1978-79 St. Louis Blues Roster and Statistics

Record: 18-50-12 (48 points), Finished 3rd in NHL Smythe Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Barclay Plager (18-50-12)

Goals For: 249 (14th of 17), Goals Against: 348 (17th of 17)
SRS: -1.29 (16th of 17), SOS: -0.05 (14th of 17)

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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
St. Louis Blues	80	18	50	12	48	.300	249	348	-1.29	-0.05	3.11	4.35	48	281	17.08	63	244	74.18	3	8	2131	11.7	2530	.862		1
League Average	80	33	33	13	80	.500	280	280					61	271	22.70	61	271	77.30	7	7	2351	11.9	2351	.881		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%
St. Louis Blues
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
4	Bruce Affleck	ca CA	D	24	6-0	205	L/-	4	May 5, 1954
10	Wayne Babych	ca CA	RW	20	5-11	191	R/-	R	June 6, 1958
19	Curt Bennett	ca CA	LW	30	6-3	195	L/-	8	March 27, 1948
18	Harvey Bennett	us US	C	26	6-4	215	L/-	4	August 9, 1952
12	Rick Bowness	ca CA	RW	24	6-1	185	R/-	3	January 25, 1955
16	Jack Brownschidle	us US	D	23	6-2	195	L/-	1	October 2, 1955
26	Mike Crombeen	ca CA	C	21	5-11	190	R/-	1	April 16, 1957
15	Tony Currie	ca CA	RW	21	5-11	166	R/-	1	November 12, 1957
8	Steve Durbano	ca CA	D	27	6-1	210	L/-	5	December 12, 1951
14	Bill Fairbairn	ca CA	LW	32	5-10	170	R/-	10	January 7, 1947
24	Bernie Federko	ca CA	C	22	6-0	178	L/-	2	May 12, 1956
22	Barry Gibbs (C)	ca CA	D	30	5-11	195	R/-	11	September 28, 1948
5	Larry Giroux	ca CA	D	27	6-0	190	R/-	5	August 28, 1951
30	Doug Grant	ca CA	G	30	6-1	200	-/L	5	July 27, 1948
17	Inge Hammarström	se SE	LW	31	6-0	180	L/-	5	January 20, 1948
23	Bob Hess	ca CA	D	23	5-11	180	L/-	4	May 19, 1955
20	Neil Komadoski	ca CA	D	27	6-2	200	L/-	6	November 5, 1951
9	Neil Labatte	ca CA	D	21	6-2	178	L/-	R	April 24, 1957
4	Dick Lamby	us US	D	23	6-1	200	R/-	R	May 3, 1955
28	Jamie Masters	ca CA	D	23	6-1	190	R/-	2	April 14, 1955
29	Gord McTavish	ca CA	C	24	6-4	200	R/-	R	June 3, 1954
25	Bob Murdoch	ca CA	RW	25	5-11	191	R/-	3	January 29, 1954
1	Phil Myre	ca CA	G	30	6-1	185	-/L	9	November 1, 1948
35	Brian Ogilvie	ca CA	C	27	5-11	186	R/-	5	January 30, 1952
19-27	Doug Palazzari	us US	C	26	5-5	170	L/-	3	November 3, 1952
6	Larry Patey	ca CA	C	25	6-1	185	L/-	5	March 19, 1953
36	Ken Richardson	ca CA	C	27	6-0	190	L/-	2	April 12, 1951
40	Terry Richardson	ca CA	G	25	6-1	190	-/R	4	May 7, 1953
16	Rod Seiling	ca CA	D	34	6-0	195	L/-	16	November 14, 1944
14	Rick Shinske	ca CA	RW	23	5-11	165	L/-	2	May 31, 1955
27-33	John Smrke	ca CA	LW	22	5-11	205	L/-	1	February 25, 1956
31	Ed Staniowski	ca CA	G	23	5-9	170	-/L	3	July 7, 1955
2	Bob Stewart	ca CA	D	28	6-1	206	L/-	7	November 10, 1950
11	Brian Sutter	ca CA	LW	22	5-11	173	L/-	2	October 7, 1956
7	Garry Unger	ca CA	C	31	5-11	170	L/-	11	December 7, 1947
9	Mike Walton	ca CA	C	34	5-10	175	L/-	11	January 3, 1945
21	Mike Zuke	ca CA	C	24	6-0	180	R/-	R	April 16, 1954

