Toronto Maple Leafs vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Wednesday, October 5, 1983 · Northlands Coliseum
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–4 on Wednesday, October 5, 1983 at Northlands Coliseum. The Oilers outshot the Maple Leafs 38–28.
Goals came from Stew Gavin, Walt Poddubny, Tom Roulston, Glenn Anderson, Dave Hunter, Wayne Gretzky, John Anderson, Kevin Lowe and Peter Ihnacak.
Grant Fuhr made 24 saves on 28 shots for the win; Rick St. Croix stopped 33 of 38.
Scoring
1st period
Stew Gavin (1)Jim Korn (1)1–000:27 TOR
Walt Poddubny (1)Billy Harris (1), Jim Benning (1)2–002:23 TOR
2nd period
Tom Roulston (1)Dave Lumley (1), Charlie Huddy (1)2–102:16 EDM
Glenn Anderson (1)Wayne Gretzky (1), Paul Coffey (1)2–214:25 EDM · 
Dave Hunter (1)Don Jackson (1), Ken Linseman (1)2–316:07 EDM
3rd period
Wayne Gretzky (1)Lee Fogolin (1)2–402:33 EDM · 
John Anderson (1)Jim Benning (2), Dan Daoust (1)3–403:10 TOR · 
Kevin Lowe (1)Dave Lumley (2), Dave Semenko (1)3–506:25 EDM
Peter Ihnacak (1)Walt Poddubny (1), Gaston Gingras (1)4–509:06 TOR ·
Team stats
TOREDM
2838
0%0%
2/81/8
1818
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:46 into the first period
Terry Martin · hooking2 min - 4:27 into the first periodBorje Salming · tripping2 min
- 8:47 into the first period
Pat Hughes · slashing2 min - 14:58 into the first periodPeter Ihnacak · delaying game2 min
- 17:06 into the first periodDave Hunter · slashing2 min
- 19:36 into the first periodMark Messier · holding2 min
- 4:16 into the second periodBill Stewart · cross checking2 min
- 5:22 into the second periodGlenn Anderson · high sticking2 min
- 5:22 into the second periodJim Korn · high sticking2 min
- 7:57 into the second periodDave Semenko · high sticking2 min
- 8:51 into the second periodDan Daoust · tripping2 min
- 12:43 into the second periodDave Farrish · tripping2 min
- 18:39 into the second periodJari Kurri · slashing2 min
- 0:30 into the third periodWalt Poddubny · hooking2 min
- 1:34 into the third periodGlenn Anderson · interference2 min
- 4:07 into the third periodRick Vaive · tripping2 min
- 8:56 into the third periodWayne Gretzky · hooking2 min
- 16:48 into the third periodDave Hunter · tripping2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 3Jim BenningD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 9Stew GavinR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 15Billy HarrisR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Dan DaoustC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 11Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 20Jim KornD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 7Greg TerrionC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Pat GrahamL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Frank NigroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 17Bill StewartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 28Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rick St. CroixG | L | 38 | 5 | .868 |
| 29Mike PalmateerG | 0 | 0 | – |
Edmonton Oilers
| 20Dave LumleyR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 9Glenn AndersonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Dave HunterL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 13Ken LinsemanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Tom RoulstonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 2Lee FogolinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Charlie HuddyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 29Don JacksonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10Jaroslav PouzarL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 16Pat HughesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 23Marc HabscheidC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Randy GreggD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Grant FuhrG | W | 28 | 4 | .857 |
| 35Andy MoogG | 0 | 0 | – |