1978-79 Vancouver Canucks Roster and Statistics

Record: 25-42-13 (63 points), Finished 2nd in NHL Smythe Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Harry Neale (25-42-13)

Goals For: 217 (16th of 17), Goals Against: 291 (12th of 17)
SRS: -1.05 (15th of 17), SOS: -0.12 (15th of 17)

Playoffs:
Lost Preliminary Round (2-1) to Philadelphia Flyers

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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
Vancouver Canucks	80	25	42	13	63	.394	217	291	-1.05	-0.12	2.71	3.64	56	295	18.98	48	248	80.65	1	9	2168	10.0	2465	.882		5
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%
Vancouver Canucks
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
8-10	Rick Blight	ca CA	RW	23	6-2	195	R/-	3	October 17, 1955
30	Gary Bromley	ca CA	G	29	5-10	160	-/L	3	January 19, 1950
10-20	Drew Callander	ca CA	C	22	6-2	185	R/-	2	August 17, 1956
20	Bill Derlago	ca CA	C	20	5-10	194	L/-	R	August 25, 1958
19	Roland Eriksson	se SE	C	24	6-3	190	L/-	2	March 1, 1954
18-28	Rob Flockhart	ca CA	RW	22	6-0	185	L/-	2	February 6, 1956
24	Curt Fraser	us US	LW	21	6-1	200	L/-	R	January 12, 1958
16	Brad Gassoff	ca CA	LW	23	5-11	195	L/-	3	November 13, 1955
21	Jere Gillis	us US	LW	22	6-0	194	L/-	1	January 18, 1957
5	Larry Goodenough	ca CA	D	26	6-0	195	R/-	4	January 19, 1953
23	Thomas Gradin	se SE	C	22	5-11	176	L/-	R	February 18, 1956
15	Hilliard Graves	ca CA	LW	28	5-11	175	R/-	7	October 18, 1950
18	John Grisdale	ca CA	D	30	6-0	195	R/-	5	August 23, 1948
1	Glen Hanlon	ca CA	G	21	6-0	185	-/R	1	February 20, 1957
4	Randy Holt	ca CA	D	26	5-11	185	R/-	4	January 15, 1953
6	Dennis Kearns	ca CA	D	33	5-9	185	L/-	7	September 27, 1945
26	Don Kozak	ca CA	RW	26	5-11	190	R/-	6	February 2, 1952
9	Don Lever (C)	ca CA	LW	26	5-11	185	L/-	6	November 14, 1952
3-13	Lars Lindgren	se SE	D	26	6-1	200	L/-	R	October 12, 1952
22	Bob Manno	ca CA	D	22	6-0	185	L/-	2	October 31, 1956
7	Pit Martin	ca CA	RW	35	5-9	170	R/-	16	December 9, 1943
25	Kevin McCarthy	ca CA	D	21	5-11	195	R/-	1	July 14, 1957
29	Jack McIlhargey	ca CA	D	26	6-0	190	L/-	4	March 7, 1952
14	Chris Oddleifson	ca CA	C	28	6-2	185	R/-	6	September 7, 1950
17	Ron Sedlbauer	ca CA	LW	24	6-3	195	L/-	4	October 22, 1954
5-18	Brad Smith	ca CA	RW	20	6-1	195	R/-	R	April 13, 1958
12	Stan Smyl	ca CA	RW	21	5-8	185	R/-	R	January 28, 1958
27	Harold Snepsts	ca CA	D	24	6-3	210	L/-	4	October 24, 1954
19-25	Rob Tudor	ca CA	RW	22	5-11	188	R/-	R	June 30, 1956
10	Dennis Ververgaert	ca CA	RW	25	6-0	185	R/-	5	March 30, 1953
31	Dunc Wilson	ca CA	G	30	5-11	175	-/-	9	March 22, 1948
2	Lars Zetterström	se SE	D	25	6-1	198	L/-	R	November 6, 1953

