1972-73 St. Louis Blues Roster and Statistics

Record: 32-34-12 (76 points), Finished 4th in NHL West Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Al Arbour (2-6-5), Jean-Guy Talbot (30-28-7)

Goals For: 233 (11th of 16), Goals Against: 251 (10th of 16)
SRS: -0.21 (11th of 16), SOS: 0.02 (6th of 16)

Playoffs:
Lost Quarter-Finals (4-1) to Chicago Black Hawks

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

78. Apr 1, STL (32-34) lost to BUF, 1-3

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
St. Louis Blues	78	32	34	12	76	.487	233	251	-0.21	0.02	2.99	3.22	37	251	14.74	51	272	81.25	6	1	2659	8.8	2335	.893		2
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%
St. Louis Blues
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	Summary
30	Jacques Caron	ca	G	32	6-2	185	-/L	3	April 21, 1940	8-14-5, 3.54 GAA
4	Paul Curtis	ca	D	25	6-0	185	L/-	3	September 29, 1947	1 G, 4 A, 5 P
9	Ab DeMarco	us	D	23	6-0	170	R/-	3	February 27, 1949	4 G, 9 A, 13 P
3	Andre Dupont	ca	D	23	6-0	200	L/-	2	July 27, 1949	1 G, 6 A, 7 P
2	Steve Durbano	ca	D	21	6-1	210	L/-	R	December 12, 1951	3 G, 18 A, 21 P
15	Jack Egers	ca	LW	24	6-1	175	L/-	3	January 28, 1949	24 G, 24 A, 48 P
6	Chris Evans	ca	LW	26	5-9	180	L/-	2	September 14, 1946	9 G, 12 A, 21 P
23	Jean Hamel	ca	D	20	5-11	195	L/-	R	June 6, 1952	2 G, 7 A, 9 P
20	Chuck Hamilton	ca	LW	34	5-11	175	L/-	1	January 18, 1939	0 G, 2 A, 2 P
12	Fran Huck	ca	C	27	5-7	165	L/-	2	December 4, 1945	16 G, 20 A, 36 P
3	Brent Hughes	ca	D	29	6-0	205	L/-	5	June 17, 1943	1 G, 1 A, 2 P
31	Bob Johnson	us	G	24	6-1	185	-/L	R	November 12, 1948	6-5-0, 2.67 GAA
16	Roger Lafreniere	ca	LW	30	6-0	190	L/-	1	July 24, 1942	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
19	Mike Lampman	ca	LW	22	6-2	195	L/-	R	April 20, 1950	2 G, 3 A, 5 P
25	Connie Madigan	ca	D	38	5-10	185	L/-	R	October 4, 1934	0 G, 3 A, 3 P
24	Bob McCord	ca	D	38	6-1	202	R/-	6	March 30, 1934	1 G, 13 A, 14 P
10-20	Wayne Merrick	ca	C	20	6-1	195	L/-	R	April 23, 1952	10 G, 11 A, 21 P
14	Mike Murphy	ca	RW	22	6-0	190	R/-	1	September 12, 1950	18 G, 27 A, 45 P
20	Joe Noris	us	C	21	6-0	185	R/-	1	October 26, 1951	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
22	Danny O'Shea	ca	C	27	6-1	190	L/-	4	June 15, 1945	12 G, 26 A, 38 P
21	Kevin O'Shea	ca	RW	25	6-2	205	R/-	2	May 28, 1947	3 G, 5 A, 8 P
4-12	Noel Picard	ca	D	34	6-1	185	R/-	6	December 25, 1938	1 G, 0 A, 1 P
8	Barclay Plager (C)	ca	D	31	5-11	175	L/-	5	March 26, 1941	8 G, 25 A, 33 P
5	Bob Plager	ca	D	29	5-11	195	L/-	8	March 11, 1943	2 G, 31 A, 33 P
16	Pierre Plante	ca	RW	21	6-1	190	R/-	1	May 14, 1951	12 G, 13 A, 25 P
17	Phil Roberto	ca	RW	24	6-1	190	R/-	3	January 1, 1949	20 G, 22 A, 42 P
11	Gary Sabourin	ca	RW	29	5-11	180	R/-	5	December 4, 1943	21 G, 27 A, 48 P
9	Frank St. Marseille	ca	C	33	5-11	180	R/-	5	December 14, 1939	7 G, 18 A, 25 P
1	Wayne Stephenson	ca	G	28	5-9	175	-/L	1	January 29, 1945	18-15-7, 3.04 GAA
18	Floyd Thomson	ca	LW	23	6-0	190	L/-	1	June 14, 1949	14 G, 20 A, 34 P
7	Garry Unger	ca	C	25	5-11	170	L/-	5	December 7, 1947	41 G, 39 A, 80 P

