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Sunday, February 8, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena

Canucks 2 at Red Wings 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Dale McCourt Red Wings First Star 2A · 3 SOG G 66OVR Gilles Gilbert Red Wings Second Star 26 SV · .929 D 81OVR Willie Huber Red Wings Third Star 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:45 Reed Larson (24) Dale McCourt (35), John Ogrodnick (25) VAN 0 – 1 DET
  2. 6:16 Reed Larson (25) PPG Dale McCourt (36), Vaclav Nedomansky (15) VAN 0 – 2 DET

2nd Period

  1. 7:14 Gerry Minor (7) SHG Lars Lindgren (16) VAN 1 – 2 DET
  2. 16:21 Jim Korn (2) PPG Paul Woods (12), Willie Huber (25) VAN 1 – 3 DET

3rd Period

  1. 16:14 Stan Smyl (22) Thomas Gradin (39), Per-Olov Brasar (27) VAN 2 – 3 DET

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Per-Olov Brasar C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Thomas Gradin C 0 1 3 0 0.85
Lars Lindgren D 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Gerry Minor C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Bobby Schmautz R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Ivan Boldirev C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jerry Butler R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Curt Fraser L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Mario Marois D 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Stan Smyl R 1 0 2 +1 0.00
Brent Ashton L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Darcy Rota L 0 0 2 0 0.00
Dennis Kearns D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Kevin McCarthy D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Harold Snepsts D 0 0 3 -1 -0.23
Colin Campbell D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Dave Williams L 0 0 0 -1 -2.03
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Richard Brodeur L 33 30 3 .909 58:35 0.75

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dale McCourt C 0 2 3 0 1.48
Willie Huber D 0 1 5 0 1.00
Jim Korn D 1 0 1 0 0.83
John Ogrodnick L 0 1 4 -1 0.78
Paul Woods C 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Reed Larson D 2 0 3 +1 0.60
Gary McAdam R 0 0 4 0 0.30
Mark Kirton C 0 0 5 0 0.23
Earl Ingarfield C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Joe Paterson L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Glenn Hicks L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brent Peterson C 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Mike Blaisdell R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Jean Hamel D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
John Barrett D 0 0 2 0 -0.30
Mike Foligno R 0 0 2 -1 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Gilbert W 28 26 2 .929 60:00 1.10