1972-73 • Franchise

1972-73 Los Angeles Sharks

Record: 37-35-6, 80 pts
Finish: 3rd, West
Playoffs: Lost in first round to Houston
Coach: Terry Slater

Game Log ... (@ away game, * overtime)

no.	Date	Opponent	Score		w-l-t	pts	gf-ga	no.	Date	Opponent	Score		w-l-t	pts	gf-ga
1.	Oct 13	Houston	2-3	L	0-1-0	0	2-3	40.	Dec 31	Philadelphia	1-3	L	17-19-4	38	134-139
2.	Oct 15	@ Houston	5-1	W	1-1-0	2	7-4	41.	Jan 9	@ Minnesota	*4-3	W	18-19-4	40	138-142
3.	Oct 17	@ Minnesota	5-1	W	2-1-0	4	12-5	42.	Jan 10	@ Chicago	8-5	W	19-19-4	42	146-147
4.	Oct 19	Philadelphia	4-2	W	3-1-0	6	16-7	43.	Jan 12	Alberta	1-2	L	19-20-4	42	147-149
5.	Oct 22	Chicago	2-4	L	3-2-0	6	18-11	44.	Jan 13	Alberta	1-4	L	19-21-4	42	148-153
6.	Oct 25	Ottawa	5-8	L	3-3-0	6	23-19	45.	Jan 15	@ Alberta	4-3	W	20-21-4	44	152-156
7.	Oct 27	@ Philadelphia	4-5	L	3-4-0	6	27-24	46.	Jan 16	@ Alberta	*5-6	L	20-22-4	44	157-162
8.	Oct 28	@ New York	*4-3	W	4-4-0	8	31-27	47.	Jan 19	Cleveland	1-4	L	20-23-4	44	158-166
9.	Oct 31	@ Quebec	4-2	W	5-4-0	10	35-29	48.	Jan 21	Cleveland	3-2	W	21-23-4	46	161-168
10.	Nov 2	@ Ottawa	1-1	T	5-4-1	11	36-30	49.	Jan 26	New York	*4-5	L	21-24-4	46	165-173
11.	Nov 4	@ Chicago	*3-2	W	6-4-1	13	39-32	50.	Jan 28	New York	9-2	W	22-24-4	48	174-175
12.	Nov 5	Houston	4-0	W	7-4-1	15	43-32	51.	Jan 30	@ Houston	5-2	W	23-24-4	50	179-177
13.	Nov 8	New York	2-1	W	8-4-1	17	45-33	52.	Feb 2	New England	3-1	W	24-24-4	52	182-178
14.	Nov 9	@ Alberta	2-7	L	8-5-1	17	47-40	53.	Feb 4	New England	4-3	W	25-24-4	54	186-181
15.	Nov 11	@ Alberta	3-5	L	8-6-1	17	50-45	54.	Feb 8	Minnesota	3-1	W	26-24-4	56	189-182
16.	Nov 12	@ Winnipeg	2-5	L	8-7-1	17	52-50	55.	Feb 10	Winnipeg	5-6	L	26-25-4	56	194-188
17.	Nov 14	@ Winnipeg	0-8	L	8-8-1	17	52-58	56.	Feb 11	Winnipeg	0-3	L	26-26-4	56	194-191
18.	Nov 15	@ Houston	6-4	W	9-8-1	19	58-62	57.	Feb 13	Chicago	1-6	L	26-27-4	56	195-197
