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Saturday, April 4, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena

Sabres 5 at Red Wings 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 88OVR Tony McKegney Sabres First Star 2G · 5 SOG C 95OVR Andre Savard Sabres Second Star 2G · 2 SOG D 89OVR Jim Schoenfeld Sabres Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:42 Tony McKegney (36) Danny Gare (38), Jim Schoenfeld (24) BUF 1 – 0 DET
  2. 15:55 Tony McKegney (37) Derek Smith (43), Danny Gare (39) BUF 2 – 0 DET
  3. 19:59 Andre Savard (30) SHG Unassisted BUF 3 – 0 DET

2nd Period

  1. 2:52 Andre Savard (31) Richie Dunn (42) BUF 4 – 0 DET
  2. 9:39 Vaclav Nedomansky (12) PPG Reed Larson (31), Dale McCourt (56) BUF 4 – 1 DET
  3. 13:08 Lindy Ruff (8) PPG Jim Schoenfeld (25), Craig Ramsay (35) BUF 5 – 1 DET
  4. 16:40 Mark Kirton (17) SHG Unassisted BUF 5 – 2 DET

3rd Period

  1. 8:22 Brad Smith (11) John Barrett (10), Mark Kirton (13) BUF 5 – 3 DET
  2. 9:41 John Ogrodnick (35) Mike Foligno (34) BUF 5 – 4 DET

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tony McKegney L 2 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Andre Savard C 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.48
Danny Gare R 0 2 0 0 0 +2 0:00 1.40
Lindy Ruff L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Derek Smith C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Richie Dunn D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Craig Ramsay L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Ric Seiling R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
John Van Boxmeer D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Ramsey D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Gilles Hamel L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bill Hajt D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rob McClanahan C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Alan Haworth C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.60
Larry Playfair D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Don Edwards W 25 21 4 .840 60:00 -0.90

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Kirton C 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
John Ogrodnick L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Dale McCourt C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Mike Foligno R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Reed Larson D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Brad Smith R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
John Barrett D 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Vaclav Nedomansky C 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Jean Hamel D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Earl Ingarfield C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Joe Paterson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Brent Peterson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Glenn Hicks L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Gary McAdam R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Willie Huber D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Perry Miller D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Jim Korn D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -1.73
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Claude Legris L 22 20 2 .909 40:00 0.50
Larry Lozinski — 8 5 3 .625 20:00 -1.75