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Detroit Red Wings, 1976-77

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Norris Division, Prince of Wales Conference

1976-77 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
18 80 16-55-9 41 0.256 183 309 -126 12-22-6 4-33-3

Records are wins, then losses, then ties.

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats for it.

Skater Pos GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits
Walt McKechnie C 80 25 34 59 -24 50 189 0
Dennis Hextall C 78 14 32 46 -35 158 128 0
Dennis Polonich C 79 18 28 46 -20 274 183 0
Nick Libett L 80 14 27 41 -25 25 208 0
Michel Bergeron R 74 21 12 33 -40 98 197 0
Bill Lochead L 65 16 14 30 -11 39 128 0
Dan Maloney L 34 13 13 26 3 64 107 0
Buster Harvey R 54 11 11 22 -13 18 105 0
J.P. Leblanc C 74 7 11 18 -16 40 79 0
Al Cameron D 80 3 13 16 -43 112 139 0
Jim Nahrgang D 54 5 11 16 -12 34 96 0
Rick Wilson D 77 3 13 16 -20 56 60 0
Rick Lapointe D 49 2 11 13 -17 80 59 0
Danny Grant L 42 2 10 12 -34 4 62 0
Greg Joly D 53 1 11 12 -22 14 72 0
Terry Harper D 52 4 8 12 -23 28 60 0
Jean Hamel D 71 1 10 11 -18 63 85 0
Bobby Sheehan C 37 5 4 9 -10 2 45 0
Mike Bloom L 48 6 3 9 -10 22 40 0
Bob Ritchie L 17 6 2 8 -13 10 33 0
Fred Williams R 48 2 5 7 -17 10 32 0
Terry Murray D 23 0 7 7 -18 10 24 0
Dave Kelly R 16 2 0 2 -8 4 18 0
Bryan Watson D 14 0 1 1 2 39 4 0
Dwight Schofield D 3 1 0 1 0 2 3 0
Reed Larson D 14 0 1 1 -2 23 23 0
Stephen Coates R 5 1 0 1 -1 24 5 0
Brian McCutcheon L 14 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Don Martineau R 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fern LeBlanc C 3 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0
Fred Berry C 3 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0
Kevin Schamehorn R 3 0 0 0 -1 9 1 0
Larry Giroux D 2 0 0 0 0 2 7 0
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
Jim Rutherford 48 734600 1351 1171 180 3.95 0.867
Ed Giacomin 33 818303 833 726 107 3.59 0.872
Terrance Richardson 5 13000 137 119 18 4.02 0.869

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 3, 1977 @ PIT L 2-4 16 44
Apr 2, 1977 vs PIT L 3-4 26 25
Mar 31, 1977 vs MNS L 1-3 22 23
Mar 29, 1977 @ WSH L 1-6 22 33
Mar 27, 1977 vs MTL L 0-6 17 35
Mar 26, 1977 @ MTL L 0-4 22 29
Mar 24, 1977 @ AFM L 1-3 15 32
Mar 23, 1977 vs BOS L 0-6 29 31
Mar 20, 1977 @ MNS L 1-2 31 36
Mar 17, 1977 @ LAK L 2-3 21 26
Mar 15, 1977 @ VAN L 1-7 29 31
Mar 13, 1977 vs WSH T 3-3 43 23
Mar 12, 1977 @ TOR L 0-6 47 40
Mar 10, 1977 vs STL L 2-4 25 28
Mar 9, 1977 @ BUF L 3-6 19 33
Mar 5, 1977 vs PHI L 1-4 23 25
Mar 3, 1977 vs NYI L 2-4 11 28
Mar 1, 1977 @ BOS L 3-8 19 30
Feb 26, 1977 vs LAK L 3-4 37 28
Feb 24, 1977 vs PIT W 3-2 24 19
Feb 23, 1977 @ CHI L 2-5 33 37
Feb 20, 1977 @ NYR L 2-3 33 35
Feb 19, 1977 vs BUF L 1-2 20 32
Feb 17, 1977 vs TOR T 2-2 26 24
Feb 15, 1977 @ CLR L 2-6 32 37
Feb 13, 1977 vs MTL L 3-5 21 34
Feb 12, 1977 @ MNS T 2-2 26 30
Feb 10, 1977 vs NYR L 4-5 28 37
Feb 6, 1977 vs VAN W 3-2 30 22
Feb 5, 1977 @ PIT L 1-3 25 28
Feb 2, 1977 @ TOR L 1-9 31 32
Jan 29, 1977 vs CLE W 4-3 31 25
Jan 27, 1977 @ WSH L 1-4 23 28
Jan 23, 1977 @ MTL T 2-2 26 32
Jan 22, 1977 vs CHI L 0-3 28 23
Jan 20, 1977 vs CLR L 1-3 33 22
Jan 15, 1977 @ STL L 0-4 18 28
Jan 13, 1977 @ CLR L 2-4 23 19
Jan 12, 1977 @ CLE L 1-3 37 32
Jan 10, 1977 vs WSH L 0-2 26 20
Jan 6, 1977 vs MNS L 2-7 39 26
Jan 4, 1977 @ WSH T 2-2 32 22
Jan 2, 1977 vs CLR L 4-6 36 24
Dec 31, 1976 vs CLE W 4-2 43 26
Dec 29, 1976 @ CHI L 3-6 34 30
Dec 27, 1976 vs LAK L 4-7 25 29
Dec 23, 1976 vs PIT W 5-2 42 21
Dec 22, 1976 @ AFM L 1-2 27 38
Dec 19, 1976 @ BUF L 1-6 23 34
Dec 18, 1976 vs AFM W 6-3 29 21
Dec 16, 1976 vs VAN W 7-3 34 28
Dec 15, 1976 @ CLE L 3-7 29 30
Dec 12, 1976 @ BOS W 5-3 34 25
Dec 11, 1976 @ MTL L 0-5 15 48
Dec 4, 1976 @ LAK L 1-4 25 29
Dec 1, 1976 @ VAN W 5-2 24 22
Nov 28, 1976 @ BUF L 1-3 19 35
Nov 27, 1976 vs NYR L 0-5 31 20
Nov 25, 1976 @ NYI W 3-1 23 23
Nov 24, 1976 vs TOR W 4-3 27 29
Nov 21, 1976 @ BOS L 2-4 25 24
Nov 19, 1976 vs CLE W 5-2 46 31
Nov 17, 1976 vs STL T 5-5 35 29
Nov 16, 1976 @ PHI L 0-2 27 32
Nov 13, 1976 vs LAK T 3-3 31 26
Nov 10, 1976 vs BOS L 4-6 30 36
Nov 9, 1976 @ NYI L 1-8 24 47
Nov 7, 1976 vs AFM T 0-0 26 23
Nov 4, 1976 vs PHI W 3-2 22 26
Oct 31, 1976 @ NYR W 6-5 31 41
Oct 30, 1976 vs CHI L 1-4 33 30
Oct 28, 1976 vs TOR L 1-3 25 21
Oct 26, 1976 @ LAK L 2-3 20 31
Oct 23, 1976 @ STL L 2-4 18 26
Oct 22, 1976 vs NYI W 5-0 21 18
Oct 17, 1976 @ PHI L 4-7 28 34
Oct 16, 1976 @ PIT L 3-4 23 36
Oct 12, 1976 vs MTL L 2-4 33 32
Oct 9, 1976 vs BUF W 4-0 31 20
Oct 7, 1976 vs WSH T 3-3 30 26