19.	Nov 17	Winnipeg •	1-5	L	9-9-1	19	59-67	58.	Feb 15	@ New England	5-6	L	26-28-4	56	200-203
20.	Nov 19	Winnipeg	3-4	L	9-10-1	19	62-71	59.	Feb 16	@ Quebec	2-2	T	26-28-5	57	202-205
21.	Nov 21	Cleveland	2-5	L	9-11-1	19	64-76	60.	Feb 18	@ Philadelphia	4-1	W	27-28-5	59	206-206
22.	Nov 23	@ Minnesota	3-4	L	9-12-1	19	67-80	61.	Feb 20	@ Ottawa	4-2	W	28-28-5	61	210-208
23.	Nov 24	@ Cleveland	2-3	L	9-13-1	19	69-83	62.	Feb 24	Quebec	3-5	L	28-29-5	61	213-213
24.	Nov 26	@ New York	6-2	W	10-13-1	21	75-85	63.	Feb 25	Quebec	4-2	W	29-29-5	63	217-215
25.	Nov 28	@ Philadelphia	3-4	L	10-14-1	21	78-89	64.	Mar 1	@ Minnesota	4-1	W	30-29-5	65	221-216
26.	Nov 30	Houston	6-3	W	11-14-1	23	84-92	65.	Mar 2	@ Winnipeg	1-2	L	30-30-5	65	222-218
27.	Dec 1	@ Chicago	5-3	W	12-14-1	25	89-95	66.	Mar 4	@ Winnipeg	1-2	L	30-31-5	65	223-220
28.	Dec 2	@ Chicago	4-2	W	13-14-1	27	93-97	67.	Mar 6	Quebec	*3-2	W	31-31-5	67	226-222
29.	Dec 8	Alberta	4-2	W	14-14-1	29	97-99	68.	Mar 7	Houston	1-3	L	31-32-5	67	227-225
30.	Dec 10	Alberta	5-3	W	15-14-1	31	102-102	69.	Mar 9	Houston •	5-1	W	32-32-5	69	232-226
31.	Dec 12	Minnesota	3-3	T	15-14-2	32	105-105	70.	Mar 11	Ottawa	4-2	W	33-32-5	71	236-228
32.	Dec 14	New England	2-5	L	15-15-2	32	107-110	71.	Mar 13	Ottawa	1-3	L	33-33-5	71	237-231
33.	Dec 17	@ Houston	4-4	T	15-15-3	33	111-114	72.	Mar 15	@ New York	6-2	W	34-33-5	73	243-233
34.	Dec 19	@ Houston	5-7	L	15-16-3	33	116-121	73.	Mar 17	@ Cleveland	2-0	W	35-33-5	75	245-233
35.	Dec 21	@ Ottawa	4-4	T	15-16-4	34	120-125	74.	Mar 19	@ Cleveland	5-5	T	35-33-6	76	250-238
36.	Dec 23	@ Quebec	1-2	L	15-17-4	34	121-127	75.	Mar 20	@ New England	1-4	L	35-34-6	76	251-242
37.	Dec 24	@ New England	5-3	W	16-17-4	36	126-130	76.	Mar 23	Philadelphia	3-7	L	35-35-6	76	254-249
38.	Dec 28	Minnesota •	2-4	L	16-18-4	36	128-134	77.	Mar 25	Chicago	1-0	W	36-35-6	78	255-249
39.	Dec 29	Minnesota	5-2	W	17-18-4	38	133-136	78.	Mar 27	Chicago •	4-1	W	37-35-6	80	259-250