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	Ron Sedlbauer	24	LW	79	40	16	56	-35	26	25	15	0	5	13	3	0	225	17.8			4.3	0.6	5.0
2	Thomas Gradin	22	C	76	20	31	51	-12	22	16	4	0	4	22	9	0	105	19.0			2.5	1.2	3.7
3	Don Lever	26	LW	71	23	21	44	-43	17	15	8	0	2	13	8	0	170	13.5			2.4	0.2	2.6
4	Stan Smyl	21	RW	62	14	24	38	-6	89	10	4	0	0	17	7	0	122	11.5			1.6	1.1	2.7
5	Chris Oddleifson	28	C	67	11	26	37	-16	51	7	4	0	1	22	3	1	83	13.3			1.0	0.9	2.0
6	Curt Fraser	21	LW	78	16	18	34	-6	116	14	2	0	2	15	3	0	184	8.7			0.8	1.4	2.3
7	Dennis Kearns	33	D	78	3	31	34	-23	28	3	0	0	0	18	13	0	102	2.9			1.2	4.3	5.5
8	Harold Snepsts	24	D	76	7	24	31	-27	130	3	4	0	0	14	10	0	115	6.1			1.3	3.9	5.3
9	Pit Martin	35	RW	64	12	14	26	-3	24	11	1	0	1	10	4	0	80	15.0			0.4	1.2	1.6
10	Hilliard Graves	28	LW	62	11	15	26	-15	14	9	2	0	2	11	4	0	112	9.8			0.4	0.8	1.2
11	Dennis Ververgaert	25	RW	35	9	17	26	2	13	6	2	1	3	13	4	0	57	15.8			1.3	0.8	2.1
12	Jere Gillis	22	LW	78	13	12	25	-31	33	9	4	0	3	10	2	0	143	9.1			-0.2	0.7	0.5
13	Bob Manno	22	D	52	5	17	22	-16	42	5	0	0	1	10	7	0	71	7.0			0.9	2.8	3.8
14	Lars Lindgren	26	D	64	2	19	21	-31	68	1	1	0	0	9	10	0	109	1.8			0.4	2.8	3.2
15	Rick Blight	23	RW	56	5	10	15	-28	16	4	1	0	1	7	3	0	91	5.5			-0.7	0.3	-0.4
16	Roland Eriksson	24	C	35	2	12	14	-12	4	2	0	0	0	8	4	0	69	2.9			-0.2	0.4	0.2
17	Larry Goodenough	26	D	36	4	9	13	-14	18	2	2	0	0	3	6	0	75	5.3			0.6	1.8	2.3
18	Brad Gassoff	23	LW	34	4	7	11	-11	53	4	0	0	0	7	0	0	44	9.1			-0.2	0.4	0.2
19	Bill Derlago	20	C	9	4	4	8	-2	2	3	1	0	0	2	2	0	28	14.3			0.6	0.1	0.7
20	Rob Tudor	22	RW	24	4	4	8	0	19	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	51	7.8			0.0	0.5	0.5
21	Don Kozak	26	RW	28	2	5	7	-15	30	1	1	0	0	5	0	0	29	6.9			-0.4	0.1	-0.3
22	Jack McIlhargey	26	D	53	2	4	6	-16	129	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	26	7.7			-0.5	2.9	2.4
23	Randy Holt	26	D	22	1	3	4	-1	80	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	17	5.9			-0.1	1.5	1.4
24	John Grisdale	30	D	41	0	3	3	-25	54	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	19	0.0			-0.7	1.5	0.9
25	Drew Callander	22	C	17	2	0	2	-9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	10.5			-0.4	0.1	-0.3
26	Rob Flockhart	22	RW	14	1	1	2	-3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	10.0			-0.3	0.2	-0.1
27	Gary Bromley	29	G	38	0	1	1	0	6				0	1			0		2141	56:21	0.0	0.0	4.8
28	Glen Hanlon	21	G	31	0	1	1	0	28				0	1			0		1819	58:42	0.0	0.0	5.9
29	Dunc Wilson	30	G	17	0	1	1	0	0				0	1			0		834	49:02	0.0	0.0	1.5
30	Lars Zetterström	25	D	14	0	1	1	-10	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	12	0.0			-0.2	0.4	0.2
31	Kevin McCarthy	21	D	1	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	-0.1
32	Brad Smith	20	RW	2	0	0	0	-3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
	Team Total			80	217	351	568	-413	1118	160	56	1	25	248	102	1	2168	10.0			15.7	33.2	61.0

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	Glen Hanlon	21	31		12	13	5	94	921	827	.898	3.10	3	1819				87	14.2	2.70	5.9
2	Gary Bromley	29	38		11	19	6	136	1073	937	.873	3.81	2	2141				108	-10.0	3.33	4.8
3	Dunc Wilson	30	17		2	10	2	58	468	410	.876	4.17	0	834				106	-3.0	3.67	1.5
	Team Total				25	42	13	288	2462	2174	.883	3.60	5	4794				100	1.1	3.15	12.1