1977-78 New York Rangers Roster and Statistics

Record: 30-37-13 (73 points), Finished 4th in NHL Patrick Division (Schedule and Results)

Primary Arena: Madison Square Garden (IV)

Goals For: 279 (6th of 18), Goals Against: 280 (11th of 18)
SRS: 0.02 (9th of 18), SOS: 0.04 (4th of 18)

Playoffs:
Lost Preliminary Round (2-1) to Buffalo Sabres

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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
New York Rangers	80	30	37	13	73	.456	279	280	0.02	0.04	3.49	3.50	78	279	27.96	48	244	80.33	10	6	2251	12.4	2510	.888		5
League Average	80	33	33	15	80	.500	264	264					54	255	21.12	54	255	78.88	6	6	2343	11.3	2343	.887		4

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%
New York Rangers
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
31	Hardy Åström	se SE	G	26	6-0	170	-/L	R	March 29, 1951
6	Don Awrey	ca CA	D	34	6-0	175	L/-	14	July 18, 1943
15	Jerry Byers	ca CA	LW	25	5-11	170	L/-	3	March 29, 1952
00	John Davidson	ca CA	G	24	6-3	205	-/L	4	February 27, 1953
23	Lucien DeBlois	ca CA	RW	20	5-11	200	R/-	R	June 21, 1957
9	Wayne Dillon	ca CA	C	22	6-0	185	L/-	2	May 25, 1955
10	Ron Duguay	ca CA	C	20	6-2	200	R/-	R	July 6, 1957
77	Phil Esposito (C)	ca CA	C	35	6-1	205	L/-	14	February 20, 1942
3	Dave Farrish	ca CA	D	21	6-1	195	L/-	1	August 1, 1956
22	Nick Fotiu	us US	LW	25	6-2	210	L/-	1	May 25, 1952
7	Rod Gilbert	ca CA	RW	36	5-9	180	R/-	17	July 1, 1941
12	Bill Goldsworthy	ca CA	RW	33	6-0	190	R/-	13	August 24, 1944
11	Benoit Gosselin	ca CA	LW	20	5-11	190	L/-	R	July 19, 1957
4	Ron Greschner	ca CA	D	23	6-2	205	L/-	3	December 22, 1954
19	Mark Heaslip	us US	RW	26	5-10	190	R/-	1	December 26, 1951
28	Greg Hickey	ca CA	LW	22	5-10	160	L/-	R	March 8, 1955
16	Pat Hickey	ca CA	LW	24	6-1	190	L/-	2	May 15, 1953
88	Ken Hodge	gb GB	RW	33	6-2	210	R/-	13	June 25, 1944
17	Greg Holst	ca CA	C	23	5-10	170	L/-	2	February 21, 1954
17	Eddie Johnstone	ca CA	RW	23	5-9	175	R/-	1	March 2, 1954
21	Mike Keating	ca CA	LW	21	6-0	185	L/-	R	January 21, 1957
26	Dave Maloney	ca CA	D	21	6-1	195	L/-	3	July 31, 1956
25	Mario Marois	ca CA	D	20	5-11	190	R/-	R	December 15, 1957
27	Mike McEwen	ca CA	D	21	6-1	185	L/-	1	August 10, 1956
14	Don Murdoch	ca CA	RW	21	5-11	180	R/-	1	October 25, 1956
24	Dan Newman	ca CA	LW	26	6-1	195	L/-	1	January 26, 1952
20	Greg Polis	ca CA	LW	27	6-0	195	L/-	7	August 8, 1950
15	Dallas Smith	ca CA	D	36	5-11	180	L/-	15	October 10, 1941
1	Doug Soetaert	ca CA	G	22	6-0	180	-/L	2	April 21, 1955
21	Bud Stefanski	ca CA	C	22	5-10	170	L/-	R	April 28, 1955
	Wayne Thomas	ca CA	G	30	6-2	195	-/L	4	October 9, 1947
18	Walt Tkaczuk	de DE	C	30	6-0	185	L/-	10	September 29, 1947
5	Carol Vadnais	ca CA	D	32	6-1	185	L/-	11	September 25, 1945
8	Steve Vickers	ca CA	LW	26	6-0	180	L/-	5	April 21, 1951

