1959–60_Detroit_Red_Wings_season

1959–60 Detroit Red Wings
1959–60 Detroit Red Wings
Division	4th NHL
1959–60 record	26–29–15
Goals for	186
Goals against	197
Team information
General manager	Jack Adams
Coach	Sid Abel
Captain	Gordie Howe
Alternate captains	Alex Delvecchio; Red Kelly; Marcel Pronovost
Arena	Detroit Olympia
Team leaders
Goals	Gordie Howe (28)
Assists	Gordie Howe (29)
Points	Gordie Howe (73)
Penalty minutes	Jim Morrison (62)
Wins	Terry Sawchuk (24)
Goals against average	Terry Sawchuk (2.67)
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1959–60 Detroit Red Wings season

National Hockey League team season

The 1959–60 Detroit Red Wings season saw the Red Wings finish in fourth place in the National Hockey League (NHL) with a record of 26 wins, 29 losses, and 15 ties for 67 points. They lost in the Semi-finals to the Toronto Maple Leafs, four games to two.

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		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Montreal Canadiens	70	40	18	12	255	178	+77	92
2	Toronto Maple Leafs	70	35	26	9	199	195	+4	79
3	Chicago Black Hawks	70	28	29	13	191	180	+11	69
4	Detroit Red Wings	70	26	29	15	186	197	−11	67
5	Boston Bruins	70	28	34	8	220	241	−21	64
6	New York Rangers	70	17	38	15	187	247	−60	49

1959–60 NHL Records ^[2]
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MTL	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	5–6–3	5–8–1	4–8	8–4–2	6–6–2
Chicago	6–5–3	—	4–8–2	3–7–4	11–1–2	4–8–2
Detroit	8–5–1	8–4–2	—	2–7–5	4–6–4	4–9–1
Montreal	8–4	7–3–4	7–2–5	—	6–6–2	10–3–1
New York	4–8–2	1–11–2	6–4–4	6–6–2	—	2–9–3
Toronto	6–6–2	8–4–2	9–4–1	3–10–1	9–2–3	—

