Pittsburgh Penguins vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Monday, March 16, 1981 · Northlands Coliseum
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 7–6 on Monday, March 16, 1981 at Northlands Coliseum. The Penguins outshot the Oilers 30–27.
Gregg Sheppard scored a hat trick and Mark Messier scored a hat trick. Risto Siltanen, Rick Kehoe, Brett Callighen, Paul Coffey, Doug Hicks, Paul Gardner and Greg Malone also scored.
Eddie Mio made 24 saves on 30 shots for the win; Greg Millen stopped 20 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Gregg Sheppard (8)Unassisted1–005:33 PIT- Gregg Sheppard (9)Errol Thompson (17)2–010:34 PIT
Mark Messier (18)Glenn Anderson (19), Paul Coffey (18)2–119:23 EDM
2nd period
- Gregg Sheppard (10)Errol Thompson (18), Pat Price (26)3–102:01 PIT
Risto Siltanen (13)Paul Coffey (19), Wayne Gretzky (83)3–206:17 EDM · - Mark Messier (19)Matti Hagman (28)3–307:41 EDM
Rick Kehoe (50)Unassisted4–315:00 PIT
Brett Callighen (19)Garry Lariviere (14), Wayne Gretzky (84)4–416:15 EDM
3rd period
Paul Coffey (8)Wayne Gretzky (85), Risto Siltanen (29)4–501:55 EDM · 
Doug Hicks (4)Stan Weir (19), Risto Siltanen (30)4–603:20 EDM
Paul Gardner (30)Pat Price (27), Mario Faubert (42)5–604:19 PIT · 
Greg Malone (19)Pat Price (28)6–610:42 PIT- Mark Messier (20)Matti Hagman (29), Glenn Anderson (20)6–712:44 EDM
Team stats
PITEDM
3027
0%0%
1/42/3
810
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:51 into the first period
Jari Kurri · holding2 min - 16:08 into the first periodBrett Callighen · hooking2 min
- 4:51 into the second period
Paul Baxter · interference2 min - 8:41 into the second periodPat Price · hooking2 min
- 1:45 into the third periodRod Schutt · high sticking2 min
- 4:06 into the third periodMark Messier · hooking2 min
- 13:35 into the third periodMark Messier · tripping2 min
- 18:07 into the third periodStan Weir · high sticking2 min
- 18:07 into the third periodPeter Lee · high sticking2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 19Gregg SheppardC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 2Pat PriceD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Errol ThompsonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 12Greg MaloneC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Rick KehoeR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Paul GardnerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 6 | – |
| 5Mario FaubertD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 9Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 10Peter LeeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 11George FergusonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 18Ross LonsberryL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Gary RisslingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Rod SchuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Ron StackhouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Paul BaxterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 8Dave BurrowsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Randy CarlyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Greg MillenG | L | 27 | 7 | .741 |
| 31Nick RicciG | 0 | 0 | – |
Edmonton Oilers
| 11Mark MessierC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 3 | 3 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 9Glenn AndersonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Matti HagmanC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 18Brett CallighenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Stan WeirC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Doug HicksD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 6Garry LariviereD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Dave HunterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Curt BrackenburyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 77Garry UngerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Lee FogolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Eddie MioG | W | 30 | 6 | .800 |
| 33Gary EdwardsG | 0 | 0 | – |