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 Season 8 (NHL season 1), 1979-80: NHL Baby! [message #824368 is a reply to message #824021 ]
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	Coach: Glen Sather					
	GM: Larry Gordon					
						
	Regular Season Record: 28W-39L-13T (.431)--69 points					
	301GF 322GA      Finish: 16th overall					
						
				Regular Season		
	Player	Position	Games	Goals	Assists	Points
1	Gretzky, Wayne	F	79	51	86	137
2	MacDonald, Blair	F	80	46	48	94
3	Weir, Stan	F	79	33	33	66
4	Callighen, Brett	F	59	23	35	58
5	Lumley, Dave	F	80	20	38	58
6	Hunter, Dave	F	80	12	31	43
7	Hicks, Doug	D	78	9	31	40
8	Chipperfield, Ron	F	67	18	19	37
9	Siltanen, Risto	D	64	6	29	35
10	Messier, Mark	F	75	12	21	33
11	Price, Pat	D	75	11	21	32
12	Lowe, Kevin	D	64	2	19	21
13	Connnor, Cam	F	38	7	13	20
14	Ashby, Don	F	18	10	9	19
15	Hamilton, Al	D	31	4	15	19
16	Schmautz, Bobby	F	29	8	8	16
17	Fogolin, Lee	D	80	5	10	15
18	Semenko, Dave	F	67	6	7	13
19	Campbell, Colin	D	72	2	11	13
20	Murdoch, Don	F	10	5	2	7
21	Flett, Bill	F	20	5	2	7
22	Driscoll, Peter	F	39	1	5	6
23	Makkonen, Kari	F	9	2	2	4
24	Newman, Dan	F	10	3	1	4
25	Bednarski, John	D	1	0	0	0
26	Baltimore, Bryon	D	2	0	0	0
27	Forbes, Mike	D	2	0	0	0
28	Carter, Ron	F	2	0	0	0
29	Harrison, Jim	F	3	0	0	0
30	Toal, Mike	F	3	0	0	0
31	Areshenkoff, Ron	F	4	0	0	0
32	Tidey, Alex	F	5	0	0	0
33	Popiel, Paul	D	10	0	0	0
34	Bianchin, Wayne	F	11	0	0	0
						
				Goalies		
	Goalie	Games	Min	GAA	SV %	W-L-T
1	Mio, Eddie	34	1711	4.21		9-13-5
2	Corsi, Jim	26	1366	3.65		8-14-3
3	Dryden, Dave	14	744	4.27		2-7-3
4	Low, Ron	11	650	3.42		8-2-1
5	Cutts, Don	6	269	3.57		1-2-1
6	Dupuis, Bob	1	60	4.00		0-1-0


			Playoffs			
	Player	Position	Games	Goals	Assists	Points
1	Gretzky, Wayne	F	3	2	1	3
2	Messier, Mark	F	3	1	2	3
3	MacDonald, Blair	F	3	0	3	3
4	Murdoch, Don	F	3	2	0	2
5	Callighen, Brett	F	3	0	2	2
6	Lowe, Kevin	D	3	0	1	1
7	Lumley, Dave	F	3	1	0	1
8	Hamilton, Al	D	1	0	0	0
9	Siltanen, Risto	D	2	0	0	0
10	Campbell, Colin	D	3	0	0	0
11	Fogolin, Lee	D	3	0	0	0
12	Hicks, Doug	D	3	0	0	0
13	Price, Pat	D	3	0	0	0
14	Ashby, Don	F	3	0	0	0
15	Driscoll, Peter	F	3	0	0	0
16	Hunter, Dave	F	3	0	0	0
17	Semenko, Dave	F	3	0	0	0
18	Weir, Stan	F	3	0	0	0
						
				Goalies		
	Goalie	Games	Min	GAA	SV %	W-L
1	Low, Ron	3	212	3.40		0-3


Playoff result: Eliminated in preliminary round
Round 1: vs Philadelphia, lost 0 games to 3;  6GF 12GA



Transactions

June 9, 1979
• Oilers receive 4th round pick in 1979 (Glenn Anderson) from Minnesota for not selecting Paul Shmyr as a priority selection in dispersal draft.
• WHA dispersal draft—Oilers retained rights to Bryon Baltimore, Brett Callighen, Ron Carter, Ron Chipperfield, Peter Driscoll, Dave Dryden, Bill Flett, Wayne Gretzky, Al Hamilton, Dave Hunter, Blair MacDonald, Joe Micheletti, and Eddie Mio.
• WHA dispersal draft—Oilers lost Doug Berry (Colorado), Steve Carlson (Los Angeles), Bengt Gustafsson (Washington), John Hughes (Vancouver), Dave Langevin (NY Islanders), Jim Mayer (NY Rangers), Cal Sandbeck (Minnesota), Dave Semenko (Minnesota), Paul Shmyr (Minnesota), Risto Siltanen (St. Louis), Dennis Sobchuk (Philadelphia), and Stan Weir (Toronto).

June 13, 1979
• 2nd round pick in 1980 (Ric Nattress) traded to Montreal for Dave Lumley and Dan Newman.
• Expansion Draft—Oilers claimed Ron Areshenkoff (Buffalo), Wayne Bianchin (Pittsburgh), Colin Campbell (Pittsburgh), Cam Connor (Montreal), Lee Fogolin (Buffalo), Mike Forbes (Boston), John Gould* (Atlanta), Doug Hicks (Chicago), Pete Lopresti (Minnesota), Pat Price (NY Islanders), and Reg Thomas* (Chicago).

July 4, 1979
• Claimed Stan Weir on waivers from Toronto.

July 15, 1979
• Signed John Bednarski (formerly with NY Rangers) as free agent.

July 22, 1979
• Signed Kari Makkonen (formerly with NY Islanders) as free agent.

August 7, 1979
• Joe Micheletti traded to St. Louis for Tom Roulston and Risto Siltanen.

August 8, 1979
• Dennis Patterson signed as free agent by Philadelphia.

August 9, 1979
• 2nd (Neal Broten) and 3rd (Kevin Maxwell) round picks in 1979 traded to Minnesota for Dave Semenko and 3rd round pick in 1979 (Mark Messier).
• 1979 NHL entry draft—Oilers selected Kevin Lowe (21), Mark Messier (48), Glenn Anderson (69), and Mike Toal (105).

August 22, 1979
• Reg Thomas* traded to Toronto for 6th round pick (Steve Smith) in 1981.

September 14, 1979
• Signed Charlie Huddy as free agent.

September 24, 1979
• Future considerations traded to Chicago for Jim Harrison.

October 4, 1979
• Signed Jim Corsi as free agent.

November 2, 1979
• Signed Poul Popiel (formerly with Vancouver) as free agent.

November 13, 1979
• John Gould* traded to Buffalo for Alex Tidey.

December 10, 1979
• Dan Newman traded to Boston for Bobby Schmautz.

January 1, 1980
• Signed Roy Sommer (formerly with Toronto) as free agent.


January 12, 1980
• Signed Don Cutts (formerly with NY Islanders) as free agent.

February 25, 1980
• Bobby Schmautz traded to Colorado for Don Ashby.

March 1, 1980
• Signed Bob Dupuis as free agent.

March 11, 1980
• Ron Chipperfield traded to Quebec for Ron Low.
• Cam Connor and 3rd round pick in 1981 (Peter Sundstrom) traded to NY Rangers for Don Murdoch.
• Jim Corsi traded to Minnesota for future considerations.


So the WHA folded after the 78-79 season and the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques, and New England Whalers (now to be dubbed as the Hartford Whalers at the insistence of the Bruins) were welcomed into the NHL (the remaining two franchises in Cincinnati and Birmingham were payed to go away).

So let’s take a look at the NHL at this point. The 78-79 season had been played with 17 teams. You had your original six: Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, NY Rangers, and Toronto. You had five teams from the big 1967 expansion: Los Angeles, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis (the sixth team from that expansion, the Oakland Seals/California Golden Seals/Cleveland Barons had folded in 1978. Interesting note that Cleveland remains the only NHL team to fold in the past 80 years). And finally you had an additional six teams from three different 70s expansions: Buffalo, Vancouver, Atlanta Flames, NY Islanders, Colorado Rockies (nee Kansas City Scout), and Washington. The four WHA teams would make the total 21. While the league was technically divided into two conferences and four divisions, these were essentially meaningless. The schedule was completely balanced with each team playing four games against every other team in the league, and the top 16 teams overall made the playoffs. Number 1 played number 16, number 2 played number 15 and so on with re-seeding after each round.

