Pittsburgh Penguins vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Thursday, January 7, 1982 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5–4 on Thursday, January 7, 1982 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Penguins 33–21.
Goals came from Walt McKechnie, John Ogrodnick, Reed Larson, Bobby Simpson, Rick MacLeish, Rick Kehoe, Ted Nolan, Willie Huber and Mike Bullard.
Bob Sauve made 17 saves on 21 shots for the win; Michel Dion stopped 28 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Walt McKechnie (9)John Ogrodnick (12), Willie Huber (22)0–101:39 DET · 
John Ogrodnick (17)Jim Schoenfeld (5)0–218:15 DET
2nd period
Reed Larson (12)Walt McKechnie (19), Paul Woods (15)0–304:55 DET · 
Bobby Simpson (4)Paul Gardner (26)1–309:20 PIT
Rick MacLeish (9)Pat Price (17)2–310:03 PIT
Rick Kehoe (19)Paul Gardner (27), Bobby Simpson (4)3–312:16 PIT
Ted Nolan (1)Unassisted3–413:15 DET ·
3rd period
Willie Huber (10)Mark Osborne (16), Greg Smith (11)3–513:37 DET · 
Mike Bullard (14)Pat Boutette (30), Rick Kehoe (24)4–514:59 PIT ·
Team stats
PITDET
2133
0%0%
1/92/8
3820
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:54 into the first period
Paul Baxter · interference2 min - 6:36 into the first period
Reed Larson · high sticking2 min - 8:17 into the first periodPat Price · roughing2 min
- 10:51 into the first periodTed Nolan · holding2 min
- 11:32 into the first periodJim Korn · charging2 min
- 18:52 into the first periodRick Kehoe · holding2 min
- 3:02 into the second periodGreg Smith · interference2 min
- 6:24 into the second periodMarc Chorney · holding2 min
- 6:50 into the second periodWillie Huber · interference2 min
- 12:30 into the second periodWillie Huber · hooking2 min
- 19:39 into the second periodRandy Boyd · interference2 min
- 7:02 into the third periodRandy Boyd · hooking2 min
- 7:59 into the third periodVaclav Nedomansky · interference2 min
- 9:56 into the third periodMark Kirton · roughing2 min
- 9:56 into the third periodRandy Boyd · misconduct10 min
- 9:56 into the third periodPaul Gardner · roughing2 min
- 10:26 into the third periodGreg Smith · holding2 min
- 11:44 into the third periodRandy Carlyle · hooking2 min
- 14:46 into the third periodGreg Smith · interference2 min
- 19:47 into the third periodPaul Baxter · roughing2 min
- 19:47 into the third periodPaul Baxter · misconduct10 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 17Rick KehoeR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Paul GardnerC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 28Bobby SimpsonL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Rick MacLeishC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 15Pat BoutetteL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Mike BullardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Pat PriceD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11George FergusonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Greg MaloneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Doug SheddenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 19Gregg SheppardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 24Pat GrahamL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Ron StackhouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Paul BaxterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Randy BoydD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 16Marc ChorneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Randy CarlyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Paul HarrisonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Michel DionG | L | 33 | 5 | .849 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 12Ted NolanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 14Don MurdochR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Mark KirtonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 19Eric VailL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 24Derek SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Corrado MicalefG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Bob SauveG | W | 21 | 4 | .809 |