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	48	30	2	98	340	266

Finished first (1st) in the league

1978 - 79 Playoffs

Team	Games	Wins	Loses	Ties	Goals For	Goals Against
	13	6	7	0	61	50

1978 - 79 Scoring

Name	Position	Games	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	PPA	SHG
Wayne Gretzky	C	72	43	61	104	19	23	9	0	0
Blair MacDonald	R	80	34	37	71	44	35	3	0	4
Brett Callighen	L	71	31	39	70	79	29	12	0	0
Ron Chipperfield	C	55	32	37	69	47	25	6	0	0
Bill Flett	R	73	28	36	64	14	26	9	0	0
Dennis Sobchuk	C	74	26	37	63	31	24	6	0	1
Stan Weir	C	68	31	30	61	20	24	3	0	0
Paul Shmyr	D	80	8	39	47	119	37	0	0	0
Joe Micheletti	D	72	14	33	47	85	10	3	0	0
Al Hamilton	D	80	6	38	44	38	22	2	0	0
Steve Carlson	C	73	18	22	40	50	15	4	0	3
Peter Driscoll	L	69	17	23	40	115	16	3	0	0
Dave Hunter	L	72	7	25	32	134	7	0	0	0
Claire Alexander	D	54	8	23	31	16	-5	2	0	1
Dave Langevin	D	77	6	21	27	76	33	3	0	0
Dave Semenko	R	77	10	14	24	158	-12	2	0	0
John Hughes	D	41	2	15	17	82	22	0	0	0
Garnet Bailey	L	38	5	4	9	22	-8	1	0	0
Doug Berry	C	29	6	3	9	4	-9	1	0	0
Dave Dryden	G	63	0	8	8	0	0	0	0	0
Risto Siltanen	D	20	3	4	7	4	4	0	0	0
Bill Goldsworthy	C	17	4	2	6	14	-3	0	0	0
Jim Neilson	D	35	0	5	5	18	5	0	0	0
Pierre Guite	C	12	1	1	2	8	-5	1	0	0
Eddie Mio	G	22	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
Cal Sandbeck	D	6	0	0	0	2	-2	0	0	0
Wes George	L	3	0	0	0	11	1	0	0	0
Jim Mayer	D	2	0	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0
Hannu Kamppuri	G	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rudy Tajcnar	D	2	0	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0
Ed Walsh	G	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1978 - 79 Goaltending

Name	Games	Min	W	L	T	GA	Empty Net	SH
Dave Dryden	63	3531	41	17	2	170	4	3
Hannu Kamppuri	2	90	0	1	0	10	0	0
Eddie Mio	22	1068	7	10	0	71	2	1
Ed Walsh	3	144	0	2	0	9	0	0

1978 - 79 Playoff Scoring

Name	Position	Games	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	PPA	SHG
Wayne Gretzky	C	13	10	10	20	2	6	0	0	0
Blair MacDonald	R	13	8	10	18	6	1	0	0	0
Brett Callighen	L	13	5	10	15	15	5	0	0	0
Ron Chipperfield	C	13	9	10	19	8	1	0	0	0
Bill Flett	R	10	5	2	7	2	3	0	0	0
Dennis Sobchuk	C	12	6	6	12	4	-4	0	0	0
Stan Weir	C	13	2	5	7	2	-4	0	0	0
Paul Shmyr	D	13	1	5	6	23	-3	0	0	0
Joe Micheletti	D	13	0	9	9	2	4	0	0	0
Al Hamilton	D	13	4	5	9	4	1	0	0	0
Steve Carlson	C	11	1	1	2	12	-5	0	0	0
Peter Driscoll	L	13	1	6	7	8	4	0	0	0
Dave Hunter	L	13	2	3	5	42	-2	0	0	0
Claire Alexander	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Langevin	D	13	0	1	1	25	-4	0	0	0
Dave Semenko	R	11	4	2	6	29	3	0	0	0
John Hughes	D	13	1	0	1	35	4	0	0	0
Garnet Bailey	L	2	0	0	0	4	-1	0	0	0
Doug Berry	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Dryden	G	13	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Risto Siltanen	D	11	0	9	9	4	6	0	0	0
Bill Goldsworthy	C	4	1	1	2	11	4	0	0	0
Jim Neilson	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pierre Guite	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mio	G	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cal Sandbeck	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wes George	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Mayer	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hannu Kamppuri	G	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rudy Tajcnar	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Walsh	G	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson	R	2	1	2	3	0	2	0	0	0

1978 - 79 Playoffs Goaltending

Name	Games	Min	W	L	T	GA	Empty Net	SH
Dave Dryden	13	687	6	7	0	42	1	0
Hannu Kamppuri	0		0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mio	3	90	0	0	0	6	1	0
Ed Walsh	0		0	0	0	0	0	0