So the NHL didn’t allow the four new teams to just keep all their players—they needed to punish them first. For the past seven years the NHL had been annoyed when players whose rights were held by NHL teams chose to sign with the WHA. So a dispersal draft was held where each of the WHA teams would be able to protect two goalies and two skaters (called priority selections), while the rest of their roster would be picked over by the other NHL teams. Basically if an unprotected player’s NHL rights were previously held by another team they had the right to claim that player. Following this draft an expansion draft was held where the 17 NHL teams would get to protect most of their roster (15 skaters and 2 goalies) while the four WHA teams each selected 16 players total.

Wayne Gretzky presented a special problem for this process. The NHL would have liked for Gretzky to go in the 1979 entry draft as an 18 year old (this is what happened to Mike Gartner, Michel Goulet, and Mark Messier who had all played as 17 year olds in the 78-79 WHA season) but the personal services contract he had with Pocklington presented an issue. The NHL asked Gretzky to void this contract, but he refused—apparently he realized he would likely go first overall to the Colorado Rockies and preferred to stay in Edmonton. So as a compromise the NHL allowed the Oilers to keep Gretzky’s rights, but made the Oilers use one of their two priority selections on Gretzky, and as further punishment the Oilers would draft last in both the expansion and entry drafts. I would call this a small price to pay to lock up the greatest player in history at 18 years old (without even having to draft him).

So obviously there would be big changes in the team going forward. For the dispersal draft the Oilers protected their two goalies Dryden and Mio. For the second skater they chose to protect Bengt Gustafsson, a hot-shot rookie Swede who had joined the Oilers late in 1979 for two playoff games. The NHL then proceeded to declare that the contract the Oilers had with Gustafsson was invalid and allowed Washington to reclaim him anyway. So the Oilers essentially went into the dispersal draft on June 9, 1979 with none of their skaters protected.

Despite this, they didn’t fare too badly. They did get hit hard on defense losing their two all star d-men from the previous season. Captain Paul Shmyr was claimed by Minnesota while Dave Langevin was claimed by the Islanders. The three other players of significance they lost were Dave Semenko, Risto Siltanen, and Stan Weir, but all three would be re-acquired by the team prior to the start of the season. The Oilers used the expansion draft to replenish the defense, and despite being given the last pick in the entry draft, they would still manage to draft three players that would have long Hall of Fame careers with the team.

So the Oilers entered their first NHL season with the same goaltending duo they had for their last WHA season. After his terrific 78-79, Dryden suddenly couldn’t stop anything. He was getting up there in age at 38, and would play only 14 games in the season before deciding to retire. That left the bulk of the work to Mio and Jim Corsi, the latter a free agent signing. They split the bulk of the load, but neither was giving coach Sather much confidence, causing him to upgrade at the deadline (more on that in a moment).

On defence, in addition to losing Shmyr and Langevin, Joe Michelleti had been traded to re-acquire Risto Siltanen, leaving the Oilers to rely on four guys picked up in the expansion draft: Lee Fogolin, Doug Hicks, Pat Price, and Colin Campbell. Risto Siltanen also came into his own, and their top pick in the draft, a youngster named Kevin Lowe, jumped right into the NHL and was also a solid contributor. While not outstanding, this sextet would do the job most nights. It should also be noted that Al Hamilton was still around, but he was aging and an eye injury suffered the previous season limited his effectiveness. He played just 31 games in 79-80 and would retire after the season (and then have his number retired by the team in 1981).

