1975-76 New York Rangers Roster and Statistics

Record: 29-42-9 (67 points), Finished 4th in NHL Patrick Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Ron Stewart (15-20-4), John Ferguson (14-22-5)

Primary Arena: Madison Square Garden (IV)

Goals For: 262 (10th of 18), Goals Against: 333 (16th of 18)
SRS: -0.80 (14th of 18), SOS: 0.08 (3rd of 18)

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
New York Rangers	80	29	42	9	67	.419	262	333	-0.80	0.08	3.28	4.16	67	323	20.74	68	277	75.45	3	11	2640	9.9	2575	.871		3
League Average	80	34	34	13	80	.500	273	273					66	321	20.58	66	321	79.46	8	8	2448	11.1	2448	.889		4

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
New York Rangers
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
23	John Bednarski	ca	D	23	5-10	195	L/-	1	July 4, 1952	1 G, 8 A, 9 P
25	Nick Beverley	ca	D	28	6-2	185	R/-	6	April 21, 1947	1 G, 8 A, 9 P
15	Bill Collins	ca	RW	32	6-1	178	R/-	8	July 13, 1943	4 G, 4 A, 8 P
30-35	John Davidson	ca	G	22	6-3	205	-/L	2	February 27, 1953	22-28-5, 3.97 GAA
11	Wayne Dillon	ca	C	20	6-0	185	L/-	R	May 25, 1955	21 G, 24 A, 45 P
5-12	Phil Esposito (C)	ca	C	33	6-1	205	L/-	12	February 20, 1942	29 G, 38 A, 67 P
10	Bill Fairbairn	ca	RW	29	5-10	170	R/-	7	January 7, 1947	13 G, 15 A, 28 P
1	Ed Giacomin	ca	G	36	5-11	180	-/L	10	June 6, 1939	0-3-1, 4.75 GAA
7	Rod Gilbert	ca	RW	34	5-9	180	R/-	15	July 1, 1941	36 G, 50 A, 86 P
4	Ron Greschner	ca	D	21	6-2	205	L/-	1	December 22, 1954	6 G, 21 A, 27 P
3	Ron Harris	ca	D	33	5-10	190	R/-	10	June 30, 1942	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
14-16	Pat Hickey	ca	LW	22	6-1	190	L/-	R	May 15, 1953	14 G, 22 A, 36 P
22	Jerry Holland	ca	LW	21	5-10	180	L/-	1	August 25, 1954	7 G, 4 A, 11 P
17	Greg Holst	ca	C	21	5-10	170	L/-	R	February 21, 1954	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
28	Doug Jarrett	ca	D	31	6-3	205	L/-	11	April 22, 1944	0 G, 4 A, 4 P
14	Eddie Johnstone	ca	RW	21	5-9	175	R/-	R	March 2, 1954	2 G, 1 A, 3 P
27	Dale Lewis	ca	LW	23	6-0	190	L/-	R	July 28, 1952	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
26	Dave Maloney	ca	D	19	6-1	195	L/-	1	July 31, 1956	1 G, 3 A, 4 P
6	Gilles Marotte	ca	D	30	5-9	205	L/-	10	June 7, 1945	4 G, 17 A, 21 P
9	Rick Middleton	ca	RW	22	5-11	170	R/-	1	December 4, 1953	24 G, 26 A, 50 P
2	Brad Park (C)	ca	D	27	6-0	200	L/-	7	July 6, 1948	2 G, 4 A, 6 P
20	Greg Polis	ca	LW	25	6-0	195	L/-	5	August 8, 1950	15 G, 21 A, 36 P
19	Jean Ratelle	ca	C	35	6-1	180	L/-	15	October 3, 1940	5 G, 10 A, 15 P
5	Larry Sacharuk	ca	D	23	6-0	200	R/-	3	September 16, 1952	6 G, 7 A, 13 P
16	Derek Sanderson	ca	C	29	6-0	185	L/-	10	June 16, 1946	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
1	Doug Soetaert	ca	G	20	6-0	180	-/L	R	April 21, 1955	2-2-0, 5.29 GAA
21	Pete Stemkowski	ca	C	32	6-1	196	L/-	12	August 25, 1943	13 G, 28 A, 41 P
18	Walt Tkaczuk	de	C	28	6-0	185	L/-	8	September 29, 1947	8 G, 28 A, 36 P
2	Carol Vadnais	ca	D	30	6-1	185	L/-	9	September 25, 1945	20 G, 30 A, 50 P
8	Steve Vickers	ca	LW	24	6-0	180	L/-	3	April 21, 1951	30 G, 53 A, 83 P
1-31	Dunc Wilson	ca	G	27	5-11	175	-/-	6	March 22, 1948	5-9-3, 4.24 GAA

