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1972-73 Pittsburgh Penguins Roster and Statistics

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Record: 32-37-9 (73 points), Finished 5th in NHL West Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Red Kelly (17-19-6), Ken Schinkel (15-18-3)

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Primary Arena: Pittsburgh Civic Arena

Goals For: 257 (7th of 16), Goals Against: 265 (12th of 16)
SRS: -0.11 (9th of 16), SOS: -0.01 (8th of 16)

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Recent Game Results

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78. Apr 1, PIT (32-37) beat PHI, 5-4

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
Pittsburgh Penguins	78	32	37	9	73	.468	257	265	-0.11	-0.01	3.29	3.40	52	301	17.28	48	264	81.82	10	7	2501	10.3	2525	.895		5
League Average	78	34	34	11	78	.500	256	256					49	261	18.73	49	261	81.27	6	6	2426	10.5	2426	.895		5

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%
Pittsburgh Penguins
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
26	Syl Apps	ca	C	25	6-0	185	R/-	2	August 1, 1947
29-30	Andy Brown	ca	G	28	6-0	185	-/L	1	February 15, 1944
10	Robin Burns	ca	LW	26	6-0	195	L/-	2	August 27, 1946
4	Dave Burrows	ca	D	24	6-1	190	L/-	1	January 11, 1949
20	Steve Cardwell	ca	LW	22	5-11	190	L/-	2	August 13, 1950
25	Darryl Edestrand	ca	D	27	5-11	180	L/-	3	November 6, 1945
11	Nick Harbaruk	pl	RW	29	6-0	195	R/-	3	August 16, 1943
1	Denis Herron	ca	G	20	5-11	165	-/L	R	June 18, 1952
7	Bryan Hextall	ca	C	31	5-11	185	L/-	4	May 23, 1941
6	Sheldon Kannegiesser	ca	D	25	6-0	198	L/-	2	August 15, 1947
14-15	Rick Kessell	ca	C	23	5-10	175	L/-	3	July 27, 1949
24	Jean-Guy Lagace	ca	D	27	5-10	185	R/-	2	February 5, 1945
16	Ron Lalonde	ca	C	20	5-10	170	L/-	R	October 30, 1952
3	Jack Lynch	ca	D	20	6-2	180	R/-	R	May 28, 1952
18	Lowell MacDonald	ca	LW	31	5-11	185	R/-	7	August 30, 1941
9	Al McDonough	ca	RW	22	6-1	175	R/-	2	June 6, 1950
1-30	Cam Newton	ca	G	22	5-11	170	-/L	1	February 25, 1950
22	Greg Polis	ca	LW	22	6-0	195	L/-	2	August 8, 1950
19	Jean Pronovost	ca	RW	27	6-0	185	R/-	4	December 18, 1945
2	Duane Rupp	ca	D	34	6-1	195	L/-	9	March 29, 1938
29	Jim Rutherford	ca	G	23	5-8	168	-/L	2	February 17, 1949
12	Ken Schinkel	ca	RW	40	5-10	172	R/-	11	November 27, 1932
17	Ron Schock	ca	C	29	5-11	180	L/-	9	December 19, 1943
23	Eddie Shack	ca	LW	35	6-1	200	L/-	14	February 11, 1937
27	Jim Shires	ca	LW	27	6-0	180	L/-	2	November 15, 1945
5	Bryan Watson	ca	D	30	5-9	175	R/-	9	November 14, 1942
8	Jim Wiley	ca	C	22	6-2	200	L/-	R	April 28, 1950

