1946–47 Detroit Red Wings season

1946–47 Detroit Red Wings
Division	4th NHL
1946–47 record	22–27–11
Goals for	190
Goals against	193
Team information
General Manager	Jack Adams
Coach	Jack Adams
Captain	Sid Abel
Team leaders
Goals	Roy Conacher (30)
Assists	Billy Taylor (46)
Points	Billy Taylor (63)
Penalties in minutes	Jack Stewart (83)
Wins	Harry Lumley (22)
Goals against average	Harry Lumley (3.06)
<1945–46	1947–48>

The 1946–47 Detroit Red Wings season was the Red Wings' fourteenth season. The season involved Gordie Howe making his National Hockey League debut.

Contents 1 Offseason 2 Regular season 2.1 Final standings 2.2 Game log 3 Player stats 3.1 Regular season 3.2 Playoffs 4 Awards and records 5 References

Offseason

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League

	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
Montreal Canadiens	60	34	16	10	78	189	138	561
Toronto Maple Leafs	60	31	19	10	72	209	172	669
Boston Bruins	60	26	23	11	63	190	175	463
Detroit Red Wings	60	22	27	11	55	190	193	535
New York Rangers	60	22	32	6	50	167	186	426
Chicago Black Hawks	60	19	37	4	42	193	274	467

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Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Teams that qualify for the playoffs are indicated in bold.

Game log

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	T	October 16, 1946	3–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	0–0–1
2	L	October 19, 1946	3–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	0–1–1
3	L	October 20, 1946	1–3	New York Rangers (1946–47)	0–2–1
4	L	October 23, 1946	5–6	Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	0–3–1
5	L	October 26, 1946	2–7	@ Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	0–4–1
6	W	October 27, 1946	2–1	Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	1–4–1
7	L	November 2, 1946	4–7	@ New York Rangers (1946–47)	1–5–1
8	W	November 3, 1946	3–1	New York Rangers (1946–47)	2–5–1
9	T	November 6, 1946	3–3	Boston Bruins (1946–47)	2–5–2
10	W	November 10, 1946	6–3	Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	3–5–2
11	L	November 13, 1946	2–5	@ Boston Bruins (1946–47)	3–6–2
12	L	November 14, 1946	3–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	3–7–2
13	W	November 17, 1946	5–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	4–7–2
14	W	November 20, 1946	8–6	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	5–7–2
15	W	November 21, 1946	3–1	New York Rangers (1946–47)	6–7–2
16	W	November 23, 1946	4–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	7–7–2
17	L	November 24, 1946	0–5	Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	7–8–2
18	L	November 27, 1946	1–6	Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	7–9–2
19	L	November 30, 1946	1–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	7–10–2
20	T	December 1, 1946	3–3	@ Boston Bruins (1946–47)	7–10–3
21	T	December 4, 1946	0–0	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	7–10–4
22	L	December 8, 1946	4–5	Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	7–11–4
23	T	December 11, 1946	1–1	@ New York Rangers (1946–47)	7–11–5
24	L	December 15, 1946	2–3	@ Boston Bruins (1946–47)	7–12–5
25	L	December 18, 1946	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	7–13–5
26	L	December 19, 1946	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	7–14–5
27	L	December 22, 1946	2–4	Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	7–15–5
28	L	December 25, 1946	1–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	7–16–5
29	T	December 28, 1946	2–2	New York Rangers (1946–47)	7–16–6
30	W	December 31, 1946	5–4	@ New York Rangers (1946–47)	8–16–6
31	L	January 1, 1947	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	8–17–6
32	W	January 5, 1947	3–1	Boston Bruins (1946–47)	9–17–6
33	W	January 8, 1947	4–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	10–17–6
34	L	January 9, 1947	4–6	Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	10–18–6
35	W	January 12, 1947	5–1	Boston Bruins (1946–47)	11–18–6
36	L	January 15, 1947	3–4	@ New York Rangers (1946–47)	11–19–6
37	L	January 18, 1947	4–7	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	11–20–6
38	T	January 19, 1947	2–2	Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	11–20–7
39	W	January 23, 1947	8–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	12–20–7
40	L	January 26, 1947	3–4	@ Boston Bruins (1946–47)	12–21–7
41	L	January 29, 1947	1–4	@ Boston Bruins (1946–47)	12–22–7
42	T	February 1, 1947	2–2	Boston Bruins (1946–47)	12–22–8
43	L	February 8, 1947	3–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	12–23–8
44	W	February 9, 1947	5–2	New York Rangers (1946–47)	13–23–8
45	W	February 15, 1947	5–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	14–23–8
46	L	February 16, 1947	2–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	14–24–8
47	W	February 20, 1947	3–0	Boston Bruins (1946–47)	15–24–8
48	W	February 22, 1947	7–3	Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	16–24–8
49	T	February 23, 1947	2–2	@ New York Rangers (1946–47)	16–24–9
50	T	February 27, 1947	3–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	16–24–10
51	W	March 1, 1947	5–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	17–24–10
52	W	March 2, 1947	3–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	18–24–10
53	T	March 6, 1947	1–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1946–47)	18–24–11
54	L	March 9, 1947	0–6	@ Boston Bruins (1946–47)	18–25–11
55	W	March 12, 1947	4–2	@ New York Rangers (1946–47)	19–25–11
56	L	March 13, 1947	2–3	Boston Bruins (1946–47)	19–26–11
57	W	March 15, 1947	8–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	20–26–11
58	W	March 16, 1947	10–6	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1946–47)	21–26–11
59	W	March 19, 1947	2–0	New York Rangers (1946–47)	22–26–11
60	L	March 23, 1947	3–5	Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47)	22–27–11

