1955-56 NHL Births

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League Champion: Montreal Canadiens

Vezina Trophy: Jacques Plante (42-12-10, 1.86 GAA)

Calder Memorial Trophy: Glenn Hall (30-24-16, 2.10 GAA)

Hart Memorial Trophy: Jean Béliveau (47 G, 41 A, 88 P)

Points Leaders: Jean Béliveau (88)

Assists Leaders: Bert Olmstead (56)

Goals Leaders: Jean Béliveau (47)

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Listing births between Sept. 1 before the season began, and Aug. 31 following the season's end.

Births

Births Table
							Scoring						Goalie Stats
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
1	Reid Bailey	1956-05-28		1981	1984	D	40	1	3	4	-1	105
2	Paul Baxter	1955-10-28		1980	1987	D	472	48	121	169	-63	1564
3	Alain Belanger	1956-01-18		1978	1978	RW	9	0	1	1	0	6
4	Fred Berry	1956-03-26		1977	1977	C	3	0	0	0	-3	0
5	Mike Blake	1956-04-06	2022-11-29	1982	1984	G	40	0	1	1	0	6	40	13	15	5	.867	4.26
6	Rick Blight	1955-10-17	2005-04-16	1976	1983	RW	326	96	125	221	-62	170
7	Jack Brownschidle	1955-10-02		1978	1986	D	494	39	162	201	-37	151
8	Don Cairns	1955-10-08		1976	1977	LW	9	0	1	1	0	2
9	Drew Callander	1956-08-17		1977	1980	C/RW	39	6	2	8	-11	7
10	Al Cameron	1955-10-21		1976	1981	D	282	11	44	55	-107	356
11	Randy Carlyle	1956-04-19		1977	1993	D	1055	148	499	647	-137	1400
12	Tony Cassolato	1956-05-07		1980	1982	RW	23	1	6	7	3	4
13	Blair Chapman	1956-06-13		1977	1983	RW	402	106	125	231	-44	158
14	Steve Clippingdale	1956-04-29		1977	1980	LW	19	1	2	3	3	9
15	Réal Cloutier	1956-07-30		1980	1985	RW	318	146	198	344	16	119
16	Jim Cunningham	1956-08-15	2011-04-29	1978	1978	LW	1	0	0	0	1	4
17	Dave Debol	1956-03-27		1980	1981	C	92	26	26	52	-17	4
18	Ron Delorme	1955-09-03		1977	1985	C	524	83	83	166	-118	667
19	Mike Eaves	1956-06-10		1979	1985	C	324	83	143	226	24	80
20	Don Edwards	1955-09-28		1977	1986	G	459	0	15	15	0	42	459	208	155	74	.887	3.32
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
21	Kari Eloranta	1956-02-29		1982	1987	D	267	13	103	116	23	155
22	Dave Farrish	1956-08-01		1977	1984	D	430	17	110	127	-46	440
23	Bernie Federko	1956-05-12		1977	1990	C	1000	369	761	1130	-131	487
24	Mike Fidler	1956-08-19		1977	1983	LW	271	84	97	181	-51	124
25	Rob Flockhart	1956-02-06	2021-01-02	1977	1981	LW	55	2	5	7	-22	14
26	Paul Gardner	1956-03-05		1977	1986	C	447	201	201	402	-120	207
27	Brad Gassoff	1955-11-13		1976	1979	LW	122	19	17	36	-44	163
28	Pierre Giroux	1955-11-17		1983	1983	C	6	1	0	1	-1	17
29	Lorry Gloeckner	1956-01-25		1979	1979	D	13	0	2	2	-7	6
30	Thomas Gradin	1956-02-18		1979	1987	C	677	209	384	593	-33	298
31	Rick Green	1956-02-20		1977	1992	D	845	43	220	263	-88	588
32	Randy Gregg	1956-02-19		1983	1992	D	474	41	152	193	170	333
33	Matti Hagman	1955-09-21	2016-10-11	1977	1982	C	237	56	89	145	21	36
34	Anders Håkansson	1956-04-27		1982	1986	LW	330	52	46	98	-40	141
35	Doug Halward	1955-11-01		1976	1989	D	653	69	224	293	-96	774
36	Rick Hampton	1956-06-14		1975	1980	LW/D	337	59	113	172	-85	147
37	Richie Hansen	1955-10-30		1977	1982	C	20	2	8	10	10	4
38	Neil Hawryliw	1955-11-09	2021-10-03	1982	1982	RW	1	0	0	0	0	0
39	Rick Hodgson	1956-05-23		1980	1980	D	6	0	0	0	-5	6
40	Ken Holland	1955-11-10		1981	1984	G	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	1	.825	4.96
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
41	Paul Holmgren	1955-12-02		1976	1985	RW	527	144	179	323	106	1684
42	Greg Hotham	1956-03-07		1980	1985	D	230	15	74	89	-48	139
43	Lex Hudson	1955-12-31		1979	1979	D	2	0	0	0	0	0
44	Björn Johansson	1956-01-15		1977	1978	D	15	1	1	2	-13	10
45	Stan Jonathan	1955-09-05		1976	1983	LW	411	91	110	201	68	751
46	Mike Kaszycki	1956-02-27		1978	1983	C	226	42	80	122	16	108
47	Mike Kitchen	1956-02-01		1977	1984	D	474	12	62	74	-139	370
48	Ralph Klassen	1955-09-15	2020-08-03	1976	1984	C	497	52	93	145	-132	120
49	Joe Kowal	1956-02-03	2023-07-25	1977	1978	LW	22	0	5	5	3	13
