Toronto Maple Leafs vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Thursday, December 31, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 5–2 on Thursday, December 31, 1981 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Maple Leafs 50–21.
Goals came from Rocky Saganiuk, Wilf Paiement, Bill Derlago, Danny Gare, Fred Perlini, Rick Vaive and Eric Vail.
Michel Larocque made 48 saves on 50 shots for the win; Bob Sauve stopped 16 of 21.
Scoring
1st period
Rocky Saganiuk (8)Fred Boimistruck (8), Fred Perlini (2)1–019:06 TOR
2nd period
Wilf Paiement (12)Darryl Sittler (19)2–002:02 TOR · 
Bill Derlago (18)Bob Mcgill (6)3–003:53 TOR
Danny Gare (9)Eric Vail (6), Reed Larson (19)3–107:52 DET
Fred Perlini (1)Rene Robert (16), Darryl Sittler (20)4–110:49 TOR · 
Rick Vaive (24)Bill Derlago (28)5–112:57 TOR · 
Eric Vail (9)Reed Larson (20), Danny Gare (18)5–214:56 DET ·
Team stats
TORDET
2150
0%0%
2/41/5
1210
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:12 into the first period
Darryl Sittler · hooking2 min - 14:07 into the first period
Jim Korn · roughing2 min - 14:07 into the first periodBob Mcgill · roughing2 min
- 15:41 into the first periodRon Zanussi · slashing2 min
- 1:49 into the second periodJohn Barrett · tripping2 min
- 8:13 into the second periodDanny Gare · roughing2 min
- 8:13 into the second periodDanny Gare · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 12:11 into the second periodRocky Saganiuk · tripping2 min
- 14:17 into the second periodWilf Paiement · hooking2 min
- 17:24 into the second periodDarwin McCutcheon · delaying game2 min
- 8:33 into the third periodBrad Smith · elbowing2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 28Fred PerliniC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 7Rocky SaganiukR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Rene RobertR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 99Wilf PaiementR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Bob McgillD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 11Fred BoimistruckD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Norm AubinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 39Ron ZanussiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Darwin McCutcheonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Jim BenningD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Craig MuniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Michel LarocqueG | W | 50 | 2 | .960 |
| 30Vincent TremblayG | 0 | 0 | – |
Detroit Red Wings
| 18Danny GareR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 19Eric VailL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 9 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 24Derek SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 27Brad SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 6 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Corrado MicalefG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Bob SauveG | L | 21 | 5 | .762 |