Minnesota North Stars vs Vancouver Canucks
Regular season · Wednesday, December 2, 1981 · Pacific Coliseum
Game summary
The Vancouver Canucks beat the Minnesota North Stars 5–0 on Wednesday, December 2, 1981 at Pacific Coliseum. The Canucks outshot the North Stars 32–18.
Ivan Boldirev scored twice and Thomas Gradin scored twice. Curt Fraser also scored.
Glen Hanlon made 18 saves on 18 shots for the win; Gilles Meloche stopped 27 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Ivan Boldirev (14)Darcy Rota (5), Lars Molin (9)0–106:25 VAN
Thomas Gradin (14)Curt Fraser (17), Stan Smyl (20)0–209:04 VAN- Thomas Gradin (15)Stan Smyl (21), Rick Lanz (9)0–318:53 VAN
2nd period
Curt Fraser (13)Stan Smyl (22), Thomas Gradin (18)0–400:37 VAN- Ivan Boldirev (15)Kevin McCarthy (13), Lars Molin (10)0–514:43 VAN ·
Team stats
MNSVAN
1832
0%0%
0/61/4
1317
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 10:48 into the first period
Ron Delorme · interference2 min - 0:54 into the second periodHarold Snepsts · cross checking2 min
- 11:21 into the second periodColin Campbell · cross checking2 min
- 13:08 into the second period
Curt Giles · hooking2 min - 17:06 into the second periodJack Carlson · roughing2 min
- 17:25 into the second periodDave Williams · hooking2 min
- 1:15 into the third periodDarcy Rota · holding2 min
- 3:26 into the third periodKevin Maxwell · hooking2 min
- 6:33 into the third periodBlair MacDonald · hooking2 min
- 9:30 into the third periodRon Friest · fighting5 min
- 9:30 into the third periodKevin McCarthy · fighting5 min
- 9:52 into the third periodCraig Hartsburg · hooking2 min
Season series
Minnesota North Stars
| 7Neal BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Kent-Erik AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Kevin MaxwellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Brad PalmerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 16Anders HakanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Dino CiccarelliR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 21Jack CarlsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Al MacAdamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Steve ChristoffC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 31Ron FriestL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Jim DobsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 3Fred BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Craig HartsburgD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 10Gordie RobertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Ron MeighanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Gilles MelocheG | L | 32 | 5 | .844 |
| 33Don BeaupreG | 0 | 0 | – |
Vancouver Canucks
| 12Stan SmylR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 23Thomas GradinC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 9Ivan BoldirevC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 24Curt FraserL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 26Lars MolinL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Darcy RotaL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 25Kevin McCarthyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 14Blair MacDonaldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Per-Olov BrasarC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Ron DelormeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Ivan HlinkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Colin CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 13Lars LindgrenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Harold SnepstsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Jiri BublaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | W | 18 | 0 | 1.000 |
| 35Richard BrodeurG | 0 | 0 | – |