Toronto Maple Leafs vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Sunday, March 28, 1982 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6–4 on Sunday, March 28, 1982 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Maple Leafs 34–23.
Goals came from Rocky Saganiuk, Jim Benning, Greg Smith, Reed Larson, Danny Gare, Rick Vaive, Paul Woods, John Ogrodnick, Greg Joly and Stew Gavin.
Bob Sauve made 19 saves on 23 shots for the win; Vincent Tremblay stopped 28 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Rocky Saganiuk (16)Stew Gavin (5), Walt Poddubny (3)1–002:50 TOR
Jim Benning (6)Rick Vaive (33), John Anderson (26)2–018:02 TOR ·
2nd period
Greg Smith (10)Mike Blaisdell (32), Vaclav Nedomansky (27)2–108:43 DET · 
Reed Larson (21)Unassisted2–213:38 DET
Danny Gare (20)Reed Larson (35), Walt McKechnie (36)2–315:32 DET · 
Rick Vaive (52)Bill Derlago (49)3–319:25 TOR
3rd period
Paul Woods (10)Ted Nolan (13), Mark Kirton (27)3–400:42 DET
John Ogrodnick (27)Reed Larson (36), Jody Gage (10)3–508:39 DET
Greg Joly (1)Walt McKechnie (37), Mark Kirton (28)3–615:01 DET · 
Stew Gavin (5)Walt Poddubny (4), Jim Korn (9)4–615:56 TOR
Team stats
TORDET
2334
0%0%
1/51/2
915
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 16:21 into the first period
Greg Joly · holding2 min - 7:02 into the second periodJohn Barrett · fighting5 min
- 7:02 into the second period
Bob Mcgill · fighting5 min - 7:23 into the second periodJim Korn · holding2 min
- 14:44 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 1:13 into the third periodReed Larson · tripping2 min
- 6:07 into the third periodNorm Aubin · hooking2 min
- 8:58 into the third periodJohn Ogrodnick · holding2 min
- 13:09 into the third periodWillie Huber · high sticking2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 12Walt PoddubnyL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 17Stew GavinR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 7Rocky SaganiukR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 15Jim BenningD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 20Jim KornD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 9Dan MaloneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Miroslav FrycerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 16Billy HarrisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Norm AubinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3Bob MannoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Bob McgillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Michel LarocqueG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Vincent TremblayG | L | 34 | 6 | .824 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 28Reed LarsonD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Mark KirtonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Ted NolanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Jody GageR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Danny GareR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20Vaclav NedomanskyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 22Greg JolyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Eric VailL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 24Derek SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Gilles GilbertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Bob SauveG | W | 23 | 4 | .826 |