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1977-78 Detroit Red Wings Roster and Statistics

Record: 32-34-14 (78 points), Finished 2nd in NHL Norris Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Bobby Kromm (32-34-14)

Captain: Dennis Hextall , Dan Maloney

Goals For: 252 (11th of 18), Goals Against: 266 (10th of 18)
SRS: -0.15 (11th of 18), SOS: 0.02 (7th of 18)

Playoffs:
Lost Quarter-Finals (4-1) to Montreal Canadiens
Won Preliminary Round (2-0) over Atlanta Flames

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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
Detroit Red Wings	80	32	34	14	78	.488	252	266	-0.15	0.02	3.15	3.33	59	293	20.14	64	296	78.38	12	7	2273	11.1	2271	.883		2
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%
Detroit Red Wings
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
16	Michel Bergeron	ca	RW	23	5-10	170	R/-	3	November 11, 1954
4	Thommie Bergman	se	D	30	6-2	200	L/-	3	December 10, 1947
11	Rick Bowness	ca	RW	23	6-1	185	R/-	2	January 25, 1955
26	Al Cameron	ca	D	22	6-1	205	L/-	2	October 21, 1955
21	Roland Cloutier	ca	C	20	5-8	157	L/-	R	October 6, 1957
31	Ed Giacomin	ca	G	38	5-11	180	-/L	12	June 6, 1939
4	Larry Giroux	ca	D	26	6-0	190	R/-	4	August 28, 1951
21	Danny Grant	ca	RW	31	5-10	188	L/-	11	February 21, 1946
5	Jean Hamel	ca	D	25	5-11	195	L/-	5	June 6, 1952
2	Terry Harper	ca	D	38	6-1	200	R/-	15	January 27, 1940
22	Dennis Hextall (C)	ca	C	34	5-11	175	L/-	9	April 17, 1943
4-19	John Hilworth	ca	D	20	6-4	205	R/-	R	May 23, 1957
19	Dennis Hull	ca	LW	33	5-11	198	L/-	13	November 19, 1944
24	Greg Joly	ca	D	23	6-1	190	L/-	3	May 30, 1954
28	Reed Larson	us	D	21	6-0	195	R/-	1	July 30, 1956
12	Fern LeBlanc	ca	RW	22	5-9	170	L/-	1	January 12, 1956
12-21	J.P. LeBlanc	ca	C	31	5-10	170	L/-	3	October 20, 1946
14	Nick Libett	ca	LW	32	6-1	195	L/-	10	December 9, 1945
23	Bill Lochead	ca	RW	23	6-1	195	R/-	3	October 13, 1954
30	Ron Low	ca	G	27	6-1	205	-/L	4	June 21, 1950
7	Dan Maloney (C)	ca	LW	27	6-2	195	L/-	6	September 24, 1950
10	Dale McCourt	ca	C	21	5-10	180	R/-	R	January 26, 1957
17	Al McDonough	ca	RW	27	6-1	175	R/-	4	June 6, 1950
3	Perry Miller	ca	D	25	6-1	194	L/-	R	June 24, 1952
20	Václav Nedomanský	cs	RW	33	6-2	205	L/-	R	March 14, 1944
18	Rob Plumb	ca	LW	20	5-8	166	L/-	R	August 29, 1957
8	Dennis Polonich	ca	RW	24	5-6	166	R/-	3	December 4, 1953
27	Bob Ritchie	ca	LW	22	5-10	170	L/-	1	February 20, 1955
1	Jim Rutherford	ca	G	28	5-8	168	-/L	7	February 17, 1949
29	Tim Sheehy	ca	RW	29	6-1	185	R/-	R	September 3, 1948
16	André St. Laurent	ca	C	24	5-10	180	R/-	4	February 16, 1953
12	Errol Thompson	ca	LW	27	5-9	185	L/-	6	May 28, 1950
4	Rick Vasko	ca	D	21	6-0	185	L/-	R	January 12, 1957
15	Paul Woods	ca	LW	22	5-10	175	L/-	R	April 12, 1955
25	Larry Wright	ca	RW	26	6-2	180	L/-	4	October 8, 1951

