January 26th, 1983
Montreal Canadiens (30-21-3) at Calgary Flames (28-21-4)
The Canadiens held a news conference earlier today to announce a trade. The Montreal Canadiens have traded 19 year old LW
Petr Svestka to the New York Rangers in exchange for 23 year old RW
John Herrod.
Svestka has played 7 games with the Canadiens since being called up and has 2 goals and 2 points. In 35 AHL games this season he had 18 goals and 31 points. Svestka was Montreal's 117th over all pick in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft.
Montreal gets a two-way forward in
Herrod, he has 13 goals and 45 points in 55 games this season. Herrod has 78 shot blocks already this season, an area Montreal wanted to improve on. He also had 62 hits which would place him 5th on the Canadiens forwards. In 219 career NHL games, all with the Rangers, Herrod has 43 goals and 164 points with 139 PIMs and a -12 rating. Its expected Montreal will play
Herrod on the 1st line with C
Hughes and LW
Bocci. RW
Ladd will drop to the 2nd line with C
Wright and LW
Bohm while RW
Ronov will drop to the 3rd line with LW
Vanoosten and C
Marvin.
The Flames find themselves in the final playoff spot in the West with 60 points, a mere 24 points behind the rivals from the North the Oilers. The Flames play a pretty sound defensive game, giving up only 27 shots a game or ranked 8th in the NHL. The Flames are ranked 17th on the PP at a 15.0% success rate.
C
Clinton Antkowiak leads the Flames with 39 points, including 15 goals in 53 games. The 24 year old from Coquitlam, BC is a two-way forward. The Senators traded Antkowiak to the Flames on September 16th, 1981. In 214 career NHL games, he has 53 goals with 130 points and 464 PIMs with a +54 rating.
LW
Pier-Olivier Chouinard is 2nd on the Flames with 37 points, but leads the Flames with 19 goals in 50 games. The 21 year old offensive forward was a rookie last season, scoring 21 goals and had 60 points in 81 games for the Flames. The former Everett Silvertips (WHL) forward was selected in the 2nd round, 46th overall in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft.
LD
Jim Brinker is 3rd on the Flames with 32 points and leads the team with 25 assists in 53 games. The 28 year old 1983 All-Star is a defensive defenseman. In 3 injured marred seasons with the Flames, he has been limited to just 110 career NHL games with 16 goals and 84 points with 94 PIMs and a +30 rating.
Montreal will start G
Mike Blackshear, he has 25 wins in 44 starts with a .897 save %. Calgary starts G
Jeffrey Koerner, he has 19 wins in 38 starts with a .908 save %.
Calgary came out flying it took nearly 9 minutes for Montreal to get its first shot on goal. Montreal does get the 1st goal thought. C
Ronnie Marvin gets his 2nd of the season at 13:04 to take a 1-0 lead. Final shots in the period were 10 to 6 for Calgary.
Montreal has a much better 2nd period and carry most of the momentum but they get some bad news when LD
Martin Sulc leaves the game with an arm injury at about 11 minutes into the 2nd period. Shortly after that the Flames get a goal from C
Clinton Antkowiak, his 16th of the year at 12:10. Its now 1-1. Montreal didn't have to wait too long for newly acquired RW
John Herrod's 1st offensive production, he makes it 2-1 at 16:25 with his 1st goal as a Hab. The Canadiens out shot the Flames 12 to 6 in the 2nd period.
Calgary ties the score 2-2 at 3:26 when C
Arman Waterhouse gets his 2nd of the season. Seconds later, LD
Jim Brinker gets his 8th of the year at 3:43 to make it 3-2 Calgary. Calgary scores into an empty net to make it 4-2, RD
David Downer gets his 5th at 19:40. Montreal out shot the Flames in the 3rd 12 to 8 but it wasn't enough.
Calgary's LD
Jim Brinker had a goal and an assist for the games 1st star. The 28 year old now has 8 goals and 34 points in 54 games.
Calgary 4
Montreal 2
| PER | TEAM | GOAL | # | ASSIST | ASSIST |
| 1st | MTL | Ronnie Marvin | 2 | Yevgeny Ronov | Marek Bartolcic |
| 2nd | CAL | Clinton Antkowiak | 16 | Marshall Younger | Hans-Ole Krause |
| 2nd | MTL | John Herrod | 15 | Chris Hughes |
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| 3rd | CAL | Arman Waterhouse | 2 | Jim Brinker |
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| 3rd | CAL | Jim Brinker | 8 | Alberto Gagliano | Greg Harvey |
| 3rd | CAL | David Downer (EN) | 5 | Hans-Ole Krause | Clinton Antkowiak |
| TEAM | GOALIE | SA | GA |
| MTL | Mike Blackshear | 23 | 3 |
| CAL | Jeffrey Koerner | 30 | 2 |
Around the league.............
Montreal Canadiens RD
Martin Sulc will miss up to 3 months with bicep tendinitis. The 28 year old Sulc had 5 goals and 20 points in 55 games this season. Limited to just 142 NHL career games due to injuries, he has 15 goals and 51 points with 58 PIMs and a +3 rating .
Montreal has promoted LD
Martin Beran to the Canadiens. The 19 year old Defensive Defenseman had 5 goals and 29 points in 40 AHL games this season. Montreal drafted Beran 173rd overall in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He was playing with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the WHL.
Anaheim Ducks RD
Daniel Gallagher had 2 assists in a 5-2 win over the Sabres. The 30 year old Gallagher now has 10 goals and 36 points in 57 games. In his 3rd season with the Ducks, he has 28 goals with 97 points and 50 PIMs and a +35 rating.
A big trade took place today, the New York Islanders have traded G
Jake Wooten to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for LW
Gerard Segrave. The 28 year old Wooten had 23 wins with a 2.46 GAA and .912 save % in 42 starts this season. In 3 seasons with the Islanders, Wooten had a 59-48-13 record with a 2.52 GAA, a .914 save % and 12 SO's in 126 career NHL games. The 29 year old Segrave has 23 goals and 34 points in 49 games for the Wild. In 3 seasons with the Wild he had 65 goals for 132 points with 104 PIMs and a -10 rating in 213 career NHL games.
Nashville Predators C
Jeremy Longboat had 3 goals in a 4-1 win over the Leafs. The 25 year old after freshly signing a 3 year deal for reported over 18.0 M now has 31 goals and 67 points in 56 games. The 2-time All-Star has never missed a game in his 3rd season with Nashville, in 220 career NHL games he has 90 goals, 204 points, 210 PIMs and a +32 rating.