Buffalo Sabres vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Tuesday, December 6, 1983 · St. Louis Arena
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the Buffalo Sabres 8–2 on Tuesday, December 6, 1983 at St. Louis Arena. The Blues outshot the Sabres 38–23.
Brian Sutter scored twice, Bernie Federko scored twice and Wayne Babych scored a hat trick. Dave Andreychuk, Paul Cyr and Rik Wilson also scored.
Mike Liut made 21 saves on 23 shots for the win; Bob Sauve stopped 30 of 38.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Andreychuk (9)Hannu Virta (13)1–012:09 BUF
Brian Sutter (10)Doug Gilmour (9), Rob Ramage (18)1–116:19 STL · - Brian Sutter (11)Joe Mullen (11), Bernie Federko (23)1–219:40 STL
2nd period
Bernie Federko (14)Joe Mullen (12), Brian Sutter (16)1–304:31 STL
Paul Cyr (5)Real Cloutier (18), Gilbert Perreault (22)2–307:15 BUF · - Bernie Federko (15)Brian Sutter (17), Joe Mullen (13)2–412:42 STL
3rd period
Wayne Babych (7)Guy Chouinard (15)2–507:48 STL
Rik Wilson (1)Jorgen Pettersson (16), Doug Gilmour (10)2–615:42 STL- Wayne Babych (8)Unassisted2–716:55 STL
- Wayne Babych (9)Doug Gilmour (11), Jorgen Pettersson (17)2–819:42 STL
Team stats
BUFSTL
2338
0%0%
1/61/4
3034
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:38 into the first period
Lindy Ruff · fighting5 min - 4:38 into the first period
Perry Anderson · fighting5 min - 6:28 into the first periodAlain Lemieux · holding2 min
- 8:28 into the first periodLarry Playfair · interference2 min
- 13:25 into the first periodJim Wiemer · tripping2 min
- 15:29 into the first periodLarry Playfair · slashing2 min
- 15:29 into the first periodLarry Playfair · fighting5 min
- 15:29 into the first periodPerry Turnbull · fighting5 min
- 5:51 into the second periodRob Ramage · tripping2 min
- 13:36 into the second periodJorgen Pettersson · hooking2 min
- 3:07 into the third periodLindy Ruff · fighting5 min
- 3:07 into the third periodAndre Dore · fighting5 min
- 3:23 into the third periodPaul Cyr · tripping2 min
- 4:07 into the third periodDwight Schofield · roughing2 min
- 8:11 into the third periodBrian Sutter · hooking2 min
- 10:04 into the third periodRob Ramage · tripping2 min
- 11:52 into the third periodGilbert Perreault · interference2 min
- 11:52 into the third periodPat Hickey · tripping2 min
- 15:59 into the third periodMike Foligno · fighting5 min
- 15:59 into the third periodDwight Schofield · fighting5 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 8Real CloutierR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −5 | 0 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 14Mike MollerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Jim WiemerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | L | 38 | 8 | .789 |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |
St. Louis Blues
| 11Brian SutterL | 2 | 2 | 4 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 7Joe MullenR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 10Wayne BabychR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 18Doug GilmourC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 17Guy ChouinardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 4Rik WilsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Jack CarlsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Alain LemieuxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 61Pat HickeyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Andre DoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 21Dwight SchofieldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 25Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 23 | 2 | .913 |
| 31Rick HeinzG | 0 | 0 | – |