1973-74 • Franchise

1973-74 Edmonton Oilers

Record: 38-37-3, 79 pts
Finish: 3rd, West
Playoffs: Lost in first round to Minnesota
Coach: Brian Shaw

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 12	Winnipeg	6-4	W	1-0-0	2	6-4	40.	Jan 9	@ Minnesota	6-4	W	22-18-0	44	143-132
2.	Oct 14	Houston	5-2	W	2-0-0	4	11-6	41.	Jan 11	@ Winnipeg	4-7	L	22-19-0	44	147-139
3.	Oct 19	Vancouver	1-3	L	2-1-0	4	12-9	42.	Jan 13	@ Vancouver	2-6	L	22-20-0	44	149-145
4.	Oct 21	Chicago	4-1	W	3-1-0	6	16-10	43.	Jan 15	Minnesota	4-1	W	23-20-0	46	153-146
5.	Oct 23	Toronto	4-2	W	4-1-0	8	20-12	44.	Jan 18	Jersey	7-4	W	24-20-0	48	160-150
6.	Oct 27	@ Vancouver	6-2	W	5-1-0	10	26-14	45.	Jan 20	Cleveland	5-2	W	25-20-0	50	165-152
7.	Oct 28	Vancouver	7-5	W	6-1-0	12	33-19	46.	Jan 22	Jersey	2-6	L	25-21-0	50	167-158
8.	Nov 2	Quebec	5-4	W	7-1-0	14	38-23	47.	Jan 25	Winnipeg	3-4	L	25-22-0	50	170-162
9.	Nov 4	Minnesota	4-3	W	8-1-0	16	42-26	48.	Jan 27	Houston	1-4	L	25-23-0	50	171-166
10.	Nov 6	New York	8-0	W	9-1-0	18	50-26	49.	Feb 1	Chicago	3-2	W	26-23-0	52	174-168
11.	Nov 8	@ Quebec	4-3	W	10-1-0	20	54-29	50.	Feb 3	Los Angeles	5-2	W	27-23-0	54	179-170
12.	Nov 10	@ New England	6-3	W	11-1-0	22	60-32	51.	Feb 5	@ Vancouver	0-8	L	27-24-0	54	179-178
13.	Nov 11	@ Toronto	4-2	W	12-1-0	24	64-34	52.	Feb 8	Houston	2-6	L	27-25-0	54	181-184
14.	Nov 13	Los Angeles	4-0	W	13-1-0	26	68-34	53.	Feb 10	Quebec	3-4	L	27-26-0	54	184-188
15.	Nov 16	@ Winnipeg	1-3	L	13-2-0	26	69-37	54.	Feb 12	@ Chicago	2-3	L	27-27-0	54	186-191
16.	Nov 18	Minnesota	2-5	L	13-3-0	26	71-42	55.	Feb 13	@ Minnesota	4-7	L	27-28-0	54	190-198
17.	Nov 20	Cleveland	5-3	W	14-3-0	28	76-45	56.	Feb 15	New England	3-7	L	27-29-0	54	193-205
18.	Nov 22	@ Vancouver	1-7	L	14-4-0	28	77-52	57.	Feb 17	Toronto	*3-2	W	28-29-0	56	196-207
19.	Nov 23	@ Los Angeles	0-2	L	14-5-0	28	77-54	58.	Feb 20	Winnipeg	4-1	W	29-29-0	58	200-208
20.	Nov 25	@ Houston	1-2	L	14-6-0	28	78-56	59.	Feb 23	@ Houston	2-5	L	29-30-0	58	202-213
21.	Nov 29	@ Jersey	3-2	W	15-6-0	30	81-58	60.	Feb 24	@ Los Angeles	5-3	W	30-30-0	60	207-216
22.	Dec 1	@ Cleveland	2-4	L	15-7-0	30	83-62	61.	Mar 1	Houston	5-2	W	31-30-0	62	212-218
23.	Dec 2	@ Cleveland	0-3	L	15-8-0	30	83-65	62.	Mar 3	Cleveland	3-3	T	31-30-1	63	215-221
24.	Dec 4	@ Chicago	2-0	W	16-8-0	32	85-65	63.	Mar 6	@ Houston	4-2	W	32-30-1	65	219-223
25.	Dec 5	@ Winnipeg	1-3	L	16-9-0	32	86-68	64.	Mar 8	@ Los Angeles	1-4	L	32-31-1	65	220-227
26.	Dec 6	Toronto	4-3	W	17-9-0	34	90-71	65.	Mar 10	Vancouver	*1-2	L	32-32-1	65	221-229
27.	Dec 12	Los Angeles	2-7	L	17-10-0	34	92-78	66.	Mar 12	Los Angeles	8-1	W	33-32-1	67	229-230
28.	Dec 14	Quebec	3-4	L	17-11-0	34	95-82	67.	Mar 15	New England	2-6	L	33-33-1	67	231-236
29.	Dec 16	@ Jersey	7-6	W	18-11-0	36	102-88	68.	Mar 17	Vancouver	3-2	W	34-33-1	69	234-238
30.	Dec 18	@ Quebec	2-4	L	18-12-0	36	104-92	69.	Mar 20	@ New England	2-2	T	34-33-2	70	236-240
31.	Dec 19	@ New England	2-4	L	18-13-0	36	106-96	70.	Mar 21	@ Quebec	5-5	T	34-33-3	71	241-245
32.	Dec 21	Vancouver	4-1	W	19-13-0	38	110-97	71.	Mar 23	@ Cleveland	1-3	L	34-34-3	71	242-248
33.	Dec 22	@ Vancouver	3-6	L	19-14-0	38	113-103	72.	Mar 25	@ Jersey	4-1	W	35-34-3	73	246-249
34.	Dec 27	Minnesota	4-5	L	19-15-0	38	117-108	73.	Mar 26	@ Chicago	2-4	L	35-35-3	73	248-253
35.	Dec 29	New England	6-2	W	20-15-0	40	123-110	74.	Mar 28	@ Toronto	*5-6	L	35-36-3	73	253-259
36.	Jan 1	Winnipeg	*3-4	L	20-16-0	40	126-114	75.	Mar 29	@ Minnesota	3-1	W	36-36-3	75	256-260
37.	Jan 4	@ Los Angeles	3-4	L	20-17-0	40	129-118	76.	Mar 31	Chicago	4-1	W	37-36-3	77	260-261
38.	Jan 6	@ Minnesota	6-4	W	21-17-0	42	135-122	77.	Apr 2	@ Toronto	2-3	L	37-37-3	77	262-264
39.	Jan 8	@ Houston	2-6	L	21-18-0	42	137-128	78.	Apr 3	@ Winnipeg	*6-5	W	38-37-3	79	268-269