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Rod Gilbert*	34	RW	70	36	50	86	-8	32	27	9	0	4	30	20	0	211	17.1			6.8	0.9	7.6
2	Steve Vickers	24	LW	80	30	53	83	-16	40	20	10	0	4	34	19	0	202	14.9			5.6	0.8	6.4
3	Phil Esposito*	33	C	62	29	38	67	-38	28	12	16	1	2	23	15	0	217	13.4			5.0	-0.2	4.9
4	Rick Middleton	22	RW	77	24	26	50	-39	14	17	7	0	5	12	14	0	159	15.1			2.6	0.0	2.7
5	Carol Vadnais	30	D	64	20	30	50	-16	104	13	7	0	1	15	15	0	197	10.2			4.4	2.4	6.8
6	Wayne Dillon	20	C	79	21	24	45	-10	10	18	3	0	1	22	2	0	138	15.2			1.9	0.9	2.8
7	Pete Stemkowski	32	C	75	13	28	41	-7	49	12	1	0	2	25	1	2	126	10.3			1.1	1.0	2.1
8	Greg Polis	25	LW	79	15	21	36	-8	77	15	0	0	1	21	0	0	158	9.5			0.7	1.0	1.7
9	Pat Hickey	22	LW	70	14	22	36	-29	36	14	0	0	1	14	8	0	157	8.9			1.0	0.2	1.2
10	Walt Tkaczuk	28	C	78	8	28	36	-11	56	7	1	0	1	24	3	1	142	5.6			0.2	0.9	1.1
11	Bill Fairbairn	29	RW	80	13	15	28	-14	8	10	2	1	2	15	0	0	160	8.1			-0.2	0.8	0.7
12	Ron Greschner	21	D	77	6	21	27	-50	93	4	2	0	0	14	7	0	176	3.4			1.1	1.1	2.2
13	Gilles Marotte	30	D	57	4	17	21	-3	34	3	1	0	0	15	1	1	113	3.5			0.9	2.8	3.7
14	Jean Ratelle*	35	C	13	5	10	15	3	2	3	2	0	1	7	3	0	28	17.9			1.0	0.3	1.3
15	Larry Sacharuk	23	D	42	6	7	13	-14	14	2	4	0	2	2	5	0	70	8.6			0.7	1.4	2.1
16	Jerry Holland	21	LW	36	7	4	11	-5	6	5	2	0	1	3	1	0	50	14.0			-0.1	0.4	0.3
17	John Bednarski	23	D	59	1	8	9	-15	77	1	0	0	0	7	1	0	62	1.6			-0.4	2.2	1.9
18	Nick Beverley	28	D	63	1	8	9	-9	46	1	0	0	0	8	0	0	75	1.3			-0.4	2.8	2.4
19	Bill Collins	32	RW	50	4	4	8	-19	38	3	0	1	0	3	1	0	47	8.5			-1.2	0.2	-1.0
20	Brad Park*	27	D	13	2	4	6	-4	23	2	0	0	1	3	1	0	28	7.1			0.4	0.5	0.8
21	Dave Maloney	19	D	21	1	3	4	-7	66	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	40	2.5			0.0	0.7	0.7
22	Doug Jarrett	31	D	45	0	4	4	-26	19	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	45	0.0			-0.6	0.8	0.3
23	Eddie Johnstone	21	RW	10	2	1	3	4	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	33.3			0.0	0.3	0.2
24	John Davidson	22	G	56	0	2	2	0	8				0	2			0		3200	57:09	0.0	0.0	6.1
25	Ron Harris	33	D	3	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.1	0.1
26	Doug Soetaert	20	G	8	0	1	1	0	0				0	1			0		272	34:02	0.0	0.0	0.0
27	Greg Holst	21	C	2	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
28	Dale Lewis	23	LW	8	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.3	0.1	-0.3
29	Derek Sanderson	29	C	8	0	0	0	-8	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	29	0.0			-0.3	-0.1	-0.5
30	Dunc Wilson	27	G	20	0	0	0	0	11				0	0			0		1076	53:48	0.0	0.0	1.7
31	Ed Giacomin*	36	G	4	0			0	0				0	0			0		240	60:00	0.0	0.0	0.2
	Team Total			80	262	430	692	-355	899	192	67	3	29	309	117	4	2640	9.9			29.8	22.3	60.1

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	John Davidson	22	56		22	28	5	212	1757	1545	.879	3.97	3	3200				110	-18.5	3.56	6.1
2	Dunc Wilson	27	20		5	9	3	76	551	475	.862	4.24	0	1076				125	-15.3	3.79	1.7
3	Doug Soetaert	20	8		2	2	0	24	167	143	.856	5.29	0	272						4.63	0.0
4	Ed Giacomin*	36	4		0	3	1	19	98	79	.806	4.75	0	240						4.25	0.2
	Team Total				29	42	9	331	2573	2242	.871	4.15	3	4788				117	-47.7	3.71	8.0