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	Norm Ullman Marcel Pronovost
Arena	Detroit Olympia
Team leaders
Goals	Gordie Howe (38)
Assists	Gordie Howe (48)
Points	Gordie Howe (86)
Penalty 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 advanced to the 1963 Stanley Cup Finals and lost 4 games to 1 to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Regular Season

Final Standings

National Hockey League

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PIM	Pts
Toronto Maple Leafs	70	35	23	12	221	180	816	82
Chicago Black Hawks	70	32	21	17	194	178	906	81
Montreal Canadiens	70	28	19	23	225	183	751	79
Detroit Red Wings	70	32	25	13	200	194	964	77
New York Rangers	70	22	36	12	211	233	657	56
Boston Bruins	70	14	39	17	198	281	636	45

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Game Log

Regular Season Results
No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	October 11, 1962	2–1	@ New York Rangers (1962–63)	1–0–0
2	T	October 13, 1962	0–0	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	1–0–1
3	W	October 14, 1962	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	2–0–1
4	W	October 18, 1962	5–3	Boston Bruins (1962–63)	3–0–1
5	W	October 21, 1962	3–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	4–0–1
6	T	October 25, 1962	3–3	@ Boston Bruins (1962–63)	4–0–2
7	W	October 28, 1962	2–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	5–0–2
8	W	November 1, 1962	4–0	New York Rangers (1962–63)	6–0–2
9	W	November 3, 1962	7–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	7–0–2
10	W	November 4, 1962	3–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	8–0–2
11	L	November 8, 1962	1–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	8–1–2
12	T	November 10, 1962	3–3	@ Boston Bruins (1962–63)	8–1–3
13	W	November 11, 1962	3–2	@ New York Rangers (1962–63)	9–1–3
14	L	November 14, 1962	2–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	9–2–3
15	L	November 17, 1962	2–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	9–3–3
16	W	November 18, 1962	3–1	@ Boston Bruins (1962–63)	10–3–3
17	L	November 22, 1962	0–3	Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	10–4–3
18	T	November 24, 1962	1–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	10–4–4
19	W	November 25, 1962	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	11–4–4
20	L	November 29, 1962	0–5	New York Rangers (1962–63)	11–5–4
21	L	December 2, 1962	1–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	11–6–4
22	T	December 5, 1962	3–3	@ New York Rangers (1962–63)	11–6–5
23	W	December 6, 1962	5–3	Boston Bruins (1962–63)	12–6–5
24	L	December 8, 1962	1–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	12–7–5
25	W	December 9, 1962	4–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	13–7–5
26	W	December 13, 1962	3–2	New York Rangers (1962–63)	14–7–5
27	W	December 15, 1962	3–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	15–7–5
28	L	December 16, 1962	2–5	@ New York Rangers (1962–63)	15–8–5
29	L	December 20, 1962	3–5	Boston Bruins (1962–63)	15–9–5
30	T	December 23, 1962	2–2	Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	15–9–6
31	W	December 25, 1962	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	16–9–6
32	L	December 26, 1962	4–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	16–10–6
33	L	December 29, 1962	1–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	16–11–6
34	T	December 31, 1962	1–1	New York Rangers (1962–63)	16–11–7
35	L	January 1, 1963	2–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	16–12–7
36	T	January 6, 1963	5–5	Boston Bruins (1962–63)	16–12–8
37	W	January 10, 1963	3–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	17–12–8
38	L	January 12, 1963	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	17–13–8
39	W	January 13, 1963	4–2	New York Rangers (1962–63)	18–13–8
40	W	January 17, 1963	5–3	Boston Bruins (1962–63)	19–13–8
41	L	January 19, 1963	1–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	19–14–8
42	T	January 20, 1963	2–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	19–14–9
43	T	January 24, 1963	1–1	Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	19–14–10
44	L	January 26, 1963	0–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	19–15–10
45	W	January 27, 1963	5–3	@ Boston Bruins (1962–63)	20–15–10
46	W	January 30, 1963	6–1	@ New York Rangers (1962–63)	21–15–10
47	T	February 2, 1963	4–4	@ Boston Bruins (1962–63)	21–15–11
48	L	February 3, 1963	2–6	Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	21–16–11
49	T	February 6, 1963	3–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	21–16–12
50	T	February 7, 1963	3–3	Boston Bruins (1962–63)	21–16–13
51	W	February 10, 1963	2–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	22–16–13
52	L	February 13, 1963	2–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	22–17–13
53	W	February 16, 1963	3–1	Boston Bruins (1962–63)	23–17–13
54	L	February 17, 1963	1–6	Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	23–18–13
55	L	February 21, 1963	3–5	Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	23–19–13
56	L	February 23, 1963	2–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	23–20–13
57	W	February 24, 1963	3–2	@ New York Rangers (1962–63)	24–20–13
58	L	February 26, 1963	3–4	New York Rangers (1962–63)	24–21–13
59	L	February 28, 1963	3–5	@ Boston Bruins (1962–63)	24–22–13
60	W	March 2, 1963	7–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	25–22–13
61	W	March 3, 1963	3–2	@ New York Rangers (1962–63)	26–22–13
62	L	March 5, 1963	3–4	Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	26–23–13
63	L	March 9, 1963	3–5	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	26–24–13
64	W	March 10, 1963	4–3	@ Boston Bruins (1962–63)	27–24–13
65	W	March 14, 1963	9–4	New York Rangers (1962–63)	28–24–13
66	L	March 16, 1963	3–5	@ Montreal Canadiens (1962–63)	28–25–13
67	W	March 17, 1963	4–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	29–25–13
68	W	March 19, 1963	5–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1962–63)	30–25–13
69	W	March 23, 1963	2–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	31–25–13
70	W	March 24, 1963	3–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1962–63)	32–25–13

