Calgary Flames vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Thursday, October 29, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Calgary Flames 12–4 on Thursday, October 29, 1981 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Flames 54–21.
John Ogrodnick scored a hat trick, Dale McCourt scored twice, Mike Blaisdell scored twice and Mike Foligno scored a hat trick. Paul Woods, Willie Huber, Kevin Lavallee, Pekka Rautakallio, Jim Peplinski and Kent Nilsson also scored.
Corrado Micalef made 17 saves on 21 shots for the win; Pat Riggin stopped 24 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Paul Woods (1)Mike Blaisdell (7), Willie Huber (3)0–100:20 DET
Willie Huber (4)Mark Kirton (3), Greg Smith (5)0–200:46 DET
John Ogrodnick (5)Greg Joly (1), Don Murdoch (3)0–302:02 DET
Dale McCourt (3)John Ogrodnick (1)0–406:22 DET
Mike Blaisdell (2)Mark Kirton (4), Paul Woods (5)0–507:25 DET
2nd period
Mike Foligno (3)Willie Huber (4)0–603:05 DET · 
Kevin Lavallee (1)Ken Houston (3), Jim Peplinski (6)1–603:25 CGY
Pekka Rautakallio (1)Kevin Lavallee (1), Jim Peplinski (7)2–604:02 CGY- John Ogrodnick (6)Reed Larson (5), Mike Blaisdell (8)2–708:18 DET
- John Ogrodnick (7)Don Murdoch (4), Dale McCourt (7)2–809:10 DET
- Dale McCourt (4)Don Murdoch (5), Greg Joly (2)2–913:43 DET
3rd period
- Mike Foligno (4)Mark Osborne (2), Greg Joly (3)2–1002:52 DET
- Mike Foligno (5)Mark Osborne (3), Walt McKechnie (5)2–1107:27 DET
Jim Peplinski (2)Kevin Lavallee (2), Ken Houston (4)3–1110:03 CGY
Kent Nilsson (6)Willi Plett (8), Pekka Rautakallio (6)4–1115:42 CGY · - Mike Blaisdell (3)Paul Woods (6), Reed Larson (6)4–1217:53 DET
Team stats
CGYDET
2154
0%0%
1/21/3
86
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:27 into the first period
Mike Blaisdell · hooking2 min - 4:15 into the first period
Willi Plett · slashing2 min - 4:15 into the first periodCorrado Micalef · slashing2 min
- 18:38 into the first periodKen Houston · slashing2 min
- 1:51 into the second periodWilli Plett · high sticking2 min
- 14:36 into the third periodBrad Smith · cross checking2 min
- 18:44 into the third periodWilli Plett · cross checking2 min
Season series
Calgary Flames
| 15Kevin LavalleeL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Jim PeplinskiL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Ken HoustonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 4Pekka RautakallioD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 14Kent NilssonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −4 | 3 | – |
| 25Willi PlettR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 2 | – |
| 9Don LeverC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −6 | 0 | – |
| 10Bill ClementC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Bob MacMillanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | 1 | – |
| 17Jamie HislopR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 19Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Dan LabraatenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 5Phil RussellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −6 | 0 | – |
| 7Randy HoltD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Kari ElorantaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 20Bob MurdochD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | L | 33 | 9 | .727 |
| 31Rejean LemelinG | 21 | 3 | .857 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 3 | 1 | 4 | +5 | 5 | – |
| 10Dale McCourtC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +4 | 9 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +6 | 4 | – |
| 22Greg JolyD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 16Mark KirtonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +5 | 4 | – |
| 12Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 27Brad SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Corrado MicalefG | W | 21 | 4 | .809 |