Buffalo Sabres vs Vancouver Canucks
Regular season · Saturday, March 12, 1983 · Pacific Coliseum
Game summary
The Vancouver Canucks beat the Buffalo Sabres 8–3 on Saturday, March 12, 1983 at Pacific Coliseum. The Canucks outshot the Sabres 32–17.
Doug Halward scored twice and Darcy Rota scored a hat trick. Bill Hajt, Tony McKegney, Patrik Sundstrom, Gary Lupul, Jim Nill and Mike Foligno also scored.
Richard Brodeur made 14 saves on 17 shots for the win; Phil Myre stopped 24 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Bill Hajt (3)Dale McCourt (27)1–000:42 BUF
Doug Halward (16)Thomas Gradin (46)1–102:46 VAN · 
Tony McKegney (32)Paul Cyr (8)2–105:16 BUF
Darcy Rota (34)Doug Halward (28), Stan Smyl (37)2–209:50 VAN- Darcy Rota (35)Stan Smyl (38)2–319:36 VAN
2nd period
Patrik Sundstrom (20)Tony Tanti (5), Garth Butcher (11)2–407:06 VAN- Doug Halward (17)Blair MacDonald (1)2–509:05 VAN ·
Gary Lupul (14)Doug Halward (29)2–616:47 VAN
3rd period
- Darcy Rota (36)Thomas Gradin (47), Stan Smyl (39)2–712:01 VAN
Jim Nill (6)Mark Kirton (4), Kevin McCarthy (25)2–814:25 VAN
Mike Foligno (19)Brent Peterson (24), Bill Hajt (12)3–817:17 BUF
Team stats
BUFVAN
1732
0%0%
0/32/2
46
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:42 into the first period
Larry Playfair · cross checking2 min - 15:32 into the first period
Darcy Rota · holding2 min - 8:03 into the second periodRic Seiling · hooking2 min
- 11:49 into the second periodGary Lupul · cross checking2 min
- 8:20 into the third periodLars Lindgren · tripping2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 24Bill HajtD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 7Dale McCourtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Tony McKegneyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 25Mal DavisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Steve PatrickR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Gary McAdamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 31David FenyvesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Phil MyreG | L | 32 | 8 | .750 |
Vancouver Canucks
| 2Doug HalwardD | 2 | 2 | 4 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 12Stan SmylR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 18Darcy RotaL | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 23Thomas GradinC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 7Gary LupulC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 8Jim NillR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Tony TantiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Blair MacDonaldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Mark KirtonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 17Patrik SundstromC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Garth ButcherD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 25Kevin McCarthyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Moe LemayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 19Ron DelormeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 13Lars LindgrenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 29Jiri BublaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31John GarrettG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Richard BrodeurG | W | 17 | 3 | .824 |