1977-78 Saskatoon Blades Statistics

Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL)
Team Record: 20-50-2 - 42 points
in the WCHL's East Division
Coach: Jackie McLeod (20-50-2)

1977-78 Saskatoon Blades Roster

The Saskatoon Blades of the Western Canada Hockey League ended the 1977-78 season with a record of 20 wins and 50 losses and 2 ties for 42 points in the WCHL's East Division.

The Blades scored 340 goals and allowed 460, most in the circuit. Ken Federko netted 47 goals for Saskatoon, while Wes George, Brent Ashton and Wayne Merkel each tallied 30 or more, too. Ken Federko contributed 71 assists. Geoff Brand topped the squad with 7 wins and a team-best 5.9 goals against average, pacing goalies with significant playing time.

Jackie McLeod coached the team.

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Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	G/PG	A/PG	Pts/PG
Ken Federko	C	70	47	71	118	82		0.67	1.01	1.69
Wayne Merkel	C	71	38	57	95	69		0.54	0.80	1.34
Wes George	L	70	38	40	78	205		0.54	0.57	1.11
Lindsay Carson	C	62	23	55	78	124		0.37	0.89	1.26
Brent Ashton	L	46	38	26	64	47		0.83	0.57	1.39
Dan Erickson	RW	67	24	33	57	72		0.36	0.49	0.85
Bill MacNaught	RW	51	18	32	50	8		0.35	0.63	0.98
Bryan Baron	D	56	10	39	49	87		0.18	0.70	0.88
Franco Disciglio	LW	48	24	19	43	99		0.50	0.40	0.90
Darryl Erickson	RW	33	14	26	40	126		0.42	0.79	1.21
Dan Bent	RW	46	13	21	34	37		0.28	0.46	0.74
Doug Archibald	D	70	8	21	29	54		0.11	0.30	0.41
Jim McTaggart	D	65	7	20	27	221		0.11	0.31	0.42
Terry Johnson	D	70	2	20	22	195		0.03	0.29	0.31
Kevin Tendler	D	40	2	20	22	49		0.05	0.50	0.55
Rob McFarlane	LW	45	8	13	21	30		0.18	0.29	0.47
Terry Paskaruk	G	32	9	8	17	42		0.28	0.25	0.53
Mel Hewitt	LW	13	3	8	11	96		0.23	0.62	0.85
Marc Chartier	C	19	3	5	8	9		0.16	0.26	0.42
Randy Kearney	C	30	2	4	6	0		0.07	0.13	0.20
Rick Carriere	D	53	0	6	6	73			0.11	0.11
Ken McNabb	G	29	0	6	6	36			0.21	0.21
Blaine Fennell	D	16	0	5	5	4			0.31	0.31
Dean Vogelgesang	LW	2	2	1	3	0		1.00	0.50	1.50
Glen Ganchar	LW	4	2	0	2	2		0.50		0.50
Jim Christian	C	3	2	0	2	2		0.67		0.67
Gord Jeffrey	LW	6	1	1	2	0		0.17	0.17	0.33
Scott Lang	D	3	1	1	2	5		0.33	0.33	0.67
Kevin MacNaught	C	8	1	1	2	7		0.13	0.13	0.25
Todd Ballantyne	F	3	0	2	2	0			0.67	0.67
Geoff Brand	G	29	0	2	2	14			0.07	0.07
Rick Boehm	F	1	0	2	2	0			2.00	2.00
Rick Brost	D/C	5	0	2	2	12			0.40	0.40
Murray Brumwell	D	1	0	2	2	0			2.00	2.00
Gord Kimble	D	4	0	2	2	11			0.50	0.50
Jim Bonar	D	3	0	2	2	4			0.67	0.67
Murray Stephens	G	5	0	1	1	0			0.20	0.20
Brian Law	C	5	0	1	1	7			0.20	0.20
Dean Berger	G	6	0	1	1	0			0.17	0.17
Eric Ponath	RW/C	3	0	1	1	5			0.33	0.33
Dean Rebeck	F	6	0	1	1	0			0.17	0.17
Dick Kortje	D	2	0	1	1	2			0.50	0.50
Chuck Taylor	D	6	0	1	1	2			0.17	0.17
Marc Timmons	G	1	0	0	0	0
Brad Hall	G	2	0	0	0	2
John McKerrow	G	10	0	0	0	0
Phil Decker	F	1	0	0	0	0
Ken Morrow		5	0	0	0	0
Don Stephenson	F	1	0	0	0	0
Randy Penny	G	3	0	0	0	2
Randy Shields	D	1	0	0	0	0
Brian Harland	G	2	0	0	0	0
Totals		1233	340	580	920	1842	0

Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	T/OL	GA	GAA	Shts	SVS	SV%
Geoff Brand	29	1485	7	18	1	146	5.90	993	847	.853
Ken McNabb	29	1410	6	14	1	146	6.21	966	820	.849
Dean Berger	6	292	2	4	0	35	7.19	187	152	.813
John McKerrow	10	430	2	5	0	46	6.42	301	255	.847
Randy Penny	3	140	1	1	0	13	5.57	83	70	.843
Brian Harland	2	120	1	1	0	18	9.00	93	75	.806
Murray Stephens	5	300	1	4	0	37	7.40	210	173	.824
Marc Timmons	1	23	0	1	0	4	10.43	16	12	.750
Brad Hall	2	120	0	1	0	14	7.00	74	60	.811
Totals	87	4320	20	49	2	459	6.38	2923	2464	.843

1977-78 Saskatoon Blades Statistics

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