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1979-80 Los Angeles Kings Roster and Statistics

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Record: 30-36-14 (74 points), Finished 2nd in NHL Norris Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Bob Berry (30-36-14)

Captain: Mike Murphy

Primary Arena: The Forum

Goals For: 290 (10th of 21), Goals Against: 313 (17th of 21)
SRS: -0.27 (13th of 21), SOS: 0.01 (8th of 21)

Playoffs:
Lost Preliminary Round (3-1) to New York Islanders

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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
Los Angeles Kings	80	30	36	14	74	.463	290	313	-0.27	0.01	3.63	3.91	83	311	26.69	93	291	68.04	6	9	2317	12.5	2456	.873		3
League Average	80	33	33	14	80	.500	281	281					61	280	21.83	61	280	78.17	6	6	2352	12.0	2352	.880		3

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%
Los Angeles Kings
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
14	Syl Apps	ca CA	C	32	6-0	185	R/-	9	August 1, 1947
10	Steve Carlson	us US	C	24	6-3	180	L/-	R	August 26, 1955
16	Marcel Dionne	ca CA	C	28	5-9	190	R/-	8	August 3, 1951
23	Barry Gibbs	ca CA	D	31	5-11	195	R/-	12	September 28, 1948
21	Glenn Goldup	ca CA	RW	26	6-0	190	L/-	6	April 26, 1953
19	Butch Goring	ca CA	C	30	5-9	170	L/-	10	October 22, 1949
30	Ron Grahame	ca CA	G	29	5-11	175	-/L	2	June 7, 1950
3	Doug Halward	ca CA	D	24	6-1	200	L/-	4	November 1, 1955
27	Rick Hampton	ca CA	D	23	6-0	190	L/-	5	June 14, 1956
26	Mark Hardy	ch CH	D	20	5-11	195	L/-	R	February 1, 1959
9	Billy Harris	ca CA	RW	28	6-2	195	L/-	7	January 29, 1952
4	Randy Holt	ca CA	D	27	5-11	185	R/-	5	January 15, 1953
12	Dean Hopkins	ca CA	RW	20	6-1	210	R/-	R	June 6, 1959
20-25	Don Howse	ca CA	LW	27	6-0	182	L/-	R	July 28, 1952
22	Steve Jensen	us US	LW	24	6-2	190	L/-	4	April 14, 1955
31	Doug Keans	ca CA	G	22	5-7	185	-/L	R	January 7, 1958
17	John Paul Kelly	ca CA	LW	20	6-1	215	L/-	R	November 15, 1959
5	Jerry Korab	ca CA	D	31	6-3	220	L/-	9	September 15, 1948
1	Mario Lessard	ca CA	G	25	5-9	190	-/L	1	June 25, 1954
26	Dave Lewis	ca CA	D	26	6-2	205	L/-	6	July 3, 1953
2	Randy Manery	ca CA	D	31	6-0	185	R/-	9	January 10, 1949
9	Mike Marson	ca CA	LW	24	5-9	200	L/-	5	July 24, 1955
5	Richard Mulhern	ca CA	D	24	6-1	188	L/-	4	March 1, 1955
7	Mike Murphy (C)	ca CA	RW	29	6-0	190	R/-	8	September 12, 1950
6	Robert Palmer	ca CA	D	23	5-11	190	R/-	2	September 10, 1956
20	Brad Selwood	ca CA	D	31	6-1	200	L/-	2	March 18, 1948
11	Charlie Simmer	ca CA	LW	25	6-3	210	L/-	5	March 20, 1954
15	André St. Laurent	ca CA	C	26	5-10	180	R/-	6	February 16, 1953
18	Dave Taylor	ca CA	RW	24	6-0	190	R/-	2	December 4, 1955
24	Jay Wells	ca CA	D	20	6-1	210	L/-	R	May 18, 1959
8	Bert Wilson	ca CA	LW	30	6-0	178	L/-	6	October 17, 1949

