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All NHL game summaries from March 23, 1983



Team123F
Hartford Whalers (17-51-7) 2 0 1 3
Buffalo Sabres (38-27-12) 3 4 1 8

1: HAR,Bob Sullivan 17 (Pierre Lacroix, Ray Neufeld), 1:14
BUF,Gilles Hamel 19 (Dave Andreychuk, Mal Davis), 7:06
HAR,Mark Johnson 29 (Bob Sullivan), 11:04
BUF,Gilles Hamel 20 (Dave Andreychuk, Phil Housley), 12:33
BUF,Andre Savard 15 (John Van Boxmeer, Craig Ramsay), 19:35
2: BUF,Dave Andreychuk 13 (Gilles Hamel), :13
BUF,Mal Davis 7 (Dave Andreychuk, Gilles Hamel), 12:12
BUF,Tony McKegney 34 (Phil Housley, Lindy Ruff), 15:55
BUF,Lindy Ruff 12 (Andre Savard, John Van Boxmeer), 18:38
3: HAR,Ray Neufeld 24 (Mark Johnson, Pierre Lacroix), 6:40 - PP
BUF,Tony McKegney 35 (Gilbert Perreault, Bob Sauve), 14:32 - PP
Penalties:

1: Chris Kotsopoulos, HAR [Holding] 15:24
2: Tony McKegney, BUF [Holding] 8:35
3: Tony McKegney, BUF [Tripping] 6:07
Blaine Stoughton, HAR [Hooking] 8:36
Mike McDougal, HAR [Tripping] 13:48
Paul Cyr, BUF [Misconduct] 14:32
Greg Adams, HAR [Misconduct] 14:32
Penalty time: HAR: 16 minutes BUF: 14 minutes
HAR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Mickey Volcan 4 D 0 0 0 0 -4 1
Pierre Lacroix 5 D 0 2 2 0 0 1
Russ Anderson 7 D 0 0 0 0 -4 0
Risto Siltanen 8 D 0 0 0 0 0 2
Ron Francis 10 C 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Paul Lawless 11 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mark Johnson 12 C 1 1 2 0 0 2
Ray Neufeld 17 RW 1 1 2 0 0 3
Greg Adams 18 LW 0 0 0 10 -2 0
Merlin Malinowski 20 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Blaine Stoughton 21 LW 0 0 0 2 -3 1
Doug Sulliman 22 LW 0 0 0 0 -3 1
Ed Hospodar 23 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Chris Kotsopoulos 24 D 0 0 0 2 -1 3
Mark Renaud 25 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Bob Sullivan 26 LW 1 1 2 0 0 2
Warren Miller 27 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greg Millen 30 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mike McDougal 32 RW 0 0 0 2 -2 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 7 defensemen)-2521
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 7 defensemen)-2521

BUF Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Hannu Virta 3 D 0 0 0 0 1 0
John Van Boxmeer 4 D 0 2 2 0 2 3
Mike Ramsey 5 D 0 0 0 0 3 3
Phil Housley 6 D 0 2 2 0 3 4
Dale McCourt 7 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Tony McKegney 8 LW 2 0 2 4 0 5
Gilles Hamel 9 LW 2 2 4 0 4 4
Craig Ramsay 10 LW 0 1 1 0 1 0
Gilbert Perreault 11 C 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Andre Savard 12 C 1 1 2 0 2 3
Ric Seiling 16 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Paul Cyr 18 LW 0 0 0 10 0 2
Lindy Ruff 22 LW 1 1 2 0 2 3
Bill Hajt 24 D 0 0 0 0 3 1
Mal Davis 25 LW 1 1 2 0 4 3
Larry Playfair 27 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bob Sauve 28 G 0 1 1 0 0 0
Dave Andreychuk 29 LW 1 3 4 0 4 2
David Fenyves 31 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 7 defensemen)2536
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 7 defensemen)2536
Shots: HAR: 10- 5- 6-21 BUF: 22- 7- 7-36 Goalies: HAR: Greg Millen (L, 12-36-6) BUF: Bob Sauve (W, 25-18-6) Referee: Andy van Hellemond Linesmen: Ron Finn, Ron Foyt Attendance: 11,838



Team123F
New York Rangers (32-33-9) 2 2 3 7
Detroit Red Wings (20-40-15) 0 1 0 1

1: NYR,Barry Beck 11 (Reijo Ruotsalainen, Mike Backman), 18:04
NYR,Anders Hedberg 23 (Rob McClanahan, Kent-Erik Andersson), 19:16
2: DET,Dwight Foster 17 (Mark Lofthouse, Greg Smith), 11:49
NYR,Chris Kontos 8 (Dave Maloney), 15:23
NYR,Rick Chartraw 4 (Mike Backman), 18:21
3: NYR,Rob McClanahan 21 (Kent-Erik Andersson), 5:15
NYR,Rob McClanahan 22 (Kent-Erik Andersson), 14:05
NYR,Rick Chartraw 5 (Reijo Ruotsalainen, Mike Allison), 15:40
Penalties:

