Washington Capitals vs Vancouver Canucks
Regular season · Wednesday, October 28, 1981 · Pacific Coliseum
Game summary
The Vancouver Canucks beat the Washington Capitals 3–0 on Wednesday, October 28, 1981 at Pacific Coliseum. The Capitals outshot the Canucks 34–25.
Goals came from Lars Molin, Rick Lanz and Thomas Gradin.
Richard Brodeur made 34 saves on 34 shots for the win; Dave Parro stopped 22 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Lars Molin (3)Unassisted0–103:33 VAN
3rd period
Rick Lanz (2)Stan Smyl (6), Anders Eldebrink (3)0–200:16 VAN · 
Thomas Gradin (6)Curt Fraser (7), Kevin McCarthy (4)0–306:48 VAN
Team stats
WSHVAN
3425
0%0%
0/51/5
1919
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:18 into the first period
Anders Eldebrink · holding2 min - 3:56 into the first periodDarcy Rota · high sticking2 min
- 3:56 into the first period
Rick Green · high sticking2 min - 5:00 into the first periodJerry Butler · high sticking2 min
- 5:00 into the first periodBobby Carpenter · slashing2 min
- 8:28 into the first periodRick Green · hooking2 min
- 4:54 into the second periodAl Hangsleben · holding2 min
- 7:02 into the second periodDave Williams · roughing2 min
- 8:47 into the second periodTim Tookey · hooking2 min
- 12:55 into the second periodBobby Carpenter · tripping2 min
- 16:35 into the second periodDarcy Rota · roughing2 min
- 19:20 into the second periodCurt Fraser · fighting5 min
- 19:20 into the second periodRyan Walter · roughing2 min
- 19:20 into the second periodRyan Walter · fighting5 min
- 7:31 into the third periodJiri Bubla · interference2 min
- 16:53 into the third periodLars Lindgren · charging2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 8Tim TookeyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 12Al HangslebenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 18Roland StoltzR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Dennis MarukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 22Jean PronovostR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Todd BidnerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 24Bob KellyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Pat RibbleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Timo BlomqvistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Greg ThebergeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 25Terry MurrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike PalmateerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Dave ParroG | L | 25 | 3 | .880 |
Vancouver Canucks
| 12Stan SmylR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Thomas GradinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Curt FraserL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 26Lars MolinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Anders EldebrinkD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Kevin McCarthyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 9Ivan BoldirevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 14Blair MacDonaldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 16Per-Olov BrasarC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Jerry ButlerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 18Darcy RotaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Ivan HlinkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Colin CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 13Lars LindgrenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Jiri BublaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Richard BrodeurG | W | 34 | 0 | 1.000 |