Calgary Flames vs Minnesota North Stars
Regular season · Wednesday, October 28, 1981 · Metropolitan Sports Center
Game summary
The Minnesota North Stars beat the Calgary Flames 6–1 on Wednesday, October 28, 1981 at Metropolitan Sports Center. The North Stars outshot the Flames 35–27.
Steve Payne scored twice. Dino Ciccarelli, Brad Palmer, Bob MacMillan, Al MacAdam and Bobby Smith also scored.
Gilles Meloche made 26 saves on 27 shots for the win; Rejean Lemelin stopped 23 of 29.
Scoring
2nd period
Dino Ciccarelli (8)Brad Maxwell (3), Craig Hartsburg (7)0–101:33 MNS · 
Brad Palmer (3)Neal Broten (2)0–204:39 MNS
Steve Payne (3)Brad Maxwell (4), Dino Ciccarelli (6)0–316:06 MNS · 
Bob MacMillan (2)Guy Chouinard (7), Don Lever (4)1–316:18 CGY
Al MacAdam (1)Tim Young (3), Bill Nyrop (2)1–417:28 MNS
3rd period
Bobby Smith (6)Brad Maxwell (5), Steve Payne (5)1–504:17 MNS · - Steve Payne (4)Tim Young (4), Al MacAdam (3)1–605:39 MNS
Team stats
CGYMNS
2735
0%0%
0/33/5
2723
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 7:04 into the first period
Kent Nilsson · hooking2 min - 10:55 into the first periodKent Nilsson · hooking2 min
- 13:28 into the first period
Kent-Erik Andersson · interference2 min - 13:40 into the first periodWilli Plett · high sticking2 min
- 13:40 into the first periodWilli Plett · fighting5 min
- 13:40 into the first periodGordie Roberts · roughing2 min
- 13:40 into the first periodGordie Roberts · fighting5 min
- 19:39 into the first periodBob MacMillan · hooking2 min
- 13:21 into the second periodBrad Maxwell · tripping2 min
- 15:34 into the second periodWilli Plett · interference2 min
- 3:57 into the third periodWilli Plett · cross checking2 min
- 12:59 into the third periodFred Barrett · tripping2 min
- 15:59 into the third periodWilli Plett · fighting5 min
- 15:59 into the third periodGordie Roberts · fighting5 min
- 19:23 into the third periodJim Peplinski · fighting5 min
- 19:23 into the third periodBrad Maxwell · fighting5 min
Season series
Calgary Flames
| 9Don LeverC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Bob MacMillanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Guy ChouinardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Ken HoustonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 10Bill ClementC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Kent NilssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Kevin LavalleeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 17Jamie HislopR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Dan LabraatenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Jim PeplinskiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 25Willi PlettR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Pekka RautakallioD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Phil RussellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 8Kari ElorantaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Bob MurdochD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | 6 | 0 | 1.000 | |
| 31Rejean LemelinG | L | 29 | 6 | .793 |
Minnesota North Stars
| 26Steve PayneL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 9 | – |
| 5Brad MaxwellD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Tim YoungC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 20Dino CiccarelliR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 25Al MacAdamR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 7Neal BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Brad PalmerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Craig HartsburgD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Bill NyropD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Kent-Erik AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Anders HakanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Jack CarlsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Steve ChristoffC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Fred BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 10Gordie RobertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Gilles MelocheG | W | 27 | 1 | .963 |
| 35Lindsay MiddlebrookG | 0 | 0 | – |