Player of the Game Hockey - NHL 1967/68, Season Stats

With one month left in the regular season and it's all to play for in terms of positioning. The Montreal Canadiens lead the way in the East after a fourth straight month with at least seven wins. This is thanks in no small part to their goaltending tandem of Worsley and Vachon, the latter of which going 5-0-1 with one of Montreal's three shutouts this month. Boston and Toronto are just two and three points behind respectively but the Bruins have played two more games than their rivals.

In the West, St Louis lost eight times through February, second most this season after the nine losses for Oakland (December) and Philadelphia (January), and the Blues need to break out of their five game losing streak quickly with only six points separating them from missing the playoffs altogether. The Flyers and North Stars, with number one netminder Maniago posting an .866 save percentage in February, also finished under .500 this month and, with Pittsburgh and Los Angeles bouncing back from their sub-par January, need to get going as five teams are fighting hard for four postseason spots.

Among the individual stats Toronto's Walton continues to cool off after a strong start to the year as he only picks up a pair of goals and six assists, and a ten goal haul this month for Mikita may not help Chicago get to the playoffs but he is just one goal behind Connelly of Minneosta for the scoring title. Boston own the assists column with the top three all belonging to the Bruins. The trio of Esposito - Bucyk - Stanfield have a combined one-hundred-and-thirteen helpers; thirty-three coming this month, with Bucyk and Esposito sitting atop the points standings.

October Stats
November Stats
December Stats
January Stats

East Division	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	GD	PP%	PK%	Home	Away	L10	Streak
Montreal Canadiens	60	33	19	8	74	200	140	60	23.08	85.57	23-5-3	10-14-5	5-3-2	Won 1
Boston Bruins	62	32	22	8	72	228	198	30	21.93	77.27	21-7-3	11-15-5	5-3-2	Won 1
Toronto Maple Leafs	60	32	21	7	71	177	143	34	16.84	80.71	21-7-2	11-14-5	4-4-2	Lost 2
Detroit Red Wings	60	29	22	9	67	225	203	22	21.81	86.00	16-9-7	13-13-2	5-1-4	Tied 1
Chicago Blackhawks	61	25	27	9	59	173	189	-16	20.69	81.54	12-15-3	13-12-6	4-3-3	Tied 1
New York Rangers	60	22	26	12	56	172	185	-13	23.39	79.57	10-10-8	12-16-4	4-3-3	Tied 3
West Division	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	GD	PP%	PK%	Home	Away	L10	Streak
St Louis Blues	59	25	24	10	60	169	179	-10	22.63	74.40	18-8-3	7-16-7	3-6-1	Lost 5
Philadelphia Flyers	60	25	28	7	57	163	177	-14	17.51	74.76	16-11-3	9-17-4	2-6-2	Lost 2
Minnesota North Stars	61	21	26	14	56	185	197	-12	19.54	83.59	13-7-9	8-19-5	2-5-3	Lost 1
Pittsburgh Penguins	60	22	27	11	55	150	164	-14	16.29	80.88	15-12-6	7-15-5	6-4-0	Won 4
Los Angeles Kings	60	23	29	8	54	175	199	-24	19.79	74.88	14-10-5	9-19-3	6-3-1	Won 2
Oakland Seals	61	15	33	13	43	150	193	-43	21.47	81.67	9-14-6	6-19-7	2-4-4	Won 1

	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb
Boston Bruins	3-3-1	9-1-3	6-7-1	7-6-1	7-5-2
Chicago Blackhawks	4-4-1	3-7-3	7-7-1	7-4-1	4-5-3
Detroit Red Wings	4-4-1	6-5-2	7-5-1	6-6-1	6-2-4
Los Angeles Kings	3-6-0	3-6-3	6-7-2	4-6-2	7-4-1
Minnesota North Stars	3-2-2	4-3-6	6-7-1	6-7-1	2-7-4
Montreal Canadiens	3-4-1	7-5-2	8-5-1	8-2-1	7-3-3
New York Rangers	5-4-0	3-5-3	5-6-4	5-6-1	4-5-4
Oakland Seals	3-5-1	4-7-3	2-9-2	3-7-3	3-5-4
Philadelphia Flyers	4-3-0	8-6-0	7-3-3	2-9-2	4-7-2
Pittsburgh Penguins	3-2-5	3-7-1	4-7-3	5-6-2	7-5-0
St Louis Blues	2-3-3	7-4-1	6-5-4	7-4-1	3-8-1
Toronto Maple Leafs	5-2-1	5-6-3	8-4-1	8-5-0	6-4-2

