Vancouver Canucks vs New Jersey Devils
Regular season · Sunday, January 2, 1983 · Brendan Byrne Arena
Game summary
The New Jersey Devils beat the Vancouver Canucks 3–1 on Sunday, January 2, 1983 at Brendan Byrne Arena. The Devils outshot the Canucks 28–27.
Goals came from Steve Tambellini, Paul Gagne, Thomas Gradin and Yvon Vautour.
Glenn Resch made 26 saves on 27 shots for the win; Ken Ellacott stopped 25 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Tambellini (12)Tapio Levo (24), Jeff Larmer (5)0–105:51 NJD ·
2nd period
Paul Gagne (2)Aaron Broten (13), Tapio Levo (25)0–207:27 NJD · 
Thomas Gradin (14)Ivan Hlinka (30), Jiri Bubla (16)1–214:00 VAN ·
3rd period
Yvon Vautour (3)Unassisted1–300:49 NJD
Team stats
VANNJD
2728
0%0%
1/62/6
2617
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:06 into the first period
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 4:39 into the first period
Ivan Boldirev · hooking2 min - 10:30 into the first periodJohn Wensink · fighting5 min
- 10:30 into the first periodDarcy Rota · roughing2 min
- 11:41 into the first periodKevin McCarthy · holding2 min
- 15:32 into the first periodCarol Vadnais · tripping2 min
- 0:37 into the second periodDon Lever · tripping2 min
- 1:51 into the second periodDoug Halward · tripping2 min
- 6:59 into the second periodRick Lanz · hooking2 min
- 12:47 into the second periodCarol Vadnais · tripping2 min
- 16:10 into the second periodPatrik Sundstrom · cross checking2 min
- 16:54 into the second periodJohn Wensink · roughing2 min
- 16:54 into the second periodThomas Gradin · elbowing2 min
- 16:54 into the second periodThomas Gradin · misconduct10 min
- 11:07 into the third periodLars Lindgren · hooking2 min
- 17:37 into the third periodAaron Broten · hooking2 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 21Ivan HlinkaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Thomas GradinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 29Jiri BublaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Ivan BoldirevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Moe LemayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Stan SmylR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Patrik SundstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Darcy RotaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Ron DelormeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Curt FraserL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 26Lars MolinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Doug HalwardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 13Lars LindgrenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20Gerry MinorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Kevin McCarthyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Harold SnepstsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ken EllacottG | L | 28 | 3 | .893 |
| 30Frank CapriceG | 0 | 0 | – |
New Jersey Devils
| 8Tapio LevoD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 7Jeff LarmerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Steve TambelliniC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Yvon VautourR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Don LeverC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 10Dave CameronC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 11Bob MacMillanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Brent AshtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Rick MeagherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18John WensinkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Hector MariniR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Carol VadnaisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 22Rob PalmerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Murray BrumwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glenn ReschG | W | 27 | 1 | .963 |
| 33Lindsay MiddlebrookG | 0 | 0 | – |