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1980-81 New York Rangers Roster and Statistics

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Record: 30-36-14 (74 points), Finished 4th in NHL Patrick Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Fred Shero (4-13-3), Craig Patrick (26-23-11)

Captain: Barry Beck , Dave Maloney , Walt Tkaczuk

Primary Arena: Madison Square Garden (IV)

Goals For: 312 (12th of 21), Goals Against: 317 (12th of 21)
SRS: -0.06 (12th of 21), SOS: 0.00 (10th of 21)

Playoffs:
Lost Semi-Finals (4-0) to New York Islanders
Won Quarter-Finals (4-2) over St. Louis Blues
Won Preliminary Round (3-1) over Los Angeles Kings

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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	30	36	14	74	.463	312	317	-0.06	0.00	3.90	3.96	63	351	17.95	83	392	78.83	14	12	2459	12.7	2222	.857		2
League Average	80	32	32	16	80	.500	307	307					77	340	22.54	77	340	77.46	10	10	2441	12.6	2441	.874		2

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%
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Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
14	Mike Allison	ca CA	LW	19	6-0	200	R/-	R	March 28, 1961	26 G, 38 A, 64 P
35	Steve Baker	us US	G	23	6-3	200	-/L	1	May 6, 1957	10-6-5, 3.49 GAA
25	Jeff Bandura	ca CA	D	23	6-1	195	R/-	R	February 4, 1957	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
3	Barry Beck (C)	ca CA	D	23	6-3	216	L/-	3	June 3, 1957	11 G, 23 A, 34 P
6	Tim Bothwell	ca CA	D	25	6-3	190	L/-	2	May 6, 1955	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
27	Gary Burns	us US	C	26	6-1	190	L/-	R	January 16, 1955	2 G, 2 A, 4 P
20	Cam Connor	ca CA	RW	26	6-2	200	L/-	2	August 10, 1954	1 G, 3 A, 4 P
30	John Davidson	ca CA	G	27	6-3	205	-/L	7	February 27, 1953	1-7-1, 5.17 GAA
27	André Doré	ca CA	D	22	6-2	200	R/-	2	February 11, 1958	1 G, 3 A, 4 P
10	Ron Duguay	ca CA	C	23	6-2	200	R/-	3	July 6, 1957	17 G, 21 A, 38 P
77	Phil Esposito	ca CA	C	38	6-1	205	L/-	17	February 20, 1942	7 G, 13 A, 20 P
22	Nick Fotiu	us US	LW	28	6-2	210	L/-	4	May 25, 1952	5 G, 6 A, 11 P
6	Jere Gillis	us US	LW	24	6-0	194	L/-	3	January 18, 1957	10 G, 10 A, 20 P
4	Ron Greschner	ca CA	D	26	6-2	205	L/-	6	December 22, 1954	27 G, 41 A, 68 P
15	Anders Hedberg	se SE	RW	29	5-11	175	L/-	2	February 25, 1951	30 G, 40 A, 70 P
23	Ed Hospodar	us US	D	21	6-2	210	R/-	1	February 9, 1959	5 G, 14 A, 19 P
28	John Hughes	ca CA	D	26	5-11	200	L/-	1	March 18, 1954	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
17	Eddie Johnstone	ca CA	RW	26	5-9	175	R/-	4	March 2, 1954	30 G, 38 A, 68 P
24	Chris Kotsopoulos	ca CA	D	22	6-3	215	R/-	R	November 27, 1958	4 G, 12 A, 16 P
2	Tom Laidlaw	ca CA	D	22	6-2	215	L/-	R	April 15, 1958	6 G, 23 A, 29 P
26	Dave Maloney (C)	ca CA	D	24	6-1	195	L/-	6	July 31, 1956	11 G, 36 A, 47 P
12	Don Maloney	ca CA	LW	22	6-1	190	L/-	2	September 5, 1958	29 G, 23 A, 52 P
25	Mario Marois	ca CA	D	23	5-11	190	R/-	3	December 15, 1957	1 G, 2 A, 3 P
28	Dan McCarthy	ca CA	C	22	5-9	185	L/-	R	April 7, 1958	4 G, 0 A, 4 P
28	Mike McDougal	us US	RW	22	6-2	200	L/-	1	April 30, 1958	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
21	Lance Nethery	ca CA	C	23	6-1	185	L/-	R	June 28, 1957	11 G, 12 A, 23 P
11	Ulf Nilsson	se SE	C	30	5-11	175	R/-	2	May 11, 1950	14 G, 25 A, 39 P
16	Dave Silk	us US	RW	23	5-11	190	R/-	1	January 1, 1958	14 G, 12 A, 26 P
31-33	Doug Soetaert	ca CA	G	25	6-0	180	-/L	5	April 21, 1955	16-16-7, 3.94 GAA
9	Doug Sulliman	ca CA	RW	21	6-2	210	L/-	1	August 29, 1959	4 G, 1 A, 5 P
19	Dean Talafous	us US	RW	27	6-4	180	R/-	6	August 25, 1953	13 G, 17 A, 30 P
1	Wayne Thomas	ca CA	G	33	6-2	195	-/L	7	October 9, 1947	3-6-1, 3.42 GAA
18	Walt Tkaczuk (C)	de DE	C	33	6-0	185	L/-	13	September 29, 1947	6 G, 22 A, 28 P
5	Carol Vadnais	ca CA	D	35	6-1	185	L/-	14	September 25, 1945	3 G, 20 A, 23 P
8	Steve Vickers	ca CA	LW	29	6-0	180	L/-	8	April 21, 1951	19 G, 39 A, 58 P
25	Peter Wallin	se SE	RW	23	5-9	170	R/-	R	April 30, 1957	1 G, 5 A, 6 P
31	Steve Weeks	ca CA	G	22	5-11	170	-/L	R	June 30, 1958	0-1-0, 2.04 GAA

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					Scoring					Goals				Assists			Shots		Ice Time
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EVG	PPG	SHG	GWG	EV	PP	SH	SOG	SPCT	TOI	ATOI	Awards
1	Anders Hedberg	29	RW	80	30	40	70	0	52	22	7	1	3	25	15	0	243	12.3
2	Eddie Johnstone	26	RW	80	30	38	68	14	100	23	4	3	5	28	5	5	187	16.0			ASG
3	Ron Greschner	26	D	74	27	41	68	-2	112	21	6	0	1	20	20	1	193	14.0			ASnhl-20,Norris-14
4	Mike Allison	19	LW	75	26	38	64	12	83	22	4	0	2	26	12	0	122	21.3			Calder-11
5	Steve Vickers	29	LW	73	19	39	58	8	40	13	5	1	3	31	8	0	85	22.4
6	Don Maloney	22	LW	61	29	23	52	17	99	17	7	5	9	21	2	0	124	23.4			Selke-29
7	Dave Maloney	24	D	79	11	36	47	25	132	8	3	0	1	25	10	1	140	7.9
8	Ulf Nilsson	30	C	51	14	25	39	-3	42	13	1	0	3	16	9	0	80	17.5
9	Ron Duguay	23	C	50	17	21	38	2	83	11	5	1	0	15	5	1	103	16.5
10	Barry Beck	23	D	75	11	23	34	9	231	4	6	1	0	13	9	1	182	6.0			ASnhl-29
11	Dean Talafous	27	RW	50	13	17	30	2	28	10	1	2	0	15	1	1	73	17.8
12	Tom Laidlaw	22	D	80	6	23	29	-1	100	5	1	0	0	22	0	1	101	5.9
13	Walt Tkaczuk	33	C	43	6	22	28	13	28	5	1	0	0	20	0	2	67	9.0
14	Dave Silk	23	RW	59	14	12	26	-24	58	12	2	0	1	7	5	0	124	11.3
15	Carol Vadnais	35	D	74	3	20	23	20	91	2	1	0	0	15	4	1	118	2.5
16	Lance Nethery	23	C	33	11	12	23	0	12	9	2	0	0	12	0	0	47	23.4
17	Phil Esposito	38	C	41	7	13	20	-15	20	4	3	0	0	10	3	0	91	7.7
18	Jere Gillis	24	LW	35	10	10	20	6	4	9	1	0	1	9	1	0	63	15.9
19	Ed Hospodar	21	D	61	5	14	19	10	214	5	0	0	0	12	2	0	49	10.2
20	Chris Kotsopoulos	22	D	54	4	12	16	-10	153	4	0	0	0	8	4	0	104	3.8
21	Nick Fotiu	28	LW	27	5	6	11	-6	91	4	1	0	0	6	0	0	28	17.9
22	Peter Wallin	23	RW	12	1	5	6	-1	2	1	0	0	0	4	1	0	14	7.1
23	Doug Sulliman	21	RW	32	4	1	5	-9	32	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	56	7.1
24	Dan McCarthy	22	C	5	4	0	4	3	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	57.1
25	André Doré	22	D	15	1	3	4	-1	15	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	15	6.7
26	Cam Connor	26	RW	15	1	3	4	6	44	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	16	6.3
27	Gary Burns	26	C	11	2	2	4	-9	18	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	13	15.4
28	Mario Marois	23	D	8	1	2	3	-5	46	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	11	9.1
29	Wayne Thomas	33	G	10	0	2	2	0	2				0	2			0		596:47
30	Jeff Bandura	23	D	2	0	1	1	-3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0
31	John Davidson	27	G	10	0	1	1	0	2				0	1			0		557:21
32	Tim Bothwell	25	D	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
33	Steve Weeks	22	G	1	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		58:57
34	Doug Soetaert	25	G	39	0	0	0	0	2				0	0			0		2316:32
35	Mike McDougal	22	RW	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
36	Steve Baker	23	G	21	0	0	0	0	5				0	0			0		1256:20
	Team Totals			80	312	506	818	59	1947	235	63	14	30	374	118	14	2459	12.7	4785:57

