1981-82 Minnesota North Stars Roster and Statistics

Record: 37-23-20 (94 points), Finished 1st in NHL Norris Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Glen Sonmor (37-23-20)

Primary Arena: Met Center

Goals For: 346 (5th of 21), Goals Against: 288 (6th of 21)
SRS: 0.53 (5th of 21), SOS: -0.19 (20th of 21)

Playoffs:
Lost Division Semi-Finals (3-1) to Chicago Black Hawks

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Recent Game Results

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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
Minnesota North Stars	80	37	23	20	94	.588	346	288	0.53	-0.19	4.33	3.60	89	362	24.59	49	271	81.92	11	9	2641	13.1	2633	.891		1
League Average	80	33	33	14	80	.500	321	321					73	320	22.89	73	320	77.11	9	9	2489	12.9	2489	.871		1

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%
Minnesota North Stars
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
8	Kent-Erik Andersson	se SE	RW	30	6-2	185	-/-	4	May 24, 1951
29	Mike Antonovich	us US	C	30	5-8	165	L/-	2	October 18, 1951
3	Fred Barrett	ca CA	D	32	5-11	195	L/-	10	January 26, 1950
33	Don Beaupre	ca CA	G	20	5-10	172	-/L	1	September 19, 1961
7	Neal Broten	us US	C	22	5-9	175	L/-	1	November 29, 1959
6	Murray Brumwell	ca CA	D	21	6-2	190	L/-	1	March 31, 1960
21	Jack Carlson	us US	LW	27	6-3	205	L/-	2	August 23, 1954
28	Steve Christoff	us US	C	24	6-1	180	R/-	2	January 23, 1958
20	Dino Ciccarelli	ca CA	RW	21	5-10	185	R/-	1	February 8, 1960
31-32	Jim Dobson	ca CA	RW	21	6-1	195	R/-	2	February 29, 1960
18	Mike Eaves	us US	RW	25	5-10	180	R/-	3	June 10, 1956
29-31	Ron Friest	ca CA	LW	23	5-11	185	L/-	1	November 4, 1958
2	Curt Giles	ca CA	D	23	5-8	175	L/-	2	November 30, 1958
16	Anders Håkansson	se SE	LW	25	6-2	190	L/-	R	April 27, 1956
4	Craig Hartsburg	ca CA	D	22	6-1	200	L/-	2	June 29, 1959
6	Peter Hayek	us US	D	24	5-10	200	L/-	R	November 16, 1957
32	Archie Henderson	ca CA	RW	24	6-6	220	R/-	1	February 17, 1957
9	Mark Johnson	us US	C	24	5-9	170	L/-	2	September 22, 1957
6	Udo Kiessling	dd DD	D	26	5-10	180	L/-	R	May 21, 1955
25	Al MacAdam	ca CA	RW	29	6-0	180	L/-	8	March 16, 1952
5	Brad Maxwell	ca CA	D	24	6-2	195	R/-	4	July 8, 1957
9	Kevin Maxwell	ca CA	C	21	5-9	165	R/-	1	March 30, 1960
11	Tom McCarthy	ca CA	LW	21	6-2	200	L/-	2	July 31, 1960
23	Ron Meighan	ca CA	D	18	6-3	195	R/-	R	May 26, 1963
29	Roger Melin	se SE	LW	25	6-4	195	L/-	1	April 25, 1956
27	Gilles Meloche	ca CA	G	31	5-10	185	-/L	11	July 12, 1950
35	Lindsay Middlebrook	ca CA	G	26	5-7	160	-/R	2	September 7, 1955
24	Bill Nyrop	us US	D	29	6-2	205	L/-	3	July 23, 1952
14	Brad Palmer	ca CA	LW	20	6-0	185	L/-	1	September 14, 1961
26	Steve Payne	ca CA	LW	23	6-2	210	L/-	3	August 16, 1958
6	Daniel Poulin	ca CA	D	24	5-11	185	R/-	R	September 19, 1957
29	Dave Richter	ca CA	D	21	6-5	225	R/-	R	April 8, 1960
10	Gordie Roberts	us US	D	24	6-1	195	L/-	2	October 2, 1957
22	Gary Sargent	us US	D	27	5-10	210	L/-	6	February 8, 1954
15	Bobby Smith	ca CA	C	23	6-4	210	L/-	3	February 12, 1958
12-31	Ken Solheim	ca CA	LW	20	6-3	210	L/-	1	March 27, 1961
17	Tim Young (C)	ca CA	C	26	6-1	190	R/-	6	February 22, 1955
12	Warren Young	ca CA	C	26	6-3	195	L/-	R	January 11, 1956
29	Tom Younghans	us US	RW	29	5-11	175	R/-	5	January 22, 1953

