Pittsburgh Penguins vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 4, 1983 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 10–2 on Friday, March 4, 1983 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Penguins outshot the Sabres 37–30.
Gilles Hamel scored twice and Mal Davis scored twice. Paul Cyr, Bill Hajt, Brent Peterson, Mike Bullard, Phil Housley, Tony McKegney, Paul Gardner and Dale McCourt also scored.
Bob Sauve made 35 saves on 37 shots for the win; Denis Herron stopped 20 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Paul Cyr (11)Mal Davis (8), Dave Andreychuk (16)0–104:28 BUF · 
Gilles Hamel (17)David Fenyves (5), Gilbert Perreault (35)0–206:23 BUF
Bill Hajt (2)Mike Ramsey (23), Mal Davis (9)0–312:17 BUF
Brent Peterson (11)Andre Savard (23), Mike Ramsey (24)0–414:32 BUF ·
2nd period
Mike Bullard (18)Tony Feltrin (2), Paul Baxter (21)1–402:10 PIT
Phil Housley (16)Unassisted1–504:19 BUF · 
Mal Davis (4)Mike Ramsey (25), Bill Hajt (10)1–610:56 BUF- Gilles Hamel (18)David Fenyves (6), Gilbert Perreault (36)1–711:28 BUF
Tony McKegney (29)Dale McCourt (25), Hannu Virta (20)1–815:31 BUF
3rd period
Paul Gardner (22)Rick Kehoe (30), Randy Carlyle (32)2–811:09 PIT · 
Dale McCourt (15)Tony McKegney (34)2–914:05 BUF- Mal Davis (5)Dave Andreychuk (17), Mike Foligno (20)2–1018:48 BUF
Team stats
PITBUF
3730
0%0%
1/52/6
1210
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:26 into the first period
Doug Shedden · holding2 min - 9:38 into the first periodGary Rissling · hooking2 min
- 14:19 into the first period
Gilles Hamel · slashing2 min - 19:05 into the first periodBrent Peterson · interference2 min
- 2:26 into the second periodGary Rissling · holding2 min
- 5:09 into the second periodGary Rissling · tripping2 min
- 12:17 into the second periodPaul Baxter · interference2 min
- 18:18 into the second periodGary Rissling · tripping2 min
- 6:10 into the third periodMike Foligno · holding2 min
- 7:04 into the third periodBob Sauve · interference2 min
- 10:29 into the third periodGilbert Perreault · tripping2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 17Rick KehoeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Paul GardnerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 7 | – |
| 22Mike BullardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 4Paul BaxterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 25Randy CarlyleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 2 | – |
| 33Tony FeltrinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 10Peter LeeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 11Anders HakanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 12Greg MaloneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Doug SheddenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 15Pat BoutetteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 23Gary RisslingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 26Steve GatzosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 32Dave HannanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 34Andre St. LaurentC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 5Ron MeighanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 8Randy BoydD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 16Marc ChorneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Denis HerronG | L | 30 | 10 | .667 |
| 29Michel DionG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 25Mal DavisL | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +4 | 0 | – |
| 7Dale McCourtC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 8Tony McKegneyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 29Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 31David FenyvesD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 12Andre SavardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | W | 37 | 2 | .946 |
| 33Phil MyreG | 0 | 0 | – |