Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, October 30, 1983 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 on Sunday, October 30, 1983 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Canadiens outshot the Sabres 32–26.
Real Cloutier scored twice. Steve Shutt, Paul Cyr, Lindy Ruff, Pierre Mondou, Mats Naslund, Gilles Hamel and Bobby Smith also scored.
Bob Sauve made 28 saves on 32 shots for the win; Rick Wamsley stopped 21 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Shutt (2)Bobby Smith (7)1–002:29 MTL · 
Real Cloutier (7)Gilbert Perreault (12), Phil Housley (9)1–114:39 BUF · 
Paul Cyr (2)Jim Wiemer (3)1–218:27 BUF
2nd period
Lindy Ruff (1)Ric Seiling (4)1–303:48 BUF
Pierre Mondou (6)Mario Tremblay (9), Kent Carlson (1)2–314:52 MTL
Mats Naslund (6)Pierre Mondou (7), Mario Tremblay (10)3–317:54 MTL
3rd period
Gilles Hamel (5)Mike Ramsey (3)3–405:30 BUF- Real Cloutier (8)Unassisted3–505:52 BUF
Bobby Smith (4)Gilbert Delorme (2), Craig Ludwig (3)4–513:06 MTL
Team stats
MTLBUF
3226
0%0%
1/41/3
2123
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:22 into the first period
Jim Wiemer · hooking2 min - 3:46 into the first period
Jean Hamel · high sticking2 min - 8:03 into the first periodMike Ramsey · interference2 min
- 10:10 into the first periodMike Ramsey · tripping2 min
- 13:48 into the first periodBobby Smith · hooking2 min
- 16:02 into the first periodMario Tremblay · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 6:25 into the second periodMark Renaud · tripping2 min
- 9:36 into the second periodJim Wiemer · fighting5 min
- 9:36 into the second periodChris Nilan · fighting5 min
- 13:19 into the third periodMike Foligno · fighting5 min
- 13:19 into the third periodKent Carlson · fighting5 min
- 18:22 into the third periodLindy Ruff · fighting5 min
- 18:22 into the third periodJean Hamel · fighting5 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 6Pierre MondouC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Steve ShuttL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 2Kent CarlsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Gilbert DelormeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 8Greg PaslawskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Guy LafleurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Doug WickenheiserC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Bill RootD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 24Robert PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 28Jean HamelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rick WamsleyG | L | 26 | 5 | .808 |
| 33Richard SevignyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 8Real CloutierR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 19Jim WiemerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Mark RenaudD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | W | 32 | 4 | .875 |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |