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Detroit Red Wings, 1980-81

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Norris Division, Prince of Wales Conference

1980-81 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
20 80 19-43-18 56 0.350 252 339 -87 16-15-9 3-28-9

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
Dale McCourt C 80 30 56 86 -17 50 286 0
John Ogrodnick L 80 35 35 70 -18 14 276 0
Mike Foligno R 80 28 35 63 -14 210 181 0
Reed Larson D 78 27 31 58 -35 153 297 0
Willie Huber D 80 15 34 49 -29 130 207 0
Vaclav Nedomansky C 74 12 20 32 -35 30 128 0
Mark Kirton C 50 18 13 31 -28 24 97 0
Errol Thompson L 39 14 12 26 -4 52 83 0
Brent Peterson C 53 6 18 24 2 24 40 0
George Lyle L 31 10 14 24 -1 28 49 0
Paul Woods C 67 8 16 24 -11 45 74 0
Jim Korn D 63 5 15 20 -5 246 82 0
Gary McAdam R 40 5 14 19 -14 27 92 0
Glenn Hicks L 58 5 10 15 0 84 71 0
John Barrett D 56 3 10 13 -22 60 97 0
Jean Hamel D 72 5 7 12 0 57 47 0
Dan Labraaten L 45 3 8 11 -19 12 43 0
Rick Vasko D 20 3 7 10 -2 20 28 0
Mike Blaisdell R 32 3 6 9 -7 10 45 0
Perry Miller D 64 1 8 9 -18 70 54 0
Brad Smith R 20 5 2 7 -12 93 31 0
Joe Paterson L 39 2 5 7 4 53 36 0
Peter Mahovlich C 24 1 4 5 -7 26 25 0
Dennis Polonich C 33 2 2 4 -13 77 27 0
Jody Gage R 17 2 2 4 -10 22 26 0
Earl Ingarfield C 24 2 1 3 2 16 18 0
Greg Joly D 17 0 2 2 -8 10 8 0
Mal Davis L 5 2 0 2 5 0 12 0
Rick Smith D 12 0 2 2 -5 6 7 0
Tom Bladon D 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
Gilles Gilbert 48 1124900 1306 1131 175 4.02 0.866
Larry Lozinski 30 611700 734 630 104 4.29 0.858
Jim Rutherford 10 26200 286 243 43 4.30 0.850
Claude Legris 3 01000 34 30 4 3.79 0.882
Al Jensen 1 01000 30 23 7 7.00 0.767

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 5, 1981 @ WSH L 2-7 30 32
Apr 4, 1981 vs BUF L 4-5 25 30
Apr 2, 1981 vs PIT T 1-1 35 37
Mar 31, 1981 @ CGY T 5-5 31 24
Mar 29, 1981 @ CHI L 3-4 48 41
Mar 28, 1981 vs EDM L 2-4 20 28
Mar 26, 1981 vs WSH L 0-2 25 21
Mar 24, 1981 @ CLR L 4-7 38 29
Mar 22, 1981 @ MNS L 3-9 28 49
Mar 21, 1981 vs WIN W 5-4 38 27
Mar 19, 1981 vs CGY L 3-6 43 23
Mar 17, 1981 vs QUE L 3-4 30 24
Mar 14, 1981 @ STL L 3-5 30 31
Mar 12, 1981 @ PHI L 4-9 38 43
Mar 10, 1981 vs HFD T 4-4 37 29
Mar 8, 1981 @ NYR T 4-4 40 36
Mar 4, 1981 @ CHI T 3-3 46 37
Mar 1, 1981 @ WIN T 4-4 48 32
Feb 27, 1981 @ EDM L 2-5 30 42
Feb 25, 1981 vs STL L 2-3 33 32
Feb 21, 1981 @ MTL L 1-4 32 43
Feb 19, 1981 vs NYR W 7-3 32 29
Feb 17, 1981 vs WIN W 6-4 45 27
Feb 14, 1981 vs PHI L 1-3 36 22
Feb 12, 1981 vs HFD T 2-2 33 20
Feb 8, 1981 vs VAN W 3-2 33 28
Feb 6, 1981 @ BUF L 3-7 34 34
Feb 5, 1981 vs LAK W 6-4 36 17
Feb 3, 1981 vs TOR W 5-3 47 32
Feb 1, 1981 vs STL L 1-4 39 21
Jan 29, 1981 vs MNS T 3-3 32 35
Jan 28, 1981 @ QUE T 2-2 26 22
Jan 26, 1981 @ TOR W 4-2 27 39
Jan 24, 1981 vs CLR W 6-2 38 19
Jan 22, 1981 vs NYI L 0-3 34 21
Jan 20, 1981 @ LAK L 4-11 41 40
Jan 16, 1981 @ VAN L 1-3 33 39
Jan 15, 1981 @ CGY L 0-10 31 39
Jan 13, 1981 vs BOS T 3-3 32 25
Jan 10, 1981 vs CGY W 4-1 31 20
Jan 8, 1981 @ BOS L 4-7 19 34
Jan 6, 1981 vs MTL L 2-6 21 29
Jan 3, 1981 @ PIT L 4-6 18 45
Jan 2, 1981 vs VAN T 2-2 26 29
Dec 31, 1980 vs PIT W 3-1 32 36
Dec 28, 1980 @ WIN W 4-3 27 28
Dec 27, 1980 @ EDM T 4-4 26 28
Dec 23, 1980 vs MNS L 2-6 29 28
Dec 20, 1980 @ CLR T 3-3 18 27
Dec 18, 1980 vs TOR W 5-3 33 28
Dec 16, 1980 vs EDM W 4-3 33 29
Dec 14, 1980 @ WSH W 5-4 19 30
Dec 13, 1980 vs CHI W 7-3 33 26
Dec 11, 1980 vs LAK L 1-2 33 17
Dec 7, 1980 @ MNS T 1-1 26 33
Dec 6, 1980 vs PHI W 4-2 18 28
Dec 4, 1980 vs QUE L 1-4 31 32
Dec 2, 1980 @ BOS L 3-5 23 29
Nov 29, 1980 @ NYI L 1-5 24 28
Nov 26, 1980 vs WSH T 7-7 31 24
Nov 22, 1980 @ STL L 2-6 26 30
Nov 20, 1980 @ MTL L 3-7 32 30
Nov 19, 1980 @ QUE L 1-2 26 23
Nov 15, 1980 @ PHI L 2-5 25 35
Nov 12, 1980 @ BUF T 4-4 23 25
Nov 11, 1980 vs BOS T 4-4 27 28
Nov 8, 1980 @ PIT L 3-5 30 24
Nov 6, 1980 vs MTL W 3-2 25 28
Nov 4, 1980 @ NYI L 4-6 33 33
Nov 1, 1980 vs BUF L 2-4 34 28
Oct 29, 1980 @ HFD L 3-5 41 25
Oct 28, 1980 vs CHI T 2-2 22 32
Oct 26, 1980 @ NYR L 6-7 30 37
Oct 25, 1980 vs NYR W 4-2 22 27
Oct 23, 1980 vs CLR W 5-1 23 27
Oct 18, 1980 @ HFD L 2-4 28 27
Oct 16, 1980 vs NYI L 4-6 31 28
Oct 15, 1980 @ TOR L 4-6 39 43
Oct 11, 1980 @ LAK L 1-8 19 31
Oct 10, 1980 @ VAN L 3-5 27 28