Detroit Red Wings vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Monday, November 23, 1981 · Northlands Coliseum
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Detroit Red Wings 8–4 on Monday, November 23, 1981 at Northlands Coliseum. The Oilers outshot the Red Wings 42–34.
Glenn Anderson scored a hat trick and Greg Smith scored twice. Dave Lumley, Mike Foligno, Matti Hagman, John Ogrodnick, Wayne Gretzky, Stan Weir and Paul Coffey also scored.
Ron Low made 30 saves on 34 shots for the win; Gilles Gilbert stopped 34 of 42.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Lumley (4)Wayne Gretzky (26), Paul Coffey (15)0–111:42 EDM
Glenn Anderson (10)Risto Siltanen (19), Matti Hagman (13)0–213:58 EDM
Mike Foligno (12)Unassisted1–214:11 DET
Matti Hagman (14)Glenn Anderson (19), Risto Siltanen (20)1–318:16 EDM · 
Greg Smith (1)Unassisted2–318:50 DET
2nd period
John Ogrodnick (13)Don Murdoch (10), Willie Huber (15)3–300:34 DET
Wayne Gretzky (24)Jari Kurri (16)3–406:05 EDM
Stan Weir (3)Kevin Lowe (14), Garry Unger (8)3–507:50 EDM
3rd period
Paul Coffey (9)Matti Hagman (14), Dave Hunter (6)3–604:38 EDM- Glenn Anderson (11)Dave Hunter (7), Matti Hagman (15)3–708:46 EDM
- Greg Smith (2)Eric Vail (4), John Ogrodnick (6)4–710:32 DET
- Glenn Anderson (12)Paul Coffey (16)4–819:20 EDM
Team stats
DETEDM
3442
0%0%
0/11/1
22
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 17:26 into the first period
Mike Foligno · hooking2 min - 11:04 into the second period
Dave Lumley · tripping2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 25John OgrodnickL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Eric VailL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 10Dale McCourtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 12Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Mark KirtonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Greg JolyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 5 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gilles GilbertG | L | 42 | 8 | .809 |
| 30Corrado MicalefG | 0 | 0 | – |
Edmonton Oilers
| 9Glenn AndersonR | 3 | 1 | 4 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 10Matti HagmanC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 8 | – |
| 12Dave HunterL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 7 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Dave LumleyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 21Stan WeirC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 77Garry UngerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Brett CallighenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Todd StruebyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Lee FogolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Don JacksonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike ForbesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Grant FuhrG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Ron LowG | W | 34 | 4 | .882 |