1: Ken Solheim, DET [Hooking] 4:33
Don Maloney, NYR [Interference] 5:59
2: Dave Maloney, NYR [Holding] 9:40
Reed Larson, DET [Holding] 13:16
Rick Chartraw, NYR [Interference] 16:11
3: none
Penalty time: NYR: 6 minutes DET: 4 minutes
NYR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Tom Laidlaw 2 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ron Greschner 4 D 0 0 0 0 2 1
Barry Beck 5 D 1 0 1 0 3 4
Bill Baker 6 D 0 0 0 0 2 3
Rob McClanahan 9 C 2 1 3 0 4 2
Rick Chartraw 11 D 2 0 2 2 2 2
Don Maloney 12 LW 0 0 0 2 0 0
Mike Allison 14 RW 0 1 1 0 1 1
Anders Hedberg 15 RW 1 0 1 0 3 2
Ed Johnstone 17 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mike Backman 21 RW 0 2 2 0 2 0
Nick Fotiu 22 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Chris Kontos 23 C 1 0 1 0 2 2
Kent-Erik Andersson 24 RW 0 3 3 0 3 2
Dave Maloney 26 D 0 1 1 2 1 2
Mikko Leinonen 28 LW 0 0 0 0 1 1
Reijo Ruotsalainen 29 D 0 2 2 0 3 3
Vaclav Nedomansky 34 C 0 0 0 0 1 2
Eddie Mio 41 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 7 defensemen)3029
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 7 defensemen)3029

DET Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Gilles Gilbert 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
John Barrett 3 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Colin Campbell 4 D 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Greg Smith 5 D 0 1 1 0 -4 1
Willie Huber 7 D 0 0 0 0 -1 4
Ivan Boldirev 12 C 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Paul Woods 15 C 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Kelly Kisio 16 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Mark Lofthouse 17 RW 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Danny Gare 18 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Randy Ladouceur 19 D 0 0 0 0 -2 1
Dwight Foster 20 RW 1 0 1 0 -2 2
Mike Blaisdell 21 RW 0 0 0 0 -2 3
Murray Craven 22 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Mark Osborne 23 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
John Ogrodnick 25 LW 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Ken Solheim 26 LW 0 0 0 2 0 1
Reggie Leach 27 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Reed Larson 28 D 0 0 0 2 -3 1
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)-3022
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)-3022
Shots: NYR: 7-10-12-29 DET: 9- 5- 8-22 Goalies: NYR: Eddie Mio (W, 15-17-5) DET: Gilles Gilbert (L, 4-12-1) Referee: Ron Fournier Linesmen: Bob Hodges, Bob Luther Attendance: 11,437



Team123F
Minnesota North Stars (39-20-16) 2 0 1 3
Toronto Maple Leafs (24-38-12) 3 2 1 6

1: MIN,Brian Bellows 33 (Steve Payne, Craig Hartsburg), 6:34
TOR,Miroslav Frycer 22 (Walt Poddubny, Peter Ihnacak), 8:07 - PP
TOR,Walt Poddubny 27 (Barry Melrose, Miroslav Frycer), 13:07
TOR,Terry Martin 13 (Billy Harris, Greg Terrion), 14:07
MIN,Tom McCarthy 28 (Willi Plett, Gordie Roberts), 17:34
2: TOR,Gaston Gingras 9 (Walt Poddubny, Peter Ihnacak), 3:11
TOR,John Anderson 29 (Dan Daoust, Dave Farrish), 15:13 - PP
3: TOR,Peter Ihnacak 26 (Walt Poddubny, Miroslav Frycer), 6:34
MIN,Jordy Douglas 12 (Gordie Roberts), 7:59
Penalties:

