Minnesota North Stars vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Tuesday, December 15, 1981 · St. Louis Arena
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the Minnesota North Stars 4–2 on Tuesday, December 15, 1981 at St. Louis Arena. The Blues outshot the North Stars 31–21.
Goals came from Blake Dunlop, Jorgen Pettersson, Mike Crombeen, Wayne Babych, Bobby Smith and Brad Palmer.
Mike Liut made 19 saves on 21 shots for the win; Gilles Meloche stopped 27 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Blake Dunlop (6)Tony Currie (12), Perry Turnbull (8)0–109:29 STL
Jorgen Pettersson (9)Wayne Babych (14), Mike Zuke (22)0–214:07 STL · 
Mike Crombeen (6)Larry Patey (3)0–319:38 STL
2nd period
Wayne Babych (9)Jack Brownschidle (9), Bernie Federko (26)0–413:49 STL
Bobby Smith (20)Dino Ciccarelli (17), Steve Payne (14)1–417:51 MNS ·
3rd period
Brad Palmer (13)Gordie Roberts (13)2–406:14 MNS ·
Team stats
MNSSTL
2131
0%0%
2/51/3
812
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 13:20 into the first period
Gordie Roberts · hooking2 min - 15:34 into the first period
Larry Patey · holding2 min - 20:00 into the first periodEd Kea · tripping2 min
- 17:29 into the second periodTony Currie · hooking2 min
- 18:52 into the second periodAl MacAdam · holding2 min
- 4:28 into the third periodLarry Patey · interference2 min
- 12:37 into the third periodDino Ciccarelli · roughing2 min
- 12:37 into the third periodBrian Sutter · slashing2 min
- 13:46 into the third periodMike Crombeen · tripping2 min
- 16:20 into the third periodBill Nyrop · holding2 min
Season series
Minnesota North Stars
| 14Brad PalmerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Dino CiccarelliR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 26Steve PayneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 10Gordie RobertsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Neal BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 8Kent-Erik AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Anders HakanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Mike EavesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Jack CarlsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Al MacAdamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Steve ChristoffC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 31Ron FriestL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 3Fred BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Craig HartsburgD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 24Bill NyropD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Gilles MelocheG | L | 31 | 4 | .871 |
| 33Don BeaupreG | 0 | 0 | – |
St. Louis Blues
| 10Wayne BabychR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 6Larry PateyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15Tony CurrieR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Blake DunlopC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Mike ZukeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike CrombeenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 32Jim NillR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Gerry HartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Ed KeaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 18Rick LapointeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 34Rik WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 35Jim PaveseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 21 | 2 | .905 |
| 29Gary EdwardsG | 0 | 0 | – |