1957–58 Detroit Red Wings season

1957–58 Detroit Red Wings
1957–58 Detroit Red Wings
Division	3rd NHL
1957–58 record	29–29–12
Team information
General manager	Jack Adams
Coach	Jimmy Skinner ; Sid Abel
Captain	Red Kelly
Alternate captains	Alex Delvecchio; Gordie Howe
Arena	Detroit Olympia
Team leaders
Goals	Gordie Howe (33)
Assists	Gordie Howe (44)
Points	Gordie Howe (77)
Penalty minutes	Forbes Kennedy (135)
Wins	Terry Sawchuk (29)
Goals against average	Terry Sawchuk (2.94)
	← 1956–57 1958–59 →

The 1957–58 Detroit Red Wings season was the Red Wings' 32nd season. The season involved sending Ted Lindsay and Glenn Hall to the Chicago Black Hawks.

Offseason

July 23, 1957 – The Chicago Black Hawks acquired Ted Lindsay and Glenn Hall from the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for Johnny Wilson, Forbes Kennedy, Hank Bassen, and Bill Preston.

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League^[1]
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		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Montreal Canadiens	70	43	17	10	250	158	+92	96
2	New York Rangers	70	32	25	13	195	188	+7	77
3	Detroit Red Wings	70	29	29	12	176	207	−31	70
4	Boston Bruins	70	27	28	15	199	194	+5	69
5	Chicago Black Hawks	70	24	39	7	163	202	−39	55
6	Toronto Maple Leafs	70	21	38	11	192	226	−34	53

Record vs. opponents

1957–58 NHL Records
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MON	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	7–3–4	8–5–1	3–9–2	6–5–3	3–6–5
Chicago	3–7–4	—	7–7	3–10–1	4–9–1	7–6–1
Detroit	5–8–1	7–7	—	3–7–4	4–5–5	10–2–2
Montreal	9–3–2	10–3–1	7–3–4	—	6–6–2	11–2–1
New York	5–6–3	9–4–1	5–4–5	6–6–2	—	7–5–2
Toronto	6–3–5	6–7–1	2–10–2	2–11–1	5–7–2	—

Schedule and results

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	October 10, 1957	2–3	New York Rangers (1957–58)	0–1–0
2	W	October 12, 1957	5–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	1–1–0
3	L	October 13, 1957	0–6	Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	1–2–0
4	L	October 17, 1957	1–5	Boston Bruins (1957–58)	1–3–0
5	W	October 20, 1957	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	2–3–0
6	W	October 24, 1957	4–3	Boston Bruins (1957–58)	3–3–0
7	L	October 27, 1957	0–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	3–4–0
8	L	October 29, 1957	0–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	3–5–0
9	W	October 30, 1957	4–0	@ New York Rangers (1957–58)	4–5–0
10	L	November 2, 1957	3–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	4–6–0
11	L	November 3, 1957	0–4	@ Boston Bruins (1957–58)	4–7–0
12	T	November 5, 1957	1–1	New York Rangers (1957–58)	4–7–1
13	L	November 7, 1957	0–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	4–8–1
14	T	November 9, 1957	3–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	4–8–2
15	L	November 10, 1957	2–4	@ Boston Bruins (1957–58)	4–9–2
16	W	November 16, 1957	1–0	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	5–9–2
17	L	November 17, 1957	2–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	5–10–2
18	T	November 20, 1957	1–1	@ New York Rangers (1957–58)	5–10–3
19	W	November 23, 1957	2–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	6–10–3
20	T	November 24, 1957	3–3	Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	6–10–4
21	T	November 28, 1957	3–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	6–10–5
22	W	November 30, 1957	3–1	@ New York Rangers (1957–58)	7–10–5
23	L	December 1, 1957	1–5	New York Rangers (1957–58)	7–11–5
24	L	December 5, 1957	2–7	@ Boston Bruins (1957–58)	7–12–5
25	W	December 7, 1957	2–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	8–12–5
26	L	December 8, 1957	1–3	Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	8–13–5
27	W	December 12, 1957	3–2	Boston Bruins (1957–58)	9–13–5
28	T	December 14, 1957	4–4	New York Rangers (1957–58)	9–13–6
29	L	December 15, 1957	2–4	@ New York Rangers (1957–58)	9–14–6
30	W	December 19, 1957	3–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	10–14–6
31	W	December 21, 1957	5–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	11–14–6
32	W	December 22, 1957	2–0	Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	12–14–6
33	L	December 25, 1957	1–4	@ Boston Bruins (1957–58)	12–15–6
34	L	December 28, 1957	0–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	12–16–6
35	T	December 29, 1957	2–2	Boston Bruins (1957–58)	12–16–7
36	W	December 31, 1957	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	13–16–7
37	L	January 1, 1958	3–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	13–17–7
38	L	January 4, 1958	1–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	13–18–7
39	W	January 5, 1958	3–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	14–18–7
40	W	January 9, 1958	6–1	Boston Bruins (1957–58)	15–18–7
41	W	January 11, 1958	4–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	16–18–7
42	W	January 12, 1958	3–2	@ New York Rangers (1957–58)	17–18–7
43	W	January 16, 1958	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	18–18–7
44	L	January 18, 1958	1–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	18–19–7
45	L	January 19, 1958	1–6	New York Rangers (1957–58)	18–20–7
46	L	January 25, 1958	3–5	@ Boston Bruins (1957–58)	18–21–7
47	W	January 26, 1958	4–2	Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	19–21–7
48	L	January 30, 1958	0–7	@ Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	19–22–7
49	L	February 1, 1958	2–9	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	19–23–7
50	W	February 2, 1958	3–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	20–23–7
51	T	February 6, 1958	1–1	Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	20–23–8
52	L	February 8, 1958	2–5	New York Rangers (1957–58)	20–24–8
53	W	February 9, 1958	2–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	21–24–8
54	L	February 13, 1958	0–5	@ Boston Bruins (1957–58)	21–25–8
55	W	February 15, 1958	6–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	22–25–8
56	W	February 16, 1958	4–1	Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	23–25–8
57	W	February 22, 1958	6–1	Boston Bruins (1957–58)	24–25–8
58	T	February 23, 1958	3–3	Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	24–25–9
59	T	March 1, 1958	2–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	24–25–10
60	T	March 2, 1958	4–4	@ New York Rangers (1957–58)	24–25–11
61	L	March 4, 1958	1–2	Boston Bruins (1957–58)	24–26–11
62	L	March 8, 1958	3–4	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	24–27–11
63	W	March 9, 1958	4–2	@ New York Rangers (1957–58)	25–27–11
64	T	March 11, 1958	2–2	New York Rangers (1957–58)	25–27–12
65	W	March 15, 1958	3–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	26–27–12
66	W	March 16, 1958	6–3	@ Boston Bruins (1957–58)	27–27–12
67	W	March 18, 1958	4–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1957–58)	28–27–12
68	L	March 20, 1958	4–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	28–28–12
69	L	March 22, 1958	4–6	Chicago Black Hawks (1957–58)	28–29–12
70	W	March 23, 1958	4–2	Montreal Canadiens (1957–58)	29–29–12

