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Detroit Red Wings, 1979-80

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Norris Division, Prince of Wales Conference

1979-80 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
18 80 26-43-11 63 0.394 268 306 -38 14-21-5 12-22-6

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
Dale McCourt C 80 30 51 81 1 12 200 0
Vaclav Nedomansky C 79 35 39 74 -5 13 235 0
Mike Foligno R 80 36 35 71 -4 109 196 0
Peter Mahovlich C 80 16 50 66 4 69 143 0
Reed Larson D 80 22 44 66 -7 101 293 0
Dan Labraaten L 76 30 27 57 6 8 152 0
Errol Thompson L 77 34 14 48 -10 22 164 0
Willie Huber D 76 17 23 40 -26 164 197 0
John Ogrodnick L 41 8 24 32 -5 8 121 0
Paul Woods C 79 6 20 26 -18 24 114 0
Jim Korn D 63 5 13 18 -4 108 58 0
Barry Long D 80 0 17 17 -28 38 87 0
Bill Hogaboam C 42 3 12 15 -8 10 26 0
Greg Joly D 59 3 10 13 -2 45 50 0
Dan Bolduc R 45 6 5 11 -14 19 52 0
George Lyle L 28 7 4 11 -2 2 41 0
Dennis Polonich C 66 2 8 10 -15 127 61 0
Dennis Sobchuk C 33 4 6 10 -11 0 47 0
Thommie Bergman D 28 1 5 6 4 45 39 0
Jean Hamel D 49 1 4 5 -2 43 27 0
Brent Peterson C 18 1 2 3 -1 2 6 0
Glenn Hicks L 50 1 2 3 -21 43 52 0
Perry Miller D 16 0 3 3 -4 41 13 0
Alex Pirus R 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
Rejean Cloutier D 3 0 1 1 2 0 1 0
John Hilworth D 17 0 0 0 -2 11 7 0
Kevin Schamehorn R 2 0 0 0 -2 4 0 0
Rick Vasko D 8 0 0 0 -11 2 6 0
Tom Webster R 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
Rogie Vachon 59 2030804 1642 1433 209 3.62 0.873
Jim Rutherford 23 613301 631 539 92 4.18 0.854

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 6, 1980 @ HFD L 3-5 29 27
Apr 5, 1980 vs CHI L 1-3 26 31
Apr 2, 1980 vs MTL L 2-7 28 34
Mar 31, 1980 @ NYR L 5-7 29 46
Mar 29, 1980 vs QUE W 9-7 33 19
Mar 27, 1980 @ BUF L 1-10 20 32
Mar 26, 1980 vs EDM L 2-5 51 20
Mar 22, 1980 @ CLR L 1-5 28 27
Mar 21, 1980 @ VAN W 5-2 32 40
Mar 19, 1980 @ LAK L 3-4 34 27
Mar 16, 1980 vs WIN L 2-6 29 26
Mar 15, 1980 @ WSH L 2-5 34 37
Mar 13, 1980 @ BOS L 2-4 16 32
Mar 12, 1980 vs HFD T 4-4 34 28
Mar 9, 1980 vs PIT W 6-2 40 28
Mar 8, 1980 @ STL T 2-2 28 15
Mar 5, 1980 vs BOS L 3-5 28 25
Mar 2, 1980 vs TOR L 3-6 22 34
Mar 1, 1980 @ NYI W 4-3 22 32
Feb 28, 1980 vs WSH W 4-1 37 18
Feb 24, 1980 vs MNS W 7-5 36 24
Feb 23, 1980 @ MTL L 1-5 26 32
Feb 20, 1980 @ PIT L 5-7 36 32
Feb 18, 1980 vs LAK L 2-4 34 18
Feb 16, 1980 vs BUF L 3-4 28 31
Feb 13, 1980 vs AFM T 2-2 19 30
Feb 10, 1980 vs TOR L 1-4 34 23
Feb 9, 1980 vs PHI L 5-6 32 34
Feb 6, 1980 vs WSH T 2-2 24 28
Feb 3, 1980 vs STL L 2-4 31 21
Feb 2, 1980 @ STL W 3-0 40 20
Jan 31, 1980 vs PIT W 4-3 22 18
Jan 30, 1980 @ TOR L 4-6 37 30
Jan 27, 1980 @ QUE W 7-6 42 27
Jan 26, 1980 vs AFM L 3-4 30 25
Jan 23, 1980 vs NYI L 3-5 36 23
Jan 19, 1980 @ MNS W 5-4 37 35
Jan 18, 1980 @ WIN W 5-0 35 21
Jan 16, 1980 vs CLR W 5-1 40 22
Jan 13, 1980 @ CHI L 2-3 39 30
Jan 12, 1980 vs HFD L 4-6 27 24
Jan 9, 1980 vs NYR W 4-0 36 22
Jan 6, 1980 @ HFD W 2-1 32 29
Jan 4, 1980 @ AFM W 6-3 33 33
Jan 2, 1980 vs LAK L 2-4 32 19
Dec 31, 1979 vs CLR L 3-5 26 31
Dec 30, 1979 vs NYI W 4-2 27 32
Dec 27, 1979 vs STL L 2-3 29 25
Dec 26, 1979 @ PIT L 4-6 28 38
Dec 22, 1979 @ TOR L 1-2 31 33
Dec 19, 1979 @ EDM W 6-4 38 53
Dec 16, 1979 @ CHI L 3-7 23 34
Dec 15, 1979 vs QUE T 4-4 37 20
Dec 13, 1979 @ BOS T 6-6 24 30
Dec 11, 1979 vs NYR L 1-2 26 26
Dec 10, 1979 @ BUF L 0-4 14 31
Dec 8, 1979 vs VAN W 5-1 36 27
Dec 5, 1979 vs WIN W 6-4 35 20
Dec 2, 1979 @ PHI T 4-4 27 33
Dec 1, 1979 vs BOS W 6-3 30 35
Nov 27, 1979 vs MTL T 5-5 28 31
Nov 24, 1979 @ MNS T 3-3 23 34
Nov 23, 1979 @ CLR L 2-5 28 36
Nov 21, 1979 @ AFM L 1-4 29 20
Nov 17, 1979 @ NYI W 5-4 27 35
Nov 16, 1979 @ WSH W 4-2 18 22
Nov 14, 1979 @ NYR L 2-3 35 36
Nov 10, 1979 vs VAN L 1-2 28 20
Nov 7, 1979 vs EDM W 5-3 46 21
Nov 4, 1979 @ QUE L 1-5 23 27
Nov 3, 1979 vs CHI W 2-0 28 25
Oct 31, 1979 vs MNS L 3-5 29 25
Oct 28, 1979 @ PHI L 4-5 20 48
Oct 27, 1979 @ MTL L 2-3 26 26
Oct 25, 1979 vs BUF W 4-0 23 26
Oct 20, 1979 vs PHI L 3-7 28 29
Oct 17, 1979 @ WIN W 5-1 26 34
Oct 13, 1979 @ EDM T 3-3 27 35
Oct 12, 1979 @ VAN L 1-3 24 25
Oct 10, 1979 @ LAK T 4-4 24 25