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	Dale McCourt	21	C	76	33	39	72	10	10	20	10	3	5	20	19	0	219	15.1			5.8	1.4	7.2
2	André St. Laurent	24	C	77	31	39	70	7	108	21	10	0	4	30	8	1	192	16.1			5.4	1.4	6.8
3	Reed Larson	21	D	75	19	41	60	-8	95	11	7	1	4	16	23	2	240	7.9			5.1	3.6	8.7
4	Dennis Hextall	34	C	78	16	33	49	-5	195	12	2	2	3	24	8	1	89	18.0			2.3	1.0	3.3
5	Nick Libett	32	LW	80	23	22	45	-2	46	21	1	1	1	17	4	1	155	14.8			2.5	1.1	3.6
6	Dan Maloney	27	LW	66	16	29	45	4	151	13	3	0	1	22	7	0	163	9.8			2.5	1.1	3.6
7	Paul Woods	22	LW	80	19	23	42	17	52	14	3	2	4	18	4	1	107	17.8			1.9	1.7	3.6
8	Bill Lochead	23	RW	77	20	16	36	7	47	18	2	0	3	14	2	0	123	16.3			1.6	1.4	3.0
9	Dennis Polonich	24	RW	79	16	19	35	-5	254	11	5	0	0	13	6	0	128	12.5			1.1	1.0	2.1
10	Václav Nedomanský*	33	RW	63	11	17	28	-17	2	6	5	0	1	8	9	0	108	10.2			0.7	0.4	1.1
11	Greg Joly	23	D	79	7	20	27	-4	73	5	2	0	2	15	4	1	134	5.2			1.2	4.1	5.3
12	Perry Miller	25	D	62	4	17	21	-7	120	1	0	3	1	12	5	0	124	3.2			0.8	3.0	3.8
13	Rick Bowness	23	RW	61	8	11	19	-8	76	6	2	0	2	10	1	0	46	17.4			-0.2	0.7	0.4
14	Terry Harper	38	D	80	2	17	19	20	85	2	0	0	0	15	0	2	77	2.6			0.1	5.6	5.7
15	Dennis Hull	33	LW	55	5	9	14	-20	6	3	2	0	1	7	2	0	72	6.9			-0.7	0.2	-0.5
16	Larry Wright	26	RW	66	3	6	9	-12	13	3	0	0	0	4	2	0	46	6.5			-1.7	0.6	-1.1
17	Al Cameron	22	D	63	2	7	9	-12	94	1	1	0	0	5	2	0	71	2.8			-0.4	2.7	2.3
18	Jean Hamel	25	D	32	2	6	8	3	34	2	0	0	0	6	0	0	37	5.4			0.2	1.9	2.1
19	Thommie Bergman	30	D	14	1	6	7	1	16	1	0	0	0	6	0	0	18	5.6			0.4	0.8	1.2
20	Errol Thompson	27	LW	14	5	1	6	-5	2	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	27	18.5			0.4	0.1	0.4
21	Danny Grant	31	RW	13	2	2	4	-2	6	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	9	22.2			0.0	0.1	0.1
22	Al McDonough	27	RW	13	2	2	4	2	4	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	18	11.1			0.0	0.3	0.2
23	Bob Ritchie	22	LW	11	2	2	4	-1	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	18	11.1			0.1	0.1	0.2
24	Rob Plumb	20	LW	7	2	1	3	-4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	7	28.6			0.1	0.0	0.1
25	Larry Giroux	26	D	5	0	3	3	-6	4	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	10	0.0			0.1	-0.1	0.1
26	J.P. LeBlanc	31	C	3	0	2	2	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	0.0			0.0	0.1	0.1
27	Jim Rutherford*	28	G	43	0	2	2	0	2				0	2			0		2466	57:21	0.0	0.0	6.7
28	Michel Bergeron	23	RW	3	1	0	1	-2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	16.7			0.0	0.0	0.0
29	Ron Low	27	G	32	0	1	1	0	0				0	1			0		1813	56:40	0.0	0.0	4.7
30	Roland Cloutier	20	C	1	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.0	-0.1
31	Ed Giacomin*	38	G	9	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		515	57:16	0.0	0.0	1.5
32	John Hilworth	20	D	5	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.3	0.2
33	Fern LeBlanc	22	RW	2	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
34	Tim Sheehy	29	RW	15	0	0	0	-13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	0.0			-0.6	-0.2	-0.8
35	Rick Vasko	21	D	3	0	0	0	-1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0			-0.1	0.1	0.0
	Team Total			80	252	393	645	-66	1518	181	59	12	32	273	111	9	2273	11.1			28.3	34.5	75.7

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	Jim Rutherford*	28	43		20	17	4	134	1119	985	.880	3.26	1	2466				108	-9.6	3.02	6.7
2	Ron Low	27	32		9	12	9	102	897	795	.886	3.37	1	1813				102	-2.3	3.11	4.7
3	Ed Giacomin*	38	9		3	5	1	27	252	225	.893	3.14	0	515						2.91	1.5
	Team Total				32	34	14	263	2268	2005	.884	3.29	2	4794				104	-10.9	3.04	12.9