1973–74 Edmonton Oilers season

The 1973–74 Edmonton Oilers season was the second season of operation of the Edmonton Oilers in the World Hockey Association. The Oilers' qualified for the playoffs, losing in the first round to the Minnesota Fighting Saints.

Regular season

Final standings

Western Division
	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PIM	Pts
Houston Aeros	78	48	25	5	318	219	1038	101
Minnesota Fighting Saints	78	44	32	2	332	275	1243	90
Edmonton Oilers	78	38	37	3	268	269	1273	79
Winnipeg Jets	78	34	39	5	264	296	673	73
Vancouver Blazers	78	27	50	1	278	345	1047	55
Los Angeles Sharks	78	25	53	0	239	339	1086	50

Schedule and results

Regular season schedule
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	October 12, 1973	6–4	Winnipeg Jets (1973–74)	1–0–0
2	W	October 14, 1973	5–2	Houston Aeros (1973–74)	2–0–0
3	L	October 19, 1973	1–3	Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	2–1–0
4	W	October 21, 1973	4–1	Chicago Cougars (1973–74)	3–1–0
5	W	October 23, 1973	4–2	Toronto Toros (1973–74)	4–1–0
6	W	October 27, 1973	6–2	@ Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	5–1–0
7	W	October 28, 1973	7–5	Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	6–1–0
8	W	November 2, 1973	5–4	Quebec Nordiques (1973–74)	7–1–0
9	W	November 4, 1973	4–3	Minnesota Fighting Saints (1973–74)	8–1–0
10	W	November 6, 1973	8–0	New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights (1973–74)	9–1–0
11	W	November 8, 1973	4–3	@ Quebec Nordiques (1973–74)	10–1–0
12	W	November 10, 1973	6–3	@ New England Whalers (1973–74)	11–1–0
13	W	November 11, 1973	4–2	@ Toronto Toros (1973–74)	12–1–0
14	W	November 13, 1973	4–0	Los Angeles Sharks (1973–74)	13–1–0
15	L	November 16, 1973	1–3	@ Winnipeg Jets (1973–74)	13–2–0
16	L	November 18, 1973	2–5	Minnesota Fighting Saints (1973–74)	13–3–0
17	W	November 20, 1973	5–3	Cleveland Crusaders (1973–74)	14–3–0
18	L	November 22, 1973	1–7	@ Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	14–4–0
19	L	November 23, 1973	0–2	@ Los Angeles Sharks (1973–74)	14–5–0
20	L	November 25, 1973	1–2	@ Houston Aeros (1973–74)	14–6–0
21	W	November 29, 1973	3–2	@ New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights (1973–74)	15–6–0
22	L	December 1, 1973	2–4	@ Cleveland Crusaders (1973–74)	15–7–0
23	L	December 2, 1973	0–3	@ Cleveland Crusaders (1973–74)	15–8–0
24	W	December 4, 1973	2–0	@ Chicago Cougars (1973–74)	16–8–0
25	L	December 5, 1973	1–3	@ Winnipeg Jets (1973–74)	16–9–0
26	W	December 6, 1973	4–3	Toronto Toros (1973–74)	17–9–0
27	L	December 12, 1973	2–7	Los Angeles Sharks (1973–74)	17–10–0
28	L	December 14, 1973	3–4	Quebec Nordiques (1973–74)	17–11–0
29	W	December 16, 1973	7–6	@ New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights (1973–74)	18–11–0
30	L	December 18, 1973	2–4	@ Quebec Nordiques (1973–74)	18–12–0
31	L	December 19, 1973	2–4	@ New England Whalers (1973–74)	18–13–0
32	W	December 21, 1973	4–1	Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	19–13–0
33	L	December 22, 1973	3–6	@ Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	19–14–0
34	L	December 27, 1973	4–5	Minnesota Fighting Saints (1973–74)	19–15–0
35	W	December 29, 1973	6–2	New England Whalers (1973–74)	20–15–0
36	L	January 1, 1974	3–4 OT	Winnipeg Jets (1973–74)	20–16–0
37	L	January 4, 1974	3–4	@ Los Angeles Sharks (1973–74)	20–17–0
38	W	January 6, 1974	6–4	@ Minnesota Fighting Saints (1973–74)	21–17–0
39	L	January 8, 1974	2–6	@ Houston Aeros (1973–74)	21–18–0
40	W	January 9, 1974	6–4	@ Minnesota Fighting Saints (1973–74)	22–18–0
41	L	January 11, 1974	4–7	@ Winnipeg Jets (1973–74)	22–19–0
42	L	January 13, 1974	2–6	@ Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	22–20–0
43	W	January 15, 1974	4–1	Minnesota Fighting Saints (1973–74)	23–20–0
44	W	January 18, 1974	7–4	New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights (1973–74)	24–20–0
45	W	January 20, 1974	5–2	Cleveland Crusaders (1973–74)	25–20–0
46	L	January 22, 1974	2–6	New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights (1973–74)	25–21–0
47	L	January 25, 1974	3–4	Winnipeg Jets (1973–74)	25–22–0
48	L	January 27, 1974	1–4	Houston Aeros (1973–74)	25–23–0
49	W	February 1, 1974	3–2	Chicago Cougars (1973–74)	26–23–0
50	W	February 3, 1974	5–2	Los Angeles Sharks (1973–74)	27–23–0
51	L	February 5, 1974	0–8	@ Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	27–24–0
52	L	February 8, 1974	2–6	Houston Aeros (1973–74)	27–25–0
53	L	February 10, 1974	3–4	Quebec Nordiques (1973–74)	27–26–0
54	L	February 12, 1974	2–3	@ Chicago Cougars (1973–74)	27–27–0
55	L	February 13, 1974	4–7	@ Minnesota Fighting Saints (1973–74)	27–28–0
56	L	February 15, 1974	3–7	New England Whalers (1973–74)	27–29–0
57	W	February 17, 1974	3–2 OT	Toronto Toros (1973–74)	28–29–0
58	W	February 20, 1974	4–1	Winnipeg Jets (1973–74)	29–29–0
59	L	February 23, 1974	2–5	@ Houston Aeros (1973–74)	29–30–0
60	W	February 24, 1974	5–3	@ Los Angeles Sharks (1973–74)	30–30–0
61	W	March 1, 1974	5–2	Houston Aeros (1973–74)	31–30–0
62	T	March 3, 1974	3–3	Cleveland Crusaders (1973–74)	31–30–1
63	W	March 6, 1974	4–2	@ Houston Aeros (1973–74)	32–30–1
64	L	March 8, 1974	1–4	@ Los Angeles Sharks (1973–74)	32–31–1
65	L	March 10, 1974	1–2 OT	Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	32–32–1
66	W	March 12, 1974	8–1	Los Angeles Sharks (1973–74)	33–32–1
67	L	March 15, 1974	2–6	New England Whalers (1973–74)	33–33–1
68	W	March 17, 1974	3–2	Vancouver Blazers (1973–74)	34–33–1
69	T	March 20, 1974	2–2	@ New England Whalers (1973–74)	34–33–2
70	T	March 21, 1974	5–5	@ Quebec Nordiques (1973–74)	34–33–3
71	L	March 23, 1974	1–3	@ Cleveland Crusaders (1973–74)	34–34–3
72	W	March 25, 1974	4–1	@ New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights (1973–74)	35–34–3
73	L	March 26, 1974	2–4	@ Chicago Cougars (1973–74)	35–35–3
74	L	March 28, 1974	5–6 OT	@ Toronto Toros (1973–74)	35–36–3
75	W	March 29, 1974	3–1	@ Minnesota Fighting Saints (1973–74)	36–36–3
76	W	March 31, 1974	4–1	Chicago Cougars (1973–74)	37–36–3
77	L	April 2, 1974	2–3	@ Toronto Toros (1973–74)	37–37–3
78	W	April 3, 1974	6–5 OT	@ Winnipeg Jets (1973–74)	38–37–3

