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Paul Hoganson • Paul Edward Hoganson

Height: 5-10
Weight: 190
Catch: R
Born: 12 Nov 1949, Toronto ON

 

Regular Season Goaltending Record (key)

year team
gp
min
ga
sho
w-l-t
gaa
a
pim
1973-74 Los Angeles
27
1308
102
0
6-16-0
4.68
0
0
1974-75 Mich.-Balt.
32
1776
121
2
9-19-2
4.09
0
12
1975-76 New England
4
224
16
0
1-2-0
4.29
1
0
Cincinnati
45
2392
145
2
19-24-0
3.64
1
4
Totals (2 teams)
49
2616
159
2
20-26-0
3.65
2
4
1976-77 Cincinnati
17
823
64
1
5-6-1
4.67
0
0
Indianapolis
11
395
24
0
3-2-0
3.65
0
2
Totals (2 teams)
28
1318
88
1
8-8-1
4.01
0
2
1977-78 Cincinnati
7
326
24
0
1-2-1
4.42
0
0
Totals:
143
7244
496
5
44-71-4
4.11
2
18

Playoff Goaltending Record

year team
gp
min
ga
sho
w-l
gaa
a
pim
1977 Indianapolis
5
348
17
1
3-2
2.93
0
0
Totals:
5
348
17
1
3-2
2.93
0
0

Shutouts

Date Opponent Home/Away Score Saves
Dec 19, 1974ClevelandHome1-032
Mar 12, 1975ClevelandAway2-027
Jan 17, 1976IndianapolisAway4-040
Feb 6, 1976EdmontonHome7-014
Oct 26, 1976New EnglandAway1-024
Apr 30, 1977QuebecHome2-022

• Cousin of Dale Hoganson.

 

Excerpts from Zander Hollander Complete Hockey Handbook, 1976-77 (by Reyn Davis)

When the Stingers were flirting with first place in late winter of 1976, he was the man most responsible for keeping them there ... Media began calling the team "Hogie's Heroes" ... Started 32 straight games for the Stingers ... Catches with his right hand ... Contract expired in the offseason but the Stingers want him back ... Acquired from the New England Whalers for cash ... Posted a 19-24-0 record ... Had the highest efficiency rating in Cincinnati +7.

 

Hoganson Continues to Bail Racers Out (excerpt) • no byline • The Hockey News • May 13, 1977

There aren't many places Paul Edward Hoganson hasn't been.

His career, dating back to 1966 as a junior with the Hamilton Red Wings, has taken him to such outposts on the hockey map as Toronto, Kitchener, Baltimore, Fort Wayne, Amarillo, Pittsburgh, Hershey, Greensboro, Los Angeles, Tusla, Hartford, Cincinnati, Binghamton and today Indianapolis.

He's what's known in the trade as a well-traveled goaltender — good, but not so good as to have earned appreciable distinction.

That is. up until now.

The Indianapolis Racers, down 0-3 to the Quebec Nordiques and scrambling to stay alive in the WHA's Aveo World Trophy semi-finals, called on the 28-year-old Hoganson to stem the Nordique tide April 30 after a less than scintilating performance by young Michel Dion in game three.

Hoganson, it can be said, responded in uncommon fashion blanking Quebec, 2-0, to send the best-of-seven series back to Quebec for a fifth game and raising hopes in Indy town that their beloved Racers can pull off another miracle.

it marked the third time this season that the heavily-carbonated Nordiques had suffered the indignity of being kept off the scoresheet and Hoganson did it with flamboyance before a Market Square Arena turnout or 12,921, running the Racers' four-game home playoff total to 50,867 and an average of 12,716. That's far and away the best in the league after four or more home dates.

Hoganson, in posting his third postseason success after being rescued from Binghamton of the North American League by the Racers in March, made four breath-taking breakaway saves on Real Cloutier (twice), Serge Bernier and Steve Sutherland, Then there were at least another six stops of the above average variety.

 

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