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1976–77 Edmonton Oilers season

WHA hockey team season

Field	Value
League	WHA
Season	1976–77
year	1976
Team	Edmonton Oilers
Division	Western
DivisionRank	4th
Record	34–43–4
HomeRecord	24–15–3
RoadRecord	10–28–1
GoalsFor	243
GoalsAgainst	304
GeneralManager	Bep Guidolin
Coach	Bep Guidolin (25–36–2)
Glen Sather (9–7–2)
Captain	Glen Sather (Oct–Mar)
Vacant (Mar–Apr)
AltCaptain	Doug Barrie
Ron Busniuk
Arena	Northlands Coliseum
GoalsLeader	Bill Flett (34)
AssistsLeader	Bryan Campbell (42)
PointsLeader	Bill Flett (54)
Bryan Campbell (54)
PlusMinusLeader	Bill Flett (+7)
PIMLeader	Frank Beaton (274)
WinsLeader	Ken Broderick (18)
GAALeader	Dave Dryden (3.26)
MinorLeague	Baltimore Clippers (SHL)

Glen Sather (9–7–2) Vacant (Mar–Apr) Ron Busniuk Bryan Campbell (54) The 1976–77 Edmonton Oilers season was the Oilers' fifth season of operation. The Oilers placed fourth to qualify for the playoffs, losing in the first round.

Regular season

Final standings

Schedule and results

|- |1||W||October 8, 1976||2–0 || align="left"| New England Whalers (1976–77) ||1–0–0 |- |2||L||October 15, 1976||1–6 || align="left"| Winnipeg Jets (1976–77) ||1–1–0 |- |3||W||October 17, 1976||7–2 || align="left"| Indianapolis Racers (1976–77) ||2–1–0 |- |4||W||October 19, 1976||5–4 OT|| align="left"| Phoenix Roadrunners (1976–77) ||3–1–0 |- |5||L||October 24, 1976||3–5 || align="left"| Phoenix Roadrunners (1976–77) ||3–2–0 |- |6||L||October 26, 1976||1–3 || align="left"| @ Houston Aeros (1976–77) ||3–3–0 |- |7||W||October 28, 1976||4–3 OT|| align="left"| @ Birmingham Bulls (1976–77) ||4–3–0 |- |8||L||October 29, 1976||3–11 || align="left"| @ Winnipeg Jets (1976–77) ||4–4–0 |- |9||L||October 31, 1976||0–4 || align="left"| Houston Aeros (1976–77) ||4–5–0

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Playoffs

|- | 1 || April 13 || Edmonton Oilers || 3–4 OT || Houston Aeros || 0–1 |- | 2 || April 15 || Edmonton Oilers || 2–6 || Houston Aeros || 0–2 |- | 3 || April 17 || Houston Aeros || 2–7 || Edmonton Oilers || 1–2 |- | 4 || April 20 || Houston Aeros || 4–1 || Edmonton Oilers || 1–3 |- | 5 || April 22 || Edmonton Oilers || 3–4 || Houston Aeros || 1–4

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| Legend:

Player statistics

Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG
RW	48	34	20	54	20	7	7	0
C	66	12	42	54	18	−10	0	1
LW	81	19	34	53	77	−17	2	0
D	81	8	37	45	60	−19	3	0
C	67	16	27	43	28	−23	4	0
RW	73	25	16	41	57	−23	8	0
C	52	8	28	36	16	−4	3	0
LW	79	18	17	35	76	−1	1	0
C	38	13	15	28	18	0	4	0
D	51	4	24	28	75	−7	0	0
D	70	8	19	27	92	−4	2	0
C	29	9	16	25	48	6	2	0
RW	28	15	8	23	4	−7	4	0
D	77	7	16	23	94	−16	2	0
D	46	1	17	18	41	−1	1	0
C/LW	40	9	6	15	8	−10	1	0
C	57	7	6	13	41	−10	0	0
LW	68	4	9	13	274	−12	0	0
RW	29	3	10	13	16	−9	1	0
C	15	5	7	12	2	−1	0	0
LW	11	5	4	9	14	2	2	0
RW	13	3	2	5	0	−8	1	0
RW	15	3	2	5	16	2	0	0
LW/C	17	0	5	5	12	−6	0	0
RW	29	2	2	4	83	0	0	0
C	10	1	3	4	0	−2	0	0
D	23	0	4	4	62	−10	0	0
D	21	2	1	3	0	−6	0	0
D	2	1	2	3	0	2	0	0
G	40	0	3	3	2	0	0	0
C	7	1	1	2	0	−3	0	0
D	7	0	2	2	17	−2	0	0
G	24	0	2	2	0	0	0	0
D	23	0	2	2	2	−18	0	0
RW	5	0	2	2	14	−1	0	0
D	2	0	1	1	2	−4	0	0
LW	1	0	0	0	0	−2	0	0
LW	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
G	21	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
LW	3	0	0	0	2	−2	0	0
D	3	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
LW/D	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0

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Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
	2301	40	18	18	1	134	3.49	4
	1416	24	10	13	0	77	3.26	1
	1213	21	6	12	3	88	4.35	0
Team:	4930	81	34	43	4	299	3.64	5