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	Syl Apps	25	C	77	29	56	85	25	18	21	6	2	4	46	10	0	186	15.6			6.2	2.0	8.1
2	Al McDonough	22	RW	78	35	41	76	20	26	28	7	0	4	26	15	0	285	12.3			5.9	1.8	7.7
3	Lowell MacDonald	31	LW	78	34	41	75	36	8	28	6	0	3	35	5	1	244	13.9			5.7	2.3	8.0
4	Bryan Hextall	31	C	78	21	33	54	-24	113	15	6	0	3	24	9	0	169	12.4			2.9	0.4	3.3
5	Greg Polis	22	LW	78	26	23	49	-34	36	18	8	0	2	16	7	0	221	11.8			2.9	0.1	3.0
6	Ron Schock	29	C	78	13	36	49	-12	23	8	2	3	1	27	5	4	143	9.1			1.8	0.8	2.6
7	Eddie Shack	35	LW	74	25	20	45	-9	84	17	8	0	3	13	7	0	192	13.0			2.6	0.9	3.5
8	Jean Pronovost	27	RW	66	21	22	43	-14	16	18	2	1	5	16	6	0	192	10.9			2.5	0.6	3.0
9	Darryl Edestrand	27	D	78	15	24	39	4	88	10	4	1	2	20	4	0	155	9.7			3.0	4.6	7.6
10	Dave Burrows	24	D	78	3	24	27	-5	42	3	0	0	0	21	2	1	132	2.3			1.0	4.0	5.0
11	Nick Harbaruk	29	RW	78	10	15	25	-11	47	8	0	2	1	12	1	2	96	10.4			-0.5	0.9	0.4
12	Ken Schinkel	40	RW	42	11	10	21	-10	16	10	1	0	2	8	2	0	79	13.9			0.8	0.3	1.2
13	Duane Rupp	34	D	78	7	13	20	-4	62	4	2	1	2	10	2	1	132	5.3			0.8	4.1	4.9
14	Jack Lynch	20	D	47	1	18	19	-19	40	1	0	0	0	7	11	0	78	1.3			0.8	1.4	2.2
15	Bryan Watson	30	D	69	1	17	18	18	179	1	0	0	0	16	0	1	47	2.1			0.3	4.9	5.2
16	Rick Kessell	23	C	67	1	13	14	-9	0	1	0	0	0	11	2	0	35	2.9			-1.7	0.7	-0.9
17	Jean-Guy Lagace	27	D	31	1	5	6	-8	32	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	33	3.0			0.0	1.2	1.2
18	Steve Cardwell	22	LW	20	2	2	4	-2	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	21	9.5			-0.4	0.2	-0.1
19	Jim Shires	27	LW	18	1	2	3	-8	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	22	4.5			-0.5	0.0	-0.4
20	Robin Burns	26	LW	26	0	2	2	-6	20	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	26	0.0			-1.0	0.2	-0.8
21	Denis Herron	20	G	18	0	1	1	0	0				0	1			0		966	53:41	0.0	0.0	2.4
22	Cam Newton	22	G	11	0	1	1	0	2				0	1			0		532	48:20	0.0	0.0	0.9
23	Jim Wiley	22	C	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	0.0			-0.1	0.1	0.0
24	Sheldon Kannegiesser	25	D	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0			-0.1	0.1	0.0
25	Ron Lalonde	20	C	9	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.4	0.1	-0.3
26	Jim Rutherford*	23	G	49	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		2655	54:10	0.0	0.0	8.5
27	Andy Brown	28	G	9	0			0	2				0	0			0		520	57:45	0.0	0.0	0.3
	Team Total			78	257	420	677	-72	860	195	52	10	32	322	88	10	2501	10.3			32.6	31.9	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	Jim Rutherford*	23	49		20	22	5	129	1460	1331	.912	2.92	3	2655				85	22.9	2.69	8.5
2	Denis Herron	20	18		6	7	2	55	454	399	.879	3.41	2	966				116	-7.8	3.17	2.4
3	Andy Brown	28	9		3	4	2	41	310	269	.868	4.73	0	520						4.39	0.3
4	Cam Newton	22	11		3	4	0	35	296	261	.882	3.95	0	532						3.72	0.9
	Team Total				32	37	9	260	2520	2260	.897	3.34	5	4673				99	2.2	3.09	12.1