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Washington Capitals, 1978-79

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Norris Division, Prince of Wales Conference

1978-79 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
14 80 24-41-15 63 0.394 273 338 -65 15-19-6 9-22-9

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
Dennis Maruk C 76 31 59 90 -14 71 189 0
Guy Charron C 80 28 42 70 -14 24 224 0
Robert Picard D 77 21 44 65 3 85 243 0
Tom Rowe R 69 31 30 61 -6 137 205 0
Ryan Walter C 69 28 28 56 0 70 156 0
Bob Sirois R 73 29 25 54 -4 6 208 0
Rick Green D 71 8 33 41 -45 62 133 0
Rolf Edberg C 76 14 27 41 12 6 133 0
Leif Svensson D 74 2 29 31 -1 28 72 0
Bob Girard L 79 9 15 24 -17 36 59 0
Mark Lofthouse R 53 13 10 23 -12 10 75 0
Blair Stewart L 45 7 12 19 1 48 56 0
Gord Lane D 64 3 15 18 -16 147 69 0
Greg Polis R 19 12 6 18 3 6 46 0
Yvon Labre D 51 1 13 14 7 80 36 0
Michel Bergeron R 30 7 6 13 -18 7 53 0
Dennis Hextall C 26 2 9 11 -14 43 22 0
Greg Carroll C 24 5 6 11 -2 12 29 0
Paul Mulvey L 55 7 4 11 -18 81 60 0
Jack Lynch D 30 2 6 8 1 14 37 0
Peter Scamurra D 30 3 5 8 -13 12 26 0
Gary Rissling L 26 3 3 6 -5 127 16 0
Gerry Meehan C 18 2 4 6 -3 0 32 0
Bill Riley R 24 2 2 4 -6 64 24 0
Ron Lalonde C 18 1 3 4 -1 4 8 0
Eddy Godin R 9 0 3 3 -2 6 10 0
Chuck Arnason R 13 0 2 2 -1 4 17 0
Craig Patrick R 3 1 1 2 -1 0 3 0
Bryan Watson D 20 0 1 1 -7 36 16 0
Dave Forbes R 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 0
Douglas Patey R 6 1 0 1 -2 2 6 0
Gord Smith D 39 0 1 1 -7 22 11 0
Brent Tremblay D 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Mike Marson R 4 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0
Nelson Burton L 3 0 0 0 -2 13 0 0
Pierre Bouchard D 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Rick Bragnalo C 2 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
Gary Inness 37 1414800 1087 957 130 3.71 0.880
Jim Bedard 30 617600 918 792 126 4.36 0.863
Bernie Wolfe 17 49100 470 402 68 4.75 0.855
Rollie Boutin 2 01000 53 43 10 6.67 0.811

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 8, 1979 vs PIT W 5-2 26 19
Apr 7, 1979 @ MTL L 3-10 18 41
Apr 3, 1979 vs LAK W 6-2 34 26
Apr 1, 1979 vs NYI W 6-4 34 36
Mar 31, 1979 vs BOS L 1-4 22 27
Mar 28, 1979 @ TOR L 2-6 29 40
Mar 25, 1979 @ PHI L 4-7 18 33
Mar 24, 1979 @ MTL L 1-3 21 41
Mar 21, 1979 @ PIT T 2-2 37 29
Mar 20, 1979 vs NYR T 2-2 32 22
Mar 18, 1979 @ BUF T 3-3 34 34
Mar 17, 1979 vs PIT L 2-5 31 23
Mar 14, 1979 vs DET L 1-4 33 33
Mar 11, 1979 @ DET T 3-3 20 33
Mar 10, 1979 vs STL W 7-5 23 23
Mar 5, 1979 vs MTL T 2-2 17 27
Mar 4, 1979 vs MNS W 5-4 27 38
Mar 2, 1979 @ VAN W 6-2 25 27
Feb 28, 1979 @ LAK T 3-3 21 40
Feb 25, 1979 vs MTL L 5-8 31 33
Feb 24, 1979 vs BUF L 4-6 32 37
Feb 21, 1979 vs DET L 3-4 45 25
Feb 20, 1979 @ AFM L 3-5 27 34
Feb 18, 1979 @ NYR T 6-6 30 32
Feb 17, 1979 @ MTL L 0-2 31 28
Feb 15, 1979 @ CLR W 9-3 34 29
Feb 4, 1979 vs MTL L 4-8 23 32
Feb 3, 1979 vs VAN L 1-5 31 39
Jan 31, 1979 vs LAK W 5-3 32 28
Jan 30, 1979 @ DET L 4-7 24 32
Jan 28, 1979 vs TOR T 2-2 33 27
Jan 27, 1979 vs CHI W 4-1 32 31
Jan 24, 1979 vs NYR W 5-1 34 18
Jan 20, 1979 @ PIT W 5-2 36 39
Jan 19, 1979 vs DET W 5-1 28 35
Jan 16, 1979 @ NYI L 2-6 31 26
Jan 14, 1979 vs VAN W 5-3 23 26
Jan 12, 1979 vs CLR W 8-1 42 23
Jan 11, 1979 @ BUF L 2-6 27 27
Jan 9, 1979 vs PHI L 2-5 43 22
Jan 7, 1979 @ CHI L 3-5 28 31
Jan 6, 1979 @ DET W 4-1 28 26
Jan 3, 1979 vs LAK W 8-3 38 43
Dec 30, 1978 @ TOR T 5-5 28 35
Dec 27, 1978 @ MNS L 1-6 29 41
Dec 23, 1978 @ DET T 2-2 18 32
Dec 21, 1978 @ PHI L 2-5 24 46
Dec 19, 1978 vs PHI T 4-4 19 39
Dec 17, 1978 vs TOR W 7-6 26 33
Dec 15, 1978 vs MNS L 1-6 33 22
Dec 14, 1978 @ BOS L 2-5 28 27
Dec 12, 1978 vs CLR L 3-4 39 27
Dec 9, 1978 @ VAN W 7-5 33 23
Dec 5, 1978 @ CLR W 4-1 21 37
Dec 4, 1978 @ LAK L 2-10 23 38
Dec 2, 1978 @ STL L 2-5 28 34
Dec 1, 1978 vs PIT L 4-7 28 31
Nov 29, 1978 @ PIT L 3-5 36 52
Nov 26, 1978 @ NYR L 4-9 23 30
Nov 25, 1978 vs BOS T 5-5 30 23
Nov 22, 1978 vs STL L 1-3 27 31
Nov 21, 1978 @ STL W 4-3 30 33
Nov 17, 1978 vs NYI L 2-4 28 31
Nov 15, 1978 @ MNS W 3-2 24 38
Nov 14, 1978 vs AFM W 8-7 24 32
Nov 11, 1978 vs BUF L 0-2 25 23
Nov 9, 1978 @ BOS L 2-6 29 39
Nov 8, 1978 vs MTL L 0-6 20 29
Nov 5, 1978 vs DET T 3-3 36 23
Nov 4, 1978 @ NYI L 1-4 17 45
Nov 2, 1978 @ MTL L 2-4 18 43
Nov 1, 1978 vs PIT W 6-4 28 25
Oct 28, 1978 @ LAK L 1-5 31 33
Oct 25, 1978 @ CHI T 2-2 24 31
Oct 21, 1978 @ PIT L 1-5 38 45
Oct 20, 1978 vs LAK L 4-6 33 22
Oct 18, 1978 vs CHI L 2-4 25 31
Oct 14, 1978 vs AFM L 3-6 24 27
Oct 13, 1978 @ AFM T 3-3 37 35
Oct 11, 1978 @ LAK W 4-2 29 31