2 min
- 11:36 into the third periodSteve Shutt · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 11:36 into the third periodSteve Shutt · game misconduct10 min
- 12:11 into the third periodRod Schutt · hooking2 min
- 17:01 into the third periodLarry Robinson · hooking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 6Pierre MondouC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Guy LafleurR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 28Pierre LaroucheC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 3Brian EngblomD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Rod LangwayD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 18Serge SavardD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Doug RisebroughC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Yvon LambertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 12Keith ActonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 15Rejean HouleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 21Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Steve ShuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 31Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Guy LapointeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Denis HerronG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Richard SevignyG | W | 27 | 1 | .963 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 10Peter LeeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12Greg MaloneC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 2Pat PriceD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Errol ThompsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11George FergusonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Rick KehoeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 18Ross LonsberryL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Gregg SheppardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Paul GardnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Gary RisslingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Rod SchuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 3Ron StackhouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Paul BaxterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Mario FaubertD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Dave BurrowsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Randy CarlyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Greg MillenG | L | 41 | 2 | .951 |
| 31Nick RicciG | 0 | 0 | – |