St. Louis Blues vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, December 2, 1983 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the St. Louis Blues 7–6 on Friday, December 2, 1983 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Blues 42–27.
Sean Mckenna scored twice. Phil Housley, Hannu Virta, Joe Mullen, Jorgen Pettersson, Pat Hickey, Dave Andreychuk, Brian Sutter, Bernie Federko, Doug Gilmour, Real Cloutier and Mike Foligno also scored.
Bob Sauve made 21 saves on 27 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 35 of 42.
Scoring
1st period
Phil Housley (13)Gilbert Perreault (20), Real Cloutier (17)0–109:52 BUF · 
Hannu Virta (2)Dave Andreychuk (8), Paul Cyr (10)0–219:52 BUF ·
2nd period
Joe Mullen (8)Brian Sutter (14)1–203:42 STL
Jorgen Pettersson (7)Unassisted2–204:43 STL
Sean Mckenna (5)Hannu Virta (11), Craig Ramsay (6)2–307:16 BUF
Pat Hickey (5)Doug Gilmour (8), Rob Ramage (16)3–307:30 STL
Dave Andreychuk (8)Mike Moller (4), Paul Cyr (11)3–409:22 BUF
Brian Sutter (9)Joe Mullen (10), Rob Ramage (17)4–411:47 STL · 
Bernie Federko (13)Brian Sutter (15), Terry Johnson (2)5–412:47 STL
3rd period
Doug Gilmour (6)Pat Hickey (4), Jorgen Pettersson (15)6–401:04 STL- Sean Mckenna (6)Jim Wiemer (6), Mike Moller (5)6–504:11 BUF
Real Cloutier (11)Phil Housley (19), Gilbert Perreault (21)6–608:43 BUF · 
Mike Foligno (11)John Tucker (2)6–709:11 BUF
Team stats
STLBUF
2742
0%0%
1/23/6
124
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00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:12 into the first period
Rob Ramage · cross checking2 min - 18:44 into the first periodRob Ramage · holding2 min
- 0:07 into the second periodBrian Sutter · slashing2 min
- 11:38 into the second period
Ric Seiling · holding2 min - 13:00 into the second periodPerry Turnbull · hooking2 min
- 16:54 into the second periodCraig Ramsay · tripping2 min
- 2:01 into the third periodDwight Schofield · interference2 min
- 6:50 into the third periodAlain Lemieux · holding2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 11Brian SutterL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 7Joe MullenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Doug GilmourC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 61Pat HickeyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Terry JohnsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 10Wayne BabychR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 12Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Guy ChouinardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 20Jack CarlsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Alain LemieuxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Andre DoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Dwight SchofieldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 25Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 42 | 7 | .833 |
| 31Rick HeinzG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 8Real CloutierR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Mike MollerR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Jim WiemerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | W | 27 | 6 | .778 |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |