| 1976 Training Camp Notes |
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| The Wings invited 46 players to camp in 1976, made up of 6 netminders, 16 defenseman, and 24 forwards. 1st rnd pick Fred "Fats" Williams made the team out of camp, but played himself into the minors by the midpoint of the season, never to return to the NHL. Besides the parent club, players were placed with one of three farm clubs, Kansas City (CHL), Rhode Island (AHL), or Kalamazoo (IHL). |
| # | Pos | Player | HT | WT | D.O.B. | 1975-76 Club | GP | G | A | PTS | PIM | 1976-77 Club | Draft Notes |
|---|
| 7 | LW | Dan Maloney | 6'2 | 185 | 9/24/50 | Detroit (NHL) | 77 | 27 | 39 | 66 | 203 | Detroit (NHL) | LA 6/23/75 |
| 14 | LW | Nick Libett | 6'1 | 185 | 12/9/45 | Detroit (NHL) | 80 | 20 | 26 | 46 | 71 | Detroit (NHL) | Signed 3/22/66 |
| 21 | LW | Danny Grant | 5'10 | 188 | 2/21/45 | Detroit (NHL) | 39 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 20 | Detroit (NHL) | Min 8/27/74 |
| 25 | LW | Mike Bloom | 6'3 | 205 | 4/12/52 | Detroit (NHL) | 76 | 13 | 17 | 30 | 99 | Detroit (NHL)/Kansas City (CHL)/Rhode Island (AHL) | Was 3/9/75 |
| 29 | LW | Brian McCutcheon | 5'10 | 177 | 8/3/49 | New Haven (AHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 58
8 | 27
0 | 19
0 | 46
0 | 22
5 | Detroit (NHL)/Kansas City (CHL) | Free Agent 1971 |
| | LW | Bob Krieger | 5'11 | 186 | 10/5/52 | New Haven (AHL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Released from Camp | 1972 draft 3rd rnd, 42nd |
| | LW | * Clark Hamilton | 6'4 | 220 | 1/12/55 | Notre Dame (NCAA) | 38 | 22 | 38 | 60 | 61 | Returned to College | 1975 draft 3rd rnd, 50th |
| 8 | RW | Dennis Polonich | 5'6 | 166 | 12/4/53 | Kalamazoo (IHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 5
57 | 1
11 | 8
12 | 9
23 | 32
302 | Detroit (NHL) | 1973 draft 8th rnd, 123rd |
| 16 | RW | Michel Bergeron | 5'10 | 170 | 11/11/54 | Detroit (NHL) | 72 | 32 | 27 | 59 | 48 | Detroit (NHL)/Kansas City (CHL) | 1974 draft 4th rnd, 63rd |
| 17 | RW | Kenneth Mann | 5'11 | 200 | 9/5/53 | Kalamazoo (IHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 76
1 | 39
0 | 35
0 | 74
0 | 100
0 | Kalamazoo (IHL)/Kansas City (CHL) | Free Agent 1974 |
| 23 | RW | Bill Lochead | 6'1 | 195 | 10/13/54 | New Haven (AHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 24
53 | 17
9 | 13
11 | 30
20 | 24
22 | Kansas City (CHL)/Detroit (NHL) | 1974 draft 1st rnd, 9th |
| 27 | RW | Fred Harvey | 6' | 185 | 4/2/50 | Atlanta/Kansas City/Detroit (NHL) | 75 | 13 | 21 | 34 | 31 | Detroit (NHL)/Kansas City (CHL) | KC 1/14/76 |
| | RW | * Kevin Schamehorn | 5'9 | 181 | 7/28/56 | New Westminster (WCHL) | 62 | 32 | 42 | 74 | 276 | Detroit (NHL)/Kalamazoo (IHL) | 1976 draft 4th rnd, 58th |
| | RW | Mike Korney | 6'3 | 220 | 9/15/53 | New Haven (AHL)
Detroit (NHL)
Oklahoma City (CHL) | 21
27
18 | 8
1
8 | 9
7
6 | 17
8
14 | 31
23
20 | Kansas City (CHL) | 1973 draft 4th rnd, 59th |
| | RW | Don Martineau | 6' | 190 | 4/25/52 | New Haven (AHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 64
9 | 15
0 | 20
1 | 35
1 | 129
0 | Kansas City (CHL)/Detroit (NHL) | Min 11/25/75 |
| 11 | C | Walt McKechnie | 6'2 | 195 | 6/19/47 | Detroit (NHL) | 80 | 26 | 56 | 82 | 85 | Detroit (NHL) | Bos 2/18/75 |
| 12 | C | Jean-Paul Leblanc | 5'10 | 170 | 10/20/46 | Denver/Ottawa (WHA)
Detroit (NHL) | 15
46 | 1
4 | 5
9 | 6
13 | 25
39 | Detroit (NHL) | Chi 11/20/75 |
| 15 | C | Fred Williams | 5'11 | 178 | 7/1/56 | Saskatoon (WHL) | 72 | 31 | 87 | 118 | 129 | Detroit (NHL)/Rhode Island (AHL) | 1976 draft 1st rnd, 4th |
| 22 | C | Dennis Hextall | 5'11 | 175 | 4/17/43 | Minnesota/Detroit (NHL) | 76 | 16 | 44 | 60 | 164 | Detroit (NHL) | Min 2/27/76 |
| | C | * Fern LeBlanc | 5'11 | 180 | 1/12/56 | Sherbrooke (QMJHL) | 71 | 63 | 71 | 134 | 31 | Kalamazoo (IHL)/Detroit (NHL) | 1976 draft 7th rnd, 111th |
| | C | * Fred Berry | 5'9 | 170 | 3/26/56 | New Westminster (WCHL) | 72 | 59 | 87 | 146 | 164 | Kalamazoo (IHL)/Detroit (NHL) | 1976 draft 3rd rnd, 40th |
| | C | Mike Wong | 6'3 | 204 | 1/14/55 | Kalamazoo (IHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 39
22 | 20
1 | 22
1 | 42
2 | 81
12 | Kalamazoo (IHL)/Rhode Island (AHL) | 1975 draft 5th rnd, 77th |
| | C | Glen Burdon | 6'2 | 178 | 8/4/54 | New Haven (AHL) | 23 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | Kansas City (CHL) | KC 8/22/75 |
| | C | * Robbie Neale | 6' | 185 | 4/17/53 | Cape Cod/Erie (NAHL) | 68 | 50 | 69 | 119 | 71 | Released from Camp | 1973 draft 3rd rnd, 43rd |
| 2 | D | Terry Harper | 6'1 | 197 | 1/27/40 | Detroit (NHL) | 69 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 59 | Detroit (NHL) | LA 6/23/75 |
| 3 | D | Jim Nahrgang | 6' | 185 | 4/17/51 | Detroit (NHL)
New Haven (AHL) | 3
49 | 0
4 | 1
11 | 1
15 | 0
74 | Kansas City (CHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 1971 draft 7th rnd, 86th |
| 4 | D | Rick LaPointe | 6'2 | 200 | 8/2/55 | Detroit (NHL) | 80 | 10 | 23 | 33 | 95 | Detroit (NHL)/Kansas City (CHL) | 1975 draft 1st rnd, 5th |
| 5 | D | Jean Hamel | 5'11 | 185 | 6/6/52 | Detroit (NHL) | 77 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 129 | Detroit (NHL) | Stl 2/14/74 |
| 18 | D | Bryan ³Bugsy² Watson | 5'10 | 175 | 11/14/42 | Detroit (NHL) | 79 | 0 | 18 | 18 | 322 | Detroit (NHL) | Stl 2/14/74 |
| 19 | D | Rick Wilson | 6'1 | 195 | 8/10/50 | St Louis (NHL) | 65 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 20 | Detroit (NHL) | Stl 6/16/76 |
| 20 | D | *Dwight Schofield | 6' | 187 | 3/25/56 | London (OHA) | 59 | 14 | 29 | 43 | 121 | Kalamazoo (IHL)/Detroit (NHL) | 1976 draft 5th rnd, 76th |
| 24 | D | Frank Bathe | 6' | 185 | 9/27/54 | Kalamazoo/Port Huron (IHL)
New Haven (AHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 57
7
7 | 2
0
0 | 8
1
1 | 10
1
1 | 194
24
9 | Port Huron (IHL) | Free Agent 1974 |
| 26 | D | Al Cameron | 6'1 | 190 | 10/21/55 | Kalamazoo (IHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 43
38 | 3
2 | 19
8 | 22
10 | 71
49 | Detroit (NHL) | 1975 draft 3rd rnd, 37th |
| 28 | D | * Reed Larson | 6' | 182 | 7/30/56 | U of Minnesota (NCAA) | 42 | 13 | 29 | 42 | 94 | U of Minnesota (NCAA)/Detroit (NHL) | 1976 draft 2nd rnd, 22nd |
| | D | * Jim Mitchell | 5'11 | 195 | 1/10/54 | Toledo (IHL)/Kalamazoo (IHL) | 55 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 30 | Kalamazoo | Camp Tryout 1976 |
| | D | * Greg Steel | 6' | 187 | 4/25/54 | Kalamazoo (IHL) | 76 | 3 | 18 | 21 | 88 | Kalamazoo (IHL) | 1974 draft 8th rnd, 134th |
| | D | * Mike Harazny | 6' | 180 | 3/21/55 | Kalamazoo (IHL) | 72 | 5 | 26 | 31 | 69 | Kalamazoo (IHL) | 1975 draft 6th rnd, 95th |
| | D | Larry Giroux | 6' | 190 | 8/28/51 | New Haven (AHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 67
10 | 1
1 | 24
1 | 25
2 | 121
25 | Kansas City (CHL)/Detroit (NHL) | KC 12/14/74 |
| | D | * Tony Horvath | 5'11 | 190 | 6/26/56 | Hamilton/Sault Ste Marie (OHA) | 51 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 167 | Released from Camp | 1976 draft 6th rnd, 94th |
| | D | * John Taft | 6'2 | 185 | 3/8/58 | US National Team | 51 | 9 | 34 | 43 | 66 | U of Wisconsin (NCAA) | 1974 draft 5th rnd, 81st |
| 1 | G | Jim Rutherford | 5'8 | 160 | 2/17/49 | Detroit (NHL) | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Detroit (NHL) | Pit 1/18/74 |
| 30 | G | Terry Richardson | 6'1 | 190 | 5/7/53 | New Haven/Springfield (AHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 24
1 | 0
0 | 0
0 | 0
0 | 0
2 | Detroit (NHL)/Kalamazoo (IHL) | 1973 draft 1st rnd, 11th |
| 31 | G | Ed Giacomin | 5'11 | 180 | 6/6/39 | New York Rangers/Detroit (NHL) | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Detroit (NHL) | Claimed on Waivers from NYR 10/31/75 |
| | G | * Claude Legris | 5'9 | 152 | 11/6/56 | Sorel (QMJHL) | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Released from Camp | 1976 draft 8th rnd, 120th |
| | G | * Mike Frawley | 6'2 | 185 | 4/9/54 | Marquette (USHL)
Kalamazoo (IHL) | 22
2 | 0
0 | 0
0 | 0
0 | 0
0 | Released from Tryout | Camp Tryout 1976 |
| | G | Peter McDuffe | 5'9 | 180 | 2/16/48 | New Haven (AHL)
Detroit (NHL) | 21
4 | 0
0 | 0
0 | 0
0 | 4
2 | Rhode Island (AHL) | KC 8/22/75 |
* - Amateur Player.