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	Garry Unger	25	C	78	41	39	80	7	119	27	13	1	5	28	11	0	342	12.0			6.7	1.4	8.0
2	Jack Egers	24	LW	78	24	24	48	1	26	20	4	0	4	17	7	0	240	10.0			2.6	1.2	3.8
3	Gary Sabourin	29	RW	76	21	27	48	-5	30	20	1	0	2	24	3	0	240	8.8			2.4	1.0	3.4
4	Mike Murphy	22	RW	64	18	27	45	13	48	15	3	0	3	23	3	1	182	9.9			2.4	1.3	3.8
5	Phil Roberto	24	RW	77	20	22	42	-12	99	18	2	0	5	19	2	1	275	7.3			1.8	0.8	2.5
6	Danny O'Shea	27	C	75	12	26	38	-5	30	10	0	2	2	23	1	2	110	10.9			0.9	0.9	1.8
7	Fran Huck	27	C	58	16	20	36	-1	20	14	2	0	2	17	3	0	82	19.5			1.8	0.8	2.6
8	Floyd Thomson	23	LW	75	14	20	34	-2	71	13	1	0	1	19	1	0	98	14.3			0.7	1.0	1.7
9	Barclay Plager	31	D	68	8	25	33	0	102	5	3	0	2	17	7	1	131	6.1			2.1	4.0	6.1
10	Bob Plager	29	D	77	2	31	33	-2	107	2	0	0	1	27	4	0	117	1.7			1.4	4.4	5.8
11	Pierre Plante	21	RW	49	12	13	25	8	56	12	0	0	1	12	1	0	90	13.3			0.9	1.0	1.9
12	Frank St. Marseille	33	C	45	7	18	25	-6	8	4	3	0	0	17	1	0	119	5.9			0.7	0.5	1.2
13	Wayne Merrick	20	C	50	10	11	21	-2	10	7	3	0	0	11	0	0	81	12.3			0.4	0.7	1.1
14	Chris Evans	26	LW	77	9	12	21	-3	31	7	0	2	3	7	3	2	138	6.5			-0.9	1.0	0.2
15	Steve Durbano	21	D	49	3	18	21	-3	231	3	0	0	0	10	8	0	83	3.6			1.1	2.7	3.7
16	Bob McCord	38	D	43	1	13	14	-5	33	1	0	0	0	13	0	0	41	2.4			0.4	2.2	2.6
17	Ab DeMarco	23	D	14	4	9	13	4	2	1	2	1	1	3	6	0	51	7.8			1.2	1.1	2.2
18	Jean Hamel	20	D	55	2	7	9	-5	24	2	0	0	0	7	0	0	56	3.6			-0.1	2.9	2.8
19	Kevin O'Shea	25	RW	37	3	5	8	-13	31	3	0	0	0	5	0	0	39	7.7			-0.7	0.1	-0.6
20	Andre Dupont	23	D	25	1	6	7	-2	51	1	0	0	0	4	2	0	38	2.6			0.2	1.3	1.5
21	Mike Lampman	22	LW	18	2	3	5	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	18	11.1			-0.2	0.4	0.2
22	Paul Curtis	25	D	29	1	4	5	2	6	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	37	2.7			-0.1	1.8	1.8
23	Connie Madigan	38	D	20	0	3	3	1	25	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	11	0.0			-0.1	1.2	1.1
24	Brent Hughes	29	D	8	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	16	6.3			0.1	0.5	0.6
25	Chuck Hamilton	34	LW	3	0	2	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	0.2	0.2
26	Noel Picard	34	D	16	1	0	1	-2	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	5.3			-0.1	0.8	0.7
27	Jacques Caron	32	G	30	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		1558	51:57	0.0	0.0	3.6
28	Bob Johnson	24	G	11	0	0	0	0	2				0	0			0		583	53:01	0.0	0.0	2.1
29	Roger Lafreniere	30	LW	10	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.4	0.1	-0.3
30	Joe Noris	21	C	2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
31	Wayne Stephenson	28	G	45	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		2530	56:13	0.0	0.0	7.7
	Team Total			78	233	386	619	-25	1176	190	37	6	32	313	66	7	2659	8.8			25.0	35.4	73.7

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	Wayne Stephenson	28	45		18	15	7	128	1247	1119	.897	3.04	1	2530				99	1.7	2.82	7.7
2	Jacques Caron	32	30		8	14	5	92	809	717	.886	3.54	1	1558				109	-7.8	3.31	3.6
3	Bob Johnson	24	11		6	5	0	26	274	248	.905	2.67	0	583						2.47	2.1
	Team Total				32	34	12	246	2330	2084	.894	3.16	2	4671				101	-3.6	2.94	13.3