Detroit Red Wings vs Colorado Rockies
Regular season · Tuesday, March 24, 1981 · McNichols Sports Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Rockies beat the Detroit Red Wings 7–4 on Tuesday, March 24, 1981 at McNichols Sports Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Rockies 38–29.
Lanny McDonald scored twice, Paul Gagne scored twice and Dale McCourt scored twice. Willie Huber, Mark Kirton, Bob Miller, Yvon Vautour and Rob Ramage also scored.
Glenn Resch made 34 saves on 38 shots for the win; Larry Lozinski stopped 12 of 19.
Scoring
1st period
Willie Huber (12)Unassisted1–010:15 DET
Mark Kirton (15)Joe Paterson (5), Willie Huber (33)2–010:32 DET
Bob Miller (8)Randy Pierce (20), Bill Baker (1)2–112:58 CLR
Lanny McDonald (31)Steve Tambellini (19), Paul Gagne (12)2–214:18 CLR · 
Paul Gagne (22)Lanny McDonald (44), Steve Tambellini (20)2–316:53 CLR
2nd period
Yvon Vautour (15)Craig Norwich (15), Merlin Malinowski (36)2–400:34 CLR
Rob Ramage (19)Craig Norwich (16), Bob Miller (5)2–508:55 CLR · - Lanny McDonald (32)Steve Tambellini (21), Craig Norwich (17)2–611:27 CLR
Dale McCourt (28)John Ogrodnick (33), Mike Foligno (31)3–613:31 DET- Paul Gagne (23)Steve Tambellini (22), Bill Baker (2)3–717:22 CLR
3rd period
- Dale McCourt (29)Reed Larson (30), John Ogrodnick (34)4–718:26 DET ·
Team stats
DETCLR
3829
0%0%
1/72/4
1520
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:06 into the first period
Bobby Crawford · interference2 min - 5:06 into the first period
Joe Paterson · elbowing2 min - 7:14 into the first periodLanny McDonald · roughing2 min
- 7:14 into the first periodEarl Ingarfield · roughing2 min
- 14:10 into the first periodMark Kirton · hooking2 min
- 4:45 into the second periodLanny McDonald · tripping2 min
- 5:51 into the second periodRob Ramage · holding2 min
- 7:36 into the second periodEd Cooper · roughing2 min
- 7:36 into the second periodJim Korn · fighting5 min
- 8:12 into the second periodPerry Miller · slashing2 min
- 11:13 into the second periodRob Ramage · tripping2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodMike Kitchen · interference2 min
- 6:02 into the third periodMike Kitchen · interference2 min
- 11:33 into the third periodMike Foligno · holding2 min
- 13:45 into the third periodYvon Vautour · elbowing2 min
- 17:22 into the third periodRob Ramage · delaying game2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 10Dale McCourtC | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Mark KirtonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 29Joe PatersonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 12Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Gary McAdamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Earl IngarfieldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Glenn HicksL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Brad SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Perry MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Jean HamelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Claude LegrisG | 10 | 0 | 1.000 | |
| 31Larry LozinskiG | L | 19 | 7 | .632 |
Colorado Rockies
| 14Steve TambelliniC | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 9Lanny McDonaldR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 8 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Craig NorwichD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 18Bob MillerC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Bill BakerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Randy PierceR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Merlin MalinowskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Yvon VautourR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 12Ed CooperL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Barry SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Bobby CrawfordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Ron DelormeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Mario GiallonardoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glenn ReschG | W | 38 | 4 | .895 |
| 30Phil MyreG | 0 | 0 | – |