1979-80 Salt Lake Golden Eagles Statistics

Central Hockey League (CHL)
Team Record: 49-24-7 - 105 points
in the CHL
Won League Championship
Coach: Jack Evans (49-24-7)
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

1979-80 Salt Lake Golden Eagles Roster

The Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the Central Hockey League ended the 1979-80 season with a record of 49 wins and 24 losses and 7 ties for 105 points in the CHL.

The Golden Eagles scored 342 goals, best in the league. Salt Lake gave up 259 goals. Doug Palazzari netted 48 goals for the team, while Bob Hess, Bob Crawford, Joe Mullen and Brian Ogilvie each tallied 30 or more, too. Doug Palazzari accounted for 61 assists. Doug Grant earned 24 wins in front of the net for the squad, plus Rick Heinz added 15 or more wins, too. Rick Heinz recorded a 3.03 goals against average, leading goalies with significant playing time.

Jack Evans coached the team. The 1979-80 Salt Lake Golden Eagles won the League Championship.

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Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	G/PG	A/PG	Pts/PG
Doug Palazzari	C	74	48	61	109	62		0.65	0.82	1.47
Richie Hansen	C	79	27	48	75	31		0.34	0.61	0.95
Bob Hess	D	79	32	42	74	71		0.41	0.53	0.94
Joe Mullen	R	75	40	32	72	21		0.53	0.43	0.96
Rick Bowness	R	71	25	46	71	135		0.35	0.65	1.00
Floyd Thomson	L	73	23	41	64	49		0.32	0.56	0.88
Brian Ogilvie	C	75	30	31	61	88		0.40	0.41	0.81
Bob Crawford	R	67	30	21	51	32		0.45	0.31	0.76
Tony Currie	R	33	24	23	47	17		0.73	0.70	1.42
Steve Harrison	D	80	4	42	46	36		0.05	0.53	0.58
Len Frig	D	71	7	33	40	89		0.10	0.46	0.56
Bobby Simpson	L	41	19	12	31	58		0.46	0.29	0.76
Kevin Willison	D	72	5	26	31	106		0.07	0.36	0.43
Neil Labatte	D	70	1	26	27	79		0.01	0.37	0.39
Bob Murdoch	R	29	8	14	22	23		0.28	0.48	0.76
Don Laurence	C	27	7	15	22	8		0.26	0.56	0.81
Ken Richardson	C	61	4	16	20	24		0.07	0.26	0.33
Dick Lamby	D	49	3	14	17	93		0.06	0.29	0.35
Christian Bordeleau	C	11	3	6	9	4		0.27	0.55	0.82
Tom Williams	L	11	1	3	4	0		0.09	0.27	0.36
Gord Buynak	D	16	0	4	4	25			0.25	0.25
Rick Heinz	G	39	0	2	2	12			0.05	0.05
Rick Bourbonnais	R	6	1	0	1	0		0.17		0.17
Don Boyd	RW	2	0	1	1	2			0.50	0.50
Doug Grant	G	38	0	1	1	11			0.03	0.03
Larry Giroux	D	5	0	1	1	2			0.20	0.20
Bryan Maxwell	D	3	0	1	1	10			0.33	0.33
Travis Dunn	D	2	0	0	0	2
Gord Gallant	L	2	0	0	0	25
Dan Fergus	R	2	0	0	0	2
Kevin Tendler	D	1	0	0	0	0
Ed Staniowski	G	4	0	0	0	0
Totals		1268	342	562	904	1117	0

Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	T/OL	ENG	SHO	GA	GAA	Shts	SVS	SV%
Ed Staniowski	4	239	3	1	0	1		6	1.51	100	94	.940
Doug Grant	38	2283	24	12	2	2	1	130	3.42	1062	932	.878
Rick Heinz	39	2353	22	11	5	1	0	119	3.03	1031	912	.885
Totals	81	4875	49	24	7	4	1	255	3.14	2193	1938	.884

Postseason - Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	G/PG	A/PG	Pts/PG
Doug Palazzari	C	13	7	7	14	6	0.54	0.54	1.08
Richie Hansen	C	13	6	8	14	4	0.46	0.62	1.08
Bob Hess	D	13	0	8	8	14		0.62	0.62
Joe Mullen	R	13	9	11	20	0	0.69	0.85	1.54
Rick Bowness	R	13	5	9	14	39	0.38	0.69	1.08
Floyd Thomson	L	13	6	8	14	11	0.46	0.62	1.08
Brian Ogilvie	C	13	5	9	14	16	0.38	0.69	1.08
Bob Crawford	R	13	3	5	8	9	0.23	0.38	0.62
Steve Harrison	D	13	3	8	11	14	0.23	0.62	0.85
Len Frig	D	11	1	6	7	4	0.09	0.55	0.64
Bobby Simpson	L	12	4	5	9	9	0.33	0.42	0.75
Kevin Willison	D	13	1	6	7	21	0.08	0.46	0.54
Neil Labatte	D	10	1	7	8	17	0.10	0.70	0.80
Don Laurence	C	13	9	3	12	2	0.69	0.23	0.92
Ken Richardson	C	11	0	1	1	2		0.09	0.09
Gord Buynak	D	6	0	1	1	0		0.17	0.17
Rick Heinz	G	5	0	0	0	4
Doug Grant	G	9	0	0	0	0
Denis Houle	LW	2	0	0	0	0
Totals		209	60	102	162	172

Postseason - Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	GA	GAA
Doug Grant	9	483	7	2	27	3.35
Rick Heinz	5	324	1	3	16	2.96
Totals	14	807	8	5	43	3.20

1979-80 Salt Lake Golden Eagles Statistics

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