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1976-77 Cleveland Barons Roster and Statistics

Record: 25-42-13 (63 points), Finished 4th in NHL Adams Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Jack Evans (25-42-13)

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Primary Arena: Coliseum at Richfield

Goals For: 240 (10th of 18), Goals Against: 292 (11th of 18)
SRS: -0.55 (12th of 18), SOS: 0.10 (3rd of 18)

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Recent Game Results

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Cleveland Barons	80	25	42	13	63	.394	240	292	-0.55	0.10	3.00	3.65	59	298	19.80	52	237	78.06	2	12	2309	10.4	2543	.885		5
League Average	80	34	34	13	80	.500	266	266					53	265	19.83	53	265	80.17	8	8	2401	11.1	2401	.889		4

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Cleveland Barons
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
16	Fred Ahern	us US	RW	24	6-0	180	R/-	2	February 12, 1952
19	Lyle Bradley	ca CA	C	33	5-9	160	R/-	1	July 31, 1943
3	Mike Christie	us US	D	27	6-0	190	L/-	2	December 20, 1949
1	Gary Edwards	ca CA	G	29	5-9	165	-/L	7	October 5, 1947
12	Mike Fidler	us US	LW	20	5-11	195	L/-	R	August 19, 1956
6	Len Frig	ca CA	D	26	5-11	190	R/-	3	October 30, 1950
7	Dave Gardner	ca CA	C	24	6-0	185	R/-	4	August 23, 1952
26	Bob Girard	ca CA	LW	27	6-0	180	L/-	1	April 12, 1949
2	Rick Hampton	ca CA	LW	20	6-0	190	L/-	2	June 14, 1956
8	Gary Holt	ca CA	LW	25	5-9	175	L/-	3	January 1, 1952
13	Björn Johansson	se SE	D	21	6-0	195	L/-	R	January 15, 1956
10	Ralph Klassen	ca CA	C	21	5-11	175	L/-	1	September 15, 1955
17	Ken Kuzyk	ca CA	RW	23	6-1	195	R/-	R	August 11, 1953
25	Al MacAdam	ca CA	RW	24	6-0	180	L/-	3	March 16, 1952
21	Dennis Maruk	ca CA	C	21	5-8	175	L/-	1	November 17, 1955
24	Brent Meeke	ca CA	LW	24	5-11	175	L/-	4	April 10, 1952
27	Gilles Meloche	ca CA	G	26	5-10	185	-/L	6	July 12, 1950
9	Wayne Merrick	ca CA	C	24	6-1	195	L/-	4	April 23, 1952
	Angelo Moretto	ca CA	C	23	6-3	212	L/-	R	September 18, 1953
19	Jim Moxey	ca CA	RW	23	6-1	190	L/-	2	May 28, 1953
20	Bob Murdoch	ca CA	RW	23	5-11	191	R/-	1	January 29, 1954
15	Jim Neilson	ca CA	D	36	6-2	205	L/-	14	November 28, 1940
8-14	Jim Pappin	ca CA	RW	37	6-0	190	R/-	13	September 10, 1939
18	Glenn Patrick	us US	D	26	6-2	190	L/-	2	April 26, 1950
17	Tom Price	ca CA	D	22	6-1	190	L/-	2	July 12, 1954
8	Phil Roberto	ca CA	RW	28	6-1	190	R/-	7	January 1, 1949
11	Gary Sabourin	ca CA	RW	33	5-11	180	R/-	9	December 4, 1943
22	Rick Shinske	ca CA	C	21	5-11	165	L/-	R	May 31, 1955
17	Charlie Simmer	ca CA	LW	22	6-3	210	L/-	2	March 20, 1954
31	Gary Simmons	ca CA	G	32	6-2	200	-/L	2	July 19, 1944
5	Greg Smith	ca CA	D	21	6-0	195	L/-	1	July 8, 1955
28	Frank Spring	ca CA	RW	27	6-3	216	R/-	4	October 19, 1949
11	Vern Stenlund	ca CA	C	20	6-1	178	L/-	R	April 11, 1956
4	Bob Stewart	ca CA	D	26	6-1	206	L/-	5	November 10, 1950
8	Juha Widing	fi FI	C	29	6-0	180	L/-	7	July 4, 1947

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Dennis Maruk	21	C	80	28	50	78	3	68	24	4	0	1	37	13	0	268	10.4			5.4	1.5	6.9
2	Al MacAdam	24	RW	80	22	41	63	-2	68	16	6	0	3	33	8	0	192	11.5			3.7	1.4	5.0
3	Wayne Merrick	24	C	80	18	38	56	-21	25	14	4	0	2	22	16	0	199	9.0			2.8	0.8	3.6
4	Bob Murdoch	23	RW	57	23	19	42	-5	30	17	6	0	3	14	5	0	141	16.3			3.0	0.9	3.9
5	Rick Hampton	20	LW	57	16	24	40	-11	13	11	5	0	1	12	12	0	114	14.0			2.2	0.7	2.9
6	Dave Gardner	24	C	76	16	22	38	-20	9	11	5	0	3	11	11	0	141	11.3			1.3	0.8	2.0
7	Mike Fidler	20	LW	46	17	16	33	-5	17	10	7	0	3	12	4	0	112	15.2			2.2	0.7	2.9
8	Mike Christie	27	D	79	6	27	33	19	79	6	0	0	2	25	1	1	61	9.8			1.5	6.2	7.7
9	Ralph Klassen	21	C	80	14	18	32	-25	23	9	4	1	1	16	2	0	131	10.7			0.5	0.7	1.1
10	Greg Smith	21	D	74	9	17	26	-31	65	5	4	0	2	9	8	0	127	7.1			1.3	2.8	4.1
11	Bob Girard	27	LW	68	11	10	21	-24	33	9	1	1	1	10	0	0	101	10.9			-0.2	0.5	0.3
12	Frank Spring	27	RW	26	11	10	21	-8	6	6	5	0	0	5	5	0	49	22.4			1.5	0.2	1.8
13	Brent Meeke	24	LW	49	8	13	21	-15	4	7	1	0	0	6	7	0	76	10.5			0.3	0.4	0.8
14	Jim Neilson	36	D	47	3	17	20	-6	42	3	0	0	0	17	0	0	42	7.1			0.9	2.6	3.5
15	Gary Sabourin	33	RW	33	7	11	18	-6	4	5	2	0	1	10	1	0	76	9.2			0.7	0.4	1.1
16	Jim Moxey	23	RW	35	7	7	14	-15	20	6	1	0	0	5	2	0	62	11.3			0.3	0.2	0.4
17	Juha Widing	29	C	28	6	8	14	-7	10	5	1	0	1	7	1	0	41	14.6			0.5	0.3	0.8
18	Bob Stewart	26	D	73	1	12	13	-31	108	1	0	0	0	9	1	2	69	1.4			-0.4	2.7	2.4
19	Jim Pappin	37	RW	24	2	8	10	5	8	2	0	0	1	5	3	0	28	7.1			0.0	0.6	0.6
20	Len Frig	26	D	66	2	7	9	-31	213	2	0	0	0	7	0	0	82	2.4			-0.5	2.3	1.8
21	Fred Ahern	24	RW	25	4	4	8	-12	20	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	45	8.9			-0.1	0.1	0.0
22	Phil Roberto	28	RW	21	3	4	7	-7	8	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	32	9.4			-0.1	0.2	0.1
23	Glenn Patrick	26	D	35	2	3	5	-11	70	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	26	7.7			-0.2	1.6	1.4
24	Ken Kuzyk	23	RW	13	0	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	19	0.0			-0.1	0.3	0.1
25	Angelo Moretto	23	C	5	1	2	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	13	7.7			0.1	0.1	0.2
26	Gilles Meloche	26	G	51	0	3	3	0	18				0	3			0		2958	58:00	0.0	0.0	7.3
27	Charlie Simmer	22	LW	24	2	0	2	-11	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	42	4.8			-0.7	0.1	-0.6
28	Björn Johansson	21	D	10	1	1	2	-11	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	8	12.5			0.0	0.0	0.0
29	Gary Holt	25	LW	2	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0
30	Lyle Bradley	33	C	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.1	0.0	0.0
31	Tom Price	22	D	2	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	-0.1	-0.2
32	Rick Shinske	21	C	5	0	0	0	-4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.2
33	Vern Stenlund	20	C	4	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.2
34	Gary Edwards	29	G	17	0			0	2				0	1			0		999	58:44	0.0	0.0	1.6
35	Gary Simmons	32	G	15	0			0	0				0	0			0		839	55:57	0.0	0.0	1.9
	Team Total			80	240	398	638	-298	991	179	59	2	25	291	105	3	2309	10.4			25.6	28.8	65.2

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	Gilles Meloche	26	51		19	24	6	171	1548	1377	.890	3.47	2	2958				101	-1.7	3.18	7.3
2	Gary Edwards	29	17		4	10	3	68	549	481	.876	4.09	2	999				113	-8.0	3.73	1.6
3	Gary Simmons	32	15		2	8	4	51	444	393	.885	3.65	1	839				105	-2.4	3.36	1.9
	Team Total				25	42	13	290	2541	2251	.886	3.63	5	4796				104	-12.1	3.33	10.8