1962–63 Detroit Red Wings season

1962–63 Detroit Red Wings
Division	4th NHL
1962–63 record	32–25–13
Goals for	200
Goals against	194
Team information
General Manager	Sid Abel
Coach	Sid Abel
Captain	Alex Delvecchio
Alternate captains	Marcel Pronovost
Arena	Detroit Olympia
Team leaders
Goals	Gordie Howe (38)
Assists	Gordie Howe (48)
Points	Gordie Howe (86)
Penalties in minutes	Howie Young (273)
Wins	Terry Sawchuk (22)
Goals against average	Terry Sawchuk (2.55)
<1961–62 1963–64>

The 1962–63 Detroit Red Wings season was the Red Wings' 31st season. They finished in fourth place in the National Hockey League (NHL) with a record of 32 wins, 25 losses, and 13 ties. Detroit defeated the Chicago Black Hawks four games to two in the Semi-Finals, but lost the Stanley Cup Finals to the Toronto Maple Leafs, four games to one.

This season saw right winger Gordie Howe capture the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer. He potted 38 goals and added 48 assists for 86 points. Howe was also named winner of the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player, his sixth overall.

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League^[1]

		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Toronto Maple Leafs	70	35	23	12	221	180	+41	82
2	Chicago Black Hawks	70	32	21	17	194	178	+16	81
3	Montreal Canadiens	70	28	19	23	225	183	+42	79
4	Detroit Red Wings	70	32	25	13	200	194	+6	77
5	New York Rangers	70	22	36	12	211	233	−22	56
6	Boston Bruins	70	14	39	17	198	281	−83	45

Schedule and results

1962–63 Game Log (32–25–13)
October: 5–0–2 (Home: 4–0–0; Road: 1–0–2) No. R Date Score Opponent Record Pts. 1 W October 11, 1962 2–1 @ New York Rangers (1962–63) 1–0–0 2 T October 13, 1962 0–0 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 1–0–1 3 W October 14, 1962 3–1 Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 2–0–1 4 W October 18, 1962 5–3 Boston Bruins (1962–63) 3–0–1 5 W October 21, 1962 3–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 4–0–1 6 T October 25, 1962 3–3 @ Boston Bruins (1962–63) 4–0–2 7 W October 28, 1962 2–0 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 5–0–2
November: 6–5–2 (Home: 3–2–0; Road: 3–3–2) No. R Date Score Opponent Record Pts. 8 W November 1, 1962 4–0 New York Rangers (1962–63) 6–0–2 9 W November 3, 1962 7–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 7–0–2 10 W November 4, 1962 3–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 8–0–2 11 L November 8, 1962 1–4 @ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 8–1–2 12 T November 10, 1962 3–3 @ Boston Bruins (1962–63) 8–1–3 13 W November 11, 1962 3–2 @ New York Rangers (1962–63) 9–1–3 14 L November 14, 1962 2–4 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 9–2–3 15 L November 17, 1962 2–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 9–3–3 16 W November 18, 1962 3–1 @ Boston Bruins (1962–63) 10–3–3 17 L November 22, 1962 0–3 Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 10–4–3 18 T November 24, 1962 1–1 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 10–4–4 19 W November 25, 1962 3–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 11–4–4 20 L November 29, 1962 0–5 New York Rangers (1962–63) 11–5–4
December: 5–6–3 (Home: 5–2–2; Road: 0–4–1) No. R Date Score Opponent Record Pts. 21 L December 2, 1962 1–3 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 11–6–4 22 T December 5, 1962 3–3 @ New York Rangers (1962–63) 11–6–5 23 W December 6, 1962 5–3 Boston Bruins (1962–63) 12–6–5 24 L December 8, 1962 1–2 @ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 12–7–5 25 W December 9, 1962 4–3 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 13–7–5 26 W December 13, 1962 3–2 New York Rangers (1962–63) 14–7–5 27 W December 15, 1962 3–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 15–7–5 28 L December 16, 1962 2–5 @ New York Rangers (1962–63) 15–8–5 29 L December 20, 1962 3–5 Boston Bruins (1962–63) 15–9–5 30 T December 23, 1962 2–2 Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 15–9–6 31 W December 25, 1962 2–1 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 16–9–6 32 L December 26, 1962 4–5 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 16–10–6 33 L December 29, 1962 1–5 @ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 16–11–6 34 T December 31, 1962 1–1 New York Rangers (1962–63) 16–11–7
January: 5–4–3 (Home: 2–1–3; Road: 3–3–0) No. R Date Score Opponent Record Pts. 35 L January 1, 1963 2–4 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 16–12–7 36 T January 6, 1963 5–5 Boston Bruins (1962–63) 16–12–8 37 W January 10, 1963 3–2 @ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 17–12–8 38 L January 12, 1963 1–2 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 17–13–8 39 W January 13, 1963 4–2 New York Rangers (1962–63) 18–13–8 40 W January 17, 1963 5–3 Boston Bruins (1962–63) 19–13–8 41 L January 19, 1963 1–5 @ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 19–14–8 42 T January 20, 1963 2–2 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 19–14–9 43 T January 24, 1963 1–1 Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 19–14–10 44 L January 26, 1963 0–3 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 19–15–10 45 W January 27, 1963 5–3 @ Boston Bruins (1962–63) 20–15–10 46 W January 30, 1963 6–1 @ New York Rangers (1962–63) 21–15–10
February: 3–7–3 (Home: 2–4–1; Road: 1–3–2) No. R Date Score Opponent Record Pts. 47 T February 2, 1963 4–4 @ Boston Bruins (1962–63) 21–15–11 48 L February 3, 1963 2–6 Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 21–16–11 49 T February 6, 1963 3–3 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 21–16–12 50 T February 7, 1963 3–3 Boston Bruins (1962–63) 21–16–13 51 W February 10, 1963 2–1 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 22–16–13 52 L February 13, 1963 2–6 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 22–17–13 53 W February 16, 1963 3–1 Boston Bruins (1962–63) 23–17–13 54 L February 17, 1963 1–6 Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 23–18–13 55 L February 21, 1963 3–5 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 23–19–13 56 L February 23, 1963 2–3 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 23–20–13 57 W February 24, 1963 3–2 @ New York Rangers (1962–63) 24–20–13 58 L February 26, 1963 3–4 New York Rangers (1962–63) 24–21–13 59 L February 28, 1963 3–5 @ Boston Bruins (1962–63) 24–22–13
March: 8–3–0 (Home: 3–1–0; Road: 5–2–0) No. R Date Score Opponent Record Pts. 60 W March 2, 1963 7–1 @ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 25–22–13 61 W March 3, 1963 3–2 @ New York Rangers (1962–63) 26–22–13 62 L March 5, 1963 3–4 Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 26–23–13 63 L March 9, 1963 3–5 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 26–24–13 64 W March 10, 1963 4–3 @ Boston Bruins (1962–63) 27–24–13 65 W March 14, 1963 9–4 New York Rangers (1962–63) 28–24–13 66 L March 16, 1963 3–5 @ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63) 28–25–13 67 W March 17, 1963 4–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 29–25–13 68 W March 19, 1963 5–1 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 30–25–13 69 W March 23, 1963 2–1 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 31–25–13 70 W March 24, 1963 3–2 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 32–25–13

