Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Wednesday, December 23, 1981 · Northlands Coliseum
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Vancouver Canucks 6–1 on Wednesday, December 23, 1981 at Northlands Coliseum. The Canucks outshot the Oilers 34–26.
Goals came from Mark Messier, Blair MacDonald, Jari Kurri, Dave Semenko, Dave Lumley, Paul Coffey and Wayne Gretzky.
Grant Fuhr made 33 saves on 34 shots for the win; Glen Hanlon stopped 20 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Mark Messier (25)Glenn Anderson (29)0–103:15 EDM
Blair MacDonald (11)Kevin McCarthy (19), Ivan Hlinka (19)1–109:55 VAN
Jari Kurri (10)Wayne Gretzky (54)1–215:11 EDM
3rd period
Dave Semenko (7)Wayne Gretzky (55), Dave Lumley (21)1–302:58 EDM · 
Dave Lumley (20)Wayne Gretzky (56)1–406:17 EDM · 
Paul Coffey (20)Unassisted1–516:46 EDM
Wayne Gretzky (41)Dave Lumley (22)1–618:46 EDM
Team stats
VANEDM
3426
0%0%
0/51/5
1212
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:25 into the first period
Lars Lindgren · tripping2 min - 18:59 into the first period
Kevin Lowe · interference2 min - 1:51 into the second periodGlenn Anderson · hooking2 min
- 8:20 into the second periodStan Smyl · tripping2 min
- 11:50 into the second periodBrett Callighen · hooking2 min
- 14:16 into the second periodLars Lindgren · hooking2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodDave Semenko · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodRon Delorme · roughing2 min
- 1:12 into the third periodRick Lanz · holding2 min
- 4:55 into the third periodLee Fogolin · holding2 min
- 7:31 into the third periodDave Lumley · high sticking2 min
- 13:06 into the third periodDave Williams · tripping2 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 14Blair MacDonaldR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Ivan HlinkaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 25Kevin McCarthyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 9Ivan BoldirevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 12Stan SmylR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 16Per-Olov BrasarC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 18Darcy RotaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Ron DelormeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 23Thomas GradinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 24Curt FraserL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 26Lars MolinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 5Colin CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 13Lars LindgrenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Gerry MinorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27Harold SnepstsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | L | 26 | 6 | .769 |
| 35Richard BrodeurG | 0 | 0 | – |
Edmonton Oilers
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 20Dave LumleyR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 9Glenn AndersonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 10Matti HagmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Pat HughesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Brett CallighenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Ken BerryL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Stan WeirC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 77Garry UngerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2Lee FogolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Doug HicksD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Charlie HuddyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Grant FuhrG | W | 34 | 1 | .971 |
| 30Ron LowG | 0 | 0 | – |