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Bruce Landon • Norman Bruce Landon

Height: 5-10
Weight: 180
Catch: L
Born: 5 Oct 1949, Kingston ON

 

Regular Season Goaltending Record (key)

year team
gp
min
ga
sho
w-l-t
gaa
a
pim
1972-73 New England
30
1671
100
1
15-11-1
3.59
1
8
1973-74 New England
24
1386
82
0
11-9-2
3.55
0
24
1974-75 New England
7
339
19
0
2-3-0
3.36
0
0
1975-76 New England
38
2181
126
0
14-19-5
3.47
1
0
1976-77 New England
23
1118
59
1
8-8-1
3.17
0
4
Totals:
122
6695
386
2
50-50-9
3.46
2
36

Playoff Goaltending Record

year team
gp
min
ga
sho
w-l
gaa
a
pim
1974 New England
1
40
3
0
0-0
4.50
0
0
1976 New England
4
197
7
0
3-0
2.13
0
0
1977 New England
3
152
11
0
1-2
4.34
0
0
Totals:
8
389
21
0
4-2
3.24
0
0

Shutouts

Date Opponent Home/Away Score Saves
Mar 17, 1973PhiladelphiaHome4-034
Feb 20, 1977CalgaryAway5-018

 

Excerpts from the Hockey Spectator • by Dick Dew • The Hockey Spectator • November 10, 1972

...It was Bruce Landon, an American Hockey League graduate whose shoulder injury history had made him a dubious commodity, who was most impressive, however.

In his first three-and-a-fraction game appearances, the 23-year-old Landon compiled a 1.34 goals against average that impressed even the cautious Kelley.

"Landon is a good, solid hockey player, a standup type goalie who plays the angles well. It's great to have him behind Al. We'll spot him, bring him along. I don't like to have goalies play back to back games so he'll get plenty of work.

"The only thing we've got to worry about is keeping him in one piece," Kelley said of Landon whose shoulder problems and a severe finger cut had limited him to only 15 games with the Springfield Kings two years ago...

 

Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1976-77 (by Dan Proudfoot)

Bruce Landon's 1975-76 campaign ended with the pain of torn knee ligaments, but at least he can look back on the year with some enthusiasm.

Landon, 27, finally got to show his stuff as a goaltender, playing in 38 regular season games which was the most he'd appeared in since 1969-70.

"And he was terrific in the playoffs," says coach Harry Neale. "In the third game against Cleveland, he won it, he was the difference. Then in the first game of the next series he injured his knee, or he might have just kept going."

With Landon out, and Whalers' other experienced starter, Christer Abrahamsson, already on the sidelines, the job went to Cap Raeder. But, that's another story.

 

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