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	Bernie Federko*	22	C	74	31	64	95	-15	14	24	7	0	1	40	24	0	156	19.9			6.6	0.8	7.4
2	Brian Sutter	22	LW	77	41	39	80	-2	165	29	12	0	3	31	8	0	177	23.2			6.1	1.2	7.3
3	Wayne Babych	20	RW	67	27	36	63	-9	75	16	11	0	0	28	8	0	196	13.8			4.1	0.8	5.0
4	Garry Unger	31	C	80	30	26	56	-45	44	27	3	0	3	19	7	0	182	16.5			3.3	0.0	3.3
5	Larry Patey	25	C	78	15	19	34	-25	60	13	0	2	2	17	1	1	125	12.0			0.5	0.5	1.1
6	Inge Hammarström	31	LW	65	12	22	34	-16	8	12	0	0	1	20	2	0	129	9.3			0.9	0.6	1.5
7	Jack Brownschidle	23	D	64	10	24	34	-19	14	5	5	0	1	13	11	0	101	9.9			2.0	2.2	4.2
8	Curt Bennett	30	LW	74	14	19	33	-20	62	13	1	0	1	19	0	0	141	9.9			0.6	0.6	1.2
9	Barry Gibbs	30	D	76	2	27	29	-41	46	2	0	0	0	25	2	0	84	2.4			0.7	1.6	2.3
10	Larry Giroux	27	D	73	5	22	27	-27	111	5	0	0	1	21	1	0	107	4.7			0.9	2.2	3.1
11	Bob Murdoch	25	RW	54	13	13	26	-6	17	12	1	0	3	10	3	0	92	14.1			0.8	0.7	1.5
12	Mike Zuke	24	C	34	9	17	26	-10	18	6	3	0	0	10	7	0	80	11.3			1.3	0.3	1.5
13	Tony Currie	21	RW	36	4	15	19	-9	0	3	1	0	2	14	1	0	57	7.0			0.3	0.3	0.6
14	Mike Walton	34	C	22	7	11	18	-13	6	4	3	0	0	6	5	0	41	17.1			1.0	0.0	1.0
15	Bob Stewart	28	D	78	5	13	18	-27	47	4	1	0	0	13	0	0	57	8.8			0.1	2.5	2.5
16	John Smrke	22	LW	55	6	8	14	-24	20	5	0	1	0	7	0	1	72	8.3			-0.7	0.2	-0.5
17	Harvey Bennett	26	C	52	3	9	12	-18	63	3	0	0	0	9	0	0	44	6.8			-1.0	0.3	-0.7
18	Mike Crombeen	21	C	37	3	8	11	-14	34	3	0	0	0	8	0	0	51	5.9			-0.4	0.2	-0.3
19	Bob Hess	23	D	27	3	4	7	-20	14	3	0	0	0	1	3	0	44	6.8			0.2	0.2	0.4
20	Brian Ogilvie	27	C	14	1	5	6	-3	7	1	0	0	0	4	1	0	21	4.8			0.0	0.1	0.1
21	Jamie Masters	23	D	10	0	6	6	-6	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	10	0.0			0.2	0.2	0.4
22	Doug Palazzari	26	C	20	2	3	5	-5	4	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	16	12.5			-0.3	0.2	-0.1
23	Bruce Affleck	24	D	26	1	3	4	-13	12	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	34	2.9			-0.2	0.6	0.4
24	Rick Bowness	24	RW	24	1	3	4	-17	30	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	18	5.6			-0.6	-0.1	-0.7
25	Dick Lamby	23	D	9	0	4	4	5	12	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	11	0.0			0.1	0.8	0.9
26	Rick Shinske	23	RW	11	0	4	4	-3	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	7	0.0			-0.1	0.1	-0.1
27	Neil Komadoski	27	D	42	1	2	3	-1	30	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	28	3.6			-0.6	2.1	1.5
28	Steve Durbano	27	D	13	1	1	2	-7	103	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	18	5.6			-0.1	0.3	0.2
29	Ken Richardson	27	C	16	1	1	2	-5	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	16.7			-0.4	0.1	-0.3
30	Neil Labatte	21	D	22	0	2	2	-1	13	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	14	0.0			-0.3	1.1	0.8
31	Bill Fairbairn	32	LW	5	1	0	1	-2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	12.5			-0.1	0.0	0.0
32	Rod Seiling	34	D	3	0	1	1	-1	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0.0			0.0	0.1	0.1
33	Ed Staniowski	23	G	39	0	1	1	0	2				0	1			0		2286	58:36	0.0	0.0	5.1
34	Doug Grant	30	G	4	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		190	47:25	0.0	0.0	-0.5
35	Gord McTavish	24	C	1	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.0	-0.1
36	Phil Myre	30	G	39	0	0	0	0	6				0	0			0		2255	57:50	0.0	0.0	3.5
37	Terry Richardson	25	G	1	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		60	60:00	0.0	0.0	-0.3
	Team Total			80	249	432	681	-421	1045	198	48	3	18	342	88	2	2131	11.7			24.7	20.8	53.3

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	Phil Myre	30	39		9	22	8	163	1201	1038	.864	4.34	1	2255				116	-22.0	3.80	3.5
2	Ed Staniowski	23	39		9	25	3	146	1164	1018	.875	3.83	0	2286				107	-9.3	3.36	5.1
3	Terry Richardson	25	1		0	1	0	9	36	27	.750	9.00	0	60						8.00	-0.3
4	Doug Grant	30	4		0	2	1	23	122	99	.811	7.28	0	190						6.33	-0.5
	Team Total				18	50	12	341	2523	2182	.865	4.27	1	4791				115	-44.7	3.74	7.8