Standard Stats Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists			Shots		Ice Time
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EVG	PPG	SHG	GWG	EV	PP	SH	SOG	SPCT	TOI	ATOI	Awards
1	Ron Duguay	23	C	14	8	9	17	6	16	7	0	1	1	6	2	1	39	20.5
2	Anders Hedberg	29	RW	14	8	8	16	4	6	5	3	0	0	6	2	0	32	25.0
3	Ulf Nilsson	30	C	14	8	8	16	3	23	5	3	0	1	5	3	0	34	23.5
4	Barry Beck	23	D	14	5	8	13	4	32	3	1	1	0	5	3	0	31	16.1
5	Ron Greschner	26	D	14	4	8	12	2	17	3	1	0	0	5	3	0	34	11.8
6	Steve Vickers	29	LW	12	4	7	11	2	14	3	1	0	0	6	1	0	14	28.6
7	Peter Wallin	23	RW	14	2	6	8	2	6	2	0	0	0	4	2	0	26	7.7
8	Dean Talafous	27	RW	14	3	5	8	3	2	3	0	0	0	4	0	1	18	16.7
9	Lance Nethery	23	C	14	5	3	8	2	9	5	0	0	1	3	0	0	22	22.7
10	Jere Gillis	24	LW	14	2	5	7	2	9	2	0	0	0	5	0	0	20	10.0
11	Don Maloney	22	LW	13	1	6	7	0	13	0	1	0	0	6	0	0	23	4.3
12	Tom Laidlaw	22	D	14	1	4	5	5	18	1	0	0	1	4	0	0	17	5.9
13	Mike Allison	19	LW	14	3	1	4	-2	20	2	1	0	2	1	0	0	18	16.7
14	Carol Vadnais	35	D	14	1	3	4	9	26	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	18	5.6
15	Eddie Johnstone	26	RW	8	2	2	4	3	4	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	13	15.4
16	Chris Kotsopoulos	22	D	14	0	3	3	3	63	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	16	0.0
17	Dave Maloney	24	D	2	0	2	2	0	9	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0.0
18	Ed Hospodar	21	D	12	2	0	2	1	93	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	11.1
19	John Hughes	26	D	3	0	1	1	3	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
20	Doug Sulliman	21	RW	3	1	0	1	-3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	33.3
21	Steve Weeks	22	G	1	0	0	0		0				0	0			0		14:00
22	Nick Fotiu	28	LW	2	0	0	0	-1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0
23	Gary Burns	26	LW	1	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0
24	Steve Baker	23	G	14	0	0	0		4				0	0			0		823:41
	Team Totals			14	60	89	149	46	396	47	11	2	7	68	19	2	403	14.9	837:41

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Goalie Stats

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Goalie Stats Table
			Goalie Stats															Scoring
Rk	Player	Age	GP	W	L	T/O	GA	Shots	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	GA%-	GSAA	GAA/A	GPS	G	A	PTS	PIM	Awards
1	Wayne Thomas	33	10	3	6	1	34	257	223	.868	3.42	0	596:47	107	-2.2	2.71	1.9	0	2	2	2
2	John Davidson	27	10	1	7	1	48	285	237	.832	5.17	0	557:21	136	-12.7	4.09	0.6	0	1	1	2
3	Doug Soetaert	25	39	16	16	7	152	1041	889	.854	3.94	0	2316:32	118	-23.1	3.13	5.9	0	0	0	2
4	Steve Baker	23	21	10	6	5	73	609	536	.880	3.49	2	1256:20	97	2.4	2.77	3.9	0	0	0	5
5	Steve Weeks	22	1	0	1	0	2	22	20	.909	2.04	0	58:57	73	0.7	2.04	0.3	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals		80	30	36	14	309	2214	1905	.860	3.87	2	4785:57	113	-34.8	3.08	12.5	0	3	3	11

Goalie Stats Table
			Goalie Stats													Scoring
Rk	Player	Age	GP	W	L	T/O	GA	Shots	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	GA%-	GSAA	G	A	PTS	PIM	Awards
1	Steve Baker	23	14	7	7	0	55	381	326	.856	4.01	0	823:41	117	-7.8	0	0	0	4
2	Steve Weeks	22	1	0	0	0	1	10	9	.900	4.29	0	14:00	81	0.2	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals		14	7	7	0	56	391	335	.857	4.01	0	837:41	116	-7.6	0	0	0	4

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Miscellaneous Stats

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					Adjusted				Plus/Minus					Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	GC	TGF	PGF	TGA	PGA	+/-	OPS	DPS	PS	Awards
1	Anders Hedberg	29	RW	80	23	31	54	21.0	110	34	91	15	0	3.9	0.9	4.8
2	Eddie Johnstone	26	RW	80	23	29	52	20.5	96	21	85	24	14	3.7	1.3	5.0	ASG
3	Ron Greschner	26	D	74	20	32	52	19.6	135	42	108	13	-2	5.3	3.1	8.4	ASnhl-20,Norris-14
4	Mike Allison	19	LW	75	20	29	49	18.8	96	23	67	6	12	3.4	1.2	4.5	Calder-11
5	Steve Vickers	29	LW	73	14	30	44	15.8	77	15	56	2	8	2.5	1.0	3.6
6	Don Maloney	22	LW	61	22	18	40	16.9	89	23	59	10	17	3.3	1.1	4.5	Selke-29
7	Dave Maloney	24	D	79	8	28	36	12.0	121	26	100	30	25	2.5	4.8	7.3
8	Ulf Nilsson	30	C	51	11	19	30	11.2	59	20	56	14	-3	1.7	0.5	2.2
9	Ron Duguay	23	C	50	13	16	29	11.5	54	10	62	20	2	1.9	0.6	2.5
10	Barry Beck	23	D	75	8	18	26	9.3	114	30	111	36	9	1.7	3.7	5.4	ASnhl-29
11	Dean Talafous	27	RW	50	10	13	23	9.0	45	4	49	10	2	1.0	0.6	1.7
12	Tom Laidlaw	22	D	80	5	18	23	7.6	95	5	114	23	-1	0.8	3.4	4.3
13	Walt Tkaczuk	33	C	43	5	17	22	7.4	40	2	38	13	13	0.7	0.8	1.5
14	Dave Silk	23	RW	59	11	9	20	8.5	38	9	58	5	-24	0.4	0.0	0.5
15	Lance Nethery	23	C	33	8	9	17	6.8	31	3	34	6	0	1.1	0.4	1.5
16	Carol Vadnais	35	D	74	2	15	17	5.2	86	9	101	44	20	0.3	4.3	4.6
17	Jere Gillis	24	LW	35	8	8	16	6.6	33	4	24	1	6	0.7	0.6	1.3
18	Phil Esposito	38	C	41	5	10	15	5.5	46	14	54	7	-15	0.2	0.1	0.3
19	Ed Hospodar	21	D	61	4	11	15	5.2	40	4	30	4	10	0.4	3.2	3.6
20	Chris Kotsopoulos	22	D	54	3	9	12	4.1	46	8	62	14	-10	0.3	1.8	2.1
21	Nick Fotiu	28	LW	27	4	5	9	3.6	16	1	21	0	-6	0.0	0.1	0.2
22	Peter Wallin	23	RW	12	1	4	5	1.6	9	2	9	1	-1	0.0	0.1	0.1
23	Doug Sulliman	21	RW	32	3	1	4	1.9	11	0	24	4	-9	-0.7	0.1	-0.5
24	Dan McCarthy	22	C	5	3	0	3	1.6	7	2	2	0	3	0.4	0.1	0.5
25	André Doré	22	D	15	1	2	3	1.1	9	0	12	2	-1	0.0	0.6	0.6
26	Cam Connor	26	RW	15	1	2	3	1.1	11	0	5	0	6	-0.3	0.3	0.1
27	Gary Burns	26	C	11	2	2	4	1.6	5	1	16	3	-9	0.0	-0.1	-0.1
28	Mario Marois	23	D	8	1	2	3	1.1	8	2	12	1	-5	0.1	0.1	0.2
29	Tim Bothwell	25	D	3	0	1	1	0.3	3	0	3	0	0	0.0	0.1	0.1
30	Jeff Bandura	23	D	2	0	1	1	0.3	1	0	4	0	-3	0.0	-0.1	0.0
31	Mike McDougal	22	RW	2	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	1	-0.1	0.0	0.0

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