1975-76 • Franchise

1975-76 New England Whalers

Record: 33-40-7, 73 pts
Finish: 3rd, East
Playoffs: Lost in second round to Houston
Coach: Jack Kelley (14-16-3), Don Blackburn (14-18-3), Harry Neale (5-6-1)

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 11	Houston	0-5	L	0-1-0	0	0-5	41.	Jan 11	San Diego	8-4	W	20-18-3	43	129-121
2.	Oct 15	Edmonton	*5-4	W	1-1-0	2	5-9	42.	Jan 15	Cincinnati	5-2	W	21-18-3	45	134-123
3.	Oct 18	Toronto	3-1	W	2-1-0	4	8-10	43.	Jan 16	@ Cleveland	3-4	L	21-19-3	45	137-127
4.	Oct 21	@ Quebec	1-6	L	2-2-0	4	9-16	44.	Jan 18	@ Winnipeg	0-8	L	21-20-3	45	137-135
5.	Oct 24	@ Toronto	5-4	W	3-2-0	6	14-20	45.	Jan 20	@ Phoenix	4-4	T	21-20-4	46	141-139
6.	Oct 26	Calgary	3-1	W	4-2-0	8	17-21	46.	Jan 21	@ Houston	3-9	L	21-21-4	46	144-148
7.	Oct 29	Quebec	4-2	W	5-2-0	10	21-23	47.	Jan 23	@ Cleveland	2-2	T	21-21-5	47	146-150
8.	Oct 31	@ Edmonton	2-2	T	5-2-1	11	23-25	48.	Jan 24	@ Cincinnati	3-6	L	21-22-5	47	149-156
9.	Nov 2	@ Calgary	*3-4	L	5-3-1	11	26-29	49.	Jan 28	Indianapolis	6-4	W	22-22-5	49	155-160
10.	Nov 4	@ Winnipeg	*2-3	L	5-4-1	11	28-32	50.	Jan 30	Winnipeg	3-6	L	22-23-5	49	158-166
11.	Nov 6	Cincinnati	8-3	W	6-4-1	13	36-35	51.	Feb 1	@ Toronto	7-5	W	23-23-5	51	165-171
12.	Nov 8	Phoenix	2-3	L	6-5-1	13	38-38	52.	Feb 3	@ Edmonton	0-4	L	23-24-5	51	165-175
13.	Nov 9	@ Cincinnati	2-4	L	6-6-1	13	40-42	53.	Feb 5	@ Calgary	6-4	W	24-24-5	53	171-179
14.	Nov 12	Houston	4-1	W	7-6-1	15	44-43	54.	Feb 7	Toronto	7-3	W	25-24-5	55	178-182
15.	Nov 15	Quebec	1-3	L	7-7-1	15	45-46	55.	Feb 8	Cleveland	1-6	L	25-25-5	55	179-188
16.	Nov 19	@ Indianapolis	1-3	L	7-8-1	15	46-49	56.	Feb 13	Cincinnati	1-5	L	25-26-5	55	180-193
17.	Nov 20	Minnesota	0-2	L	7-9-1	15	46-51	57.	Feb 15	@ Cleveland	3-2	W	26-26-5	57	183-195
18.	Nov 22	Phoenix	7-5	W	8-9-1	17	53-56	58.	Feb 17	@ Houston	3-4	L	26-27-5	57	186-199
19.	Nov 23	Winnipeg	2-3	L	8-10-1	17	55-59	59.	Feb 19	@ Indianapolis	3-10	L	26-28-5	57	189-209
20.	Nov 25	@ Minnesota	*2-3	L	8-11-1	17	57-62	60.	Feb 22	@ Quebec	0-4	L	26-29-5	57	189-213
21.	Nov 28	Denver	7-3	W	9-11-1	19	64-65	61.	Feb 25	@ Cincinnati	2-5	L	26-30-5	57	191-218
22.	Nov 29	Indianapolis	2-3	L	9-12-1	19	66-68	62.	Feb 26	Houston	2-5	L	26-31-5	57	193-223
23.	Dec 2	@ Houston	5-2	W	10-12-1	21	71-70	63.	Feb 28	Indianapolis	4-4	T	26-31-6	58	197-227
24.	Dec 4	@ Phoenix	4-5	L	10-13-1	21	75-75	64.	Mar 2	@ San Diego	4-3	W	27-31-6	60	201-230
25.	Dec 6	@ San Diego	1-4	L	10-14-1	21	76-79	65.	Mar 4	@ San Diego	2-8	L	27-32-6	60	203-238
26.	Dec 7	@ Denver	1-5	L	10-15-1	21	77-84	66.	Mar 6	@ Phoenix	5-3	W	28-32-6	62	208-241
27.	Dec 10	Minnesota	3-2	W	11-15-1	23	80-86	67.	Mar 7	@ Cincinnati	3-5	L	28-33-6	62	211-246
28.	Dec 13	Cleveland	5-4	W	12-15-1	25	85-90	68.	Mar 10	Phoenix	2-3	L	28-34-6	62	213-249
29.	Dec 14	@ Indianapolis	2-2	T	12-15-2	26	87-92	69.	Mar 12	Cleveland	8-2	W	29-34-6	64	221-251
30.	Dec 17	@ Minnesota	0-0	T	12-15-3	27	87-92	70.	Mar 13	@ Cincinnati	5-1	W	30-34-6	66	226-252
31.	Dec 19	Edmonton	4-2	W	13-15-3	29	91-94	71.	Mar 16	@ Quebec	1-5	L	30-35-6	66	227-257
32.	Dec 20	@ Cincinnati	2-4	L	13-16-3	29	93-98	72.	Mar 17	Indianapolis	2-5	L	30-36-6	66	229-262
33.	Dec 22	@ Cleveland	4-1	W	14-16-3	31	97-99	73.	Mar 19	Cincinnati	*6-5	W	31-36-6	68	235-267
34.	Dec 26	Cincinnati	4-3	W	15-16-3	33	101-102	74.	Mar 20	Indianapolis	1-1	T	31-36-7	69	236-268
35.	Dec 28	Cleveland	4-0	W	16-16-3	35	105-102	75.	Mar 24	Calgary	6-7	L	31-37-7	69	242-275
36.	Dec 30	San Diego	5-3	W	17-16-3	37	110-105	76.	Mar 26	Calgary	4-1	W	32-37-7	71	246-276
37.	Jan 3	Cleveland	3-2	W	18-16-3	39	113-107	77.	Mar 28	Indianapolis	1-3	L	32-38-7	71	247-279
38.	Jan 4	@ Indianapolis	2-3	L	18-17-3	39	115-110	78.	Mar 31	@ Cleveland	1-5	L	32-39-7	71	248-284
39.	Jan 7	@ Ottawa	3-2	W	19-17-3	41	118-112	79.	Apr 3	@ Indianapolis	5-2	W	33-39-7	73	253-286
40.	Jan 9	San Diego	3-5	L	19-18-3	41	121-117	80.	Apr 4	Indianapolis	2-4	L	33-40-7	73	255-290

