Detroit Red Wings vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Sunday, January 2, 1983 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 6–3 on Sunday, January 2, 1983 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs outshot the Red Wings 30–29.
Rick Vaive scored 4 goals and Danny Gare scored twice. Walt McKechnie, Billy Harris and John Anderson also scored.
Mike Palmateer made 26 saves on 29 shots for the win; Corrado Micalef stopped 24 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Rick Vaive (18)John Anderson (22), Gaston Gingras (10)0–109:40 TOR
Danny Gare (13)Willie Huber (22), Reed Larson (24)1–113:28 DET · 
Walt McKechnie (9)Reggie Leach (6), Greg Smith (13)2–117:34 DET ·
2nd period
- Danny Gare (14)Dwight Foster (11), Mark Osborne (13)3–104:01 DET ·
- Rick Vaive (19)Dan Daoust (7), John Anderson (23)3–210:28 TOR ·
Billy Harris (6)Mike Kaszycki (13)3–313:09 TOR
3rd period
John Anderson (10)Dan Daoust (8), Borje Salming (17)3–411:31 TOR- Rick Vaive (20)Borje Salming (18), Dan Daoust (9)3–514:16 TOR
- Rick Vaive (21)Dan Daoust (10), Gaston Gingras (11)3–618:32 TOR
Team stats
DETTOR
2930
0%0%
2/41/3
68
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:02 into the first period
Reed Larson · interference2 min - 12:35 into the first period
Peter Ihnacak · holding2 min - 16:11 into the first periodReed Larson · hooking2 min
- 0:37 into the second periodWalt Poddubny · holding2 min
- 3:42 into the second periodGaston Gingras · hooking2 min
- 9:23 into the second periodCorrado Micalef · tripping2 min
- 15:58 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 18Danny GareR | 2 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Dwight FosterR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 27Reggie LeachR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 7Willie HuberD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 8Joe PatersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 12Tom RoweR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Bobby FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 22Murray CravenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Derek SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 2Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Colin CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Greg StefanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Corrado MicalefG | L | 30 | 6 | .800 |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 22Rick VaiveR | 4 | 0 | 4 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 24Dan DaoustC | 0 | 4 | 4 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 11Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 15Billy HarrisR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Mike KaszyckiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 7Greg TerrionC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Paul HigginsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Frank NigroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Jim BenningD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 26Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 28Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Michel LarocqueG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Mike PalmateerG | W | 29 | 3 | .897 |