1985-86 Minnesota North Stars Roster and Statistics

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Record: 38-33-9 (85 points), Finished 2nd in NHL Norris Division (Schedule and Results)
Coach: Lorne Henning (38-33-9)

Goals For: 327 (8th of 21), Goals Against: 305 (11th of 21)
SRS: 0.08 (13th of 21), SOS: -0.20 (20th of 21)

Playoffs:
Lost Division Semi-Finals (3-2) versus St. Louis Blues

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Team Statistics

Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	TG/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA
Minnesota North Stars	80	38	33	9	85	.531	327	305	0.08	-0.20	7.90	88	370	23.78	80	387	79.33	11	12
League Average	80	36	36	8	80	.500	317	317	0.00	0.00	7.94	82	370	22.08	82	370	77.92	11	11

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

No.	Player	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
12	Keith Acton	C	27	5-8	170	L/-	6	April 15, 1958	26 G, 32 A, 58 P
31	Jim Archibald	RW	24	5-11	175	R/-	1	June 6, 1961	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
33	Don Beaupre	G	24	5-10	172	-/L	5	September 19, 1961	25-20-6, 3.55 GAA
23	Brian Bellows	RW	21	5-11	210	R/-	3	September 1, 1964	31 G, 48 A, 79 P
17	Bo Berglund	RW	30	5-10	175	L/-	2	April 6, 1955	2 G, 0 A, 2 P
14	Scott Bjugstad	LW	24	6-1	185	L/-	2	June 2, 1961	43 G, 33 A, 76 P
7	Neal Broten	C	26	5-9	175	L/-	5	November 29, 1959	29 G, 76 A, 105 P
30	Jon Casey	G	23	5-10	155	-/L	1	March 29, 1962	11-11-1, 3.89 GAA
20	Dino Ciccarelli	RW	25	5-10	185	R/-	5	February 8, 1960	44 G, 45 A, 89 P
29	Tim Coulis	LW	27	6-0	200	L/-	3	February 24, 1958	2 G, 2 A, 4 P
6	Larry DePalma	LW	20	6-0	195	L/-	R	October 27, 1965	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
2	Curt Giles	D	27	5-8	175	L/-	6	November 30, 1958	6 G, 21 A, 27 P
21	Dirk Graham	RW	26	5-11	198	R/-	2	July 29, 1959	22 G, 33 A, 55 P
16	Marc Habscheid	C	22	6-0	185	R/-	4	March 1, 1963	2 G, 3 A, 5 P
28	Mats Hallin	LW	27	6-2	200	L/-	3	March 9, 1958	3 G, 2 A, 5 P
4	Craig Hartsburg	D	26	6-1	200	L/-	6	June 29, 1959	10 G, 47 A, 57 P
17	Ed Hospodar	D	26	6-2	210	R/-	6	February 9, 1959	0 G, 2 A, 2 P
37	Paul Houck	RW	22	5-11	185	R/-	R	August 12, 1963	1 G, 0 A, 1 P
18	David Jensen	D	24	6-1	185	L/-	2	May 3, 1961	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
26	Dave Langevin	D	31	6-2	200	L/-	6	May 15, 1954	0 G, 8 A, 8 P
8	Brian Lawton	LW	20	6-0	180	L/-	2	June 29, 1965	18 G, 17 A, 35 P
34	Craig Levie	D	26	5-11	190	R/-	4	August 17, 1959	2 G, 2 A, 4 P
32	Dan Mandich	D	25	6-3	205	R/-	3	June 12, 1960	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
9	Dennis Maruk	C	30	5-8	175	L/-	10	November 17, 1955	21 G, 37 A, 58 P
11	Tom McCarthy	LW	25	6-2	200	L/-	6	July 31, 1960	12 G, 12 A, 24 P
25	Tony McKegney	LW	27	6-0	200	L/-	7	February 15, 1958	15 G, 25 A, 40 P
1	Roland Melanson	G	25	5-10	185	-/L	5	June 28, 1960	2-1-2, 4.43 GAA
15	Kent Nilsson	C	29	6-1	195	L/-	6	August 31, 1956	16 G, 44 A, 60 P
44	Steve Payne	LW	27	6-2	210	L/-	7	August 16, 1958	8 G, 4 A, 12 P
24	Willi Plett	RW	30	6-3	205	R/-	10	June 7, 1955	10 G, 7 A, 17 P
36	Chris Pryor	D	25	5-11	210	R/-	1	January 23, 1961	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
5	Dave Richter	D	25	6-5	225	R/-	4	April 8, 1960	0 G, 3 A, 3 P
10	Gordie Roberts	D	28	6-1	195	L/-	6	October 2, 1957	2 G, 21 A, 23 P
3	Bob Rouse	D	21	6-2	215	R/-	2	June 18, 1964	1 G, 14 A, 15 P
26	Gord Sherven	C	22	6-0	185	R/-	2	August 21, 1963	0 G, 2 A, 2 P
32	Randy Smith	C	20	6-4	200	L/-	R	July 7, 1965	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
13	Bill Stewart	D	28	6-2	190	R/-	7	October 6, 1957	0 G, 2 A, 2 P
1	Kari Takko	G	23	6-2	189	-/L	R	June 23, 1962	0-1-0, 3.00 GAA
18	Emanuel Viveiros	D	20	6-0	175	L/-	R	January 8, 1966	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
34	Ron Wilson	LW	30	5-10	170	R/-	4	May 28, 1955	1 G, 3 A, 4 P

