1972-73 Brandon Wheat Kings Statistics
Team Record: 29-30-9 - 67 points
in the WCHL's Eastern Division
Coach: Rudy Pilous (29-30-9)
The Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Canada Hockey League ended the 1972-73 season with a record of 29 wins and 30 losses and 9 ties for 67 points in the WCHL's Eastern Division.
The Wheat Kings netted 307 goals and surrendered 304. Ron Chipperfield scored 72 goals for Brandon, while Kelly Greenbank, Robbie Neale and Rick Blight each tallied 30 or more also. Rick Blight contributed 62 assists, and Jim Rankin recorded a 4.13 goals against average, pacing regularly-used goaltenders.
Rudy Pilous coached the team.
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Scoring:
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | G/PG | A/PG | Pts/PG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Chipperfield | C | 59 | 72 | 41 | 113 | 63 | 1.22 | 0.69 | 1.92 | |
| Robbie Neale | C | 67 | 41 | 57 | 98 | 94 | 0.61 | 0.85 | 1.46 | |
| Rick Blight | R | 68 | 31 | 62 | 93 | 70 | 0.46 | 0.91 | 1.37 | |
| Kelly Greenbank | D | 67 | 33 | 46 | 79 | 8 | 0.49 | 0.69 | 1.18 | |
| Dale McMullen | L | 64 | 28 | 41 | 69 | 19 | 0.44 | 0.64 | 1.08 | |
| Dwayne Pentland | D | 67 | 9 | 44 | 53 | 45 | 0.13 | 0.66 | 0.79 | |
| Ralph Krentz | D | 68 | 14 | 32 | 46 | 7 | 0.21 | 0.47 | 0.68 | |
| Ed Tkachyk | 68 | 19 | 23 | 42 | 22 | 0.28 | 0.34 | 0.62 | ||
| Clark Lang | 67 | 16 | 18 | 34 | 34 | 0.24 | 0.27 | 0.51 | ||
| Grant Thomson | C | 68 | 13 | 16 | 29 | 6 | 0.19 | 0.24 | 0.43 | |
| Leo Parker | 70 | 4 | 18 | 22 | 109 | 0.06 | 0.26 | 0.31 | ||
| Ron Pronchuk | D | 66 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 135 | 0.09 | 0.23 | 0.32 | |
| Rick Piche | D | 68 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 213 | 0.06 | 0.24 | 0.29 | |
| Mark Johnston | 40 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 20 | 0.13 | 0.28 | 0.40 | ||
| Frank Taylor | D | 68 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 77 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.19 | |
| Blake Robinson | G | 62 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 65 | 0.02 | 0.16 | 0.18 | |
| Pete Wurster | R | 31 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.32 | |
| Doug Murray | F | 13 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 0.23 | 0.46 | 0.69 | |
| John Paddock | R | 11 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0.27 | 0.18 | 0.45 | |
| Cliff Bast | D | 36 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 44 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.14 | |
| Jim Rankin | G | 59 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 45 | 0.07 | 0.07 | ||
| Murray Good | C | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.13 | 0.38 | |
| Dale Anderson | D | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.40 | 0.40 | ||
| Dave Leboutillier | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.50 | |||
| Robert Young | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.50 | |||
| S. Ford | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Wes Shenfelt | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Darry Stevens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Gil McNeil | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| B. Peterson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Wayne Wilhelm | G | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Cam Brothers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Jeff Sheardown | L | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Totals | 1238 | 313 | 486 | 799 | 1096 | 0 |
Goaltenders:
| Player | GP | Min | W | L | T/OL | ENG | SHO | GA | GAA | Shts | SVS | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Robinson | 62 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Wayne Wilhelm | 19 | 782 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 5.83 | |||||
| Jim Rankin | 59 | 3298 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 227 | 4.13 | |||||
| Totals | 140 | 4080 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 303 | 4.46 | 0 |
Postseason - Scoring:
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | G/PG | A/PG | Pts/PG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Chipperfield | C | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0.17 | 0.50 | 0.67 |
| John Paddock | R | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.67 |
| Totals | 12 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