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Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Howe, GordieGordie Howe	RW	70	38	48	86	100
Delvecchio, AlexAlex Delvecchio	C/LW	70	20	44	64	8
MacDonald, ParkerParker MacDonald	C	69	33	28	61	32
Ullman, NormNorm Ullman	C	70	26	30	56	53
Gadsby, BillBill Gadsby	D	70	4	24	28	116
Barkley, DougDoug Barkley	D	70	3	24	27	78
Smith, FloydFloyd Smith	RW	51	9	17	26	10
MacGregor, BruceBruce MacGregor	C	67	11	11	22	12
Faulkner, AlexAlex Faulkner	C	70	10	10	20	6
Fonteyne, ValVal Fonteyne	LW	67	6	14	20	2
Pronovost, AndreAndre Pronovost	LW	47	13	5	18	18
Stasiuk, VicVic Stasiuk	LW	36	6	11	17	37
Jeffrey, LarryLarry Jeffrey	LW	53	5	11	16	62
Pronovost, MarcelMarcel Pronovost	D	69	4	9	13	48
McNeill, BillyBilly McNeill	RW	42	3	7	10	12
Joyal, EddieEddie Joyal	C	14	2	8	10	0
Young, HowieHowie Young	D/RW	64	4	5	9	273
Goegan, PetePete Goegan	D	62	1	8	9	48
MacDonald, LowellLowell MacDonald	LW	26	2	1	3	8
Bassen, HankHank Bassen	G	16	0	1	1	14
Harris, RonRon Harris	D	1	0	1	1	0
Elik, BoBo Elik	LW	3	0	0	0	0
Henderson, PaulPaul Henderson	RW	2	0	0	0	9
Johnson, AllanAllan Johnson	RW/C	2	0	0	0	0
Lafreniere, RogerRoger Lafreniere	LW	3	0	0	0	4
Lucas, DaveDave Lucas	D	1	0	0	0	0
Marcon, LouLou Marcon	D	1	0	0	0	0
Odrowski, GerryGerry Odrowski	D	1	0	0	0	0
Riggin, DennisDennis Riggin	G	9	0	0	0	0
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	G	48	0	0	0	14