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Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	PPG	SHG	GWG
Climie, RonRon Climie	LW	76	38	36	74	22	9	0	7
Harrison, JimJim Harrison	C	47	24	45	69	99	3	2	7
Hamilton, AlAl Hamilton	D	78	14	45	59	104	6	0	2
Perkins, RossRoss Perkins	C	78	16	40	56	43	0	0	3
Lunde, LenLen Lunde	C	72	26	22	48	8	7	2	4
MacDonald, BlairBlair MacDonald	RW	78	21	24	45	34	5	0	3
Patenaude, RustyRusty Patenaude	RW	71	20	23	43	55	2	0	2
Gilmore, TomTom Gilmore	LW	57	19	23	42	164	2	0	2
McKenzie, BrianBrian McKenzie	LW	78	18	20	38	66	0	0	1
Wall, BobBob Wall	D	74	6	31	37	46	2	1	0
Baird, KenKen Baird	D	68	17	19	36	115	2	0	1
Barrie, DougDoug Barrie	D	69	4	27	31	214	0	0	2
McAneeley, BobBob McAneeley	LW	52	12	11	23	49	0	0	0
Fonteyne, ValVal Fonteyne	LW	72	9	13	22	2	0	4	0
Joyal, EddieEddie Joyal	C	45	8	10	18	2	0	0	1
Falkenberg, BobBob Falkenberg	D	78	3	14	17	32	0	0	0
Carlyle, SteveSteve Carlyle	D	50	2	13	15	18	0	0	1
Anderson, RonRon Anderson	RW	19	5	2	7	6	0	0	1
McCrimmon, JimJim McCrimmon	D	75	2	3	5	106	0	0	1
Sheehan, BobbyBobby Sheehan	C	10	1	3	4	6	1	0	0
Fitchner, BobBob Fitchner	C	31	1	2	3	21	0	0	0
Cote, RogerRoger Cote	D	59	0	3	3	34	0	0	0
Norris, JackJack Norris	G	53	0	3	3	0	0	0	0
Schraefel, JimJim Schraefel	C	34	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
Carlin, BrianBrian Carlin	LW	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Colborne, HowieHowie Colborne	LW	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cunningham, GaryGary Cunningham	D	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doyle, GaryGary Doyle	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wilkie, IanIan Wilkie	G	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Worthy, ChrisChris Worthy	G	29	0	0	0	13	0	0	0
Zuk, WayneWayne Zuk	C	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Norris, JackJack Norris	2954	53	23	24	1	158	3.21	2
Worthy, ChrisChris Worthy	1452	29	11	12	1	92	3.80	1
Wilkie, IanIan Wilkie	256	5	3	1	1	9	2.11	0
Doyle, GaryGary Doyle	60	1	1	0	0	4	4.00	0
Team:	4722	78	38	37	3	263	3.34	3

