St. Louis Blues vs Minnesota North Stars
Regular season · Tuesday, March 31, 1981 · Metropolitan Sports Center
Game summary
The Minnesota North Stars beat the St. Louis Blues 6–3 on Tuesday, March 31, 1981 at Metropolitan Sports Center. The North Stars outshot the Blues 43–25.
Bobby Smith scored twice. Steve Payne, Brad Palmer, Dino Ciccarelli, Neal Broten, Brian Sutter, Perry Turnbull and Tony Currie also scored.
Don Beaupre made 22 saves on 25 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 24 of 30.
Scoring
2nd period
Steve Payne (28)Brad Maxwell (11)0–101:04 MNS
Brad Palmer (4)Steve Christoff (12)0–209:29 MNS
Dino Ciccarelli (16)Bobby Smith (64), Curt Giles (21)0–310:31 MNS
3rd period
Bobby Smith (28)Jack Carlson (2), Gordie Roberts (41)0–402:30 MNS- Bobby Smith (29)Steve Christoff (13)0–503:17 MNS
Neal Broten (1)Brad Palmer (4), Gordie Roberts (42)0–604:03 MNS
Brian Sutter (35)Tony Currie (30), Jack Brownschidle (21)1–605:42 STL
Perry Turnbull (34)Blake Dunlop (64)2–613:00 STL
Tony Currie (23)Brian Sutter (32), Jack Brownschidle (22)3–616:40 STL
Team stats
STLMNS
2543
0%0%
0/50/6
1614
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:45 into the first period
Jorgen Pettersson · interference2 min - 7:20 into the first period
Craig Hartsburg · interference2 min - 10:53 into the first periodGerry Hart · holding2 min
- 11:53 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 15:26 into the first periodCurt Giles · slashing2 min
- 2:12 into the second periodJoe Micheletti · hooking2 min
- 3:56 into the second periodBrad Maxwell · roughing2 min
- 3:56 into the second periodLarry Patey · roughing2 min
- 10:46 into the second periodJoe Micheletti · interference2 min
- 13:03 into the second periodNeal Broten · tripping2 min
- 15:00 into the second periodBernie Federko · high sticking2 min
- 0:19 into the third periodCraig Hartsburg · hooking2 min
- 7:36 into the third periodSteve Christoff · slashing2 min
- 7:36 into the third periodBlake Dunlop · slashing2 min
- 14:11 into the third periodLarry Patey · tripping2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 11Brian SutterL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 15Tony CurrieR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 19Blake DunlopC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Larry PateyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 10Wayne BabychR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 23Hartland MonahanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 26Mike CrombeenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Ralph KlassenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Gerry HartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 12Joe MichelettiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Ed KeaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Bill StewartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 30 | 6 | .800 |
| 31Ed StaniowskiG | 13 | 0 | 1.000 |
Minnesota North Stars
| 15Bobby SmithC | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 14Brad PalmerL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 28Steve ChristoffC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 10Gordie RobertsD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 7Neal BrotenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 20Dino CiccarelliR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 21Jack CarlsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Steve PayneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Brad MaxwellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 8Kent-Erik AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Kevin MaxwellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Tim YoungC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Al MacAdamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Fred BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Craig HartsburgD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 6Paul ShmyrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Gilles MelocheG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Don BeaupreG | W | 25 | 3 | .880 |