Los Angeles Kings vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Wednesday, December 16, 1981 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Los Angeles Kings 7–6 on Wednesday, December 16, 1981 at Civic Arena. The Kings outshot the Penguins 36–27.
Paul Gardner scored twice, Steve Jensen scored twice and Doug Shedden scored twice. Ian Turnbull, Steve Bozek, George Ferguson, Charlie Simmer, Gregg Sheppard, Rick Kehoe and Dave Taylor also scored.
Michel Dion made 30 saves on 36 shots for the win; Mario Lessard stopped 20 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Ian Turnbull (6)Dean Hopkins (11)1–001:55 LAK
Paul Gardner (17)Rick Kehoe (17), Pat Boutette (20)1–103:54 PIT · 
Steve Jensen (3)Andre St. Laurent (1), Dave Lewis (7)2–109:05 LAK
Steve Bozek (19)Larry Murphy (20), Jerry Korab (8)3–116:15 LAK ·
2nd period
George Ferguson (8)Randy Carlyle (29)3–201:58 PIT
Doug Shedden (3)Ron Stackhouse (8)3–302:39 PIT- Steve Jensen (4)Doug Smith (4), Jim Fox (13)4–309:20 LAK
Charlie Simmer (5)Marcel Dionne (29), Dean Hopkins (12)5–316:24 LAK
Gregg Sheppard (5)George Ferguson (16), Mike Bullard (7)5–416:45 PIT
Rick Kehoe (15)Unassisted5–517:53 PIT
3rd period
Dave Taylor (18)Marcel Dionne (30), Mark Hardy (15)6–504:39 LAK · - Paul Gardner (18)Pat Price (14), Paul Baxter (13)6–604:53 PIT
- Doug Shedden (4)Greg Malone (13), Pat Boutette (21)6–712:36 PIT ·
Team stats
LAKPIT
3627
0%0%
2/62/4
2226
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:14 into the first period
Dave Lewis · holding2 min - 5:39 into the first period
Marc Chorney · holding2 min - 14:04 into the first periodPat Boutette · hooking2 min
- 14:33 into the first periodDave Taylor · roughing2 min
- 14:33 into the first periodRandy Carlyle · roughing2 min
- 14:33 into the first periodGregg Sheppard · roughing2 min
- 14:48 into the first periodMark Hardy · fighting5 min
- 14:48 into the first periodGeorge Ferguson · fighting5 min
- 19:29 into the first periodDave Lewis · roughing2 min
- 19:29 into the first periodPaul Gardner · roughing double minor4 min
- 1:29 into the second periodAndre St. Laurent · holding2 min
- 3:42 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 10:54 into the second periodDave Taylor · fighting5 min
- 10:54 into the second periodPat Price · fighting5 min
- 13:52 into the second periodSteve Bozek · hooking2 min
- 4:11 into the third periodRon Stackhouse · holding2 min
- 10:45 into the third periodIan Turnbull · holding2 min
Season series
Los Angeles Kings
| 12Dean HopkinsR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Marcel DionneC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Steve JensenL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 11Charlie SimmerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 15Andre St. LaurentC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Dave TaylorR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 19Jim FoxR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Doug SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Steve BozekL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Ian TurnbullD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Jerry KorabD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Larry MurphyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Mark HardyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25Dave LewisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Dan BonarC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2Trevor JohansenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 24Jay WellsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mario LessardG | L | 27 | 7 | .741 |
| 31Doug KeansG | 0 | 0 | – |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 11George FergusonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 14Doug SheddenC | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 15Pat BoutetteL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 17Rick KehoeR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 20Paul GardnerC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 12Greg MaloneC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 19Gregg SheppardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 22Mike BullardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Pat PriceD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Ron StackhouseD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 4Paul BaxterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Randy CarlyleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 9Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 10Peter LeeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 24Pat GrahamL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 26Paul MulveyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Marc ChorneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Paul HarrisonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Michel DionG | W | 36 | 6 | .833 |