St. Louis Blues vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Thursday, October 15, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the St. Louis Blues 6–3 on Thursday, October 15, 1981 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Blues 28–19.
Mark Kirton scored twice. Joe Micheletti, Blake Dunlop, Larry Patey, Dale McCourt, John Ogrodnick, Walt McKechnie and Mike Blaisdell also scored.
Gilles Gilbert made 16 saves on 19 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 22 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Mark Kirton (2)Mike Blaisdell (2), Greg Smith (2)0–100:25 DET
Joe Micheletti (1)Mike Zuke (2), Bernie Federko (3)1–105:28 STL ·
2nd period
- Mark Kirton (3)Paul Woods (1), Mike Blaisdell (3)1–200:11 DET
Blake Dunlop (1)Jorgen Pettersson (1), Tony Currie (2)2–204:06 STL · 
Larry Patey (3)Unassisted3–212:10 STL · 
Dale McCourt (1)Willie Huber (2), Greg Smith (3)3–317:35 DET
3rd period
John Ogrodnick (3)Dale McCourt (5)3–401:57 DET
Walt McKechnie (1)George Lyle (2)3–510:06 DET
Mike Blaisdell (1)Mark Kirton (1), Reed Larson (3)3–615:22 DET
Team stats
STLDET
1928
0%0%
2/40/3
68
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:22 into the first period
Paul Woods · hooking2 min - 15:49 into the first period
Jim Nill · slashing2 min - 1:51 into the second periodTony Currie · high sticking2 min
- 3:03 into the second periodWillie Huber · tripping2 min
- 7:28 into the second periodReed Larson · hooking2 min
- 11:45 into the second periodGerry Hart · holding2 min
- 2:26 into the third periodPaul Woods · cross checking2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 6Larry PateyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Tony CurrieR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Blake DunlopC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Mike ZukeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 12Joe MichelettiD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 14Blair ChapmanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 28Ralph KlassenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Jim NillR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Gerry HartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Ed KeaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Bill StewartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 28 | 6 | .786 |
| 31Rick HeinzG | 0 | 0 | – |
Detroit Red Wings
| 16Mark KirtonC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 10Dale McCourtC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 18George LyleL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Brad SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 22Greg JolyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gilles GilbertG | W | 19 | 3 | .842 |
| 30Corrado MicalefG | 0 | 0 | – |