1979-80 Saskatoon Blades Statistics

Western Hockey League (WHL)
Team Record: 27-40-5 - 59 points
in the WHL's East Division
Coach: Jerry Engele (27-40-5)
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

1979-80 Saskatoon Blades Roster

The Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League ended the 1979-80 season with a record of 27 wins and 40 losses and 5 ties for 59 points in the WHL's East Division.

The Blades scored 331 goals and allowed 382. Glen Ganchar netted 41 goals for Saskatoon, while Kevin MacNaught and Terry Paskaruk tallied 30 or more also. Kevin MacNaught accounted for 59 assists. Ron Loustel topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 4.93 goals against average, pacing qualifying goaltenders.

Jerry Engele coached the team.

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Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	G/PG	A/PG	Pts/PG
Kevin MacNaught	C	71	40	59	99	86		0.56	0.83	1.39
Kevin Tendler	D	62	27	55	82	142		0.44	0.89	1.32
Terry Paskaruk	G	70	31	49	80	87		0.44	0.70	1.14
Lorne Bokshowan	C	71	27	50	77	59		0.38	0.70	1.08
Glen Ganchar	LW	70	41	24	65	116		0.59	0.34	0.93
Tim Hack	L	67	20	40	60	28		0.30	0.60	0.90
Blake Stephen	RW	59	23	35	58	145		0.39	0.59	0.98
Dan Bent	RW	50	29	23	52	63		0.58	0.46	1.04
Kelly Kuspira	G	72	19	19	38	73		0.26	0.26	0.53
Ian Tennant	D	66	3	33	36	199		0.05	0.50	0.55
Brent Sapergia	RW	50	17	18	35	72		0.34	0.36	0.70
Perry Ganchar	R	27	9	14	23	60		0.33	0.52	0.85
Wes Zawertailo		71	4	19	23	279		0.06	0.27	0.32
Doug Archibald	D	56	3	17	20	77		0.05	0.30	0.36
Rich Chernomaz	R	25	9	10	19	33		0.36	0.40	0.76
Marc LeClair	LW	14	7	9	16	33		0.50	0.64	1.14
Dean Renneberg	C	36	5	11	16	40		0.14	0.31	0.44
Bill Langen	D	18	2	11	13	2		0.11	0.61	0.72
Chuck Taylor	D	26	2	9	11	41		0.08	0.35	0.42
Darren Leedahl		30	1	10	11	92		0.03	0.33	0.37
Marc Chartier	C	8	2	7	9	2		0.25	0.88	1.13
Bob Black	D	10	3	4	7	15		0.30	0.40	0.70
Dick Kortje	D	63	0	7	7	160			0.11	0.11
Tony Smith	D	26	0	6	6	28			0.23	0.23
Marc Habscheid	F	15	2	3	5	2		0.13	0.20	0.33
Randy Gilhen	C	9	2	2	4	20		0.22	0.22	0.44
Dean Vogelgesang	LW	19	1	3	4	14		0.05	0.16	0.21
Ron Loustel	G	40	0	4	4	67			0.10	0.10
Ryan Switzer	RW	10	2	1	3	7		0.20	0.10	0.30
John O'Sullivan	D	8	1	2	3	25		0.13	0.25	0.38
Brent Hamilton	D	5	0	2	2	7			0.40	0.40
Gene Bauck	D	2	0	2	2	0			1.00	1.00
Murray Stephens	G	37	0	2	2	6			0.05	0.05
Luc St. Mars		2	0	1	1	0			0.50	0.50
Blaine Switzer	D	1	0	0	0	2
Arliss Preuss	W	12	0	0	0	12
Dan Neuman		1	0	0	0	5
Dennis Leclair	D	5	0	0	0	0
Pat Meldrum		2	0	0	0	17
Arron Armstrong		1	0	0	0	0
Cleo Rowein	D	6
Totals		1293	332	561	893	2116	0

Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	T/OL	SHO	GA	GAA	Shts	SVS	SV%
Cleo Rowein	6	256	3	2	0	0	16	3.75	129	113	.876
Ron Loustel	41	2203	13	20	3		181	4.93	1412	1231	.872
Murray Stephens	37	1938	11	18	2	0	182	5.63	1196	1014	.848
Totals	84	4397	27	40	5	0	379	5.17	2737	2358	.862

1979-80 Saskatoon Blades Statistics

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