Hartford Whalers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, December 20, 1981 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Hartford Whalers 8–2 on Sunday, December 20, 1981 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Whalers 27–26.
Larry Playfair scored twice and Tony McKegney scored twice. Gilbert Perreault, Yvon Lambert, Chris Kotsopoulos, Lindy Ruff, Alan Haworth and Doug Sulliman also scored.
Jacques Cloutier made 24 saves on 26 shots for the win; Greg Millen stopped 19 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Gilbert Perreault (11)Tony McKegney (18), John Van Boxmeer (33)0–101:39 BUF
Larry Playfair (3)Unassisted0–208:53 BUF
Yvon Lambert (12)Alan Haworth (4), Jean-Francois Sauve (16)0–315:12 BUF
Tony McKegney (15)John Van Boxmeer (34), Gilbert Perreault (8)0–418:13 BUF
2nd period
- Tony McKegney (16)John Van Boxmeer (35)0–500:50 BUF ·
- Larry Playfair (4)Unassisted0–605:51 BUF
Chris Kotsopoulos (5)Unassisted1–608:17 HFD
3rd period
Lindy Ruff (9)Brent Peterson (1), Craig Ramsay (15)1–705:16 BUF
Alan Haworth (4)Yvon Lambert (18), Larry Playfair (5)1–808:50 BUF
Doug Sulliman (14)Rick MacLeish (14), Chris Kotsopoulos (10)2–816:41 HFD ·
Team stats
HFDBUF
2627
0%0%
1/51/4
1719
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:35 into the first period
Bob Hess · tripping2 min - 12:21 into the first periodLarry Playfair · holding2 min
- 19:38 into the first period
Chris Kotsopoulos · holding2 min - 6:04 into the second periodRic Seiling · tripping2 min
- 9:10 into the second periodCraig Ramsay · high sticking2 min
- 9:10 into the second periodTom Rowe · high sticking2 min
- 11:40 into the second periodRick Meagher · hooking2 min
- 17:10 into the second periodMike Foligno · roughing2 min
- 17:10 into the second periodMike Foligno · fighting5 min
- 17:10 into the second periodGarry Howatt · fighting5 min
- 6:10 into the third periodBlake Wesley · high sticking2 min
- 15:28 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 17:21 into the third periodJean-Francois Sauve · tripping2 min
- 17:21 into the third periodTom Rowe · holding2 min
- 18:24 into the third periodBlake Wesley · holding2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 24Chris KotsopoulosD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 7Rick MacLeishC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 4Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Garry HowattL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 12Tom RoweR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 14Dave KeonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 20Rick MeagherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Blaine StoughtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 26Don NachbaurC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Warren MillerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3Paul ShmyrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 5Mark HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 6Blake WesleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 28Mark RenaudD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | 1 | – |
| 29Jack McIlhargeyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Greg MillenG | L | 27 | 8 | .704 |
| 35John GarrettG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 8Tony McKegneyL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 4John Van BoxmeerD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 2 | 1 | 3 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 14Alan HaworthC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 15Yvon LambertL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Jean-Francois SauveC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Dale McCourtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Robert MongrainC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 23Bob HessD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Don EdwardsG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Jacques CloutierG | W | 26 | 2 | .923 |