
1953-54 Vancouver Canucks Statistics
Team Record: 39-24-7 - 85 points
in the WHL
Lost League Championship
Coach: Art Chapman (39-24-7)
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League ended the 1953-54 season with a record of 39 wins and 24 losses and 7 ties for 85 points in the WHL.
The Canucks surrendered 174 goals, fewest in the league. Vancouver netted 218 goals. Larry Popein scored 34 goals for the team and contributed 32 assists. Gump Worsley earned 39 wins for the squad and a team-best 2.4 goals against average, topping qualifying goaltenders.
Art Chapman coached the team. The 1953-54 Vancouver Canucks lost in the League Championship.
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Scoring:
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | G/PG | A/PG | Pts/PG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Larry Popein | C | 70 | 34 | 32 | 66 | 22 | 0.49 | 0.46 | 0.94 | |
Fred Brown | 56 | 19 | 28 | 47 | 42 | 0.34 | 0.50 | 0.84 | ||
Charles McCullough | F | 17 | 30 | 47 | 38 | |||||
Bill Wylie | C | 54 | 13 | 26 | 39 | 6 | 0.24 | 0.48 | 0.72 | |
Douglas Adam | L | 63 | 18 | 20 | 38 | 30 | 0.29 | 0.32 | 0.60 | |
Carl Kaiser | D | 65 | 15 | 23 | 38 | 54 | 0.23 | 0.35 | 0.58 | |
Cy Rouse | D | 67 | 20 | 16 | 36 | 17 | 0.30 | 0.24 | 0.54 | |
Allan Stanley | D | 47 | 6 | 30 | 36 | 43 | 0.13 | 0.64 | 0.77 | |
Billy Dea | C | 53 | 21 | 13 | 34 | 8 | 0.40 | 0.25 | 0.64 | |
Jack Lancien | D | 70 | 9 | 24 | 33 | 54 | 0.13 | 0.34 | 0.47 | |
Gordon Kerr | C | 51 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 36 | 0.16 | 0.41 | 0.57 | |
Lorne Nadeau | F | 14 | 13 | 27 | 40 | |||||
Les Hickey | D | 68 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 8 | 0.15 | 0.24 | 0.38 | |
Andy Bathgate | R | 17 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 6 | 0.71 | 0.59 | 1.29 | |
Harry Dick | D | 54 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 116 | 0.07 | 0.28 | 0.35 | |
Millard Houghton | D | 70 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 59 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.24 | |
Dale Sweany | R | 43 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0.23 | |
Ed Kassian | 4 | 6 | 10 | 16 | ||||||
George Homenuke | D | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | |||||
Frank Bathgate | C | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0.60 | 0.60 | ||
Don Smith | C | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.11 | |
Ivan Irwin | D | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 0.08 | 0.08 | ||
Art Stone | L | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0.08 | 0.08 | ||
Lucien Dechene | R | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Ike Hildebrand | R | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
Frank Kuzma | W | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Gump Worsley | G | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Totals | 1048 | 243 | 343 | 586 | 652 | 0 |
Goaltenders:
Player | GP | Min | W | L | T/OL | ENG | SHO | GA | GAA | Shts | SVS | SV% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gump Worsley | 70 | 4200 | 39 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 168 | 2.40 | ||||
Totals | 70 | 4200 | 39 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 168 | 2.40 | 0 |
Postseason - Scoring:
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | G/PG | A/PG | Pts/PG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Larry Popein | C | 10 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0.40 | 0.70 | 1.10 |
Charles McCullough | F | 13 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.38 | 0.62 | 1.00 |
Bill Wylie | C | 13 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.46 | 0.54 |
Douglas Adam | L | 12 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.08 | 0.42 |
Carl Kaiser | D | 13 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0.38 | 0.46 | 0.85 |
Cy Rouse | D | 13 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0.62 | 0.31 | 0.92 |
Allan Stanley | D | 13 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.38 | 0.54 |
Billy Dea | C | 12 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.42 | 0.92 |
Jack Lancien | D | 12 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.33 | |
Gordon Kerr | C | 12 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0.42 | 0.42 | |
Les Hickey | D | 13 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0.23 | 0.15 | 0.38 |
Harry Dick | D | 12 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 45 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.17 | 0.42 |
Millard Houghton | D | 13 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.31 |
Ed Kassian | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.23 | |
Lucien Dechene | R | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Gump Worsley | G | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Totals | 188 | 44 | 59 | 103 | 113 | 0 |
Postseason - Goaltenders:
Player | GP | Min | W | L | T/OL | ENG | SHO | GA | GAA | Shts | SVS | SV% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gump Worsley | 12 | 709 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2.45 | 0 | ||
Lucien Dechene | 2 | 77 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3.90 | 0 | ||
Totals | 14 | 786 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 2.60 | 0 |