1978 - 79 Season Review

1978 - 79 Season Review

1978 - 79 Season

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1978 - 79 Regular Season

Team	Games	Wins	Loses	Ties	Points	Goals For	Goals Against
	80	39	35	6	84	307	306

Finished third (3rd) in the league

1978 - 79 Playoffs

Team	Games	Wins	Loses	Ties	Goals For	Goals Against
	10	8	2	0	51	38

1978 - 79 Scoring

Name	Position	Games	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	PPA	SHG
Kent Nilsson	C	78	39	68	107	8	1	8	0	0
Morris Lukowich	L	80	65	34	99	119	26	16	0	0
Peter Sullivan	C	80	46	40	86	24	-6	9	0	2
Terry Ruskowski	C	75	20	66	86	211	13	6	0	1
Willy Lindstrom	R	79	26	36	62	22	7	11	0	0
Rich Preston	R	80	28	32	60	88	-5	6	0	1
Barry Long	D	80	5	36	41	42	-2	0	0	0
Lyle Moffat	L	70	14	18	32	38	-14	0	0	1
Bill Lesuk	L	79	17	15	32	44	-14	0	0	0
Bobby Guindon	L	71	8	18	26	21	-12	0	0	0
Paul Terbenche	D	68	3	22	25	12	-1	0	0	0
John Gray	R	57	10	15	25	51	-7	6	0	0
Mike Amodeo	D	64	4	18	22	29	-1	0	0	0
Scott Campbell	D	74	3	15	18	248	5	0	0	0
Paul MacKinnon	D	73	2	15	17	70	-3	0	0	0
Glenn Hicks	L	69	6	10	16	48	-2	0	0	0
Roland Eriksson	C	33	5	10	15	2	-5	3	0	0
Steve West	C	18	3	11	14	6	6	1	0	0
Kim Clackson	D	71	0	12	12	210	-6	0	0	0
Bobby Hull	L	4	2	3	5	0	1	1	0	0
Bill Davis	D	5	1	2	3	0	-2	0	0	0
Lars-Erik Sjoberg	D	9	0	3	3	2	-1	0	0	0
Gary Smith	G	11	0	3	3	2	0	0	0	0
Ted Green	D	20	0	2	2	16	-7	0	0	0
Markus Mattsson	G	52	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	0
John Gibson	L	9	0	1	1	5	1	0	0	0
Joe Daley	G	23	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
Rich Gosselin	C	3	0	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0
Dale Yakiwchuk	L	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0

1978 - 79 Goaltending

Name	Games	Min	W	L	T	GA	Empty Net	SH
Joe Daley	23	1256	7	11	3	90	0	0
Markus Mattsson	52	2990	25	21	3	181	3	0
Gary Smith	11	626	7	3	0	31	1	0

1978 - 79 Playoff Scoring

Name	Position	Games	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	PPA	SHG
Kent Nilsson	C	10	3	11	14	4	-1	0	0	0
Morris Lukowich	L	10	8	7	15	21	9	0	0	0
Peter Sullivan	C	10	5	9	14	2	2	0	0	0
Terry Ruskowski	C	8	1	12	13	23	10	0	0	0
Willy Lindstrom	R	10	10	5	15	9	7	0	0	0
Rich Preston	R	10	8	5	13	15	3	0	0	0
Barry Long	D	10	2	3	5	0	0	0	0	0
Lyle Moffat	L	10	3	1	4	22	0	0	0	0
Bill Lesuk	L	10	1	3	4	6	0	0	0	0
Bobby Guindon	L	7	2	1	3	0	2	0	0	0
Paul Terbenche	D	10	1	1	2	4	2	0	0	0
John Gray	R	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Amodeo	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Campbell	D	10	0	2	2	25	3	0	0	0
Paul MacKinnon	D	10	2	5	7	4	3	0	0	0
Glenn Hicks	L	7	1	1	2	4	2	0	0	0
Roland Eriksson	C	10	1	4	5	0	-3	0	0	0
Steve West	C	6	2	3	5	2	4	0	0	0
Kim Clackson	D	9	0	5	5	28	7	0	0	0
Bobby Hull	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Davis	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lars-Erik Sjoberg	D	10	1	2	3	4	7	0	0	0
Gary Smith	G	10	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	0
Ted Green	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Markus Mattsson	G	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Gibson	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Daley	G	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Gosselin	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dale Yakiwchuk	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1978 - 79 Playoffs Goaltending

Name	Games	Min	W	L	T	GA	Empty Net	SH
Joe Daley	3	37	0	0	0	3	0	0
Markus Mattsson	0		0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Smith	10	563	8	2	0	35	0	0