Detroit Red Wings vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Tuesday, December 1, 1981 · St. Louis Arena
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the Detroit Red Wings 7–5 on Tuesday, December 1, 1981 at St. Louis Arena.
Larry Patey scored twice and Mark Osborne scored a hat trick. Tony Currie, Walt McKechnie, Bernie Federko, Jorgen Pettersson, Don Murdoch, Rik Wilson and Perry Turnbull also scored.
Mike Liut made 29 saves on 34 shots for the win; Gilles Gilbert stopped 27 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Larry Patey (7)Mike Crombeen (2), Jim Pavese (1)0–104:54 STL · 
Tony Currie (6)Brian Sutter (7)0–215:58 STL · 
Mark Osborne (6)Dale McCourt (14)1–217:10 DET ·
2nd period
Walt McKechnie (5)Mike Foligno (12), Mark Osborne (10)2–204:16 DET- Mark Osborne (7)Walt McKechnie (13), Mike Foligno (13)3–210:28 DET
- Larry Patey (8)Ralph Klassen (3)3–310:33 STL
- Mark Osborne (8)Walt McKechnie (14), Reed Larson (16)4–313:30 DET
Bernie Federko (11)Brian Sutter (8), Tony Currie (11)4–415:42 STL
Jorgen Pettersson (5)Blake Dunlop (9), Wayne Babych (7)4–519:43 STL
3rd period
Don Murdoch (4)John Ogrodnick (7)5–504:06 DET
Rik Wilson (1)Brian Sutter (9), Bernie Federko (19)5–609:39 STL
Perry Turnbull (11)Unassisted5–719:58 STL ·
Team stats
DETSTL
3434
0%0%
1/31/3
66
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:21 into the first period
Ed Kea · interference2 min - 7:18 into the first period
Brent Peterson · holding2 min - 14:03 into the first periodJim Korn · holding2 min
- 16:20 into the first periodLarry Patey · holding2 min
- 17:54 into the first periodMike Blaisdell · hooking2 min
- 16:33 into the second periodLarry Patey · hooking2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 23Mark OsborneL | 3 | 1 | 4 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Dale McCourtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 8 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 12Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Mark KirtonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Eric VailL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Brad SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gilles GilbertG | L | 33 | 6 | .818 |
| 30Corrado MicalefG | 0 | 0 | – |
St. Louis Blues
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 6Larry PateyC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 15Tony CurrieR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 10Wayne BabychR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 19Blake DunlopC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Mike CrombeenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 28Ralph KlassenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 34Rik WilsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 35Jim PaveseD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Mike ZukeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 32Jim NillR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 17Ed KeaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 34 | 5 | .853 |
| 29Gary EdwardsG | 0 | 0 | – |