Minnesota North Stars vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Wednesday, January 2, 1991 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Minnesota North Stars 6–2 on Wednesday, January 2, 1991 at Joe Louis Arena. The North Stars outshot the Red Wings 32–24.
Steve Yzerman scored twice. Yves Racine, Ulf Dahlen, Sergei Fedorov, Jimmy Carson, Brent Fedyk and Mike Modano also scored.
Tim Cheveldae made 30 saves on 32 shots for the win; Brian Hayward stopped 18 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Yves Racine (3)Sergei Fedorov (23), Tim Cheveldae (4)0–100:44 DET
Ulf Dahlen (9)Dave Gagner (13), Brian Bellows (22)1–102:04 MNS
Sergei Fedorov (18)Steve Yzerman (30), Yves Racine (12)1–213:48 DET · 
Jimmy Carson (13)Shawn Burr (18), Rick Zombo (8)1–314:03 DET
Brent Fedyk (7)Keith Primeau (9), Johan Garpenlov (13)1–416:17 DET
2nd period
Mike Modano (12)Brian Bellows (23), Brian Propp (21)2–411:45 MNS · 
Steve Yzerman (24)Yves Racine (13), Per Djoos (12)2–518:22 DET ·
3rd period
- Steve Yzerman (25)Rick Green (9)2–612:26 DET ·
Team stats
MNSDET
3224
0%0%
1/72/4
2733
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:16 into the first period
Joey Kocur · holding2 min - 3:53 into the first periodShawn Burr · slashing2 min
- 12:49 into the first period
Steve Gotaas · hooking2 min - 3:42 into the second periodBrent Fedyk · tripping2 min
- 11:02 into the second periodRandy Mckay · fighting5 min
- 11:02 into the second periodNeil Wilkinson · fighting5 min
- 11:19 into the second periodPer Djoos · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 11:19 into the second periodKeith Primeau · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 11:19 into the second periodDoug Smail · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 11:19 into the second periodRob Zettler · misconduct10 min
- 14:33 into the second periodShawn Burr · misconduct10 min
- 14:51 into the second periodStew Gavin · holding2 min
- 18:14 into the second periodCurt Giles · tripping2 min
- 2:15 into the third periodRick Green · cross checking2 min
- 11:33 into the third periodSergei Fedorov · slashing2 min
- 11:33 into the third periodJoey Kocur · high sticking2 min
- 11:33 into the third periodJim Johnson · slashing2 min
- 12:46 into the third periodMike Modano · high sticking2 min
- 15:05 into the third periodYves Racine · tripping2 min
Season series
Minnesota North Stars
| 23Brian BellowsL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 9Mike ModanoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 15Dave GagnerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Brian ProppL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Ulf DahlenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 7Neal BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 10Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 14Doug SmailL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Perry BerezanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 34Steve GotaasC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 37Mitchell MessierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Chris DahlquistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Neil WilkinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Jim JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 24Mark TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brian HaywardG | L | 24 | 6 | .750 |
| 30Jon CaseyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Detroit Red Wings
| 19Steve YzermanC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 33Yves RacineD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 10Jimmy CarsonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 11Shawn BurrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Brent FedykL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Johan GarpenlovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 55Keith PrimeauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Rick ZomboD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 36Per DjoosD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16John ChabotC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Dave BarrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Bob ProbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Joey KocurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Randy MckayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Steve ChiassonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Tim CheveldaeG | W | 32 | 2 | .938 |