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	Marcel Dionne*	28	C	80	53	84	137	34	32	36	17	0	6	55	29	0	348	15.2			11.6	2.0	13.5
2	Charlie Simmer	25	LW	64	56	45	101	47	65	35	21	0	8	29	16	0	213	26.3			9.7	2.1	11.8
3	Dave Taylor	24	RW	61	37	53	90	38	72	25	12	0	7	40	13	0	170	21.8			7.4	1.8	9.3
4	Butch Goring	30	C	69	20	48	68	-20	12	18	2	0	1	20	28	0	160	12.5			4.0	0.3	4.3
5	Doug Halward	24	D	63	11	45	56	13	52	3	8	0	0	19	25	1	165	6.7			3.9	3.6	7.6
6	Mike Murphy	29	RW	80	27	22	49	-13	29	17	7	3	1	19	3	0	176	15.3			2.6	0.6	3.2
7	Robert Palmer	23	D	78	4	36	40	28	18	3	1	0	0	32	4	0	110	3.6			1.8	5.2	7.0
8	Steve Jensen	24	LW	76	21	15	36	-37	13	15	4	2	2	10	5	0	149	14.1			1.3	-0.2	1.2
9	André St. Laurent	26	C	77	6	24	30	-12	88	5	1	0	0	19	4	1	121	5.0			-0.4	0.6	0.2
10	Glenn Goldup	26	RW	55	10	11	21	-4	78	9	1	0	1	11	0	0	92	10.9			0.2	0.5	0.7
11	Steve Carlson	24	C	52	9	12	21	-7	23	8	1	0	1	9	2	1	45	20.0			0.2	0.4	0.6
12	Syl Apps	32	C	51	5	16	21	-17	12	4	1	0	0	13	3	0	53	9.4			-0.1	0.1	0.0
13	Randy Manery	31	D	52	6	10	16	-13	48	3	3	0	0	3	7	0	73	8.2			0.6	1.6	2.3
14	Dean Hopkins	20	RW	60	8	6	14	-15	39	7	1	0	2	5	1	0	57	14.0			-0.8	0.3	-0.5
15	Brad Selwood	31	D	63	1	13	14	-13	82	0	1	0	0	7	6	0	78	1.3			-0.2	2.1	2.0
16	Barry Gibbs	31	D	63	2	9	11	-13	32	2	0	0	0	9	0	0	55	3.6			-0.3	2.1	1.8
17	Billy Harris	28	RW	11	4	3	7	4	6	3	1	0	1	3	0	0	22	18.2			0.4	0.2	0.7
18	Bert Wilson	30	LW	75	4	3	7	-19	91	2	1	1	0	3	0	0	56	7.1			-2.2	0.4	-1.9
19	Don Howse	27	LW	33	2	5	7	-16	6	2	0	0	0	4	1	0	46	4.3			-0.7	-0.1	-0.7
20	John Paul Kelly	20	LW	40	2	5	7	-6	28	2	0	0	0	5	0	0	31	6.5			-0.9	0.3	-0.6
21	Jerry Korab	31	D	11	1	2	3	-3	34	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	30	3.3			0.1	0.3	0.4
22	Richard Mulhern	24	D	15	0	3	3	1	16	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	8	0.0			-0.1	0.7	0.7
23	Dave Lewis	26	D	11	1	1	2	3	12	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	11	9.1			0.0	0.7	0.7
24	Ron Grahame	29	G	26	0	1	1	0	2				0	1			0		1406	54:04	0.0	0.0	2.5
25	Mark Hardy	20	D	15	0	1	1	-7	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	14	0.0			-0.2	0.3	0.0
26	Randy Holt	27	D	42	0	1	1	-4	94	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	0.0			-0.8	1.7	0.9
27	Rick Hampton	23	D	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.3	0.2
28	Doug Keans	22	G	10	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		556	55:39	0.0	0.0	2.3
29	Mario Lessard	25	G	50	0	0	0	0	6				0	0			0		2825	56:30	0.0	0.0	5.9
30	Mike Marson	24	LW	3	0	0	0	-2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
31	Jay Wells	20	D	43	0	0	0	-22	113	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22	0.0			-0.9	0.7	-0.2
	Team Total			80	290	474	764	-72	1118	201	83	6	30	323	148	3	2317	12.5			36.1	28.9	75.6

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	Mario Lessard	25	50		18	22	7	185	1420	1235	.870	3.93	0	2825				111	-18.2	3.44	5.9
2	Ron Grahame	29	26		9	11	4	98	782	684	.875	4.18	2	1406				107	-6.1	3.67	2.5
3	Doug Keans	22	10		3	3	3	23	247	224	.907	2.48	0	556				79	6.0	2.16	2.3
	Team Total				30	36	14	306	2449	2143	.875	3.84	2	4787				106	-18.2	3.36	10.6