Amazingly, the Oilers were able to retain their entire top GMC line into the NHL. While Callighen was never drafted in the NHL, it would seem MacDonald’s rights were previously owned by the Kings, so I’m not sure why they didn’t reclaim him. Anyway both would have great seasons, especially MacDonald. He would ride Gretzky’s coat-tails to a 94 point season (good for 9th in NHL scoring) by far the best of his career. Callighen meanwhile was also able to excel, despite missing 21 games with injury—he put up 58 points. Also having a career season was second line centre Stan Weir, whose 66 points put him third on the team. Fifth in team scoring was Dave Lumley with 58; acquired from the Habs in the offseason for a draft pick, he would have a long tenure with the team. Ron Chipperfield was also back. With the loss of Shmyr, he would become the first captain of the team in the NHL, and contributed 18 goals and 37 points before being dealt at the deadline (more on that later). Other notable names included Dave Semenko and Dave Hunter both holdovers from the WHA who would both provide “truculence” over the years; Cam Connor was their first pick in the expansion draft, but he would only play half the season with the team before they flipped him to the Rangers for Don Murdoch—one of the first Oiler acquisitions of a supreme talent with off ice troubles (he had been busted for transporting drugs across the border). And last but not least their 3rd round pick from the draft was a good looking local boy named Mark Messier, who was not yet the player he would become, but he greatly improved his numbers from what he had done in the WHA (11 points in 52 games in 78-79, up to 33 in 75 with the Oilers in 79-80). Keep an eye on this guy.

Which finally brings us to the man himself. Some pundits predicted that the young skinny Gretzky would find the going much tougher in the NHL, but he quickly silenced them. Playing on an expansion team, Gretzky casually put up 137 points, tying for the league lead with the legendary Marcel Dionne. He didn’t even turn 19 until halfway through the season. It was quite the season and got the hockey world’s attention. He would be denied the Calder trophy, as they deemed his year in the WHA made him ineligible. He would also be denied the Art Ross trophy as the tiebreaker was goals, which Dionne had on him 53 5o 51. He would however claim the both Hart and Lady Bying trophies; it would have been nice to see him win four of the six major trophies though.

As might be expected, the team struggled against the more formidable NHL competition (as did all four WHA expansion teams). As the trade deadline approached in March, the Oilers found themselves several points back of the 16th and final playoff spot. In an effort to make something happen, Gordon traded their captain, Ron Chipperfield, to Quebec for veteran goalie Ron Low, in hopes it could spark the team into the playoffs. The gamble payed off as Low was terrific down the stretch propelling the Oilers to an 8-2-1 record which was enough to squeak them into the playoffs, with a 28-39-13 record—good for 16th place, 2 points up on Washington.

Their reward was a first round match-up with the 1st place Flyers. Philadelphia had had a terrific season, starting it off with a record unbeaten streak (25-0-10 to start the season), and finishing with 116 points. From very early on, it was clear that the Oilers were over-matched as the Flyers dominated play right from the get go. Only the extraordinary play of Ron Low kept two of the games close, as the Oilers were badly outshot in each game. I remember watching this series as an 8 year old with my dad and asking why is all the play in the Oilers’ zone? Both games 1 and 3 of the best of 5 went to OT, with the Flyers prevailing; the Flyers also took game 2 5-1 to sweep the series. A tough beginning to the NHL for the Oilers but as we know improvement would come fast and furious.

[Updated on: Fri, 23 June 2023 14:26]


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Read Message Season 35 (NHL 28), 2007-08: Reason for optimism?
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Read Message Season 37, 2009-10: Rock Bottom
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Read Message Season 38 (NHL 31); 2010-11: Year of H.O.P.E.
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Read Message Season 39 (NHL 32), 2011-12: Enter the Nuge
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Read Message Season 40 (NHL 33); 2012-13:Short and not so Sweet
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Read Message Season 41 (NHL 34); 2013-14: Eakins' World
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Read Message Season 42 (NHL 35), 2014-15: Misery continues
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By: Adam on Thu, 28 September 2023 21:59
Read Message Season 43 (NHL 36); 2015-16: 5-14-6-1
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Read Message Season 44 (NHL 37); 2016-17: Playoffs?! PLAYOFFS!
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Read Message Season 45 (NHL 38); 2017-18: A grim regression
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Read Message Season 46 (NHL 39), 2018-19; A resounding thud
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Read Message Season 47 (NHL 40); 2019-20: Covidus Interuptus
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Read Message Season 48 (NHL 41); 2020-21; Life in a Bubble
By: benv on Sun, 19 November 2023 01:37
Read Message Season 49 (NHL 42); 2021-22: Big steps forward
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Read Message Season 50 (NHL 43); 2022-23: Powerplay mania
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