1948–49 Detroit Red Wings season

The 1948–49 Detroit Red Wings season was the Red Wings' 23rd season.

1948–49 Detroit Red Wings
Division	1st NHL
1948–49 record	34–19–7
Goals for	195
Goals against	145
Team information
General manager	Jack Adams
Coach	Tommy Ivan
Captain	Sid Abel
Team leaders
Goals	Sid Abel (28)
Assists	Ted Lindsay (28)
Points	Sid Abel (54) Ted Lindsay (54)
Penalty minutes	Jack Stewart (96)
Wins	Harry Lumley (34)
Goals against average	Harry Lumley (2.42)

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League[1]

		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Detroit Red Wings	60	34	19	7	195	145	+50	75
2	Boston Bruins	60	29	23	8	178	163	+15	66
3	Montreal Canadiens	60	28	23	9	152	126	+26	65
4	Toronto Maple Leafs	60	22	25	13	147	161	−14	57
5	Chicago Black Hawks	60	21	31	8	173	211	−38	50
6	New York Rangers	60	18	31	11	133	172	−39	47

Record vs. opponents

1948–49 NHL Records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MON	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	6–5–1	5–4–3	5–6–1	8–2–2	5–6–1
Chicago	5–6–1	—	3–9	3–7–2	6–5–1	4–4–4
Detroit	4–5–3	9–3	—	7–4–1	7–4–1	7–3–2
Montreal	6–5–1	7–3–2	4–7–1	—	5–4–3	6–4–2
New York	2–8–2	5–6–1	4–7–1	4–5–3	—	3–5–4
Toronto	6–5–1	4–4–4	3–7–2	4–6–2	5–3–4	—

Schedule and results

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	October 13, 1948	3–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	1–0–0
2	W	October 17, 1948	7–0	New York Rangers (1948–49)	2–0–0
3	T	October 23, 1948	0–0	@ Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	2–0–1
4	W	October 24, 1948	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	3–0–1
5	W	October 27, 1948	3–2	@ New York Rangers (1948–49)	4–0–1
6	L	October 30, 1948	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	4–1–1
7	W	October 31, 1948	4–1	Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	5–1–1
8	L	November 6, 1948	0–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	5–2–1
9	W	November 7, 1948	7–3	Boston Bruins (1948–49)	6–2–1
10	L	November 11, 1948	1–4	@ Boston Bruins (1948–49)	6–3–1
11	W	November 14, 1948	3–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	7–3–1
12	T	November 17, 1948	4–4	New York Rangers (1948–49)	7–3–2
13	L	November 21, 1948	0–3	Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	7–4–2
14	L	November 24, 1948	3–5	Boston Bruins (1948–49)	7–5–2
15	L	November 27, 1948	3–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	7–6–2
16	W	November 28, 1948	9–6	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	8–6–2
17	W	December 1, 1948	5–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	9–6–2
18	W	December 4, 1948	3–2	@ Boston Bruins (1948–49)	10–6–2
19	W	December 5, 1948	3–1	@ New York Rangers (1948–49)	11–6–2
20	W	December 8, 1948	4–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	12–6–2
21	W	December 11, 1948	5–3	New York Rangers (1948–49)	13–6–2
22	L	December 12, 1948	0–2	@ New York Rangers (1948–49)	13–7–2
23	L	December 15, 1948	1–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	13–8–2
24	L	December 18, 1948	3–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	13–9–2
25	W	December 19, 1948	5–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	14–9–2
26	L	December 22, 1948	2–5	@ Boston Bruins (1948–49)	14–10–2
27	L	December 25, 1948	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	14–11–2
28	W	December 26, 1948	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	15–11–2
29	W	December 29, 1948	10–2	Boston Bruins (1948–49)	16–11–2
30	L	January 1, 1949	3–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	16–12–2
31	W	January 2, 1949	5–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	17–12–2
32	L	January 6, 1949	2–3	Boston Bruins (1948–49)	17–13–2
33	W	January 8, 1949	4–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	18–13–2
34	T	January 9, 1949	2–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	18–13–3
35	W	January 12, 1949	4–1	@ New York Rangers (1948–49)	19–13–3
36	W	January 16, 1949	3–2	Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	20–13–3
37	W	January 19, 1949	2–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	21–13–3
38	T	January 22, 1949	2–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	21–13–4
39	W	January 23, 1949	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	22–13–4
40	L	January 26, 1949	1–5	New York Rangers (1948–49)	22–14–4
41	W	January 29, 1949	5–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	23–14–4
42	W	January 30, 1949	4–0	@ Boston Bruins (1948–49)	24–14–4
43	W	February 2, 1949	6–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	25–14–4
44	W	February 3, 1949	4–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	26–14–4
45	W	February 6, 1949	1–0	Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	27–14–4
46	W	February 9, 1949	8–0	New York Rangers (1948–49)	28–14–4
47	L	February 12, 1949	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	28–15–4
48	T	February 13, 1949	4–4	@ Boston Bruins (1948–49)	28–15–5
49	L	February 16, 1949	0–4	@ New York Rangers (1948–49)	28–16–5
50	T	February 21, 1949	2–2	Boston Bruins (1948–49)	28–16–6
51	L	February 26, 1949	0–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	28–17–6
52	L	February 27, 1949	2–3	@ New York Rangers (1948–49)	28–18–6
53	T	March 2, 1949	1–1	@ Boston Bruins (1948–49)	28–18–7
54	W	March 5, 1949	6–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	29–18–7
55	W	March 6, 1949	6–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1948–49)	30–18–7
56	W	March 9, 1949	5–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	31–18–7
57	L	March 13, 1949	2–6	Boston Bruins (1948–49)	31–19–7
58	W	March 16, 1949	6–2	New York Rangers (1948–49)	32–19–7
59	W	March 19, 1949	5–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1948–49)	33–19–7
60	W	March 20, 1949	2–1	Montreal Canadiens (1948–49)	34–19–7

