
1955-56 Edmonton Flyers Statistics
Team Record: 33-34-3 - 56 points
in the WHL's Prairie Division
Lost in 1st Round
Coach: Bud Poile (33-34-3)
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The Edmonton Flyers of the Western Hockey League ended the 1955-56 season with a record of 33 wins and 34 losses and 3 ties for 56 points in the WHL's Prairie Division.
The Flyers netted 236 goals and yielded 256. Gerry Melnyk scored 37 goals for Edmonton, and Ed Stankiewicz tallied 30 or more also. Gerry Melnyk contributed 50 assists. Gilles Boisvert earned 30 wins in front of the net for the squad and a team-best 3.5 goals against average, leading qualifying goaltenders.
Bud Poile coached the team. The 1955-56 Edmonton Flyers lost in the in 1st Round of the playoffs.
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Scoring:
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | G/PG | A/PG | Pts/PG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gerry Melnyk | C | 70 | 37 | 50 | 87 | 37 | 0.53 | 0.71 | 1.24 | |
Billy Dea | C | 70 | 29 | 42 | 71 | 14 | 0.41 | 0.60 | 1.01 | |
Ed Stankiewicz | R | 54 | 33 | 30 | 63 | 54 | 0.61 | 0.56 | 1.17 | |
Don Poile | C | 70 | 22 | 29 | 51 | 63 | 0.31 | 0.41 | 0.73 | |
Billy McNeill | R | 68 | 19 | 31 | 50 | 69 | 0.28 | 0.46 | 0.74 | |
Chuck Holmes | R | 69 | 16 | 22 | 38 | 54 | 0.23 | 0.32 | 0.55 | |
Ray Kinasewich | 68 | 16 | 17 | 33 | 41 | 0.24 | 0.25 | 0.49 | ||
Norm Corcoran | C | 35 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 48 | 0.34 | 0.43 | 0.77 | |
Earl Johnson | C | 42 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 44 | 0.36 | 0.24 | 0.60 | |
Steve Hrymnak | D | 69 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 26 | 0.12 | 0.25 | 0.36 | |
Hugh Coflin | D | 67 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 109 | 0.13 | 0.21 | 0.34 | |
Pete Wright | 68 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 93 | 0.07 | 0.21 | 0.28 | ||
Al Arbour | D | 70 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 109 | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.27 | |
Lionel Repka | D | 68 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 54 | 0.07 | 0.18 | 0.25 | |
John McCormack | C | 37 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 0.16 | 0.24 | 0.41 | |
Gordon Pennell | LW | 23 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 0.04 | 0.48 | 0.52 | |
Max Szturm | F | 9 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 0.11 | 0.44 | 0.56 | |
Joe Malo | L | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.22 | 0.11 | 0.33 | |
Gerry Leonard | C | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.75 | 0.75 | ||
Len Lunde | C | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0.50 | 0.50 | ||
George Ranieri | L | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0.50 | 0.50 | ||
George Kirkwood | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Doug Stevenson | G | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
John Hart | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Dennis Riggin | G | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Edward Diachuk | L | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
John Bucyk | L | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||||
John Utendale | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Gilles Boisvert | G | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
Totals | 1072 | 241 | 348 | 589 | 870 | 0 |
Goaltenders:
Player | GP | Min | W | L | T/OL | ENG | SHO | GA | GAA | Shts | SVS | SV% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gilles Boisvert | 60 | 3669 | 30 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 214 | 3.50 | ||||
Dennis Riggin | 8 | 480 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 3.63 | |||||
George Kirkwood | 1 | |||||||||||
Doug Stevenson | 2 | 130 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4.15 | ||||||
Totals | 71 | 4279 | 33 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 252 | 3.53 | 0 |
Postseason - Scoring:
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | G/PG | A/PG | Pts/PG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gerry Melnyk | C | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0.33 | 1.00 | 1.33 |
Billy Dea | C | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0.67 | 0.33 | 1.00 |
Ed Stankiewicz | R | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0.67 | 0.67 | |
Don Poile | C | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.67 | 0.67 | |
Billy McNeill | R | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Chuck Holmes | R | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.33 | |
Ray Kinasewich | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
Earl Johnson | C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.33 | |
Steve Hrymnak | D | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Hugh Coflin | D | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
Pete Wright | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.33 | ||
Al Arbour | D | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
Lionel Repka | D | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Max Szturm | F | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.33 | |
Len Lunde | C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.50 | |
Dennis Riggin | G | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Totals | 45 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 40 | 0 |
Postseason - Goaltenders:
Player | GP | Min | W | L | T/OL | ENG | SHO | GA | GAA | Shts | SVS | SV% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dennis Riggin | 3 | 188 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4.15 | 0 | ||
Totals | 3 | 188 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4.15 | 0 |