Scoring Regular Season

Rk	Player	Pos	Age	GP	G	A	PTS	GC	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	SH	PP	S	S%	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Neal Broten	C	26	80	29	76	105	36	14	47	23	6	0	0	45	0	31	193	15.0	6.1	1.4	7.4
2	Dino Ciccarelli	RW	25	75	44	45	89	36	12	51	25	19	0	5	36	0	9	262	16.8	6.2	1.3	7.4
3	Brian Bellows	RW	21	77	31	48	79	30	16	46	18	11	2	2	29	1	18	256	12.1	4.5	1.4	5.9
4	Scott Bjugstad	LW	24	80	43	33	76	32	5	24	27	14	2	6	19	2	12	217	19.8	5.0	1.1	6.2
5	Kent Nilsson	C	29	61	16	44	60	21	4	10	8	8	0	2	22	1	21	122	13.1	2.8	0.9	3.7
6	Keith Acton	C	27	79	26	32	58	23	-11	100	19	5	2	2	23	1	8	169	15.4	2.7	0.7	3.4
7	Dennis Maruk	C	30	70	21	37	58	22	13	67	20	1	0	2	29	0	8	135	15.6	2.7	1.2	3.9
8	Craig Hartsburg	D	26	75	10	47	57	18	7	127	6	4	0	2	12	0	35	185	5.4	3.1	4.0	7.1
9	Dirk Graham	RW	26	80	22	33	55	21	-6	87	18	0	4	3	27	1	5	173	12.7	2.2	0.9	3.0
10	Tony McKegney	LW	27	70	15	25	40	15	-5	48	11	3	1	0	24	0	1	141	10.6	1.0	0.8	1.8
11	Brian Lawton	LW	20	65	18	17	35	14	10	36	14	4	0	7	17	0	0	98	18.4	1.1	1.1	2.2
12	Curt Giles	D	27	69	6	21	27	9	19	30	6	0	0	1	18	1	2	59	10.2	0.9	4.3	5.2
13	Tom McCarthy	LW	25	25	12	12	24	10	-3	12	8	4	0	2	7	0	5	45	26.7	1.5	0.2	1.7
14	Gordie Roberts	D	28	76	2	21	23	7	14	101	2	0	0	0	21	0	0	66	3.0	0.2	4.4	4.6
15	Willi Plett	RW	30	59	10	7	17	7	-20	231	6	4	0	0	7	0	0	72	13.9	-0.5	0.2	-0.2
16	Bob Rouse	D	21	75	1	14	15	4	15	151	1	0	0	1	13	1	0	91	1.1	-0.4	4.4	4.0
17	Steve Payne	LW	27	22	8	4	12	5	0	8	5	3	0	2	2	0	2	60	13.3	0.5	0.3	0.8
18	Dave Langevin	D	31	80	0	8	8	2	-17	58	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	54	0.0	-1.0	3.0	1.9
19	Mats Hallin	LW	27	38	3	2	5	2	-3	86	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	29	10.3	-0.9	0.4	-0.5
20	Marc Habscheid	C	22	6	2	3	5	2	-2	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	8	25.0	0.2	0.0	0.3
21	Tim Coulis	LW	27	19	2	2	4	2	-5	73	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	13	15.4	-0.3	0.1	-0.2
22	Craig Levie	D	26	14	2	2	4	2	-5	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	22	9.1	0.1	0.4	0.5
23	Ron Wilson	LW	30	11	1	3	4	1	-2	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	21	4.8	-0.1	0.1	0.0
24	Dave Richter	D	25	14	0	3	3	1	-6	29	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	0.0	-0.1	0.4	0.3
25	Bo Berglund	RW	30	3	2	0	2	1	-1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	33.3	0.2	0.0	0.2
26	Ed Hospodar	D	26	43	0	2	2	1	8	91	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	33	0.0	-0.7	2.5	1.8
27	Gord Sherven	C	22	13	0	2	2	1	1	11	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	8	0.0	-0.4	0.2	-0.2
28	Bill Stewart	D	28	8	0	2	2	1	2	13	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.5
29	Paul Houck	RW	22	3	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	33.3	0.0	0.1	0.1
30	Chris Pryor	D	25	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	8	0.0	-0.1	0.3	0.3
31	Emanuel Viveiros	D	20	4	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.3
32	Jim Archibald	RW	24	11	0	0	0	0	-3	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	-0.4	0.1	-0.4
33	Don Beaupre	G	24	52	0	0	0	0	0	34	0	0	0	0				0		0.0	0.0	11.1
34	Jon Casey	G	23	26	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0				0		0.0	0.0	4.8
35	Larry DePalma	LW	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	0.0
36	David Jensen	D	24	5	0	0	0	0	-2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	-0.1	0.1	0.0
37	Dan Mandich	D	25	3	0	0	0	0	0	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		-0.1	0.1	0.1
38	Roland Melanson	G	25	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		0.0	0.0	0.8
39	Randy Smith	C	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	0.0
40	Kari Takko	G	23	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		0.0	0.0	0.3
	Team Total			80	327	547	874		52	1659	227	89	11	38				2569	12.7	35.9	36.9	89.7