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Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GWG
C	5	4	1	5	7	1
C/LW	5	3	2	5	0	0
C	5	3	1	4	0	0
D	5	0	4	4	4	0
D	5	2	1	3	9	0
D	4	1	2	3	14	0
C	5	0	3	3	0	0
LW	5	1	1	2	2	0
LW	5	0	2	2	21	0
RW	5	0	2	2	37	0
RW	5	0	2	2	2	0
C	5	1	0	1	4	0
C	5	1	0	1	0	0
C	5	0	1	1	0	0
LW	5	0	1	1	4	0
D	4	0	1	1	2	0
D	4	0	0	0	0	0
G	3	0	0	0	0	0
G	2	0	0	0	2	0
RW	2	0	0	0	8	0
D	2	0	0	0	0	0
C	1	0	0	0	0	0

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Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA
	179	3	1	2	10	3.35
	133	2	0	2	10	4.51
Team:	312	5	1	4	20	3.85

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Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

  MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;

Transactions

Trades

Date	To Edmonton Oilers	Traded to	Traded for
July 1976	Cash	Cincinnati Stingers	Gilles Marotte
September 1976	Cal Sandbeck	Calgary Cowboys	Dave Kryskow
	Barry Wilkins	Minnesota Fighting Saints	Bob Paradise
	Future considerations	Winnipeg Jets	Barry Long
	Frank Beaton	Cincinnati Stingers	Cash
	Bryan Campbell	Indianapolis Racers	Gene Peacosh
	Randy Rota	Colorado Rockies (NHL)	Cash
	Gregg Boddy	San Diego Mariners	Larry Hornung
	Gavin Kirk
Tom Simpson	Birmingham Bulls	Tim Sheehy
	Bill Flett	Atlanta Flames (NHL)	Cash
	Bill Prentice	Quebec Nordiques	2nd round pick in [1977](1977-wha-amateur-draft) - John Anderson
	Dave Keon
John McKenzie
Mike Antonovich
Bill Butters
Jack Carlson
Jean-Louis Levasseur
Steve Carlson	Minnesota Fighting Saints	($140,000) Cash
	Danny Arndt
Dave Debol
1st round pick in [1977](1977-wha-amateur-draft) - Mike Crombeen
Cash	New England Whalers	Dave Keon
John McKenzie
Dave Dryden
Jack Carlson
Steve Carlson
	Ron Busniuk
Brett Callighen	New England Whalers	Mike Antonovich
Bill Butters

Players acquired

Date		style="width: 13em;"	Player		style="width: 15em;"	Former team	Term
	Dave Langevin
Bob Paradise
John Rothstein
Craig Sarner
	Larry Hornung
Barry Merrell	Rochester Americans (AHL)
September 1976	Butch Williams
	Ken Broderick
Tony Featherstone	Toronto Toros
	Don Borgeson
	Pete Laframboise
	Dennis Patterson
Gene Peacosh	San Diego Mariners
	Bob Nevin
	Ted Scharf
Paul Stewart	Broome Dusters (NAHL)
	Glenn Patrick

Players lost

Date		style="width: 13em;"	Player		style="width: 15em;"	New team
1976
Doug Kerslake
Skip Krake
Bill Laing
Dwayne Pentland

Jeff Carlson
September 1976


Murray Kennett
Bruce MacGregor
Bob McAneeley
Ted McAneeley
Ray Reeson
Dan Spring


November 1976

January 1977

Waivers

Date		style="width: 13em;"	Player		style="width: 15em;"	Team

Claude St. Sauveur

Signings

Date	Player	Term
	Norm Ullman	1-year
	Barry Wilkins	1-year
	Don Borgeson
Barry Merrell
Rick Morris	1-year
	Larry Hornung
Dave Langevin
	Glen Sather
	Jean-Louis Levasseur	3-year
	Gord Blumenschein

Draft picks

Edmonton's draft picks at the 1976 WHA Amateur Draft.

Round	#	Player	Nationality	College/Junior/Club team (League)
1	1	Blair Chapman (RW)	Canada	Saskatoon Blades (WCHL)
1	6	Bernie Federko (C)	Canada	Saskatoon Blades (WCHL)
3	28	Harold Phillipoff (W)	Canada	New Westminster Bruins (WCHL)
3	30	Drew Callander (C)	Canada	Regina Pats (WCHL)
4	36	Brian Sutter (LW)	Canada	Lethbridge Broncos (WCHL)
5	48	Yvon Vautour (F)	Canada	Laval National (QMJHL)
6	60	Tim Williams (D)	Canada	Victoria Cougars (WCHL)
7	72	Gord Blumenschein (C)	Canada	Winnipeg Clubs (WCHL)
8	84	John Tavella (LW)	Canada	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHA)
9	95	Al Dumba (RW)	Canada	Regina Pats (WCHL)
10	106	Jim Bedard (G)	Canada	Sudbury Wolves (OHA)

References

"1976-77 Edmonton Oilers Schedule".
"1976-77 Edmonton Oilers Statistics – Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com.
"1976 WHA Amateur Draft".

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