SKATERS
GOALS					ASSISTS					POINTS
Connelly	MIN	36	(4)		Esposito	BOS	40	(13)		Bucyk	BOS	70	(16)
Mikita	CHI	35	(10)		Bucyk	BOS	37	(9)		Esposito	BOS	66	(21)
Howe	DET	34	(8)		Stanfield	BOS	36	(11)		Howe	DET	66	(16)
Bucyk	BOS	33	(7)		Pilote	CHI	36	(9)		Mikita	CHI	66	(19)
R Hull	CHI	30	(7)		Gilbert	NYR	35	(7)		Walton	TOR	62	(8)
G Jarrett	DET	30	(6)		Wharram	CHI	35	(11)		Gilbert	NYR	59	(12)
Walton	TOR	29	(2)		T Hampson	DeOk	34	(12)		Wharram	CHI	57	(18)
Cullen	MIN	28	(7)		Walton	TOR	33	(6)		Cullen	MIN	56	(13)
McKenzie	BOS	27	(8)		Howe	DET	32	(8)		R Hull	CHI	55	(7)
Cournoyer	MON	27	(4)		Balon	MIN	32	(4)		Stanfield	BOS	53	(11)
G Tremblay	MON	27	(6)							G Tremblay	MON	53	(14)
										Connelly	MIN	53	(9)

PIMS					POWERPLAY GOALS					GAME WINNING GOALS
N Picard	StL	141	(29)		Cournoyer	MON	9	(0)		R Hull	CHI	7	(1)
Dornhoefer	PHI	138	(40)		Howe	DET	8	(2)		Esposito	BOS	6	(1)
K Douglas	DeOk	102	(10)		Hannigan	PHI	8	(1)		Ratelle	NYR	6	(2)
McKenzie	BOS	87	(18)		Melnyk	StL	8	(2)		Williams	BOS	6	(1)
White	LAK	84	(20)		B McCreary	StL	7	(0)		Ellis	TOR	5	(1)
Ferguson	MON	80	(16)		Selby	PHI	6	(2)		Lamaire	MON	5	(1)
Bergman	DET	80	(17)		Hicke	OAK	6	()		Howe	DET	4	(1)
T Pratt	OAK	78	(16)		Sabourin	StL	6	(1)		Hicke	OAK	4	(1)
Fleming	NYR	75	(8)		Esposito	BOS	6	(2)		Joyal	LAK	4	(1)
Green	BOS	72	(18)		Joyal	LAK	6	(1)		F Mahovlich	TOR	4	(2)
Flett	LAK	68	(17)		5 Others	NHL	6	(-)		3 Others	NHL	4	(-)
Kennedy	PHI	68	(7)

SHORTHANDED GOALS

Williams

BOS

2

Joyal

LAK

2

Konik

PIT

2

Dornhoefer

PHI

2

Robinson

LAK

2

Cournoyer

MON

1

Hadfield

NYR

1

Howell

NYR

1

Keenan

StL

1

Labossiere

LAK

1

Nineteen Others

NHL

1

GOALTENDERS
WINS				GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE						SAVE PERCENTAGE
Bower	20	TOR	(5)		Bower	TOR	2.23	(2.28)		Gamble	TOR	0.915	(.886)
DeJordy	20	CHI	(2)		Worsley	MON	2.24	(2.14)		Bower	TOR	0.913	(.917)
Cheevers	19	BOS	(4)		Gamble	TOR	2.44	(3.80)		Crozier	DET	0.912	(.917)
Giacomin	17	NYR	(2)		Vachon	MON	2.46	(1.83)		Worsley	MON	0.912	(.909)
Hall	17	StL	(2)		Favell	PHI	2.52	(3.33)		Binkley	PIT	0.909	(.897)
Rutledge	17	LAK	(4)		Bassen	PIT	2.55	(2.50)		Vachon	MON	0.908	(.930)
Vachon	17	MON	(4)		Binkley	PIT	2.62	(3.00)		Bassen	PIT	0.905	(.918)
Maniago	16	MIN	(2)		Martin	StL	2.68	(2.33)		Martin	StL	0.902	(.918)
Parent	16	PHI	(4)		Crozier	DET	2.84	(3.66)		Favell	PHI	0.901	(.897)
Worsley	16	MON	(3)		Rutledge	LAK	2.97	(2.85)		Maniago	MIN	0.898	(.866)