Pittsburgh Penguins vs Vancouver Canucks
Regular season · Sunday, October 25, 1981 · Pacific Coliseum
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Vancouver Canucks 6–4 on Sunday, October 25, 1981 at Pacific Coliseum. The Canucks outshot the Penguins 32–31.
Greg Malone scored twice and Thomas Gradin scored twice. Paul Baxter, Gregg Sheppard, Jerry Butler, Ivan Boldirev, Randy Carlyle and Peter Lee also scored.
Michel Dion made 28 saves on 32 shots for the win; Glen Hanlon stopped 25 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Paul Baxter (1)Unassisted1–001:21 PIT
Greg Malone (5)Unassisted2–003:20 PIT
2nd period
Gregg Sheppard (2)George Ferguson (6), Randy Carlyle (9)3–000:12 PIT
Jerry Butler (2)Lars Molin (5), Ivan Hlinka (6)3–111:27 VAN
Ivan Boldirev (4)Blair MacDonald (2), Harold Snepsts (1)3–212:55 VAN
Thomas Gradin (4)Curt Fraser (6)3–317:08 VAN
Randy Carlyle (3)Pat Boutette (4), Paul Gardner (5)4–319:25 PIT ·
3rd period
- Greg Malone (6)Unassisted5–301:45 PIT
Peter Lee (3)Randy Carlyle (10), Paul Gardner (6)6–310:03 PIT · - Thomas Gradin (5)Stan Smyl (5)6–416:42 VAN
Team stats
PITVAN
3132
0%0%
2/60/5
6191
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:08 into the first period
Pat Boutette · high sticking2 min - 3:08 into the first periodPat Boutette · roughing2 min
- 3:08 into the first period
Rick Lanz · fighting5 min - 3:08 into the first periodRick Lanz · game misconduct10 min
- 13:02 into the first periodPaul Baxter · high sticking2 min
- 13:16 into the first periodRandy Carlyle · hooking2 min
- 16:16 into the first periodLars Molin · interference2 min
- 18:32 into the first periodPat Price · fighting5 min
- 18:32 into the first periodPat Price · game misconduct10 min
- 18:32 into the first periodStan Smyl · high sticking2 min
- 2:55 into the second periodDarcy Rota · interference2 min
- 8:32 into the second periodDoug Shedden · holding2 min
- 18:43 into the second periodIvan Hlinka · hooking2 min
- 2:26 into the third periodIvan Hlinka · hooking2 min
- 8:50 into the third periodStan Smyl · high sticking2 min
- 16:54 into the third periodRandy Carlyle · high sticking2 min
- 16:54 into the third periodRandy Carlyle · spearing5 min
- 16:54 into the third periodRandy Carlyle · game misconduct10 min
- 16:54 into the third periodCurt Fraser · misconduct10 min
- 16:54 into the third periodCurt Fraser · game misconduct10 min
- 16:54 into the third periodKevin McCarthy · spearing5 min
- 16:54 into the third periodKevin McCarthy · game misconduct10 min
- 16:54 into the third periodStan Smyl · high sticking2 min
- 16:54 into the third periodStan Smyl · game misconduct10 min
- 19:18 into the third periodRuss Anderson · interference2 min
- 19:50 into the third periodPaul Baxter · high sticking2 min
- 19:50 into the third periodPaul Baxter · fighting5 min
- 19:50 into the third periodPaul Baxter · misconduct10 min
- 19:50 into the third periodDave Williams · high sticking2 min
- 19:50 into the third periodDave Williams · fighting5 min
- 19:50 into the third periodDave Williams · misconduct10 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 25Randy CarlyleD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 12Greg MaloneC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 20Paul GardnerC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Peter LeeR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11George FergusonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Pat BoutetteL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 19Gregg SheppardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Paul BaxterD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Doug SheddenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 22Mike BullardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Paul MulveyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Rod SchuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Pat PriceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Ron StackhouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Mario FaubertD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 7Russ AndersonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Paul HarrisonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Michel DionG | W | 32 | 4 | .875 |
Vancouver Canucks
| 23Thomas GradinC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 9Ivan BoldirevC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 12Stan SmylR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Blair MacDonaldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 17Jerry ButlerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Ivan HlinkaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Curt FraserL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 26Lars MolinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Harold SnepstsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 16Per-Olov BrasarC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Darcy RotaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Colin CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 10Anders EldebrinkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 13Lars LindgrenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 25Kevin McCarthyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | L | 31 | 6 | .806 |
| 35Richard BrodeurG | 0 | 0 | – |