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gordie Howe	RW	64	33	44	77	40
Alex Delvecchio	C/LW	70	21	38	59	22
Norm Ullman	C	69	23	28	51	38
Johnny Wilson	LW	70	12	27	39	14
Red Kelly	D/C	61	13	18	31	26
Forbes Kennedy	C	70	11	16	27	135
Jack McIntyre	D	41	15	7	22	4
Nick Mickoski	LW	37	8	12	20	30
Marcel Pronovost	D	62	2	18	20	52
Warren Godfrey	D	67	2	16	18	56
Don Poile	C	62	7	9	16	12
Billy McNeill	RW	35	5	10	15	29
Bob Bailey	RW	36	6	6	12	41
Dutch Reibel	C	29	4	5	9	4
Billy Dea	LW	29	4	4	8	6
Al Arbour	D	69	1	6	7	104
Bill Dineen	RW	22	2	4	6	2
Lorne Ferguson	LW	15	1	3	4	0
Tom McCarthy	LW	18	2	1	3	4
Gord Hollingworth	D	27	1	2	3	22
Tony Leswick	W	22	1	2	3	2
Metro Prystai	C	15	1	1	2	4
Pete Goegan	D	14	0	2	2	28
Hec Lalande	C	12	0	2	2	2
Bill McCreary	LW	3	1	0	1	2
Cummy Burton	RW	26	0	1	1	12
Murray Oliver	C	1	0	1	1	0
Brian Smith	LW	4	0	1	1	0
Dave Amadio	D	2	0	0	0	2
Guyle Fielder	C	6	0	0	0	2
Jack Hendrickson	D	1	0	0	0	0
Brian Kilrea	C	1	0	0	0	0
Stu McNeill	C	2	0	0	0	0
Dennis Olson	C	4	0	0	0	0
Terry Sawchuk	G	70	0	0	0	39
Gord Strate	D	45	0	0	0	24

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Terry Sawchuk	4200	70	29	29	12	206	2.94	3
Team:	4200	70	29	29	12	206	2.94	3

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Johnny Wilson	LW	4	2	1	3	0
Gordie Howe	RW	4	1	1	2	0
Jack McIntyre	D	4	1	1	2	0
Billy McNeill	RW	4	1	1	2	4
Norm Ullman	C	4	0	2	2	4
Forbes Kennedy	C	4	1	0	1	12
Al Arbour	D	4	0	1	1	4
Alex Delvecchio	C/LW	4	0	1	1	0
Red Kelly	D/C	4	0	1	1	2
Marcel Pronovost	D	4	0	1	1	4
Bob Bailey	RW	4	0	0	0	16
Warren Godfrey	D	4	0	0	0	0
Pete Goegan	D	4	0	0	0	18
Tony Leswick	W	4	0	0	0	0
Nick Mickoski	LW	4	0	0	0	4
Don Poile	C	4	0	0	0	0
Terry Sawchuk	G	4	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Terry Sawchuk	252	4	0	4	19	4.52	0
Team:	252	4	0	4	19	4.52	0

^[2]

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;

References

Red Wings on Hockey Database

^ "1957–1958 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.
^ "1957-58 Detroit Red Wings Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-04.

[standings-div-1] "1957–1958 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.

[2] "1957-58 Detroit Red Wings Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-04.

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