St. Louis Blues vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Wednesday, December 21, 1983 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the St. Louis Blues 5–4 on Wednesday, December 21, 1983 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs outshot the Blues 38–18.
Rick Vaive scored 4 goals and Jorgen Pettersson scored twice. Bernie Federko, Guy Chouinard and Dale McCourt also scored.
Mike Palmateer made 14 saves on 18 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 33 of 38.
Scoring
1st period
Rick Vaive (25)Dale McCourt (17), Dan Daoust (27)0–110:37 TOR · 
Jorgen Pettersson (11)Doug Gilmour (13), Tim Bothwell (6)1–115:31 STL
2nd period
- Rick Vaive (26)Bill Stewart (7), John Anderson (19)1–209:36 TOR
- Jorgen Pettersson (12)Doug Gilmour (14), Joe Mullen (19)2–212:04 STL ·
- Rick Vaive (27)Dan Daoust (28), Bill Stewart (8)2–313:24 TOR
Bernie Federko (22)Rob Ramage (24), Jorgen Pettersson (18)3–315:01 STL · 
Guy Chouinard (6)Brian Sutter (22), Bernie Federko (27)4–318:27 STL ·
3rd period
Dale McCourt (15)John Anderson (20), Dan Daoust (29)4–408:21 TOR · - Rick Vaive (28)John Anderson (21), Jim Benning (19)4–510:15 TOR ·
Team stats
STLTOR
1838
0%0%
3/83/8
3343
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:02 into the first period
Bill Stewart · elbowing2 min - 4:12 into the first period
Dwight Schofield · roughing2 min - 4:12 into the first periodDwight Schofield · fighting5 min
- 4:12 into the first periodFrank Nigro · fighting5 min
- 8:49 into the first periodPerry Anderson · interference2 min
- 10:09 into the first periodBrian Sutter · fighting5 min
- 10:09 into the first periodJim Benning · fighting5 min
- 12:32 into the first periodTerry Martin · tripping2 min
- 16:04 into the first periodRob Ramage · cross checking2 min
- 1:06 into the second periodPerry Anderson · slashing2 min
- 1:06 into the second periodFrank Nigro · high sticking2 min
- 3:07 into the second periodRik Wilson · slashing2 min
- 10:06 into the second periodDave Hutchison · holding2 min
- 14:35 into the second periodDave Farrish · holding2 min
- 16:42 into the second periodRik Wilson · high sticking2 min
- 17:31 into the second periodDwight Schofield · fighting5 min
- 17:31 into the second periodRick Vaive · high sticking2 min
- 17:31 into the second periodDave Hutchison · player leaves bench2 min
- 17:31 into the second periodDave Hutchison · player leaves bench2 min
- 17:31 into the second periodDave Hutchison · fighting5 min
- 17:31 into the second periodDave Hutchison · game misconduct10 min
- 3:36 into the third periodTim Bothwell · interference2 min
- 7:54 into the third periodPerry Anderson · interference2 min
- 9:49 into the third periodJoe Mullen · holding2 min
- 10:28 into the third periodBilly Harris · tripping2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Doug GilmourC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 7Joe MullenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 17Guy ChouinardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 25Tim BothwellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Wayne BabychR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 12Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Mark ReedsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Jack CarlsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Alain LemieuxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 61Pat HickeyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 2Andre DoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Rik WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Jack BrownschidleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Dwight SchofieldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 38 | 5 | .868 |
| 31Rick HeinzG | 0 | 0 | – |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 22Rick VaiveR | 4 | 0 | 4 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Dan DaoustC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 12Dale McCourtC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Bill StewartD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 3Jim BenningD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 7Greg TerrionC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Miroslav FrycerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Billy HarrisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Frank NigroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 28Dave FarrishD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 33Dave HutchisonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike PalmateerG | W | 18 | 4 | .778 |
| 31Bruce DowieG | 0 | 0 | – |