1: Curt Giles, MIN [Boarding] 6:20
Bobby Smith, MIN [Slashing] 10:06
Greg Terrion, TOR [Slashing] 10:06
Tom McCarthy, MIN [Hooking] 14:23
Rick Vaive, TOR [Tripping] 14:45
2: Brad Maxwell, MIN [Hooking] 3:30
Craig Hartsburg, MIN [Hooking] 9:09
Dave Farrish, TOR [Hooking] 11:17
Willi Plett, MIN [Holding] 13:43
Barry Melrose, TOR [Holding] 15:35
Stewart Gavin, TOR [Holding] 17:38
3: Brad Maxwell, MIN [Hi-sticking] 1:28
John Anderson, TOR [Hooking] 12:40
Penalty time: MIN: 14 minutes TOR: 12 minutes
MIN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Curt Giles 2 D 0 0 0 2 -3 0
Fred Barrett 3 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Craig Hartsburg 4 D 0 1 1 2 0 2
Brad Maxwell 5 D 0 0 0 4 0 3
Neal Broten 7 C 0 0 0 0 1 0
Gordie Roberts 10 D 0 2 2 0 1 4
Tom McCarthy 11 LW 1 0 1 2 1 3
Jordy Douglas 14 LW 1 0 1 0 -1 1
Bobby Smith 15 C 0 0 0 2 1 2
Wes Jarvis 16 C 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Tim Young 17 C 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Mike Eaves 18 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
George Ferguson 21 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Brian Bellows 23 LW 1 0 1 0 -1 5
Willi Plett 24 RW 0 1 1 2 2 1
Steve Payne 26 LW 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Gilles Meloche 27 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Warren Young 29 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dan Mandich 32 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Don Beaupre 33 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)-526
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)-526

TOR Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Jim Benning 3 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Greg Terrion 7 C 0 1 1 2 -1 2
Walt Poddubny 8 LW 1 3 4 0 2 3
Stewart Gavin 9 RW 0 0 0 2 0 2
John Anderson 10 RW 1 0 1 2 0 1
Gaston Gingras 11 D 1 0 1 0 1 2
Miroslav Frycer 14 C 1 2 3 0 2 2
Billy Harris 15 RW 0 1 1 0 -1 1
Peter Ihnacak 18 C 1 2 3 0 2 4
Bill Derlago 19 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jim Korn 20 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Borje Salming 21 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Rick Vaive 22 RW 0 0 0 2 0 1
Dan Daoust 24 C 0 1 1 0 0 0
Terry Martin 25 LW 1 0 1 0 -1 7
Barry Melrose 26 D 0 1 1 2 0 0
Dave Farrish 28 D 0 1 1 2 -1 2
Mike Palmateer 29 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)531
TOTAL   (11 forwards, 6 defensemen)531
Shots: MIN: 4-13- 8-25 TOR: 14- 4-13-31 Goalies: MIN: Gilles Meloche (L, 20-12-11),
Don Beaupre TOR: Mike Palmateer (W, 19-22-7) Referee: Ron Wicks Linesmen: Ray Scapinello, Leon Stickle Attendance: 16,382



Team123F
Vancouver Canucks (29-34-12) 1 0 0 1
Washington Capitals (37-22-15) 1 0 0 1

1: WAS,Mike Gartner 37 (Bengt Gustafsson, Dennis Maruk), :56
VAN,Stan Smyl 34 (Darcy Rota, Rick Lanz), 19:30 - PP
2: no scoring
3: no scoring
Penalties:

1: Randy Holt, WAS [Fighting, Game misconduct] 4:14
Dave "Tiger" Williams, VAN [Game misconduct, Match penalty] 4:14
Kevin McCarthy, VAN [Hi-sticking] 8:33
Bobby Carpenter, WAS [Hi-sticking] 8:33
Scott Stevens, WAS [Tripping] 19:12
2: Darcy Rota, VAN [Fighting] 14:34
Timo Blomqvist, WAS [Fighting] 14:34
3: none
Penalty time: VAN: 27 minutes WAS: 24 minutes
VAN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Doug Halward 2 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rick Lanz 4 D 0 1 1 0 -1 2
Gary Lupul 7 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jim Nill 8 RW 0 0 0 0 -1 2
Tony Tanti 9 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Stan Smyl 12 RW 1 0 1 0 0 3
Lars Lindgren 13 D 0 0 0 0 0 1
Blair MacDonald 14 RW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mark Kirton 16 C 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Patrik Sundstrom 17 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Darcy Rota 18 LW 0 1 1 5 0 4
Ron Delorme 19 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ivan Hlinka 21 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dave "Tiger" Williams 22 LW 0 0 0 20 -1 0
Thomas Gradin 23 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Kevin McCarthy 25 D 0 0 0 2 0 0
Harold Snepsts 27 D 0 0 0 0 0 2
Jiri Bubla 29 D 0 0 0 0 -1 0
John Garrett 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)-521
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)-521

WAS Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Pat Riggin 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scott Stevens 3 D 0 0 0 2 1 2
Randy Holt 4 D 0 0 0 15 0 0
Rod Langway 5 D 0 0 0 0 0 6
Brian Engblom 9 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Bobby Carpenter 10 C 0 0 0 2 0 1
Mike Gartner 11 RW 1 0 1 0 1 4
Glen Currie 12 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Gaetan Duchesne 14 LW 0 0 0 0 0 0
Alan Haworth 15 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bengt Gustafsson 16 LW 0 1 1 0 1 6
Timo Blomqvist 17 D 0 0 0 5 0 0
Craig Laughlin 18 RW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Greg Theberge 20 D 0 0 0 0 0 2
Dennis Maruk 21 C 0 1 1 0 1 3
Bobby Gould 23 RW 0 0 0 0 0 4
Doug Jarvis 25 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Chris Valentine 28 C 0 0 0 0 0 1
Milan Novy 66 C 0 0 0 0 0 2
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)536
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)536
Shots: VAN: 14- 2- 5-21 WAS: 10-10-16-36 Goalies: VAN: John Garrett (T, 13-14-4) WAS: Pat Riggin (T, 16-8-8) Referee: Kerry Fraser Linesmen: Gordon Broseker, Kevin Collins Attendance: 11,401



