St. Louis Blues vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Saturday, December 17, 1983 · Montreal Forum
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the St. Louis Blues 6–3 on Saturday, December 17, 1983 at Montreal Forum. The Canadiens outshot the Blues 40–20.
Wayne Babych scored twice and Steve Shutt scored twice. John Chabot, Ryan Walter, Jorgen Pettersson, Bob Gainey and Guy Carbonneau also scored.
Richard Sevigny made 17 saves on 20 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 35 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Wayne Babych (10)Guy Chouinard (19)1–005:26 STL · 
Steve Shutt (6)Bobby Smith (14), Ryan Walter (16)1–106:03 MTL
John Chabot (5)Ric Nattress (1), Steve Shutt (14)1–208:37 MTL · 
Ryan Walter (7)Steve Shutt (15), Bobby Smith (15)1–311:28 MTL
2nd period
- Wayne Babych (11)Bernie Federko (26), Guy Chouinard (20)2–308:04 STL ·
- Steve Shutt (7)Bobby Smith (16), Ric Nattress (2)2–410:37 MTL ·
Jorgen Pettersson (10)Rob Ramage (23), Guy Chouinard (21)3–417:20 STL ·
3rd period
Bob Gainey (6)Guy Lafleur (13), Pierre Mondou (12)3–513:58 MTL
Guy Carbonneau (10)Craig Ludwig (10)3–619:31 MTL · ·
Team stats
STLMTL
2040
0%0%
3/52/5
2222
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:36 into the first period
Jorgen Pettersson · hooking2 min - 4:14 into the first period
Jean Hamel · cross checking2 min - 7:09 into the first periodTerry Johnson · roughing2 min
- 13:03 into the first periodChris Nilan · slashing2 min
- 13:03 into the first periodChris Nilan · fighting5 min
- 13:03 into the first periodPerry Anderson · slashing2 min
- 13:03 into the first periodPerry Anderson · fighting5 min
- 1:41 into the second periodChris Nilan · fighting5 min
- 1:41 into the second periodPerry Anderson · roughing2 min
- 1:41 into the second periodPerry Anderson · fighting5 min
- 7:40 into the second periodDoug Wickenheiser · hooking2 min
- 8:51 into the second periodPat Hickey · interference2 min
- 11:52 into the second periodGuy Carbonneau · tripping2 min
- 16:37 into the second periodJean Hamel · holding2 min
- 17:43 into the second periodDwight Schofield · holding2 min
- 17:43 into the third periodLarry Robinson · interference2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 17Guy ChouinardC | 0 | 3 | 3 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 10Wayne BabychR | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 8 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 7Joe MullenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 9Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 12Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Doug GilmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Jack CarlsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Alain LemieuxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 61Pat HickeyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Andre DoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Dwight SchofieldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 25Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Terry JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 40 | 5 | .875 |
| 31Rick HeinzG | 0 | 0 | – |
Montréal Canadiens
| 22Steve ShuttL | 2 | 2 | 4 | +2 | 8 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 3Ric NattressD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Pierre MondouC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10Guy LafleurR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 29John ChabotC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 8Greg PaslawskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Doug WickenheiserC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Kent CarlsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Bill RootD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 28Jean HamelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rick WamsleyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Richard SevignyG | W | 20 | 3 | .850 |