Sweden vs USA
· Tuesday, September 1, 1981 · Northlands Coliseum
SwedenAway
1–3
Final29–24
USAHome
Game summary
The USA beat the Sweden 3–1 on Tuesday, September 1, 1981 at Northlands Coliseum. The Sweden outshot the USA 29–24.
Goals came from Reed Larson, Dave Christian, Thomas Gradin and Mike O'connell.
Tony Esposito made 0 saves on 29 shots for the win; Peter Lindmark stopped 0 of 24.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 29 |
| USA | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 24 |
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Reed Larson (1)Richie Dunn (1)0–107:22 USA
Dave Christian (1)Tom Gorence (1), Richie Dunn (2)0–212:18 USA
2nd period
Thomas Gradin (1)Anders Kallur (1), Tomas Jonsson (1)1–205:47 SWE
3rd period
Mike O'connell (1)Unassisted1–304:39 USA
Team stats
SWEUSA
2924
0%0%
0/50/3
1216
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:51 into the first periodBob Miller · minor2 min
- 0:51 into the first periodAnders Hakansson · minor2 min
- 3:36 into the first periodDave Langevin · minor2 min
- 4:23 into the first periodUlf Nilsson · minor2 min
- 4:23 into the first periodRod Langway · minor2 min
- 6:56 into the first periodPeter Helander · minor2 min
- 6:56 into the first periodDave Christian · minor2 min
- 12:30 into the first periodTom Gorence · minor2 min
- 10:37 into the second periodKent Nilsson · minor2 min
- 11:24 into the second periodPeter Lindmark · minor2 min
- 11:40 into the second periodBob Miller · minor2 min
- 16:19 into the second periodPeter Helander · minor2 min
- 17:48 into the second periodSteve Christoff · minor2 min
- 12:19 into the third periodMike Eaves · minor2 min
Sweden
| 23Thomas GradinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 28Anders KallurC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Tomas JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 8Kent-Erik AnderssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Ulf NilssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Lars MolinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Kent NilssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Anders HedbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Anders HakanssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Bengt LundholmC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Patrik SundstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Thomas SteenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Lars LindgrenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Peter HelanderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Stefan PerssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Mats WaltinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Peter LindmarkG | L | 24 | 3 | .875 |
| 25Pelle LindberghG | 0 | 0 | .000 |
USA
| 3Richie DunnD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 13Dave ChristianC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Tom GorenceC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Neal BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Robbie FtorekC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Bob MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Rob McClanahanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Mike EavesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Dean TalafousC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Steve ChristoffC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Warren MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Mark HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave LangevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Steve BakerG | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| 35Tony EspositoG | W | 29 | 1 | .966 |