• Home games, played at the Long Beach (CA) Arena.

Player Scoring

pos.	#	Player	gp	g	a	pts	pim	ppg	shg	gp	g	a	pts	pim
RW	9	Byers, Mike	56	19	17	36	20	2	0	-	-	-	-	-
D	7	Crashley, Bart	70	18	27	45	10	7	0	6	0	2	2	2
G	30	Gardner, George	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
G	1	Gillow, Russ	38	0	0	0	6	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
LW	12	Gilmore, Tom	70	17	18	35	191	6	0	5	1	3	4	2
LW	22	Heggedal, Howie	8	2	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
LW	16	Heiskala, Earl	70	12	17	29	150	2	0	5	1	1	2	4
RW	17	Hyndman, Mike	19	8	7	15	11	1	0	6	0	3	3	17
C	21	Jakubo, Mike	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
LW	8	Jones, Bob	20	2	7	9	8	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
RW	23	Krupicka, Jarda	6	1	0	1	2	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
C	10	Leblanc, J.-P.	77	19	50	69	49	2	1	6	0	5	5	2
LW	20	MacNeil, Bernie	42	4	7	11	48	0	0	3	0	0	0	4
D	4	MacSweyn, Ralph	78	0	23	23	39	0	0	6	1	2	3	4
D	5	Mavety, Larry	2	1	0	1	2	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
C	11	McCaskill, Ted	73	11	11	22	150	0	2	6	2	3	5	12
D	3	Niekamp, Jim	78	7	22	29	155	0	1	6	2	1	3	10
D	6	Odrowski, Gerry	78	6	31	37	89	0	1	6	1	2	3	6
G	26	Perreault, Bob	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
RW	24	Serviss, Tom	73	11	26	37	32	0	3	6	0	0	0	0
RW	14	Slater, Peter	72	12	12	24	87	3	0	6	0	0	0	2
C	8	Speck, Fred	28	3	13	16	22	0	0	6	3	2	5	2
RW	19	Sutherland, Steve	43	11	6	17	98	0	0	6	0	2	2	8
C	15	Szura, Joe	72	13	32	45	25	3	0	2	0	0	0	0
LW	18	Veneruzzo, Gary	78	43	30	73	34	13	0	6	3	0	3	4
D	2	Watson, Jim	75	5	15	20	123	1	0	4	0	1	1	2
RW	23	White, Alton	57	20	17	37	22	2	0	6	1	0	1	0
LW	17	Young, Bill	50	14	12	26	46	6	0	-	-	-	-	-
D	23	Zrymiak, Jerry	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0

Goaltending

Goaltender	gp	min	ga	en	so	w-l-t	gaa	sog	sv%	gp	min	ga	w-l	gaa
Gardner, George	49	2713	149	0	1	19-22-4	3.30	1238	0.879	3	116	11	1-2	5.69
Gillow, Russ	38	1892	96	3	2	17-13-2	2.91	851	0.887	5	247	12	1-2	2.91
Perreault, Bob	1	60	2	0	0	1-0-0	2.00	17	0.882	-	-	-	-	-

Transactions

• Steve Sutherland signed to contract, Feb 1972
• George Gardner signed to contract, May 1972
• Rights to Bill Young acquired in trade with Chicago for rights to Larry Cahan, Bob Liddington and Bobby Whitlock, Jul 1972
• Ralph Macsweyn signed to contract, Jul 1972
• Bob Jones, Tom Serviss signed to contracts, Sep 1972
• Mike Byers traded to New England for Mike Hyndman, Feb 1973
• Bob Jones and Jarda Krupicka traded to New York for Alton White, Nov 1972
• Larry Mavety sold to Philadelphia, Oct 1972
• Bill Young traded to Minnesota for Fred Speck, Jan 1973

Splits versus opposing teams, home and away, and by month

opponent	overall	gf-ga	home	gf-ga	away	gf-ga
Alberta	3-5-0	25-32	2-2-0	11-11	1-3-0	14-21
Chicago	6-2-0	28-23	2-2-0	8-11	4-0-0	20-12
Cleveland	2-3-1	15-19	1-2-0	6-11	1-1-1	9-8
Houston	6-3-1	43-28	3-2-0	18-10	3-1-1	25-18
Minnesota	5-2-1	29-19	2-1-1	13-10	3-1-0	16-9
New England	3-3-0	20-22	2-1-0	9-9	1-2-0	11-13
New York	5-1-0	31-15	2-1-0	15-8	3-0-0	16-7
Ottawa	2-2-2	19-20	1-2-0	10-13	1-0-2	9-7
Philadelphia	2-4-0	19-22	1-2-0	8-12	1-2-0	11-10
Quebec	3-2-1	17-15	2-1-0	10-9	1-1-1	7-6
Winnipeg	0-8-0	13-35	0-4-0	9-18	0-4-0	4-17
October	5-4-0	35-29	1-3-0	13-17	4-1-0	22-12
November	6-10-1	49-63	3-3-0	18-18	3-7-1	31-45
December	6-5-3	50-47	3-3-1	22-22	3-2-2	28-25
January	6-5-0	45-38	2-4-0	19-19	4-1-0	26-19
February	6-5-1	38-38	4-4-0	23-27	2-1-1	15-11
March	8-6-1	42-35	5-3-0	22-19	3-3-1	20-16

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