Minnesota North Stars vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Thursday, December 10, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Minnesota North Stars 4–1 on Thursday, December 10, 1981 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the North Stars 33–16.
Goals came from Derek Smith, Mike Blaisdell, Walt McKechnie, Steve Christoff and Greg Smith.
Bob Sauve made 15 saves on 16 shots for the win; Don Beaupre stopped 29 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Derek Smith (4)John Barrett (2), Reed Larson (17)0–104:50 DET
Mike Blaisdell (8)Mark Kirton (13), Paul Woods (11)0–212:59 DET
2nd period
Walt McKechnie (6)Greg Smith (9)0–306:33 DET
3rd period
Steve Christoff (9)Craig Hartsburg (22), Brad Palmer (11)1–303:44 MNS · 
Greg Smith (3)Paul Woods (12), Willie Huber (16)1–406:08 DET
Team stats
MNSDET
1633
0%0%
1/40/4
1515
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:28 into the first period
Greg Smith · interference2 min - 7:11 into the first periodDanny Gare · fighting5 min
- 7:11 into the first period
Ron Friest · roughing2 min - 7:11 into the first periodRon Friest · fighting5 min
- 17:35 into the first periodDon Murdoch · slashing2 min
- 17:35 into the first periodJack Carlson · slashing2 min
- 18:23 into the first periodJim Schoenfeld · hooking2 min
- 1:47 into the second periodRon Friest · interference2 min
- 1:56 into the second periodCraig Hartsburg · holding2 min
- 9:09 into the second periodCurt Giles · tripping2 min
- 13:14 into the second periodReed Larson · interference2 min
- 2:03 into the third periodDon Murdoch · high sticking2 min
Season series
Minnesota North Stars
| 14Brad PalmerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 28Steve ChristoffC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Craig HartsburgD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Peter HayekC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Neal BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Kent-Erik AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 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 | 1 | – |
| 26Steve PayneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Mike AntonovichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 31Ron FriestL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Fred BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 10Gordie RobertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Gilles MelocheG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Don BeaupreG | L | 33 | 4 | .879 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Mark KirtonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 24Derek SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 7 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Danny GareR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Eric VailL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gilles GilbertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Bob SauveG | W | 16 | 1 | .938 |