Player Scoring

pos.	#	Player	gp	g	a	pts	pim	+/-	ppg	shg	sog	sc%	gp	g	a	pts	pim
G	1	Abrahamsson, Christer	41	0	1	1	6	-	0	0	0	-	1	0	0	0	0
D	6	Abrahamsson, Thommie	63	14	21	35	47	-11	3	2	150	0.093	17	2	4	6	15
LW	19	Arndt, Danny	69	8	8	16	10	-16	1	0	89	0.090	8	0	0	0	0
C	9	Backstrom, Ralph	38	14	19	33	6	-	0	1	94	0.149	17	5	4	9	8
LW	22	Blackburn, Don	21	2	3	5	6	-5	0	0	15	0.133	-	-	-	-	-
LW	21	Bolduc, Dan	14	2	5	7	14	+5	0	0	27	0.074	16	1	6	7	4
LW	22	Borgeson, Don	31	9	8	17	4	-2	1	0	62	0.145	3	1	1	2	0
RW	5	Busniuk, Ron	11	0	3	3	55	0	0	0	18	0.000	17	0	2	2	14
RW	21	Byers, Mike	21	4	3	7	0	-2	0	0	25	0.160	-	-	-	-	-
C	7	Caffery, Terry	2	0	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0.000	-	-	-	-	-
LW	9	Carleton, Wayne	35	12	21	33	6	-3	2	0	107	0.112	-	-	-	-	-
LW	18	Charlebois, Bob	28	3	3	6	0	-1	0	0	19	0.158	-	-	-	-	-
LW	15	Climie, Ron	65	25	20	45	17	-8	6	0	118	0.212	-	-	-	-	-
G	29	Cooley, Gaye	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	0	0	0
C	24	Danby, John	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
RW	27	Earl, Tom	66	8	11	19	26	-7	0	6	63	0.127	17	0	5	5	4
LW	23	Fotiu, Nick	49	3	2	5	94	-5	0	0	44	0.068	16	3	2	5	57
D	26	Gateman, J.Marty	12	0	1	1	6	-8	0	0	6	0.000	-	-	-	-	-
D	10	Hangsleben, Alan	78	2	23	25	62	-3	0	0	118	0.017	13	2	3	5	20
G	29	Hoganson, Paul	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
D	5	Hurley, Paul	46	0	14	14	20	-6	0	0	98	0.000	-	-	-	-	-
G	30	Landon, Bruce	38	0	1	1	0	-	0	0	0	-	4	0	0	0	0
D	2	Ley, Rick	67	8	30	38	78	-20	2	0	130	0.062	17	1	4	5	49
C	11	McManama, Rob	37	3	10	13	28	-12	1	0	39	0.077	12	4	3	7	4
RW	16	O'Donnell, Fred	79	11	11	22	81	-19	0	0	100	0.110	17	2	5	7	20
RW	12	Paiement, Rosaire	80	28	43	71	89	-6	4	1	200	0.140	17	4	11	15	41
C	4	Pleau, Larry	75	29	45	74	21	+1	12	2	192	0.151	14	5	7	12	0
G	35	Raeder, Cap	3	0	0	0	0	-	0	0	0	-	14	0	0	0	0
C	18	Richardson, Steve	6	0	0	0	0	-1	0	0	5	0.000	-	-	-	-	-
D	14	Roberts, Doug	76	4	13	17	51	-3	0	0	109	0.037	17	1	1	2	8
D	7	Roberts, Gordie	77	3	19	22	102	-17	0	0	115	0.026	17	2	9	11	36
C	17	Rogers, Mike	36	18	14	32	10	-5	1	0	88	0.205	17	5	8	13	2
D	3	Selwood, Brad	40	2	10	12	28	+5	0	0	55	0.036	17	2	2	4	27
C	20	Swain, Garry	79	10	16	26	46	-30	1	3	118	0.085	17	3	2	5	15
RW	25	Troy, Jim	14	0	0	0	43	-5	0	0	7	0.000	2	0	0	0	29
RW	8	Webster, Tom	55	33	50	83	24	+14	9	0	195	0.169	17	10	9	19	6