Player Scoring

pos.	#	Player	gp	g	a	pts	pim	ppg	shg	gp	g	a	pts	pim
RW	21	Anderson, Ron C.	19	5	2	7	6	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
D	19	Baird, Ken	68	17	19	36	115	2	0	5	1	1	2	7
D	5	Barrie, Doug	69	4	27	31	214	0	0	4	1	0	1	16
LW	14	Carlin, Brian	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
D	20	Carlyle, Steve	50	2	13	15	18	0	0	5	0	1	1	4
LW	11	Climie, Ron	76	38	36	74	22	9	0	5	0	0	0	0
LW	-	Colborne, Howie	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
D	2	Cote, Roger	59	0	3	3	34	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
D	22	Cunningham, Gary	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
G	-	Doyle, Gary	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
D	6	Falkenberg, Bob	78	3	14	17	32	0	0	5	0	2	2	14
C	21	Fitchner, Bob	31	1	2	3	21	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
LW	8	Fonteyne, Val	72	9	13	22	2	0	4	5	1	0	1	0
LW	10	Gilmore, Tom	57	19	23	42	164	2	0	5	1	4	5	15
D	3	Hamilton, Al	77	14	45	59	104	6	0	4	1	1	2	15
C	7	Harrison, Jim	46	24	45	69	99	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
C	16	Joyal, Eddie	45	8	10	18	2	0	0	5	2	0	2	4
C	27	Lunde, Len	71	26	22	48	8	7	2	5	0	1	1	0
RW	14	MacDonald, Blair	78	21	24	45	34	5	0	5	4	2	6	2
C	18	McAneeley, Bob	52	12	11	23	49	0	0	4	1	0	1	0
D	22	McCrimmon, Jim	75	2	3	5	106	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
LW	12	McKenzie, Brian	78	18	20	38	66	0	0	5	0	1	1	0
G	30	Norris, Jack	53	0	3	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
RW	17	Patenaude, Rusty	71	20	23	43	55	2	0	4	0	2	2	2
C	9	Perkins, Ross	78	16	40	56	43	0	0	5	1	3	4	2
C	25	Schraefel, Jim	34	1	1	2	0	0	0	5	0	3	3	0
C	15	Sheehan, Bobby	10	1	3	4	6	1	0	5	1	3	4	0
D	4	Wall, Bob	74	6	31	37	46	2	1	-	-	-	-	-
G	38	Wilkie, Ian	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
G	1	Worthy, Chris	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
C	15	Zuk, Wayne	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-