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	T	October 10, 1959	1–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	0–0–1
2	W	October 11, 1959	4–2	New York Rangers (1959–60)	1–0–1
3	W	October 14, 1959	2–0	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	2–0–1
4	W	October 15, 1959	2–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	3–0–1
5	W	October 18, 1959	3–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	4–0–1
6	W	October 22, 1959	4–1	Boston Bruins (1959–60)	5–0–1
7	L	October 25, 1959	1–2	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	5–1–1
8	T	October 28, 1959	3–3	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	5–1–2
9	L	October 29, 1959	1–2	@ Boston Bruins (1959–60)	5–2–2
10	T	October 31, 1959	2–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	5–2–3
11	W	November 1, 1959	2–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	6–2–3
12	L	November 5, 1959	3–8	Boston Bruins (1959–60)	6–3–3
13	T	November 7, 1959	2–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	6–3–4
14	T	November 8, 1959	3–3	New York Rangers (1959–60)	6–3–5
15	W	November 12, 1959	6–5	@ Boston Bruins (1959–60)	7–3–5
16	W	November 14, 1959	4–0	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	8–3–5
17	L	November 15, 1959	3–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	8–4–5
18	W	November 16, 1959	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	9–4–5
19	L	November 18, 1959	2–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	9–5–5
20	T	November 21, 1959	3–3	@ Boston Bruins (1959–60)	9–5–6
21	W	November 22, 1959	5–3	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	10–5–6
22	L	November 26, 1959	2–4	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	10–6–6
23	L	November 28, 1959	0–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	10–7–6
24	L	November 29, 1959	1–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	10–8–6
25	W	December 5, 1959	4–3	Boston Bruins (1959–60)	11–8–6
26	T	December 6, 1959	4–4	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	11–8–7
27	W	December 9, 1959	2–0	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	12–8–7
28	W	December 12, 1959	3–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	13–8–7
29	W	December 13, 1959	4–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	14–8–7
30	W	December 17, 1959	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	15–8–7
31	L	December 19, 1959	2–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	15–9–7
32	W	December 20, 1959	4–2	@ Boston Bruins (1959–60)	16–9–7
33	L	December 25, 1959	2–5	New York Rangers (1959–60)	16–10–7
34	L	December 27, 1959	1–3	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	16–11–7
35	L	December 31, 1959	2–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	16–12–7
36	T	January 1, 1960	4–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	16–12–8
37	W	January 3, 1960	4–3	Boston Bruins (1959–60)	17–12–8
38	L	January 6, 1960	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	17–13–8
39	T	January 9, 1960	3–3	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	17–13–9
40	L	January 10, 1960	3–4	New York Rangers (1959–60)	17–14–9
41	L	January 13, 1960	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	17–15–9
42	W	January 16, 1960	3–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	18–15–9
43	W	January 17, 1960	4–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	19–15–9
44	W	January 21, 1960	5–2	Boston Bruins (1959–60)	20–15–9
45	L	January 23, 1960	2–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	20–16–9
46	T	January 24, 1960	2–2	New York Rangers (1959–60)	20–16–10
47	L	January 28, 1960	2–4	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	20–17–10
48	L	January 30, 1960	2–3	@ Boston Bruins (1959–60)	20–18–10
49	T	January 31, 1960	3–3	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	20–18–11
50	L	February 4, 1960	1–3	New York Rangers (1959–60)	20–19–11
51	L	February 6, 1960	4–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	20–20–11
52	W	February 7, 1960	5–0	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	21–20–11
53	L	February 11, 1960	2–3	@ Boston Bruins (1959–60)	21–21–11
54	L	February 13, 1960	1–7	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	21–22–11
55	L	February 14, 1960	1–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	21–23–11
56	T	February 18, 1960	3–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	21–23–12
57	W	February 20, 1960	4–1	Boston Bruins (1959–60)	22–23–12
58	L	February 21, 1960	3–6	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	22–24–12
59	T	February 24, 1960	2–2	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	22–24–13
60	W	February 27, 1960	4–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	23–24–13
61	L	February 28, 1960	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	23–25–13
62	W	March 1, 1960	3–2	Boston Bruins (1959–60)	24–25–13
63	T	March 5, 1960	2–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	24–25–14
64	L	March 6, 1960	1–3	@ New York Rangers (1959–60)	24–26–14
65	W	March 8, 1960	3–0	Montreal Canadiens (1959–60)	25–26–14
66	L	March 12, 1960	1–5	@ Boston Bruins (1959–60)	25–27–14
67	T	March 13, 1960	1–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	25–27–15
68	L	March 15, 1960	2–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1959–60)	25–28–15
69	W	March 19, 1960	6–3	New York Rangers (1959–60)	26–28–15
70	L	March 20, 1960	2–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1959–60)	26–29–15

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gordie Howe	RW	70	28	45	73	46
Norm Ullman	C	70	24	34	58	46
Gary Aldcorn	LW	70	22	29	51	32
Alex Delvecchio	C/LW	70	19	28	47	8
Murray Oliver	C	54	20	19	39	16
Jim Morrison	D	70	3	23	26	62
Marcel Pronovost	D	69	7	17	24	38
Len Lunde	C	66	6	17	23	10
Gerry Melnyk	C	63	10	10	20	12
John McKenzie	RW	59	8	12	20	50
Red Kelly	D/C	50	6	12	18	10
Billy McNeill	RW	47	5	13	18	33
Jack McIntyre	D	49	8	7	15	6
Warren Godfrey	D	69	5	9	14	60
Barry Cullen	RW	55	4	9	13	23
Val Fonteyne	LW	69	4	7	11	2
Brian Smith	LW	31	2	5	7	2
Pete Goegan	D	21	3	0	3	6
Len Haley	RW	27	1	2	3	12
Forbes Kennedy	C	17	1	2	3	8
Lou Marcon	D	38	0	3	3	30
Marc Reaume	D	9	0	1	1	2
Gilles Boisvert	G	3	0	0	0	0
Lloyd Haddon	D	8	0	0	0	2
Stu McNeill	C	5	0	0	0	0
Dennis Riggin	G	9	0	0	0	0
Terry Sawchuk	G	58	0	0	0	22
Bob Solinger	W	1	0	0	0	0

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Terry Sawchuk	3480	58	24	20	14	155	2.67	5
Dennis Riggin	540	9	2	6	1	30	3.33	1
Gilles Boisvert	180	3	0	3	0	9	3.00	0
Team:	4200	70	26	29	15	194	2.77	6

1959–60_Detroit_Red_Wings_season

1959–60 Detroit Red Wings season

Regular season

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

Playoffs

Player statistics

Regular season

Playoffs

Awards and records

References

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