Team123F
Edmonton Oilers (44-21-11) 0 1 3 4
Winnipeg Jets (30-37-8) 2 3 2 7

1: WIN,Lucien DeBlois 23 (Thomas Steen, Dave Babych), 10:55
WIN,Ron Wilson 2 (Jimmy Mann), 14:14
2: EDM,Ken Linseman 32 (Glenn Anderson, Kevin Lowe), :46
WIN,Dale Hawerchuk 39 (Paul MacLean), 1:58
WIN,Thomas Steen 22 (Lucien DeBlois, Don Spring), 5:40
WIN,Lucien DeBlois 24 (Thomas Steen), 9:41
3: EDM,Dave Lumley 11 (Tom Roulston), 4:06
EDM,Paul Coffey 29 (Wayne Gretzky, Glenn Anderson), 11:50
EDM,Mark Messier 47 (Ken Linseman, Willy Lindstrom), 15:57
WIN,Lucien DeBlois 25 (Serge Savard), 19:04 - EN
WIN,Paul MacLean 30, 19:43 - EN
Penalties:

1: Ken Linseman, EDM [Hooking] 4:29
2: Pat Hughes, EDM [Hooking] 11:18
3: Mark Messier, EDM [Fighting] 6:03
Tim Watters, WIN [Fighting] 6:03
Thomas Steen, WIN [Hooking] 7:50
Dave Semenko, EDM [Roughing] 11:21
Bryan Maxwell, WIN [Roughing] 11:21
Penalty time: EDM: 11 minutes WIN: 9 minutes
EDM Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Lee Fogolin 2 D 0 0 0 0 1 1
Kevin Lowe 4 D 0 1 1 0 1 0
Paul Coffey 7 D 1 0 1 0 -3 2
Glenn Anderson 9 RW 0 2 2 0 2 1
Mark Messier 11 C 1 0 1 5 0 5
Dave Hunter 12 LW 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ken Linseman 13 C 1 1 2 2 0 2
Pat Hughes 16 RW 0 0 0 2 -1 2
Jari Kurri 17 RW 0 0 0 0 -4 5
Willy Lindstrom 19 RW 0 1 1 0 -3 2
Dave Lumley 20 RW 1 0 1 0 -1 2
Randy Gregg 21 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Charlie Huddy 22 D 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Marc Habscheid 23 C 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tom Roulston 24 C 0 1 1 0 0 1
Dave Semenko 27 LW 0 0 0 2 -1 0
Don Jackson 29 D 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Grant Fuhr 31 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wayne Gretzky 99 C 0 1 1 0 -5 5
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1833
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)-1833

WIN Player Data#PosGoalsAssistsPointsPIM+/-Shots
Brian Hayward 1 G 0 0 0 0 0 0
Moe Mantha 2 D 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bryan Maxwell 3 D 0 0 0 2 1 0
Tim Watters 7 D 0 0 0 5 3 0
Jimmy Mann 8 RW 0 1 1 0 1 0
Doug Smail 9 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 1
Dale Hawerchuk 10 C 1 0 1 0 1 3
Scott Arniel 11 LW 0 0 0 0 -1 0
Dave Christian 13 RW 0 0 0 0 -3 0
Paul MacLean 15 RW 1 1 2 0 2 3
Laurie Boschman 16 C 0 0 0 0 0 3
Larry Hopkins 17 LW 0 0 0 0 3 0
Serge Savard 18 D 0 1 1 0 2 0
Brian Mullen 19 RW 0 0 0 0 1 3
Lucien DeBlois 23 C 3 1 4 0 3 7
Ron Wilson 24 C 1 0 1 0 0 2
Thomas Steen 25 C 1 2 3 2 3 3
Don Spring 27 D 0 1 1 0 -1 0
Dave Babych 44 D 0 1 1 0 2 3
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)1628
TOTAL   (12 forwards, 6 defensemen)1628
Shots: EDM: 11-11-11-33 WIN: 9-12- 7-28 Goalies: EDM: Grant Fuhr (L, 12-12-4) WIN: Brian Hayward (W, 8-11-2) Referee: Denis Morel Linesmen: Wayne Bonney, Wayne Forsey Attendance: 15,807



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