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Sid Abel	C/LW	60	28	26	54	49
Ted Lindsay	LW	50	26	28	54	97
Bud Poile	RW	56	21	21	42	6
Gordie Howe	RW	40	12	25	37	57
Jim McFadden	C	55	12	20	32	10
Pete Horeck	LW	60	14	16	30	46
Gerry Couture	RW	51	19	10	29	6
Marty Pavelich	LW	60	10	16	26	40
Max McNab	C	51	10	13	23	14
Bill Quackenbush	D	60	6	17	23	0
George Gee	C	47	7	12	19	27
Enio Sclisizzi	LW	50	9	8	17	24
Red Kelly	D/C	59	5	11	16	10
Jack Stewart	D	60	4	11	15	96
Leo Reise	D	59	3	7	10	60
Pat Lundy	C	15	4	3	7	4
Fern Gauthier	RW	41	3	2	5	2
Lee Fogolin Sr.	D	43	1	2	3	59
Jim Conacher	C	4	1	0	1	2
Don Morrison	C	13	0	1	1	0
Eddie Bruneteau	RW	1	0	0	0	0
Bep Guidolin	LW	4	0	0	0	0
Harry Lumley	G	60	0	0	0	12
Calum MacKay	LW	1	0	0	0	0
Doug McCaig	D	1	0	0	0	0
Nels Podolsky	LW	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Harry Lumley	3600	60	34	19	7	145	2.42	6
Team:	3600	60	34	19	7	145	2.42	6

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gordie Howe	RW	11	8	3	11	19
Ted Lindsay	LW	11	2	6	8	31
Sid Abel	C/LW	11	3	3	6	6
George Gee	C	10	1	3	4	22
Gerry Couture	RW	10	2	0	2	2
Pete Horeck	LW	11	1	1	2	10
Red Kelly	D/C	11	1	1	2	10
Bill Quackenbush	D	11	1	1	2	0
Jack Stewart	D	11	1	1	2	32
Max McNab	C	10	1	0	1	2
Leo Reise	D	11	1	0	1	4
Jim McFadden	C	8	0	1	1	6
Marty Pavelich	LW	9	0	1	1	8
Bud Poile	RW	10	0	1	1	2
Lee Fogolin Sr.	D	9	0	0	0	4
Fred Glover	C	2	0	0	0	0
Harry Lumley	G	11	0	0	0	2
Pat Lundy	C	4	0	0	0	0
Nels Podolsky	LW	7	0	0	0	4
Gerry Reid	C	2	0	0	0	2
Enio Sclisizzi	LW	6	0	0	0	2

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Harry Lumley	726	11	4	7	26	2.15	0
Team:	726	11	4	7	26	2.15	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;

See also

• 1948–49 NHL season

References

1. "1948–1949 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.
2. "1948-49 Detroit Red Wings Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-04.

External links

• "1948–49 Detroit Red Wings Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-05-07.