Detroit Red Wings vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Saturday, December 19, 1981 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the Detroit Red Wings 5–1 on Saturday, December 19, 1981 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Red Wings outshot the Islanders 39–33.
Mike Bossy scored twice and John Tonelli scored twice. Billy Carroll and Mike Blaisdell also scored.
Roland Melanson made 38 saves on 39 shots for the win; Bob Sauve stopped 28 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Billy Carroll (2)Clark Gillies (13), Hector Marini (2)0–110:35 NYI
Mike Bossy (24)Tomas Jonsson (14), Bryan Trottier (31)0–212:02 NYI- Mike Bossy (25)Bryan Trottier (32), Clark Gillies (14)0–318:09 NYI
2nd period
Mike Blaisdell (10)Unassisted1–306:21 DET
John Tonelli (11)Billy Carroll (8)1–415:39 NYI
3rd period
- John Tonelli (12)Bobby Nystrom (15), Wayne Merrick (13)1–518:14 NYI
Team stats
DETNYI
3933
0%0%
0/50/2
2329
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:31 into the first period
Bryan Trottier · charging2 min - 18:19 into the first periodDave Langevin · holding2 min
- 0:52 into the second period
Mike Blaisdell · tripping2 min - 9:54 into the second periodJim Korn · holding2 min
- 9:54 into the second periodPaul Woods · fighting5 min
- 9:54 into the second periodDuane Sutter · roughing2 min
- 9:54 into the second periodDuane Sutter · fighting5 min
- 13:41 into the second periodDanny Gare · high sticking2 min
- 13:41 into the second periodBobby Nystrom · high sticking2 min
- 2:18 into the third periodBrad Smith · fighting5 min
- 2:18 into the third periodGord Lane · fighting5 min
- 5:42 into the third periodClark Gillies · high sticking2 min
- 13:54 into the third periodClark Gillies · holding2 min
- 15:29 into the third periodDanny Gare · fighting5 min
- 15:29 into the third periodBob Bourne · fighting5 min
- 15:56 into the third periodJohn Barrett · interference2 min
- 18:51 into the third periodGord Lane · slashing2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 8 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 16Mark KirtonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 18Danny GareR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 19Eric VailL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Derek SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Brad SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 6 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gilles GilbertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Bob SauveG | L | 33 | 5 | .849 |
New York Islanders
| 9Clark GilliesL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Mike BossyR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 10 | – |
| 25Billy CarrollC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 27John TonelliL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 11Wayne MerrickC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Bobby NystromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 29Hector MariniR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 3Tomas JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 12Duane SutterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Bob BourneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 91Butch GoringC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Denis PotvinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 24Gord LaneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave LangevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Roland MelansonG | W | 39 | 1 | .974 |
| 31Billy SmithG | 0 | 0 | – |