1976-77 Houston Aeros Statistics

World Hockey Association (WHA)
Team Record: 50-24-6 - 106 points
in the WHA's Western Division
Lost in 2nd Round
Coach: Bill Dineen (50-24-6)

1976-77 Houston Aeros Roster

The Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association ended the 1976-77 season with a record of 50 wins and 24 losses and 6 ties for 106 points in the WHA's Western Division.

The club scored 320 goals and allowed 241. Rich Preston netted 38 goals for the squad, and Cam Connor tallied 30 or more, too. Terry Ruskowski accounted for 60 assists. Ron Grahame earned 27 wins in front of the net for the team, while Wayne Rutledge added 15 or more wins also. Ron Grahame recorded a 2.74 goals against average, leading regular goalies.

Bill Dineen coached the team. The 1976-77 Houston Aeros lost in the in 2nd Round of the playoffs.

Click on column headings to sort.

Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG	SOG	SG%
Terry Ruskowski	C	80	24	60	84	146	31	7	0	5	162	14.8
Rich Preston	R	80	38	41	79	54	37	6	5	5	216	17.6
Mark Howe	D	57	23	52	75	46	41	5	3	8	220	10.5
Gordie Howe	R	62	24	44	68	57	27	5	1	3	162	14.8
Poul Popiel	D	80	12	56	68	87	53	2	0	0	177	6.8
Cam Connor	R	76	35	32	67	224	23	6	1	6	217	16.1
Larry Lund	C	80	29	38	67	36	20	7	0	11	109	26.6
John Tonelli	L	80	24	31	55	109	14	6	1	0	179	13.4
Ted Taylor	L	78	16	35	51	90	28	4	0	0	145	11.0
Morris Lukowich	L	68	27	18	45	67	20	6	0	0	119	22.7
Marty Howe	D	80	17	28	45	103	29	3	0	0	226	7.5
John Gray	R	47	21	20	41	25	22	3	0	0	120	17.5
Al McLeod	D	51	7	21	28	20	19	1	0	0	69	10.1
Don Larway	R	75	11	13	24	112	5	3	0	0	152	7.2
Larry Hale	D	67	0	14	14	18	9	0	0	0	45	0.0
Frank Hughes	R	27	3	8	11	2	-5	0	0	0	40	7.5
Ron Hansis	R	22	4	3	7	6	-4	0	0	0	24	16.7
Glen Irwin	D	44	2	4	6	168	-12	0	0	0	38	5.3
John Schella	D	20	0	6	6	28	8	0	0	0	30	0.0
Andre Hinse	L	26	2	3	5	8	-9	0	0	0	33	6.1
Dwayne Pentland	D	29	1	2	3	6	3	0	0	0	13	7.7
Wayne Rutledge	G	42	0	3	3	6	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Fedorko	C	4	0	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	4	0.0
Steve West	C	3	0	0	0	2	-3	0	0	0	3	0.0
Bench		80	0	0	0	6		0	0	0	0
Ron Grahame	G	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Donaldson	R	5	0	0	0	6	-3	0	0	0	14	0.0
Totals		1402	320	532	852	1432	349	64	11	38	2517	12.7

Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	T/OL	ENG	SHO	GA	GAA	Shts	SVS	SV%
Ron Grahame	39	2345	27	10	2	1	4	107	2.74	1082	975	.901
Wayne Rutledge	42	2512	23	14	4	1	3	132	3.15	1209	1077	.891
Totals	81	4857	50	24	6	2	7	239	2.95	2291	2052	.896

Postseason - Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	GWG
Terry Ruskowski	C	11	6	11	17	67	8	0
Rich Preston	R	11	3	5	8	10	6	0
Mark Howe	D	11	4	10	14	2	3	1
Gordie Howe	R	11	5	3	8	11	1	0
Poul Popiel	D	11	0	7	7	10	4	0
Cam Connor	R	11	3	4	7	47	-1	0
Larry Lund	C	11	2	8	10	17	-2	0
John Tonelli	L	11	3	4	7	12	-1	0
Ted Taylor	L	11	4	4	8	28	-2	2
Morris Lukowich	L	11	6	4	10	19	4	1
Marty Howe	D	11	3	1	4	10	-3	1
John Gray	R	6	0	1	1	8	-3	0
Al McLeod	D	10	1	3	4	9	-2	0
Don Larway	R	3	1	0	1	0	0	0
Larry Hale	D	11	0	2	2	6	5	0
Ron Hansis	R	8	1	1	2	4	0	1
John Schella	D	6	1	2	3	6	1	0
Dwayne Pentland	D	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wayne Rutledge	G	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve West	C	6	0	0	0	0	1	0
Bench		11	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Grahame	G	9	0	1	1	2	0	0
Totals		195	43	71	114	268	19	6

Postseason - Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	GA	GAA	Shts	SVS	SV%
Ron Grahame	9	561	4	5	36	3.85	301	265	.880
Wayne Rutledge	2	120	2	0	4	2.00	58	54	.931
Totals	11	681	6	5	40	3.52	359	319	.889

1976-77 Houston Aeros Statistics

Scoring:

Goaltenders:

Postseason - Scoring:

Postseason - Goaltenders:

Minor League Hockey

Recent Updates