1979-80 Edmonton Oilers Roster and Statistics

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Record: 28-39-13 (69 points), Finished 4th in NHL Smythe Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Glen Sather (28-39-13)

Goals For: 301 (9th of 21), Goals Against: 322 (20th of 21)
SRS: -0.25 (12th of 21), SOS: 0.01 (10th of 21)

Playoffs:
Lost Preliminary Round (3-0) to Philadelphia Flyers

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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
Edmonton Oilers	80	28	39	13	69	.431	301	322	-0.25	0.01	3.76	4.03	61	282	21.63	74	315	76.51	11	4	2269	13.3	2462	.869		1
League Average	80	33	33	14	80	.500	281	281					61	280	21.83	61	280	78.17	6	6	2352	12.0	2352	.880		3

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%
Edmonton Oilers
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	Ron Areshenkoff	ca CA	C	22	6-0	175	L/-	R	June 13, 1957
19	Don Ashby	ca CA	C	24	6-1	185	L/-	4	March 8, 1955
33	Bryon Baltimore	ca CA	D	27	6-2	190	R/-	R	August 26, 1952
33	John Bednarski	ca CA	D	27	5-10	195	L/-	3	July 4, 1952
15	Wayne Bianchin	ca CA	LW	26	5-10	180	L/-	6	September 6, 1953
18	Brett Callighen	ca CA	LW	26	5-11	182	L/-	R	May 15, 1953
6	Colin Campbell	ca CA	D	27	6-1	201	L/-	5	January 28, 1953
22	Ron Carter	ca CA	RW	21	6-1	205	L/-	R	March 14, 1958
7	Ron Chipperfield (C)	ca CA	C	25	5-11	186	R/-	R	March 28, 1954
17	Cam Connor	ca CA	RW	25	6-2	200	L/-	1	August 10, 1954
35	Jim Corsi	ca CA	G	25	5-10	180	-/L	R	June 19, 1954
1	Don Cutts	ca CA	G	26	6-3	190	-/L	R	February 24, 1953
24	Peter Driscoll	ca CA	RW	25	6-0	190	L/-	R	October 27, 1954
28	Dave Dryden	ca CA	G	38	6-1	186	-/L	8	September 5, 1941
33	Bob Dupuis	ca CA	G	27	5-11	167	-/L	R	August 26, 1952
19	Bill Flett	ca CA	RW	36	6-1	205	R/-	10	July 21, 1943
2	Lee Fogolin	us US	D	24	6-0	200	R/-	5	February 7, 1955
23	Mike Forbes	ca CA	D	22	6-2	200	R/-	1	September 20, 1957
99	Wayne Gretzky	ca CA	C	19	6-0	185	L/-	R	January 26, 1961
3	Al Hamilton	ca CA	D	33	6-1	195	R/-	6	August 20, 1946
9	Jim Harrison	ca CA	C	32	5-11	185	R/-	7	July 9, 1947
5	Doug Hicks	ca CA	D	24	6-0	185	L/-	5	May 28, 1955
12	Dave Hunter	ca CA	LW	22	5-11	195	L/-	R	January 1, 1958
30	Ron Low	ca CA	G	29	6-1	205	-/L	5	June 21, 1950
4	Kevin Lowe	ca CA	D	20	6-2	200	L/-	R	April 15, 1959
20	Dave Lumley	ca CA	RW	25	6-0	185	R/-	1	September 1, 1954
14	Blair MacDonald	ca CA	RW	26	5-10	180	R/-	R	November 17, 1953
9	Kari Makkonen	fi FI	RW	25	6-0	191	L/-	R	January 20, 1955
11	Mark Messier	ca CA	C	19	6-1	210	L/-	R	January 18, 1961
31	Eddie Mio	ca CA	G	26	5-10	180	-/L	R	January 31, 1954
47	Don Murdoch	ca CA	RW	23	5-11	180	R/-	3	October 25, 1956
16	Dan Newman	ca CA	LW	28	6-1	195	L/-	3	January 26, 1952
22	Poul Popiel	dk DK	D	36	5-10	175	L/-	6	February 28, 1943
26	Pat Price	ca CA	D	24	6-2	200	L/-	4	March 24, 1955
16	Bobby Schmautz	ca CA	RW	34	5-9	172	R/-	11	March 28, 1945
27	Dave Semenko	ca CA	LW	22	6-3	200	L/-	R	July 12, 1957
8	Risto Siltanen	fi FI	D	21	5-8	180	R/-	R	October 31, 1958
15	Alex Tidey	ca CA	RW	25	6-0	182	R/-	2	January 5, 1955
25	Mike Toal	ca CA	C	20	6-0	175	R/-	R	March 23, 1959
21	Stan Weir	ca CA	C	27	6-1	180	L/-	6	March 17, 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	Wayne Gretzky*	19	C	79	51	86	137	14	21	37	13	1	6	63	22	1	284	18.0			11.3	1.3	12.6
2	Blair MacDonald	26	RW	80	46	48	94	0	6	31	13	2	6	32	15	1	266	17.3			7.6	0.9	8.5
3	Stan Weir	27	C	79	33	33	66	5	40	28	3	2	2	23	6	4	129	25.6			4.4	1.0	5.4
4	Brett Callighen	26	LW	59	23	35	58	-5	72	15	8	0	0	25	10	0	159	14.5			3.9	0.5	4.4
5	Dave Lumley	25	RW	80	20	38	58	16	138	19	1	0	6	32	6	0	145	13.8			2.8	1.4	4.1
6	Dave Hunter	22	LW	80	12	31	43	7	103	9	1	2	3	28	2	1	109	11.0			1.0	1.1	2.1
7	Doug Hicks	24	D	78	9	31	40	18	52	2	5	2	1	18	10	3	122	7.4			2.2	4.3	6.4
8	Ron Chipperfield	25	C	67	18	19	37	-14	24	15	2	1	1	16	3	0	129	14.0			1.5	0.3	1.8
9	Risto Siltanen	21	D	64	6	29	35	-9	26	5	1	0	0	14	15	0	116	5.2			1.8	2.1	4.0
10	Mark Messier*	19	C	75	12	21	33	-9	120	10	1	1	1	18	2	1	113	10.6			0.4	0.6	1.0
11	Pat Price	24	D	75	11	21	32	4	134	9	2	0	0	14	7	0	95	11.6			1.8	3.3	5.1
12	Kevin Lowe*	20	D	64	2	19	21	3	70	0	2	0	0	17	2	0	86	2.3			0.4	2.8	3.3
13	Cam Connor	25	RW	38	7	13	20	2	136	7	0	0	0	11	2	0	44	15.9			0.5	0.5	1.0
14	Don Ashby	24	C	18	10	9	19	3	0	7	3	0	1	7	2	0	31	32.3			1.5	0.3	1.8
15	Al Hamilton	33	D	31	4	15	19	-1	20	3	1	0	0	8	6	1	34	11.8			1.1	1.2	2.4
16	Bobby Schmautz	34	RW	29	8	8	16	-4	20	6	2	0	0	8	0	0	46	17.4			0.7	0.2	0.9
17	Lee Fogolin	24	D	80	5	10	15	-10	104	5	0	0	0	10	0	0	90	5.6			-0.1	2.7	2.6
18	Dave Semenko	22	LW	67	6	7	13	-14	135	5	1	0	1	7	0	0	43	14.0			-1.3	0.3	-1.0
19	Colin Campbell*	27	D	72	2	11	13	-19	196	2	0	0	0	11	0	0	80	2.5			-0.4	1.9	1.5
20	Bill Flett	36	RW	20	5	2	7	-16	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	26	19.2			0.1	-0.2	-0.1
21	Don Murdoch	23	RW	10	5	2	7	0	4	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	35	14.3			0.5	0.1	0.6
22	Peter Driscoll	25	RW	39	1	5	6	-10	54	1	0	0	0	3	2	0	23	4.3			-1.1	0.1	-0.9
23	Dan Newman	28	LW	10	3	1	4	-1	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	16	18.8			0.1	0.1	0.2
24	Kari Makkonen	25	RW	9	2	2	4	-2	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	11	18.2			0.1	0.0	0.1
25	Jim Corsi	25	G	26	0	3	3	0	6				0	3			0		1360	52:17	0.0	0.0	3.3
26	Eddie Mio	26	G	34	0	1	1	0	4				0	1			0		1706	50:10	0.0	0.0	2.9
27	Ron Areshenkoff	22	C	4	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.2	-0.1	-0.2
28	Bryon Baltimore	27	D	2	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	0.3	0.3
29	John Bednarski	27	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0
30	Wayne Bianchin	26	LW	11	0	0	0	-4	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0			-0.5	0.0	-0.4
31	Ron Carter	21	RW	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
32	Don Cutts	26	G	6	0	0	0	0	6				0	0			0		269	44:46	0.0	0.0	0.7
33	Dave Dryden	38	G	14	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		741	52:54	0.0	0.0	1.2
34	Bob Dupuis	27	G	1	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		59	59:17	0.0	0.0	0.1
35	Mike Forbes	22	D	2	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			0.0	-0.1	-0.2
36	Jim Harrison	32	C	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
37	Poul Popiel	36	D	10	0	0	0	-5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0.0			-0.2	0.1	-0.1
38	Alex Tidey	25	RW	5	0	0	0	-3	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.2
39	Mike Toal	20	C	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
40	Ron Low	29	G	11	0			0	0				0	1			0		650	59:03	0.0	0.0	1.8
	Team Total			80	301	500	801	-59	1512	229	61	11	28	376	113	12	2269	13.3			39.3	27.2	76.6

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	Eddie Mio	26	34		9	13	5	120	907	787	.868	4.22	1	1706				113	-13.4	3.69	2.9
2	Ron Low	29	11		8	2	1	37	359	322	.897	3.42	0	650				88	5.2	2.96	1.8
3	Jim Corsi	25	26		8	14	3	83	659	576	.874	3.66	0	1360				107	-5.6	3.18	3.3
4	Dave Dryden	38	14		2	7	3	53	351	298	.849	4.29	0	741				129	-11.8	3.73	1.2
5	Don Cutts	26	6		1	2	1	16	142	126	.887	3.57	0	269						3.13	0.7
6	Bob Dupuis	27	1		0	1	0	4	35	31	.886	4.05	0	59						3.04	0.1
	Team Total				28	39	13	313	2453	2140	.872	3.93	1	4785				109	-24.8	3.41	10.0