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GWG
MacDonald, BlairBlair MacDonald	RW	5	4	2	6	2	0
Gilmore, TomTom Gilmore	LW	5	1	4	5	15	0
Perkins, RossRoss Perkins	C	5	1	3	4	2	0
Sheehan, BobbyBobby Sheehan	C	5	1	3	4	0	0
Schraefel, JimJim Schraefel	C	5	0	3	3	0	0
Joyal, EddieEddie Joyal	C	5	2	0	2	4	1
Baird, KenKen Baird	D	5	1	1	2	7	0
Hamilton, AlAl Hamilton	D	4	1	1	2	15	0
Falkenberg, BobBob Falkenberg	D	5	0	2	2	14	0
Patenaude, RustyRusty Patenaude	RW	4	0	2	2	2	0
Wall, BobBob Wall	D	5	0	2	2	2	0
Barrie, DougDoug Barrie	D	4	1	0	1	16	0
Fonteyne, ValVal Fonteyne	LW	5	1	0	1	0	0
McAneeley, BobBob McAneeley	LW	4	1	0	1	0	0
Carlyle, SteveSteve Carlyle	D	5	0	1	1	4	0
Lunde, LenLen Lunde	C	5	0	1	1	0	0
McKenzie, BrianBrian McKenzie	LW	5	0	1	1	0	0
Anderson, RonRon Anderson	RW	1	0	0	0	0	0
Climie, RonRon Climie	LW	5	0	0	0	0	0
Cote, RogerRoger Cote	D	2	0	0	0	0	0
Norris, JackJack Norris	G	3	0	0	0	0	0
Wilkie, IanIan Wilkie	G	1	0	0	0	0	0
Worthy, ChrisChris Worthy	G	3	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA
Worthy, ChrisChris Worthy	146	3	1	1	8	3.29
Norris, JackJack Norris	111	3	0	2	9	4.86
Wilkie, IanIan Wilkie	41	1	0	1	4	5.85
Team:	298	5	1	4	21	4.23

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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;

Awards and records

Regular Season
Player	Milestone	Reached
Jim Harrison	2nd WHA Hat-Trick	October 12, 1973
Blair MacDonald	1st WHA Game 1st WHA Goal
Brian McKenzie	1st WHA Game
Bob Fitchner	1st WHA Goal 1st WHA Point	October 21, 1973
Blair MacDonald	1st WHA Assist 1st WHA Point	October 21, 1973
Brian McKenzie	1st WHA Assist 1st WHA Point	October 23, 1973
Chris Worthy	1st WHA Game	October 23, 1973
Len Lunde	1st WHA Assist 1st WHA Point	October 27, 1973
Brian McKenzie	1st WHA Goal
Chris Worthy	1st WHA Win
Jim Harrison	100th WHA Point	November 2, 1973
Ron Climie	1st WHA Hat-Trick	November 6, 1973
Jim McCrimmon	1st WHA Assist 1st WHA Point	November 6, 1973
Jim McCrimmon	1st WHA Goal	November 20, 1973
Len Lunde	1st WHA Goal	December 4, 1973
Chris Worthy	1st WHA Shutout	December 4, 1973
Bob Fitchner	1st WHA Assist	December 29, 1973
Ross Perkins	100th WHA Point	January 6, 1974
Gary Doyle	1st WHA Game 1st WHA Win	January 18, 1974
Al Hamilton	100th WHA Point	February 12, 1974
Jim Schraefel	1st WHA Assist 1st WHA Point	March 3, 1974
Jim Schraefel	1st WHA Goal	March 12, 1974
Ron Climie	100th WHA Point	March 21, 1974
Tom Gilmore	1st WHA Hat-Trick	April 3, 1974

References

↑ "1973–74 Edmonton Oilers Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
↑ "1973-74 Edmonton Oilers Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-29.

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1973–74 Edmonton Oilers season

Regular season

Final standings

Schedule and results

Player statistics

Awards and records

See also

References

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