1968-69 Portland Buckaroos Statistics

Western Hockey League (WHL)
Team Record: 40-18-16 - 96 points
in the WHL
Lost League Championship
Coach: Hal Laycoe (40-18-16)
Location: Portland, Oregon

1968-69 Portland Buckaroos Roster

The Portland Buckaroos of the Western Hockey League ended the 1968-69 season with a record of 40 wins and 18 losses and 16 ties for 96 points in the WHL.

The Buckaroos led the league with 291 goals. Portland allowed 201 goals, least in the league. Bill Saunders scored 53 goals for the squad, while Art Jones and Norm Johnson netted 30 or more also. Art Jones recorded 76 assists. Jim McLeod earned 23 wins in front of the net for the team and a team-best 2.29 goals against average, topping qualifying goaltenders.

Hal Laycoe coached the team. The 1968-69 Portland Buckaroos lost in the League Championship.

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Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	G/PG	A/PG	Pts/PG
Art Jones	C	74	38	76	114	29		0.51	1.03	1.54
Bill Saunders		74	53	59	112	38		0.72	0.80	1.51
Norm Johnson	C	71	43	47	90	40		0.61	0.66	1.27
Andy Hebenton	R	74	26	51	77	26		0.35	0.69	1.04
Cliff Schmautz	R	53	27	29	56	28		0.51	0.55	1.06
Mel Pearson	C	74	19	26	45	44		0.26	0.35	0.61
Dennis Kearns	D	74	2	42	44	81		0.03	0.57	0.59
Roger Bellerive	L	73	27	15	42	17		0.37	0.21	0.58
Dick Van Impe	R	62	18	22	40	38		0.29	0.35	0.65
Gerry Goyer	C	67	12	28	40	28		0.18	0.42	0.60
Doug Messier	D	62	8	23	31	66		0.13	0.37	0.50
Connie Madigan	D	71	3	25	28	175		0.04	0.35	0.39
Larry Leach	C	72	8	18	26	50		0.11	0.25	0.36
Jim Hay	D	74	0	23	23	71			0.31	0.31
Ken Campbell	D	35	7	13	20	19		0.20	0.37	0.57
Mike Donaldson	G	74	0	8	8	77			0.11	0.11
Claude Cardin	L	5	0	3	3	0			0.60	0.60
Dave Kelly	D	34	0	2	2	0			0.06	0.06
Jim McLeod	G	42	0	1	1	8			0.02	0.02
Bob Sneddon	G	2	0	0	0	0
Doug Ferguson	C	5	0	0	0	0
Rick Foley	D	5	0	0	0	10
Ron Huston	C	3	0	0	0	0
Totals		1180	291	511	802	845	0

Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	T/OL	ENG	SHO	GA	GAA	SVS
Jim McLeod	42	2363	23	9	8	1	3	90	2.29
Dave Kelly	34	1994				0	3	103	3.10
Bob Sneddon	2	80			1	0		7	5.25
Totals	78	4437	23	9	9	1	6	200	2.70	0

Postseason - Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	G/PG	A/PG	Pts/PG
Art Jones	C	11	5	9	14	2	0.45	0.82	1.27
Bill Saunders		11	1	5	6	2	0.09	0.45	0.55
Norm Johnson	C	11	4	6	10	8	0.36	0.55	0.91
Andy Hebenton	R	11	2	1	3	0	0.18	0.09	0.27
Cliff Schmautz	R	11	10	4	14	4	0.91	0.36	1.27
Mel Pearson	C	11	0	1	1	10		0.09	0.09
Dennis Kearns	D	11	2	6	8	13	0.18	0.55	0.73
Roger Bellerive	L	11	2	1	3	6	0.18	0.09	0.27
Dick Van Impe	R	11	2	3	5	0	0.18	0.27	0.45
Gerry Goyer	C	11	1	2	3	0	0.09	0.18	0.27
Doug Messier	D	11	0	3	3	28		0.27	0.27
Connie Madigan	D	10	1	8	9	22	0.10	0.80	0.90
Larry Leach	C	9	0	0	0	2
Jim Hay	D	10	0	2	2	17		0.20	0.20
Ken Campbell	D	11	2	3	5	12	0.18	0.27	0.45
Mike Donaldson	G	11	0	3	3	10		0.27	0.27
Dave Kelly	D	5	0	0	0	0
Jim McLeod	G	8	0	0	0	14
Paul Shmyr	D	1	0	1	1	0		1.00	1.00
Totals		186	32	58	90	150

Postseason - Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	T/OL	ENG	SHO	GA	GAA	Shts	SVS	SV%
Jim McLeod	8	433	4	3	0	0	0	27	3.74		0
Totals	8	433	4	3	0	0	0	27	3.74		0

1968-69 Portland Buckaroos Statistics

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