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	2781	48	22	16	7	118	2.55	3
Bassen, HankHank Bassen	960	16	6	5	5	51	3.19	0
Riggin, DennisDennis Riggin	459	9	4	4	1	22	2.88	0
Team:	4200	70	32	25	13	191	2.73	3

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Howe, GordieGordie Howe	RW	11	7	9	16	22
Ullman, NormNorm Ullman	C	11	4	12	16	14
Delvecchio, AlexAlex Delvecchio	C/LW	11	3	6	9	2
Jeffrey, LarryLarry Jeffrey	LW	9	3	3	6	8
Faulkner, AlexAlex Faulkner	C	8	5	0	5	2
MacDonald, ParkerParker MacDonald	C	11	3	2	5	2
Smith, FloydFloyd Smith	RW	11	2	3	5	4
Gadsby, BillBill Gadsby	D	11	1	4	5	36
MacGregor, BruceBruce MacGregor	C	10	1	4	5	10
Pronovost, AndreAndre Pronovost	LW	11	1	4	5	6
Pronovost, MarcelMarcel Pronovost	D	11	1	4	5	8
Stasiuk, VicVic Stasiuk	LW	11	3	0	3	4
Barkley, DougDoug Barkley	D	11	0	3	3	16
Goegan, PetePete Goegan	D	11	0	2	2	12
Young, HowieHowie Young	D/RW	8	0	2	2	16
Joyal, EddieEddie Joyal	C	11	1	0	1	2
Dillabough, BobBob Dillabough	C	1	0	0	0	0
Fonteyne, ValVal Fonteyne	LW	11	0	0	0	2
MacDonald, LowellLowell MacDonald	LW	1	0	0	0	2
Odrowski, GerryGerry Odrowski	D	2	0	0	0	2
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	G	11	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	660	11	5	6	35	3.18	0
Team:	660	11	5	6	35	3.18	0

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Note: 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;

Playoffs

1963 Stanley Cup Playoffs Game Log
1963 Stanley Cup Semifinals vs. Chicago Black Hawks – Red Wings wins series 4–2 No. R Date Score OT Opponent Series 1 L March 26, 1963 4–5 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 0–1 2 L March 28, 1963 2–5 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 0–2 3 W March 31, 1963 4–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 1–2 4 W April 2, 1963 4–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 2–2 5 W April 4, 1963 4–2 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 3–2 6 W April 7, 1963 7–4 Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63) 4–2
1963 Stanley Cup Finals vs. Toronto Maple Leafs – Maple Leafs wins series 4–1 No. R Date Score OT Opponent Series 1 L April 9, 1963 2–4 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 0–1 2 L April 11, 1963 2–4 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 0–2 3 W April 14, 1963 3–2 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 1–2 4 L April 16, 1963 2–4 Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 1–3 5 L April 18, 1963 1–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63) 1–4

Roster

1962–1963 Detroit Red Wings Roster
Goaltenders 1 – Hank Bassen  1 – Dennis Riggin  1 – Terry Sawchuk		Defensemen 2 – Howie Young  3 – Marcel Pronovost  4 – Bill Gadsby  5 – Doug Barkley  17 – Roger Lafrenière  18 – Pete Goegan  18 – Ron Harris  18 – Dave Lucas  21 – Lou Marcon  22 – Gerry Odrowski		Wingers 8 – Lowell MacDonald  9 – Gordie Howe  11 – Vic Stasiuk  14 – Larry Jeffrey  14 – Billy McNeill  15 – Allan Johnson  15 – André Pronovost  17 – Bo Elik  17 – Floyd Smith  19 – Val Fonteyne  22 – Paul Henderson		Centers 7 – Norm Ullman  10 – Alex Delvecchio –C 12 – Alex Faulkner  16 – Bruce MacGregor  20 – Parker MacDonald  21 – Eddie Joyal  22 – Bob Dillabough  GM/Coach: Sid Abel

Awards and honors

• Art Ross Trophy: Gordie Howe
• Hart Memorial Trophy: Gordie Howe
• Gordie Howe, Right Wing, NHL First Team All-Star
• Terry Sawchuk, Goaltender, NHL Second Team All-Star

References

• Red Wings on Hockey Database

1. "1962–1963 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.
2. "1962–63 Detroit Red Wings Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
3. "1962-63 Detroit Red Wings Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-02.