50	Pierre Larouche	1955-11-16		1975	1988	C	812	395	427	822	-29	237
51	Reed Larson	1956-07-30		1977	1990	D	904	222	463	685	-128	1388
52	Fern LeBlanc	1956-01-12		1977	1979	C	34	5	6	11	-4	0
53	Peter Lee	1956-01-02		1978	1983	RW	431	114	131	245	-55	257
54	Tapio Levo	1955-09-24		1982	1983	D	107	16	53	69	-52	36
55	Mike Liut	1956-01-07		1980	1992	G	663	0	13	13	0	22	663	293	271	74	.883	3.49
56	Morris Lukowich	1956-06-01		1980	1987	LW	582	199	219	418	-103	584
57	Garth MacGuigan	1956-02-16		1980	1984	C	5	0	1	1	1	2
58	Blair MacKasey	1955-12-13		1977	1977	D	1	0	0	0	-1	2
59	Greg Malone	1956-03-08		1977	1987	C	704	191	310	501	-105	661
60	Dave Maloney	1956-07-31		1975	1985	D	657	71	246	317	83	1154
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
61	John Markell	1956-03-10		1980	1985	LW	55	11	10	21	-26	36
62	Terry Martin	1955-10-25		1976	1985	LW	479	104	101	205	-50	202
63	Dennis Maruk	1955-11-17		1976	1989	C	888	356	522	878	-78	761
64	Bryan Maxwell	1955-09-07		1978	1985	D	330	18	77	95	-44	745
65	Gary McAdam	1955-12-31		1976	1986	LW	534	96	132	228	-53	171
66	John McCahill	1955-12-02		1978	1978	D	1	0	0	0	0	0
67	Jeff McDill	1956-03-16	2012-11-03	1977	1977	RW	1	0	0	0	0	0
68	Terry McDonald	1956-01-01		1976	1976	D	8	0	1	1	-5	6
69	Mike McEwen	1956-08-10		1977	1988	D	716	108	296	404	-37	460
70	Roger Melin	1956-04-25		1981	1982	LW	3	0	0	0	-1	0
71	Barry Melrose	1956-07-15		1980	1986	D	300	10	23	33	-119	728
72	Lindsay Middlebrook	1955-09-07		1980	1983	G	37	0	1	1	0	22	37	3	23	6	.856	4.95
73	Lars Molin	1956-05-07		1982	1984	LW	172	33	65	98	-29	37
74	Pierre Mondou	1955-11-27		1978	1985	C	548	194	262	456	213	179
75	Gary Morrison	1955-11-08		1980	1982	RW	43	1	15	16	5	70
76	Kent Nilsson	1956-08-31		1980	1995	C	553	264	422	686	-25	116
77	Claude Noel	1955-10-31		1980	1980	C	7	0	0	0	-3	0
78	Craig Norwich	1955-12-15		1980	1981	D	104	17	58	75	-5	60
79	Mike O'Connell	1955-11-25		1978	1990	D	860	105	335	440	41	605
80	Clayton Pachal	1956-04-21	2021-02-07	1977	1979	C/LW	35	2	3	5	-12	95
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
81	Wilf Paiement	1955-10-16		1975	1988	RW	946	356	458	814	-142	1759
82	Jörgen Pettersson	1956-07-11		1981	1986	LW	435	174	192	366	-10	117
83	Harold Phillipoff	1956-07-14		1978	1980	LW	141	26	57	83	25	267
84	Yves Preston	1956-06-14		1979	1981	LW	28	7	3	10	-1	4
85	Kevin Primeau	1956-01-03		1981	1981	RW	2	0	0	0	0	4
86	Greg Redquest	1956-07-30		1978	1978	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.700	14.08
87	Glen Richardson	1955-09-20		1976	1976	LW	24	3	6	9	-1	19
88	Gary Rissling	1956-08-08		1979	1985	LW	221	23	30	53	-47	1006
89	Jim Roberts	1956-06-08		1977	1979	LW	106	17	23	40	-30	33
90	Tom Rowe	1956-05-23		1977	1983	RW	357	85	100	185	-79	615
91	Bernie Saunders	1956-06-21		1980	1981	LW	10	0	1	1	-2	8
92	Kevin Schamehorn	1956-07-28	2022-12-08	1977	1981	RW	10	0	0	0	-4	17
93	Dwight Schofield	1956-03-25		1977	1988	D	211	8	22	30	2	628
94	Dave Shand	1956-08-11		1977	1985	D	421	19	84	103	81	544
95	Paul Skidmore	1956-07-22		1982	1982	G	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	.878	3.00
96	Larry Skinner	1956-04-21		1977	1980	C	47	10	12	22	-18	8
97	John Smrke	1956-02-25		1978	1980	LW	103	11	17	28	-28	33
98	Vern Stenlund	1956-04-11		1977	1977	C	4	0	0	0	-3	0
99	Dave Taylor	1955-12-04		1978	1994	RW	1111	431	638	1069	186	1589
100	Bryan Trottier	1956-07-17		1976	1994	C	1279	524	901	1425	449	912
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
101	Rob Tudor	1956-06-30		1979	1983	RW/C	28	4	4	8	0	19
102	Greg Vaydik	1955-10-09		1977	1977	C	5	0	0	0	-2	0
103	Fred Williams	1956-07-01		1977	1977	C	44	2	5	7	-17	10
104	Ron Wilson	1956-05-13		1980	1994	C	831	110	216	326	-44	413
105	Warren Young	1956-01-11		1982	1988	C	236	72	77	149	-67	472
106	Ron Zanussi	1956-08-31		1978	1982	RW	299	52	83	135	-21	373

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