Player Stats

Regular Season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Howe, GordieGordie Howe	RW	70	38	48	86	100
Delvecchio, AlexAlex Delvecchio	C/LW	70	20	44	64	8
MacDonald, ParkerParker MacDonald	C	69	33	28	61	32
Ullman, NormNorm Ullman	C	70	26	30	56	53
Gadsby, BillBill Gadsby	D	70	4	24	28	116
Barkley, DougDoug Barkley	D	70	3	24	27	78
Smith, FloydFloyd Smith	RW	51	9	17	26	10
MacGregor, BruceBruce MacGregor	C	67	11	11	22	12
Faulkner, AlexAlex Faulkner	C	70	10	10	20	6
Fonteyne, ValVal Fonteyne	LW	67	6	14	20	2
Pronovost, AndreAndre Pronovost	LW	47	13	5	18	18
Stasiuk, VicVic Stasiuk	LW	36	6	11	17	37
Jeffrey, LarryLarry Jeffrey	LW	53	5	11	16	62
Pronovost, MarcelMarcel Pronovost	D	69	4	9	13	48
McNeill, BillyBilly McNeill	RW	42	3	7	10	12
Joyal, EddieEddie Joyal	C	14	2	8	10	0
Young, HowieHowie Young	D/RW	64	4	5	9	273
Goegan, PetePete Goegan	D	62	1	8	9	48
MacDonald, LowellLowell MacDonald	LW	26	2	1	3	8
Bassen, HankHank Bassen	G	16	0	1	1	14
Harris, RonRon Harris	D	1	0	1	1	0
Marcon, LouLou Marcon	D	1	0	0	0	0
Odrowski, GerryGerry Odrowski	D	1	0	0	0	0
Lucas, DaveDave Lucas	D	1	0	0	0	0
Henderson, PaulPaul Henderson	RW	2	0	0	0	9
Johnson, AllanAllan Johnson	RW/C	2	0	0	0	0
Lafreniere, RogerRoger Lafreniere	LW	3	0	0	0	4
Elik, BoBo Elik	LW	3	0	0	0	0
Riggin, DennisDennis Riggin	G	9	0	0	0	0
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	G	48	0	0	0	14

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	2781	48	22	16	7	118	2.55	3
Bassen, HankHank Bassen	960	16	6	5	5	51	3.19	0
Riggin, DennisDennis 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
Howe, GordieGordie Howe	RW	11	7	9	16	22
Ullman, NormNorm Ullman	C	11	4	12	16	14
Delvecchio, AlexAlex Delvecchio	C/LW	11	3	6	9	2
Jeffrey, LarryLarry Jeffrey	LW	9	3	3	6	8
Faulkner, AlexAlex Faulkner	C	8	5	0	5	2
MacDonald, ParkerParker MacDonald	C	11	3	2	5	2
Smith, FloydFloyd Smith	RW	11	2	3	5	4
Gadsby, BillBill Gadsby	D	11	1	4	5	36
MacGregor, BruceBruce MacGregor	C	10	1	4	5	10
Pronovost, AndreAndre Pronovost	LW	11	1	4	5	6
Pronovost, MarcelMarcel Pronovost	D	11	1	4	5	8
Stasiuk, VicVic Stasiuk	LW	11	3	0	3	4
Barkley, DougDoug Barkley	D	11	0	3	3	16
Goegan, PetePete Goegan	D	11	0	2	2	12
Young, HowieHowie Young	D/RW	8	0	2	2	16
Joyal, EddieEddie Joyal	C	11	1	0	1	2
Dillabough, BobBob Dillabough	C	1	0	0	0	0
MacDonald, LowellLowell MacDonald	LW	1	0	0	0	2
Odrowski, GerryGerry Odrowski	D	2	0	0	0	2
Fonteyne, ValVal Fonteyne	LW	11	0	0	0	2
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	G	11	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	660	11	5	6	35	3.18	0
Team:	660	11	5	6	35	3.18	0

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

• Hart Memorial Trophy: Gordie Howe
• Art Ross Trophy: Gordie Howe
• Gordie Howe, NHL First Team All-Star
• Terry Sawchuk, NHL Second Team All-Star

Gallery

Eddie Johnston makes a save in his first NHL game, October 25, 1962.

Pre-season @ Calgary

Pre-season @ Winnipeg

Team picture

References

• Red Wings on Hockey Database

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