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)

The 1962–63 Detroit Red Wings season was the Red Wings' 37th 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

Record vs. opponents

1962–63 NHL Records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MON	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	2–10–2	2–7–5	2–7–5	4–7–3	4–8–2
Chicago	10–2–2	—	5–6–3	3–7–4	10–2–2	4–7–3
Detroit	7–2–5	6–5–3	—	3–9–2	9–3–2	7–6–1
Montreal	7–2–5	7–3–4	9–3–2	—	5–5–4	3–6–5
New York	7–4–3	2–10–2	3–9–2	5–5–4	—	5–8–1
Toronto	8–4–2	7–4–3	6–7–1	6–3–5	8–5–1	—

Schedule and results

1962–63 Game Log (32–25–13)

October: 5–0–2 (Home: 4–0–0; Road: 1–0–2)

November: 6–5–2 (Home: 3–2–0; Road: 3–3–2)

December: 5–6–3 (Home: 5–2–2; Road: 0–4–1)

January: 5–4–3 (Home: 2–1–3; Road: 3–3–0)

February: 3–7–3 (Home: 2–4–1; Road: 1–3–2)

March: 8–3–0 (Home: 3–1–0; Road: 5–2–0)

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Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gordie Howe	RW	70	38	48	86	100
Alex Delvecchio	C/LW	70	20	44	64	8
Parker MacDonald	C	69	33	28	61	32
Norm Ullman	C	70	26	30	56	53
Bill Gadsby	D	70	4	24	28	116
Doug Barkley	D	70	3	24	27	78
Floyd Smith	RW	51	9	17	26	10
Bruce MacGregor	C	67	11	11	22	12
Alex Faulkner	C	70	10	10	20	6
Val Fonteyne	LW	67	6	14	20	2
Andre Pronovost	LW	47	13	5	18	18
Vic Stasiuk	LW	36	6	11	17	37
Larry Jeffrey	LW	53	5	11	16	62
Marcel Pronovost	D	69	4	9	13	48
Billy McNeill	RW	42	3	7	10	12
Eddie Joyal	C	14	2	8	10	0
Howie Young	D/RW	64	4	5	9	273
Pete Goegan	D	62	1	8	9	48
Lowell MacDonald	LW	26	2	1	3	8
Hank Bassen	G	16	0	1	1	14
Ron Harris	D	1	0	1	1	0
Bo Elik	LW	3	0	0	0	0
Paul Henderson	RW	2	0	0	0	9
Allan Johnson	RW/C	2	0	0	0	0
Roger Lafreniere	LW	3	0	0	0	4
Dave Lucas	D	1	0	0	0	0
Lou Marcon	D	1	0	0	0	0
Gerry Odrowski	D	1	0	0	0	0
Dennis Riggin	G	9	0	0	0	0
Terry Sawchuk	G	48	0	0	0	14

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Terry Sawchuk	2781	48	22	16	7	118	2.55	3
Hank Bassen	960	16	6	5	5	51	3.19	0
Dennis 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
Gordie Howe	RW	11	7	9	16	22
Norm Ullman	C	11	4	12	16	14
Alex Delvecchio	C/LW	11	3	6	9	2
Larry Jeffrey	LW	9	3	3	6	8
Alex Faulkner	C	8	5	0	5	2
Parker MacDonald	C	11	3	2	5	2
Floyd Smith	RW	11	2	3	5	4
Bill Gadsby	D	11	1	4	5	36
Bruce MacGregor	C	10	1	4	5	10
Andre Pronovost	LW	11	1	4	5	6
Marcel Pronovost	D	11	1	4	5	8
Vic Stasiuk	LW	11	3	0	3	4
Doug Barkley	D	11	0	3	3	16
Pete Goegan	D	11	0	2	2	12
Howie Young	D/RW	8	0	2	2	16
Eddie Joyal	C	11	1	0	1	2
Bob Dillabough	C	1	0	0	0	0
Val Fonteyne	LW	11	0	0	0	2
Lowell MacDonald	LW	1	0	0	0	2
Gerry Odrowski	D	2	0	0	0	2
Terry Sawchuk	G	11	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Terry 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

1963 Stanley Cup Finals vs. Toronto Maple Leafs – Maple Leafs wins series 4–1

Roster

1962–1963 Detroit Red Wings Roster

Goaltenders

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

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

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[standings-div-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.

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See also	All-Star Game Stanley Cup Finals

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