7 November 1981: The Boston Bruins dominated the special-teams game and rode that dominance to an impressive victory over the Nordiques at the Quebec Coliseum. The clubs didn’t wait long to start mixing things up, as Norman Rochefort took a penalty just sixteen seconds into the game, and the Bs didn’t wait long to take advantage - Barry Pederson directed Rick Middleton’s pass home just before the game reached the one-minute mark and Quebec was already on the back foot. Boston lost a bit of discipline late in what was a tight-checking opening period, taking three minor penalties in the second half of the frame. But this not only didn’t hurt them, Middleton scored a shortie on the middle infraction and the visitors took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission.
Dale Hunter went into the bin a few minutes after the restart, and Ray Bourque whistled one past Dan Bouchard only thirty seconds into the man advantage to widen the lead and, when Marc Tardif committed an infraction just fifteen seconds after the goal, Middleton drove a stake home with another PP goal only twenty seconds after the whistle. Quebec finally got on the board with five minutes left to go in the game, Marco Baron having made a handful of fine saves before losing his shutout bid, but Don Marcotte stole that one back with a garbage-time score inside the last three minutes.
Middleton (2 G, A) and Bourque (G, 2 A) had three points apiece, and Peter McNab put six pucks on net; Mario Marois launched six shots from the blueline and Peter Statsny and Goulet had five shots each. Boston’s first PP unit scored three times, potting those three power-play goals in a total of only 91 seconds of man-advantage time on the penalties. FINAL: Boston 5, Quebec 1.
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| Rick Middleton scores both a power-play and a short-handed goal |
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