1955–56 Detroit Red Wings season

The 1955–56 Detroit Red Wings season was the Red Wings' 30th season.

1955–56 Detroit Red Wings
League	2nd NHL
1955–56 record	30–24–16
Home record	21–6–8
Road record	9–18–8
Goals for	183
Goals against	148
Team information
General manager	Jack Adams
Coach	Jimmy Skinner
Captain	Ted Lindsay
Alternate captains	Red Kelly
Arena	Detroit Olympia
Team leaders
Goals	Gordie Howe (38)
Assists	Gordie Howe (41)
Points	Gordie Howe (79)
Penalty minutes	Ted Lindsay (161)
Wins	Glenn Hall (30)
Goals against average	Glenn Hall (2.10)
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Offseason

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League^[1]

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		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Montreal Canadiens	70	45	15	10	222	131	+91	100
2	Detroit Red Wings	70	30	24	16	183	148	+35	76
3	New York Rangers	70	32	28	10	204	203	+1	74
4	Toronto Maple Leafs	70	24	33	13	153	181	−28	61
5	Boston Bruins	70	23	34	13	147	185	−38	59
6	Chicago Black Hawks	70	19	39	12	155	216	−61	50

Record vs. opponents

1955–56 NHL Records [2]
Team	BOS	CHI	DET	MTL	NYR	TOR
Boston	—	3–8–3	3–8–3	5–8–1	7–5–2	5–5–4
Chicago	8–3–3	—	2–8–4	1–12–1	3–10–1	5–6–3
Detroit	8–3–3	8–2–4	—	4–8–2	5–6–3	5–5–4
Montreal	8–5–1	12–1–1	8–4–2	—	8–2–4	9–3–2
New York	5–7–2	10–3–1	6–5–3	2–8–4	—	9–5
Toronto	5–5–4	6–5–3	5–5–4	3–9–2	5–9	—

Schedule and results

1955–56 regular season[3]
October Game Result Date Score Opponent Record 1 L October 6, 1955 2–3 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 0–1–0 2 L October 8, 1955 2–4 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 0–2–0 3 L October 9, 1955 2–3 New York Rangers (1955–56) 0–3–0 4 W October 15, 1955 4–1 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 1–3–0 5 W October 16, 1955 6–0 Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 2–3–0 6 T October 20, 1955 2–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 2–3–1 7 T October 22, 1955 0–0 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 2–3–2 8 L October 26, 1955 2–6 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 2–4–2 9 L October 29, 1955 1–2 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 2–5–2 10 T October 30, 1955 2–2 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 2–5–3
November Game Result Date Score Opponent Record 11 L November 2, 1955 1–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 2–6–3 12 T November 3, 1955 1–1 New York Rangers (1955–56) 2–6–4 13 T November 5, 1955 3–3 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 2–6–5 14 W November 6, 1955 4–1 Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 3–6–5 15 T November 10, 1955 2–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 3–6–6 16 L November 12, 1955 0–3 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 3–7–6 17 T November 13, 1955 0–0 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 3–7–7 18 T November 16, 1955 3–3 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 3–7–8 19 W November 19, 1955 4–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 4–7–8 20 T November 20, 1955 1–1 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 4–7–9 21 W November 24, 1955 3–2 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 5–7–9 22 L November 27, 1955 1–2 Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 5–8–9 23 T November 30, 1955 3–3 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 5–8–10
December Game Result Date Score Opponent Record 24 W December 3, 1955 5–0 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 6–8–10 25 L December 4, 1955 3–7 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 6–9–10 26 T December 8, 1955 2–2 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 6–9–11 27 L December 10, 1955 2–4 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 6–10–11 28 W December 11, 1955 2–0 New York Rangers (1955–56) 7–10–11 29 W December 15, 1955 4–0 Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 8–10–11 30 W December 18, 1955 2–0 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 9–10–11 31 W December 22, 1955 3–2 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 10–10–11 32 L December 24, 1955 2–4 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 10–11–11 33 T December 25, 1955 1–1 Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 10–11–12 34 W December 29, 1955 4–3 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 11–11–12 35 T December 31, 1955 2–2 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 11–11–13
January Game Result Date Score Opponent Record 36 W January 1, 1956 5–1 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 12–11–13 37 L January 4, 1956 4–5 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 12–12–13 38 W January 5, 1956 5–2 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 13–12–13 39 W January 8, 1956 4–3 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 14–12–13 40 W January 12, 1956 6–0 New York Rangers (1955–56) 15–12–13 41 W January 14, 1956 3–1 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 16–12–13 42 W January 15, 1956 2–0 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 17–12–13 43 W January 19, 1956 4–2 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 18–12–13 44 L January 21, 1956 2–4 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 18–13–13 45 W January 22, 1956 4–1 Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 19–13–13 46 W January 26, 1956 3–2 New York Rangers (1955–56) 20–13–13 47 W January 27, 1956 7–0 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 21–13–13 48 T January 29, 1956 1–1 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 21–13–14
February Game Result Date Score Opponent Record 49 L February 2, 1956 0–2 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 21–14–14 50 L February 4, 1956 1–2 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 21–15–14 51 L February 5, 1956 1–3 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 21–16–14 52 W February 7, 1956 3–2 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 22–16–14 53 L February 11, 1956 2–3 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 22–17–14 54 L February 12, 1956 1–2 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 22–18–14 55 W February 14, 1956 5–3 New York Rangers (1955–56) 23–18–14 56 W February 18, 1956 6–1 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 24–18–14 57 L February 19, 1956 3–5 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 24–19–14 58 W February 21, 1956 4–1 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 25–19–14 59 L February 25, 1956 1–5 @ Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 25–20–14 60 L February 26, 1956 2–3 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 25–21–14 61 W February 28, 1956 4–1 New York Rangers (1955–56) 26–21–14
March Game Result Date Score Opponent Record 62 W March 1, 1956 2–0 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 27–21–14 63 T March 3, 1956 2–2 @ Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 27–21–15 64 L March 4, 1956 4–6 Montreal Canadiens (1955–56) 27–22–15 65 W March 8, 1956 4–2 Boston Bruins (1955–56) 28–22–15 66 W March 10, 1956 2–0 Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 29–22–15 67 W March 11, 1956 3–2 @ Chicago Black Hawks (1955–56) 30–22–15 68 L March 13, 1956 0–4 @ Boston Bruins (1955–56) 30–23–15 69 T March 15, 1956 2–2 @ New York Rangers (1955–56) 30–23–16 70 L March 18, 1956 0–2 Toronto Maple Leafs (1955–56) 30–24–16
Legend:   Win (2 points)   Loss (0 points)   Tie (1 point)

Playoffs

Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gordie Howe	RW	70	38	41	79	100
Dutch Reibel	C	68	17	39	56	10
Alex Delvecchio	C/LW	70	25	26	51	24
Ted Lindsay	LW	67	27	23	50	161
Red Kelly	D/C	70	16	34	50	39
Metro Prystai	C	63	12	16	28	10
Bill Dineen	RW	70	12	7	19	30
Bob Goldham	D	68	3	16	19	32
Norm Ullman	C	66	9	9	18	26
Marty Pavelich	LW	70	5	13	18	38
Marcel Pronovost	D	68	4	13	17	46
Lorne Ferguson	LW	31	8	7	15	12
John Bucyk	LW	38	1	8	9	20
Warren Godfrey	D	67	2	6	8	86
Jerry Toppazzini	RW	40	1	7	8	31
Real Chevrefils	LW	38	3	4	7	24
Larry Hillman	D	47	0	3	3	53
Gord Hollingworth	D	41	0	2	2	28
Cummy Burton	RW	3	0	0	0	0
Norm Corcoran	C/RW	2	0	0	0	0
Murray Costello	C	24	0	0	0	4
Glenn Hall	G	70	0	0	0	14
Ed Sandford	LW	4	0	0	0	0
Ed Stankiewicz	C	5	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Glenn Hall	4200	70	30	24	16	147	2.10	12
Team:	4200	70	30	24	16	147	2.10	12

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gordie Howe	RW	10	3	9	12	8
Alex Delvecchio	C/LW	10	7	3	10	2
Ted Lindsay	LW	10	6	3	9	22
Red Kelly	D/C	10	2	4	6	2
Norm Ullman	C	10	1	3	4	13
Lorne Ferguson	LW	10	1	2	3	12
Metro Prystai	C	9	1	2	3	6
Bob Goldham	D	10	0	3	3	4
John Bucyk	LW	10	1	1	2	8
Marcel Pronovost	D	10	0	2	2	8
Dutch Reibel	C	10	0	2	2	2
Bill Dineen	RW	10	1	0	1	8
Al Arbour	D	4	0	1	1	0
Larry Hillman	D	10	0	1	1	6
Marty Pavelich	LW	10	0	1	1	14
Cummy Burton	RW	3	0	0	0	0
Murray Costello	C	4	0	0	0	0
Glenn Hall	G	10	0	0	0	0
Gord Hollingworth	D	3	0	0	0	2
Gerry Melnyk	C	6	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Glenn Hall	604	10	5	5	28	2.78	0
Team:	604	10	5	5	28	2.78	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

Transactions

See also

• 1955–56 NHL season