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	Bobby Smith	23	C	80	43	71	114	10	82	23	20	0	4	56	15	0	261	16.5			7.3	1.4	8.7
2	Dino Ciccarelli*	21	RW	76	55	51	106	14	138	35	20	0	4	34	17	0	289	19.0			7.7	1.5	9.2
3	Neal Broten	22	C	73	38	60	98	14	42	29	7	2	4	39	19	2	188	20.2			6.2	1.4	7.6
4	Steve Payne	23	LW	74	33	45	78	20	76	22	11	0	3	31	14	0	239	13.8			4.4	1.6	6.0
5	Craig Hartsburg	22	D	76	17	60	77	11	117	12	5	0	2	31	29	0	204	8.3			4.8	5.0	9.8
6	Al MacAdam	29	RW	79	18	43	61	9	37	11	5	2	4	35	7	1	141	12.8			2.1	1.4	3.4
7	Steve Christoff	24	C	69	26	29	55	9	14	22	4	0	1	27	2	0	178	14.6			2.6	1.2	3.8
8	Brad Palmer	20	LW	72	22	23	45	-13	18	15	7	0	3	16	7	0	180	12.2			1.5	0.7	2.3
9	Tom McCarthy	21	LW	40	12	30	42	10	36	9	3	0	1	22	7	1	89	13.5			2.0	0.8	2.8
10	Tim Young	26	C	50	10	31	41	1	67	9	1	0	1	22	7	2	125	8.0			1.4	0.8	2.1
11	Gordie Roberts	24	D	79	4	30	34	-3	119	4	0	0	0	19	11	0	104	3.8			1.0	4.5	5.4
12	Brad Maxwell	24	D	51	10	21	31	6	96	9	0	1	1	12	9	0	109	9.2			1.7	3.3	5.0
13	Mike Eaves	25	RW	25	11	10	21	2	0	9	2	0	1	7	3	0	62	17.7			1.1	0.4	1.5
14	Kent-Erik Andersson	30	RW	70	9	12	21	-5	18	9	0	0	2	7	0	5	78	11.5			-0.9	0.9	0.0
15	Anders Håkansson	25	LW	72	12	4	16	-11	29	8	0	4	1	4	0	0	76	15.8			-1.1	0.8	-0.3
16	Fred Barrett	32	D	69	1	15	16	-12	89	1	0	0	0	15	0	0	43	2.3			-0.3	3.4	3.2
17	Curt Giles	23	D	74	3	12	15	15	87	3	0	0	1	10	0	2	65	4.6			-0.3	5.1	4.8
18	Jack Carlson	27	LW	57	8	4	12	-5	103	7	1	0	1	4	0	0	39	20.5			-1.0	0.7	-0.3
19	Bill Nyrop	29	D	42	4	8	12	14	35	3	0	1	1	8	0	0	25	16.0			0.2	3.2	3.4
20	Ken Solheim	20	LW	29	4	5	9	-8	4	2	2	0	2	5	0	0	46	8.7			-0.3	0.2	-0.1
21	Kevin Maxwell	21	C	12	1	4	5	-1	8	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	20	5.0			-0.1	0.1	0.1
22	Gary Sargent	27	D	15	0	5	5	5	18	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	24	0.0			0.0	1.1	1.2
23	Mark Johnson	24	C	10	2	2	4	-4	10	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	18	11.1			0.0	0.0	0.0
24	Murray Brumwell	21	D	21	0	3	3	0	18	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	12	0.0			-0.2	1.2	1.0
25	Ron Meighan	18	D	7	1	1	2	-1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	25.0			0.1	0.4	0.4
26	Daniel Poulin	24	D	3	1	1	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	8	12.5			0.1	0.2	0.4
27	Tom Younghans	29	RW	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	50.0			0.0	0.1	0.1
28	Gilles Meloche	31	G	51	0	1	1	0	6				0	1			0		3022	59:15	0.0	0.0	10.0
29	Mike Antonovich	30	C	2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
30	Don Beaupre	20	G	28	0	0	0	0	4				0	0			0		1632	58:18	0.0	0.0	4.9
31	Jim Dobson	21	RW	6	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0			-0.3	0.1	-0.2
32	Ron Friest	23	LW	10	0	0	0	-4	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0			-0.4	0.0	-0.4
33	Peter Hayek	24	D	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	0.0
34	Archie Henderson	24	RW	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	0.0
35	Udo Kiessling	26	D	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.1	0.0
36	Roger Melin	25	LW	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
37	Lindsay Middlebrook	26	G	3	0	0	0	0	20				0	0			0		140	46:40	0.0	0.0	0.5
38	Dave Richter	21	D	3	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.1
39	Warren Young	26	C	1	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	-0.1	-0.1
	Team Total			80	346	581	927	70	1343	246	89	11	37	413	155	13	2641	13.1			39.1	41.8	96.4

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	Gilles Meloche	31	51		26	15	9	175	1652	1477	.894	3.48	1	3022				83	35.0	2.64	10.0
2	Don Beaupre	20	28		11	8	9	101	906	805	.889	3.71	0	1632				88	14.2	2.83	4.9
3	Lindsay Middlebrook	26	3		0	0	2	7	70	63	.900	3.00	0	140						2.14	0.5
	Team Total				37	23	20	283	2628	2345	.892	3.54	1	4794				85	51.0	2.69	15.5