Goaltending

Goaltender	gp	min	ga	en	so	w-l-t	gaa	sog	sv%	gp	min	ga	w-l	gaa
Doyle, Gary	1	60	4	0	0	1-0-0	4.00	38	0.895	-	-	-	-	-
Norris, Jack	53	2954	158	5	2	23-24-1	3.21	1546	0.898	3	111	9	0-2	4.86
Wilkie, Ian	5	256	9	0	0	3-1-1	2.11	128	0.930	1	41	4	0-1	5.85
Worthy, Chris	29	1452	92	1	1	11-12-1	3.80	866	0.894	3	146	8	1-1	3.29

Transactions

• Ron Climie acquired from Toronto for rights to Darryl Sittler, Jun 1973
• Brian McKenzie signed to contract, Jun 1973
• Bob Fitchner, Chris Worthy signed to contracts, Aug 1973
• Gary Doyle signed to contract, Sep 1973
• Ron Walters traded to Los Angeles for Tom Gilmore, Oct 1973
• Ian Wilkie signed to contract, Sep 1973, sold to Los Angeles, Nov 1973
• Bobby Sheehan acquired for future considerations (Bob Falkenberg) from Jersey, Mar 1974
• Wayne Zuk traded to Los Angeles for Ian Wilkie, Mar 1974

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

opponent	overall	gf-ga	home	gf-ga	away	gf-ga
Chicago	4-2-0	17-11	3-0-0	11-4	1-2-0	6-7
Cleveland	2-3-1	16-18	2-0-1	13-8	0-3-0	3-10
Houston	3-5-0	22-29	2-2-0	13-14	1-3-0	9-15
Los Angeles	4-4-0	28-23	3-1-0	19-10	1-3-0	9-13
Minnesota	5-3-0	33-30	2-2-0	14-14	3-1-0	19-16
New England	2-3-1	21-24	1-2-0	11-15	1-1-1	10-9
New York-Jersey	5-1-0	31-19	2-1-0	17-10	3-0-0	14-9
Quebec	2-3-1	22-24	1-2-0	11-12	1-1-1	11-12
Toronto	4-2-0	22-18	3-0-0	11-7	1-2-0	11-11
Vancouver	4-6-0	28-42	3-2-0	16-13	1-4-0	12-29
Winnipeg	3-5-0	28-31	2-2-0	16-13	1-3-0	12-18
October	6-1-0	33-19	5-1-0	27-17	1-0-0	6-2
November	9-5-0	48-39	5-1-0	28-15	4-4-0	20-24
December	5-9-0	42-52	3-3-0	23-22	2-6-0	19-30
January	5-8-0	48-56	3-4-0	25-25	2-4-0	23-31
February	5-7-0	36-50	4-3-0	23-24	1-4-0	13-26
March	7-6-3	53-45	4-2-1	26-17	3-4-2	27-28
April	1-1-0	8-8	0-0-0	0-0	1-1-0	8-8

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