The Detroit Red Wings used 34 players in the 1981-82 season, with a 27-53-0 record. Mark Osborne led the team with 67 points (26 goals, 41 assists) in 80 games. Bob Sauve played the most games in goal (41).
| # | Player — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Streak | G — sort by goals ⇅ | A — sort by assists ⇅ | PTS — sort by points ▼ | P/GP — sort by points per game ⇅ | PPG — sort by power-play goals ⇅ | SOG — sort by shots on goal ⇅ | HIT — sort by hits ⇅ | BLK — sort by blocked shots ⇅ | PIM — sort by penalty minutes ⇅ | TOI — sort by average ice time ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark Osborne 🇨🇦 LW 20 | 80 | 🧊 1 | 26 | 41 | 67 | 0.84 | 5 | 181 | 0 | 0 | 61 | — |
| 2 | Mike Blaisdell 🇨🇦 RW 22 | 80 | 🧊 1 | 23 | 32 | 55 | 0.69 | 5 | 165 | 0 | 0 | 48 | — |
| 3 | Walt McKechnie 🇨🇦 C 34 | 74 | 🧊 1 | 18 | 37 | 55 | 0.74 | 2 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 35 | — |
| 4 | John Ogrodnick 🇨🇦 LW 22 | 80 | 🔥 1 | 28 | 26 | 54 | 0.68 | 3 | 254 | 0 | 0 | 28 | — |
| 5 | Mark Kirton 🇨🇦 C 24 | 74 | 🧊 2 | 14 | 28 | 42 | 0.57 | 0 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 62 | — |
| 6 | Vaclav Nedomansky 🇨🇿 C 38 | 68 | 🔥 2 | 12 | 28 | 40 | 0.59 | 1 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 22 | — |
| 7 | Dale McCourt 🇨🇦 C 25 | 26 | 🧊 2 | 13 | 14 | 27 | 1.04 | 5 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — |
| 8 | Paul Woods 🇨🇦 C 26 | 75 | 🧊 2 | 10 | 17 | 27 | 0.36 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 48 | — |
| 9 | Mike Foligno 🇨🇦 RW 23 | 26 | 🔥 3 | 13 | 13 | 26 | 1.00 | 3 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 28 | — |
| 10 | Eric Vail 🇨🇦 LW 28 | 52 | 🧊 3 | 10 | 14 | 24 | 0.46 | 3 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 35 | — |
| 11 | Danny Gare 🇨🇦 RW 27 | 36 | 🔥 2 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 0.61 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 74 | — |
| 12 | Don Murdoch 🇨🇦 RW 25 | 49 | 🧊 2 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 0.45 | 1 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 23 | — |
| 13 | Derek Smith 🇨🇦 C 27 | 49 | 🔥 1 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 0.41 | 0 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — |
| 14 | Jody Gage 🇨🇦 RW 22 | 31 | 🔥 1 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 0.61 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — |
| 15 | Ted Nolan 🇨🇦 RW 23 | 41 | 🧊 2 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 0.41 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 45 | — |
| 16 | Mark Lofthouse 🇨🇦 RW 24 | 12 | 🧊 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.58 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 13 | — |
| 17 | George Lyle 🇨🇦 LW 28 | 11 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.27 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 | — |
| 18 | Brad Smith 🇨🇦 RW 23 | 33 | 🧊 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.06 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 80 | — |
| 19 | Brent Peterson 🇨🇦 C 24 | 15 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.07 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — |
| 20 | Claude Loiselle 🇨🇦 C 18 | 4 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — |
| 21 | Joe Paterson 🇨🇦 LW 21 | 3 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Team totals · 21 skaters | 80 | 216 | 315 | 531 | 6.64 | 31 | 1680 | 0 | 0 | 632 |
| # | Goalie — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Share of games | W — sort by wins ⇅ | GAA — sort by goals against average ⇅ | SV% — sort by save percentage ⇅ | SV — sort by saves ▼ | GA — sort by goals against ⇅ | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob Sauve 🇨🇦 G 26 | 41 | 13 | 4.02 | 0.000 | 0 | 165 | 57:34 | |
| 2 | Gilles Gilbert 🇨🇦 G 33 | 27 | 8 | 3.89 | 0.000 | 0 | 105 | 54:40 | |
| 3 | Corrado Micalef 🇨🇦 G 20 | 18 | 7 | 3.50 | 0.000 | 0 | 63 | 44:51 | |
| 4 | Greg Stefan 🇨🇦 G 21 | 2 | 0 | 5.00 | 0.000 | 0 | 10 | 60:00 | |
| 5 | Claude Legris 🇨🇦 G 25 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 28:09 |
88% of this roster was born in Canada, against 81% across the league. Canadian-born players scored 78% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 30 |
|
+7 | 557 (78%) | Osborne, McKechnie, Blaisdell, Ogrodnick +26 |
| United States | 2 |
|
-4 | 68 (10%) | Larson, Korn |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
+2 | 40 (6%) | Nedomansky |
| Germany | 1 |
|
+3 | 45 (6%) | Huber |
Mark Osborne led the Detroit Red Wings in scoring in 1981-82 with 67 points — 26 goals and 41 assists in 80 games. Next came Reed Larson (60) and Mike Blaisdell (55).
John Ogrodnick scored 28 goals for the Detroit Red Wings in 1981-82, 3 of them on the power play.
The Detroit Red Wings dressed 34 players in 1981-82: 29 skaters and 5 goalies. Together the skaters scored 270 goals.
Bob Sauve played the most games in goal for the Detroit Red Wings in 1981-82: 41 games, 13 wins, a 0.000 save percentage and a 4.02 goals against average. Gilles Gilbert was the backup, in 27 games.
The average age was 25.0 years. Claude Loiselle was the youngest at 18, and Vaclav Nedomansky the oldest at 38.
The Detroit Red Wings used 34 players in 1981-82 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 30 in Canada, 2 in the United States and 1 in Czechia. The other 1 came from Germany. League-wide that season, 81% of players were born in Canada, against 88% on this roster.