Goaltending

Goaltender	gp	min	ga	en	so	w-l-t	gaa	sog	sv%	gp	min	ga	w-l	gaa
Abrahamsson, C.	41	2385	136	1	2	18-18-2	3.42	1221	0.889	1	1	0	0-0	0.00
Cooley, Gaye	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	0	0-0	0.00
Hoganson, Paul	4	224	16	0	0	1-2-0	4.29	108	0.852	-	-	-	-	-
Landon, Bruce	38	2181	126	3	0	14-19-5	3.47	1094	0.885	4	197	7	3-0	2.13
Raeder, Cap	3	100	8	0	0	0-1-0	4.80	46	0.826	14	819	31	7-7	2.27

Transactions

• Rosaire Paiement acquired from Denver for 1976 draft choice, Jun 1975
• Marty Gateman, Doug Roberts and Gordie Roberts signed to contracts, Sep 1975
• Terry Caffery traded to Calgary for future considerations, Oct 1975
• Mike Byers and Paul Hoganson released, Nov 1975. Both subsequently signed by Cincinnati
• Ralph Backstrom and Don Borgeson purchased from Ottawa, Jan 1976
• Wayne Carleton traded to Edmonton for Mike Rogers, Jan 1976
• Paul Hurley traded to Edmonton for Kerry Ketter and Steve Carlyle, Feb 1976
• Ron Busniuk signed as free agent from defunct Minnesota, Mar 1976
• Dan Bolduc signed to contract, Mar 1976
• Gaye Cooley signed as emergency goaltender, Apr 1976

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

opponent	overall	gf-ga	home	gf-ga	away	gf-ga
Calgary	3-2-0	22-17	2-1-0	13-9	1-1-0	9-8
Cincinnati	5-6-0	41-43	4-1-0	24-18	1-5-0	17-25
Cleveland	6-3-1	34-28	4-1-0	21-14	2-2-1	13-14
Denver-Ottawa	2-1-0	11-10	1-0-0	7-3	1-1-0	4-7
Edmonton	2-1-1	11-12	2-0-0	9-6	0-1-1	2-6
Houston	2-4-0	17-26	1-2-0	6-11	1-2-0	11-15
Indianapolis	2-7-3	31-44	1-4-2	18-24	1-3-1	13-20
Minnesota	1-2-1	5-7	1-1-0	3-4	0-1-1	2-3
Phoenix	2-3-1	24-23	1-2-0	11-11	1-1-1	13-12
Quebec	1-4-0	7-20	1-1-0	5-5	0-3-0	2-15
San Diego	3-3-0	23-27	2-1-0	16-12	1-2-0	7-15
Toronto	4-0-0	22-13	2-0-0	10-4	2-0-0	12-9
Winnipeg	0-4-0	7-20	0-2-0	5-9	0-2-0	2-11
October	5-2-1	23-25	4-1-0	15-13	1-1-1	8-12
November	4-10-0	43-43	4-5-0	33-26	0-5-0	10-17
December	8-4-2	44-37	6-0-0	25-14	2-4-2	19-23
January	5-7-2	48-61	4-2-0	28-23	1-5-2	20-38
February	4-8-1	39-61	1-3-1	15-23	3-5-0	24-38
March	6-8-1	51-57	3-4-1	30-27	3-4-0	21-30
April	1-1-0	7-6	0-1-0	2-4	1-0-0	5-2

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