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	Phil Esposito*	35	C	79	38	43	81	-21	53	17	21	0	5	25	17	1	261	14.6			6.8	0.6	7.4
2	Pat Hickey	24	LW	80	40	33	73	-19	47	29	10	1	3	14	18	1	210	19.0			6.3	0.7	6.9
3	Ron Greschner	23	D	78	24	48	72	2	100	15	8	1	5	24	23	1	177	13.6			6.5	4.5	10.9
4	Walt Tkaczuk	30	C	80	26	40	66	15	30	19	6	1	3	32	4	4	148	17.6			4.5	1.7	6.2
5	Steve Vickers	26	LW	79	19	44	63	9	30	10	9	0	2	26	18	0	113	16.8			3.7	1.5	5.2
6	Don Murdoch	21	RW	66	27	28	55	-6	41	17	10	0	1	20	8	0	188	14.4			4.2	0.9	5.1
7	Carol Vadnais	32	D	80	6	40	46	-24	115	2	3	1	1	18	22	0	164	3.7			2.7	3.0	5.7
8	Ron Duguay	20	C	71	20	20	40	-17	43	17	3	0	1	16	4	0	128	15.6			2.1	0.6	2.7
9	Lucien DeBlois	20	RW	71	22	8	30	-9	27	21	1	0	3	7	1	0	111	19.8			1.5	0.8	2.3
10	Eddie Johnstone	23	RW	53	13	13	26	-3	44	10	2	1	0	8	4	1	91	14.3			1.1	0.7	1.9
11	Greg Polis	27	LW	37	7	16	23	-4	12	3	0	4	1	15	1	0	72	9.7			1.0	0.5	1.5
12	Dave Maloney	21	D	56	2	19	21	18	63	2	0	0	0	17	2	0	71	2.8			0.7	4.2	5.0
13	Wayne Dillon	22	C	59	5	13	18	-8	15	4	1	0	1	12	1	0	50	10.0			-0.5	0.7	0.2
14	Mike McEwen	21	D	57	5	13	18	-13	52	3	2	0	0	7	6	0	65	7.7			0.7	2.4	3.1
15	Dan Newman	26	LW	59	5	13	18	-12	22	5	0	0	1	12	1	0	81	6.2			-0.5	0.6	0.1
16	Mark Heaslip	26	RW	29	5	10	15	3	34	5	0	0	0	7	1	2	32	15.6			0.5	0.5	1.0
17	Don Awrey	34	D	78	2	8	10	-14	38	2	0	0	1	7	1	0	40	5.0			-0.7	3.5	2.8
18	Nick Fotiu	25	LW	59	2	7	9	-15	105	2	0	0	0	7	0	0	32	6.3			-1.5	0.5	-1.0
19	Rod Gilbert*	36	RW	19	2	7	9	-10	6	1	1	0	0	3	4	0	27	7.4			0.1	0.0	0.1
20	Dave Farrish	21	D	66	3	5	8	-13	62	2	0	1	0	4	1	0	103	2.9			-0.5	2.9	2.4
21	Ken Hodge	33	RW	18	2	4	6	-6	8	1	1	0	1	3	1	0	13	15.4			-0.1	0.1	0.0
22	Dallas Smith	36	D	29	1	4	5	-13	23	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	36	2.8			-0.1	0.8	0.7
23	Jerry Byers	25	LW	7	2	1	3	-1	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	7	28.6			0.1	0.1	0.2
24	Mario Marois	20	D	8	1	1	2	-3	15	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	13	7.7			0.1	0.3	0.3
25	Bill Goldsworthy	33	RW	7	0	1	1	1	12	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	0.0			-0.2	0.1	-0.1
26	Wayne Thomas	30	G	41	0	1	1	0	9				0	1			0		2349	57:17	0.0	0.0	5.3
27	Hardy Åström	26	G	4	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		240	60:00	0.0	0.0	0.6
28	John Davidson	24	G	34	0	0	0	0	10				0	0			0		1846	54:18	0.0	0.0	5.2
29	Benoit Gosselin	20	LW	7	0	0	0	-3	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0			-0.3	0.0	-0.3
30	Greg Hickey	22	LW	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	0.0	-0.1
31	Greg Holst	23	C	4	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.1
32	Mike Keating	21	LW	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	0.0	-0.1
33	Doug Soetaert	22	G	6	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		360	59:57	0.0	0.0	0.9
34	Bud Stefanski	22	C	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.0	-0.1
	Team Total			80	279	440	719	-170	1049	191	78	10	30	291	139	10	2251	12.4			38.1	32.0	82.2

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	John Davidson	24	34		14	13	4	98	968	870	.899	3.18	1	1846				91	9.6	2.92	5.2
2	Wayne Thomas	30	41		12	20	7	141	1210	1069	.883	3.60	4	2349				105	-6.5	3.35	5.3
3	Hardy Åström	26	4		2	2	0	14	124	110	.887	3.50	0	240						3.25	0.6
4	Doug Soetaert	22	6		2	2	2	20	201	181	.900	3.34	0	360						3.00	0.9
	Team Total				30	37	13	273	2503	2230	.891	3.42	5	4795				98	5.2	3.15	12.0