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Thursday, December 31, 1981 · Joe Louis Arena

Maple Leafs 5 at Red Wings 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 58OVR Michel Larocque Maple Leafs First Star 48 SV · .960 C 73OVR Fred Perlini Maple Leafs Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG RC D 92OVR Reed Larson Red Wings Third Star 2A · 9 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 19:06 Rocky Saganiuk (8) Fred Boimistruck (8), Fred Perlini (2) TOR 1 – 0 DET

2nd Period

  1. 2:02 Wilf Paiement (12) PPG Darryl Sittler (19) TOR 2 – 0 DET
  2. 3:53 Bill Derlago (18) Bob Mcgill (6) TOR 3 – 0 DET
  3. 7:52 Danny Gare (9) Eric Vail (6), Reed Larson (19) TOR 3 – 1 DET
  4. 10:49 Fred Perlini (1) Rene Robert (16), Darryl Sittler (20) TOR 4 – 1 DET
  5. 12:57 Rick Vaive (24) SHG Bill Derlago (28) TOR 5 – 1 DET
  6. 14:56 Eric Vail (9) PPG Reed Larson (20), Danny Gare (18) TOR 5 – 2 DET

3rd Period

No scoring

Toronto Maple Leafs

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Fred Perlini C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Bill Derlago C 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Darryl Sittler C 0 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Rick Vaive R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Fred Boimistruck D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Bob Mcgill D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.93
Rocky Saganiuk R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Rene Robert R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Wilf Paiement R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
John Anderson R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Norm Aubin C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Terry Martin L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jim Benning D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Barry Melrose D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ron Zanussi R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Darwin McCutcheon D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Michel Larocque W 50 48 2 .960 60:00 3.30

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Reed Larson D 0 2 9 0 0 -1 0:00 1.78
Danny Gare R 1 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Eric Vail L 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
John Ogrodnick L 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Derek Smith C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Vaclav Nedomansky C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Mike Blaisdell R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Willie Huber D 0 0 6 0 0 -2 0:00 0.15
Paul Woods C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Brad Smith R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Walt McKechnie C 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.15
Don Murdoch R 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.15
Mark Osborne L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
John Barrett D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Jim Korn D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Sauve L 21 16 5 .762 60:00 -2.15