1977-78 Colorado Rockies Roster and Statistics

Record: 19-40-21 (59 points), Finished 2nd in NHL Smythe Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Pat Kelly (19-40-21)

Primary Arena: McNichols Sports Arena

Goals For: 257 (9th of 18), Goals Against: 305 (13th of 18)
SRS: -0.62 (12th of 18), SOS: -0.02 (13th of 18)

Playoffs:
Lost Preliminary Round (2-0) to Philadelphia Flyers

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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
Colorado Rockies	80	19	40	21	59	.369	257	305	-0.62	-0.02	3.21	3.81	63	279	22.58	53	237	77.64	5	7	2403	10.7	2531	.879		1
League Average	80	33	33	15	80	.500	264	264					54	255	21.12	54	255	78.88	6	6	2343	11.3	2343	.887		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%
Colorado Rockies
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
10-24	Fred Ahern	us US	RW	25	6-0	180	R/-	3	February 12, 1952
14	Ron Andruff	ca CA	C	24	6-0	185	R/-	3	July 10, 1953
10	Chuck Arnason	ca CA	RW	26	5-10	183	R/-	6	July 15, 1951
5	Barry Beck	ca CA	D	20	6-3	216	L/-	R	June 3, 1957
3	Mike Christie	us US	D	28	6-0	190	L/-	3	December 20, 1949
16	Joe Contini	ca CA	C	21	5-10	178	L/-	R	January 29, 1957
18	Gary Croteau	ca CA	LW	31	6-0	205	L/-	9	June 20, 1946
27	Ron Delorme	ca CA	RW	22	6-2	185	R/-	1	September 3, 1955
15	Denis Dupéré	ca CA	LW	29	6-1	200	L/-	7	June 21, 1948
3	Tom Edur	ca CA	D	23	6-1	185	R/-	1	November 18, 1954
33	Doug Favell	ca CA	G	32	5-10	172	-/L	10	April 5, 1945
21	Paul Gardner	ca CA	C	21	6-0	195	L/-	1	March 5, 1956
11	Dave Hudson	ca CA	C	28	6-0	185	L/-	5	December 28, 1949
19	Rick Jodzio	ca CA	LW	23	6-1	190	L/-	R	June 3, 1954
26	Mike Kitchen	ca CA	D	21	5-10	185	L/-	1	February 1, 1956
10-24	Ralph Klassen	ca CA	C	22	5-11	175	L/-	2	September 15, 1955
2	Bryan Lefley	ca CA	D	29	6-0	195	L/-	4	October 18, 1948
23	Roger Lemelin	ca CA	D	23	6-3	215	R/-	3	February 6, 1954
19	John McCahill	ca CA	D	22	6-1	215	R/-	R	December 2, 1955
24	Jim McElmury	us US	D	28	6-1	190	L/-	4	October 3, 1949
29	Bill McKenzie	ca CA	G	28	5-11	180	-/L	4	March 12, 1949
19	Bob Neely	ca CA	LW	24	6-1	210	L/-	4	November 9, 1953
17	Lou Nistico	ca CA	C	25	5-7	170	L/-	R	January 25, 1953
3	Dennis O'Brien	ca CA	D	28	6-0	195	L/-	7	June 10, 1949
30	Bill Oleschuk	ca CA	G	22	6-3	194	-/L	1	July 20, 1955
25	Dennis Owchar	ca CA	D	24	5-11	190	R/-	3	March 28, 1953
9	Wilf Paiement (C)	ca CA	RW	22	6-1	210	R/-	3	October 16, 1955
7	Randy Pierce	ca CA	RW	20	5-11	187	R/-	R	November 23, 1957
31	Michel Plasse	ca CA	G	29	5-11	172	-/L	6	June 1, 1948
12	Nelson Pyatt	ca CA	C	24	6-0	175	L/-	4	September 9, 1953
20	Larry Skinner	ca CA	C	21	5-11	180	L/-	1	April 21, 1956
22	Andy Spruce	ca CA	LW	23	5-11	178	L/-	1	April 17, 1954
6	Mark Suzor	ca CA	D	21	6-1	212	L/-	1	November 5, 1956
4	John Van Boxmeer	ca CA	D	25	6-0	190	R/-	4	November 20, 1952

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	Wilf Paiement	22	RW	80	31	56	87	-14	114	22	7	2	1	32	23	1	288	10.8			6.4	0.8	7.2
2	Barry Beck	20	D	75	22	38	60	-14	89	16	6	0	4	19	18	1	271	8.1			5.1	3.3	8.4
3	John Van Boxmeer	25	D	80	12	42	54	-11	87	7	5	0	0	26	16	0	260	4.6			3.7	3.7	7.4
4	Paul Gardner	21	C	46	30	22	52	-17	29	17	13	0	3	12	10	0	133	22.6			4.9	0.2	5.1
5	Andy Spruce	23	LW	74	19	21	40	-7	43	16	3	0	1	19	2	0	119	16.0			1.8	0.9	2.7
6	Gary Croteau	31	LW	62	17	22	39	-15	24	9	8	0	0	15	7	0	105	16.2			2.1	0.5	2.6
7	Ron Andruff	24	C	78	15	18	33	-15	31	15	0	0	1	14	4	0	135	11.1			0.7	0.7	1.5
8	Dave Hudson	28	C	60	10	22	32	-8	12	9	1	0	0	18	3	1	86	11.6			1.0	0.7	1.7
9	Dennis Owchar	24	D	60	8	23	31	-49	25	6	2	0	0	18	4	1	120	6.7			1.9	0.3	2.2
10	Denis Dupéré	29	LW	54	15	15	30	9	4	11	2	2	4	11	3	1	67	22.4			1.5	1.1	2.6
11	Joe Contini	21	C	37	12	9	21	-2	28	9	3	0	0	8	1	0	49	24.5			1.2	0.5	1.7
12	Ron Delorme	22	RW	68	10	11	21	-20	47	10	0	0	0	11	0	0	76	13.2			-0.3	0.4	0.2
13	Nelson Pyatt	24	C	71	9	12	21	-23	8	8	1	0	0	11	1	0	87	10.3			-0.5	0.4	-0.1
14	Randy Pierce	20	RW	35	9	10	19	0	15	8	1	0	3	6	4	0	59	15.3			0.9	0.5	1.4
15	Mark Suzor	21	D	60	4	15	19	-35	56	2	2	0	0	11	4	0	89	4.5			0.6	1.1	1.7
16	Mike Kitchen	21	D	61	2	17	19	-12	45	2	0	0	1	17	0	0	57	3.5			0.4	2.6	3.0
17	Fred Ahern	25	RW	38	5	13	18	-16	19	4	1	0	0	10	3	0	67	7.5			0.3	0.1	0.4
18	Bryan Lefley	29	D	71	4	13	17	-4	12	3	0	1	1	9	4	0	65	6.2			0.2	3.7	3.9
19	Ralph Klassen	22	C	44	6	9	15	-19	8	3	3	0	0	6	2	1	47	12.8			-0.1	0.1	0.0
20	Tom Edur	23	D	20	5	7	12	10	10	4	1	0	0	6	1	0	38	13.2			1.0	1.7	2.7
21	Chuck Arnason	26	RW	29	4	8	12	-3	10	2	2	0	0	5	3	0	50	8.0			0.1	0.4	0.5
22	Mike Christie	28	D	35	2	8	10	-6	28	2	0	0	0	6	2	0	38	5.3			0.2	1.6	1.8
23	Bob Neely	24	LW	22	3	6	9	-10	2	2	1	0	0	3	3	0	33	9.1			0.1	0.0	0.1
24	Larry Skinner	21	C	14	3	5	8	2	0	2	1	0	0	4	1	0	28	10.7			0.3	0.3	0.6
25	Rick Jodzio	23	LW	32	0	5	5	-5	28	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	25	0.0			-0.9	0.3	-0.6
26	Doug Favell	32	G	47	0	2	2	0	2				0	2			0		2659	56:34	0.0	0.0	6.0
27	Dennis O'Brien	28	D	16	0	2	2	-10	12	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	11	0.0			-0.2	0.3	0.1
28	Roger Lemelin	23	D	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.2	0.1
29	John McCahill	22	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.0
30	Jim McElmury	28	D	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.2	0.1
31	Bill McKenzie	28	G	12	0	0	0	0	2				0	0			0		651	54:17	0.0	0.0	1.2
32	Lou Nistico	25	C	3	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
33	Bill Oleschuk	22	G	2	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		100	50:00	0.0	0.0	0.0
34	Michel Plasse	29	G	24	0	0	0	0	12				0	0			0		1382	57:34	0.0	0.0	2.5
	Team Total			80	257	431	688	-293	808	189	63	5	19	306	119	6	2406	10.7			32.3	26.7	68.7

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	Doug Favell	32	47		13	20	11	159	1426	1267	.888	3.59	1	2659				100	-0.5	3.32	6.0
2	Bill McKenzie	28	12		3	6	2	42	347	305	.879	3.87	0	651				109	-3.4	3.59	1.2
3	Michel Plasse	29	24		3	12	8	90	698	608	.871	3.91	0	1382				116	-12.4	3.60	2.5
4	Bill Oleschuk	22	2		0	2	0	9	56	47	.839	5.40	0	100						4.80	0.0
	Team Total				19	40	21	300	2527	2227	.881	3.76	1	4792				107	-19.1	3.47	9.7