Player stats

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Taylor, BillyBilly Taylor	C	60	17	46	63	35
Conacher, RoyRoy Conacher	LW	60	30	24	54	6
Abel, SidSid Abel	C/LW	60	19	29	48	29
Lindsay, TedTed Lindsay	LW	59	27	15	42	57
Lundy, PatPat Lundy	C	59	17	17	34	10
Conacher, JimJim Conacher	C	33	16	13	29	2
Horeck, PetePete Horeck	LW	38	12	13	25	59
Bruneteau, EddieEddie Bruneteau	RW	60	9	14	23	14
Howe, GordieGordie Howe	RW	58	7	15	22	52
Quackenbush, BillBill Quackenbush	D	44	5	17	22	6
Couture, GerryGerry Couture	RW	30	5	10	15	0
Stewart, JackJack Stewart	D	55	5	9	14	83
Brown, AdamAdam Brown	LW	22	8	5	13	30
Gauthier, FernFern Gauthier	RW	40	1	12	13	2
Reise, LeoLeo Reise	D	31	4	6	10	14
McCaig, DougDoug McCaig	D	47	2	4	6	62
Jackson, HaroldHarold Jackson	D	37	1	5	6	39
Doran, LloydLloyd Doran	C	24	3	2	5	10
Dewsbury, AlAl Dewsbury	D	23	2	1	3	12
Douglas, LesLes Douglas	C	12	0	2	2	2
Licari, TonyTony Licari	RW	9	0	1	1	0
Simpson, CliffCliff Simpson	C	6	0	1	1	0
Almas, RedRed Almas	G	1	0	0	0	0
Baldwin, DougDoug Baldwin	D	4	0	0	0	0
Lumley, HarryHarry Lumley	G	52	0	0	0	4
MacKay, CalumCalum MacKay	LW	5	0	0	0	0
Millar, HughHugh Millar	D	4	0	0	0	0
Mowers, JohnnyJohnny Mowers	G	7	0	0	0	2
Simon, ThainThain Simon	D	3	0	0	0	0
Wojciechowski, SteveSteve Wojciechowski	RW	5	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Lumley, HarryHarry Lumley	3120	52	22	20	10	159	3.06	3
Almas, RedRed Almas	60	1	0	1	0	5	5.00	0
Mowers, JohnnyJohnny Mowers	420	7	0	6	1	29	4.14	0
Team:	3600	60	22	27	11	193	3.22	3

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Conacher, RoyRoy Conacher	LW	5	4	4	8	2
Taylor, BillyBilly Taylor	C	5	1	5	6	4
Bruneteau, EddieEddie Bruneteau	RW	4	1	4	5	0
Lindsay, TedTed Lindsay	LW	5	2	2	4	10
Conacher, JimJim Conacher	C	5	2	1	3	2
Horeck, PetePete Horeck	LW	5	2	0	2	6
Abel, SidSid Abel	C/LW	3	1	1	2	2
McFadden, JimJim McFadden	C	4	0	2	2	0
Gauthier, FernFern Gauthier	RW	3	1	0	1	0
Lundy, PatPat Lundy	C	5	0	1	1	2
McCaig, DougDoug McCaig	D	5	0	1	1	4
Reise, LeoLeo Reise	D	5	0	1	1	4
Stewart, JackJack Stewart	D	5	0	1	1	12
Almas, RedRed Almas	G	5	0	0	0	0
Couture, GerryGerry Couture	RW	1	0	0	0	0
Dewsbury, AlAl Dewsbury	D	2	0	0	0	4
Howe, GordieGordie Howe	RW	5	0	0	0	18
Millar, HughHugh Millar	D	1	0	0	0	0
Mowers, JohnnyJohnny Mowers	G	1	0	0	0	0
Quackenbush, BillBill Quackenbush	D	5	0	0	0	2
Sclisizzi, EnioEnio Sclisizzi	LW	1	0	0	0	0
Simpson, CliffCliff Simpson	C	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Almas, RedRed Almas	263	5	1	3	13	2.97	0
Mowers, JohnnyJohnny Mowers	40	1	0	1	5	7.50	0
Team:	303	5	1	4	18	3.56	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;

Awards and records

• Jack Stewart, Defence, NHL Second Team All-Star
• Bill Quackenbush, Defence, NHL Second Team All-Star

References

• Red Wings on Hockey Database

1. ^ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy et al. ed. THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0. 
2. ^ "1946-47 Detroit Red Wings Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/DET/1947.html. Retrieved 2009-06-04. 

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