
1977-78 Billings Bighorns Statistics
Team Record: 32-31-9 - 73 points
in the WCHL's Central Division
Lost League Championship
Coach: Dave King (32-31-9)
The Billings Bighorns of the Western Canada Hockey League ended the 1977-78 season with a record of 32 wins and 31 losses and 9 ties for 73 points in the WCHL's Central Division.
The Bighorns scored 342 goals and yielded 336. Del Chapman netted 38 goals for Billings, while Doug Robb, Harvie Pocza, Pat Conacher, Mike Toal and Blake Sullivan each tallied 30 or more also. Del Chapman contributed 69 assists. Tim Thomlinson earned 28 wins in front of the net for the squad and a team-best 4.36 goals against average, topping qualifying goaltenders.
Dave King coached the team. The 1977-78 Billings Bighorns lost in the League Championship.
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Scoring:
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | G/PG | A/PG | Pts/PG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Del Chapman | C | 71 | 38 | 69 | 107 | 44 | 0.54 | 0.97 | 1.51 | |
Doug Robb | RW | 69 | 34 | 59 | 93 | 149 | 0.49 | 0.86 | 1.35 | |
Pat Conacher | L | 72 | 31 | 44 | 75 | 105 | 0.43 | 0.61 | 1.04 | |
Blake Sullivan | LW | 63 | 31 | 36 | 67 | 70 | 0.49 | 0.57 | 1.06 | |
Harvie Pocza | L | 71 | 34 | 32 | 66 | 168 | 0.48 | 0.45 | 0.93 | |
Mike Toal | C | 69 | 30 | 34 | 64 | 48 | 0.43 | 0.49 | 0.93 | |
Kevin Willison | D | 68 | 21 | 42 | 63 | 151 | 0.31 | 0.62 | 0.93 | |
Alvin Szott | 68 | 28 | 28 | 56 | 73 | 0.41 | 0.41 | 0.82 | ||
Don Nachbaur | C | 68 | 23 | 27 | 50 | 128 | 0.34 | 0.40 | 0.74 | |
Cal Roadhouse | RW | 59 | 19 | 24 | 43 | 69 | 0.32 | 0.41 | 0.73 | |
Gord Stafford | C | 59 | 11 | 22 | 33 | 54 | 0.19 | 0.37 | 0.56 | |
Dan Earley | D | 72 | 6 | 26 | 32 | 180 | 0.08 | 0.36 | 0.44 | |
Brent Gogol | F | 61 | 13 | 13 | 26 | 465 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 0.43 | |
Doug Buchanan | D | 59 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 148 | 0.07 | 0.32 | 0.39 | |
Mike Kouwenhoven | RW | 63 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 113 | 0.08 | 0.27 | 0.35 | |
Mike McCann | D | 72 | 3 | 18 | 21 | 270 | 0.04 | 0.25 | 0.29 | |
Dean Tidball | D | 43 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 139 | 0.09 | 0.35 | 0.44 | |
Gary Plamondon | D | 54 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 43 | 0.06 | 0.26 | 0.31 | |
Dan Krutz | D | 16 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 45 | 0.13 | 0.06 | 0.19 | |
Tim Thomlinson | 61 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 71 | 0.05 | 0.05 | |||
Todd Morton | D | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.50 | ||
Myron Luker | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.50 | |||
Tom Muc | G | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.05 | ||
Ray Cote | C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.50 | ||
Dave Barr | R | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.50 | ||
Greg Stamler | F | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
Randy Jaycock | G | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Tom Mostowich | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Jamie Hodgins | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Grant Fagerheim | LW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Ross Jansen | D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Blair Peebles | D | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | ||||
Totals | 1280 | 342 | 546 | 888 | 2554 | 0 |
Goaltenders:
Player | GP | Min | W | L | T/OL | ENG | SHO | GA | GAA | Shts | SVS | SV% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Muc | 20 | 843 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 5.62 | 520 | 441 | .848 |
Tim Thomlinson | 61 | 3370 | 28 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 245 | 4.36 | 1888 | 1643 | .870 |
Randy Jaycock | 3 | 107 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5.61 | 48 | 38 | .792 |
Totals | 84 | 4320 | 32 | 31 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 334 | 4.64 | 2456 | 2122 | .864 |
Postseason - Scoring:
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | G/PG | A/PG | Pts/PG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Del Chapman | C | 20 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.90 | 1.15 |
Doug Robb | RW | 20 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 31 | 0 | 0.60 | 0.70 | 1.30 |
Pat Conacher | L | 20 | 15 | 14 | 29 | 22 | 0 | 0.75 | 0.70 | 1.45 |
Blake Sullivan | LW | 20 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 0.35 | 0.30 | 0.65 |
Harvie Pocza | L | 19 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 60 | 0 | 0.47 | 0.58 | 1.05 |
Mike Toal | C | 19 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0.26 | 0.68 | 0.95 |
Kevin Willison | D | 20 | 6 | 23 | 29 | 35 | 0 | 0.30 | 1.15 | 1.45 |
Alvin Szott | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0.22 | 0.22 | ||
Don Nachbaur | C | 20 | 18 | 7 | 25 | 37 | 0 | 0.90 | 0.35 | 1.25 |
Cal Roadhouse | RW | 20 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 23 | 0 | 0.60 | 0.70 | 1.30 |
Gord Stafford | C | 20 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 0 | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.70 |
Dan Earley | D | 20 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 0.10 | 0.40 | 0.50 |
Brent Gogol | F | 20 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 95 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.20 | 0.25 |
Doug Buchanan | D | 20 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 35 | 0 | 0.55 | 0.55 | |
Mike Kouwenhoven | RW | 14 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0.21 | 0.21 | |
Mike McCann | D | 20 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 51 | 0 | 0.40 | 0.40 | |
Gary Plamondon | D | 20 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.35 | 0.50 |
Tim Thomlinson | 17 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.12 | 0.12 | ||
Tom Muc | G | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
Randy Jaycock | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Mike Bustin | D | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
Jim Dodds | RW | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.40 |
Blair Peebles | D | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Totals | 360 | 105 | 171 | 276 | 471 | 0 |