Goalies Regular Season

Rk	Player	Pos	Age	GP	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	GPS
1	Don Beaupre	G	24	52	25	20	6	182	1690	1508	.892	3.55	1	3073	11.1
2	Jon Casey	G	23	26	11	11	1	91	789	698	.885	3.89	0	1402	4.8
3	Roland Melanson	G	25	6	2	1	2	24	175	151	.863	4.43	0	325	0.8
4	Kari Takko	G	23	1	0	1	0	3	34	31	.912	3.00	0	60	0.3
	Team Total			80	38	33	9	300	2688	2388	.888	3.70	1	4860	16.9

Scoring Playoffs

Rk	Player	Pos	Age	GP	G	A	PTS	GC	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	S	S%
1	Dennis Maruk	C	30	5	4	9	13	5	5	4	3	1	0	0	14	28.6
2	Ron Wilson	LW	30	5	2	4	6	2	0	4	1	1	0	0	15	13.3
3	Brian Bellows	RW	21	5	5	0	5	3	1	16	2	3	0	0	16	31.3
4	Neal Broten	C	26	5	3	2	5	2	-5	2	2	1	0	0	16	18.8
5	Kent Nilsson	C	29	5	1	4	5	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	10	10.0
6	Dirk Graham	RW	26	5	3	1	4	2	3	2	2	0	1	2	23	13.0
7	Gordie Roberts	D	28	5	0	4	4	1	3	8	0	0	0	0	2	0.0
8	Tony McKegney	LW	27	5	2	1	3	1	-1	22	2	0	0	0	12	16.7
9	Keith Acton	C	27	5	0	3	3	1	-1	6	0	0	0	0	9	0.0
10	Scott Bjugstad	LW	24	5	0	1	1	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0
11	Dino Ciccarelli	RW	25	5	0	1	1	0	-6	6	0	0	0	0	8	0.0
12	Curt Giles	D	27	5	0	1	1	0	-3	10	0	0	0	0	5	0.0
13	Craig Hartsburg	D	26	5	0	1	1	0	-5	2	0	0	0	0	15	0.0
14	Dave Langevin	D	31	5	0	1	1	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	5	0.0
15	Brian Lawton	LW	20	3	0	1	1	0	-5	2	0	0	0	0	4	0.0
16	Willi Plett	RW	30	5	0	1	1	0	1	45	0	0	0	0	2	0.0
17	Don Beaupre	G	24	5	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	Marc Habscheid	C	22	2	0	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
19	Mats Hallin	LW	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Ed Hospodar	D	26	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
21	Bob Rouse	D	21	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0
	Team Total			5	20	35	55		-14	140	13	6	1	2	169	11.8

Goalies Playoffs

Rk	Player	Pos	Age	GP	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN
1	Don Beaupre	G	24	5	2	3		17	158	141	.892	3.40	0	300
	Team Total			5	2	3		17	158	141	.892	3.40	0	300

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