Calgary Flames vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Saturday, October 10, 1981 · St. Louis Arena
Game summary
The Calgary Flames beat the St. Louis Blues 6–4 on Saturday, October 10, 1981 at St. Louis Arena. The Blues outshot the Flames 44–33.
Bobby Gould scored a hat trick. Kent Nilsson, Larry Patey, Tony Currie, Eric Vail, Perry Turnbull, Rick Lapointe and Willi Plett also scored.
Pat Riggin made 40 saves on 44 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 27 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Kent Nilsson (1)Paul Reinhart (1), Guy Chouinard (1)1–005:26 CGY · 
Bobby Gould (1)Jamie Hislop (1), Phil Russell (1)2–011:04 CGY
Larry Patey (2)Jack Brownschidle (1), Ralph Klassen (1)2–116:21 STL
2nd period
- Bobby Gould (2)Jim Peplinski (1)3–101:19 CGY
Tony Currie (2)Blake Dunlop (1)3–201:41 STL
Eric Vail (1)Kent Nilsson (1), Willi Plett (2)4–209:39 CGY · 
Perry Turnbull (1)Blake Dunlop (2), Tony Currie (1)4–312:23 STL
Rick Lapointe (1)Blair Chapman (1), Brian Sutter (2)4–413:21 STL
3rd period
- Bobby Gould (3)Jamie Hislop (2), Bill Clement (1)5–403:58 CGY
Willi Plett (1)Don Lever (2), Jim Peplinski (2)6–419:26 CGY ·
Team stats
CGYSTL
3344
0%0%
2/50/4
1012
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:20 into the first period
Bob MacMillan · tripping2 min - 4:12 into the first period
Bill Stewart · holding2 min - 4:40 into the first periodEd Kea · hooking2 min
- 14:02 into the first periodWilli Plett · roughing2 min
- 14:02 into the first periodJim Nill · roughing2 min
- 16:32 into the first periodLarry Patey · tripping2 min
- 19:17 into the first periodPhil Russell · hooking2 min
- 2:35 into the second periodPhil Russell · hooking2 min
- 8:30 into the second periodPerry Turnbull · high sticking2 min
- 14:13 into the second periodPhil Russell · tripping2 min
- 17:44 into the second periodBill Stewart · interference2 min
Season series
Calgary Flames
| 19Bobby GouldR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 14Kent NilssonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 17Jamie HislopR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Jim PeplinskiL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 25Willi PlettR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 9Don LeverC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Bill ClementC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Guy ChouinardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 27Eric VailL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Phil RussellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Paul ReinhartD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Bob MacMillanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Dan LabraatenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Pekka RautakallioD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Kari ElorantaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Bob MurdochD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | W | 44 | 4 | .909 |
| 31Rejean LemelinG | 0 | 0 | – |
St. Louis Blues
| 15Tony CurrieR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Blake DunlopC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Larry PateyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 14Blair ChapmanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Ralph KlassenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Mike ZukeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike CrombeenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Jim NillR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 2Gerry HartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Joe MichelettiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Ed KeaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 20Bill StewartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 32 | 5 | .844 |
| 31Rick HeinzG | 0 | 0 | – |