Lee Fogolin Junior

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United StatesUnited States  Lee Fogolin Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 7, 1955
place of birth Chicago , Illinois , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 1st round, 11th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1970-1972 Thunder Bay Marrs
1972-1974 Oshawa Generals
1974-1979 Buffalo Sabers
1979-1987 Edmonton Oilers
1987 Buffalo Sabers

Lee Joseph Fogolin (* 7. February 1955 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a retired American ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1972 to 1987, among other 1032 games for the Buffalo Sabers and Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League on the Has contested the position of the defender . Fogolin won the Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers in 1984 and 1985 . His father of the same name, Lee Fogolin senior, was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Fogolin was born in Chicago while his father Lee Fogolin senior was active as a hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League . However, Fogolin spent his childhood in Thunder Bay in the Canadian province of Ontario . There he gained his first experience in ice hockey with the Thunder Bay Marrs until the beginning of the 1970s , before he moved to the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey Association in the summer of 1972 . The defender spent two seasons in the junior league before he moved to the 1974/75 season in the 1974/75 season as a result of the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft , selected in the first round in eleventh overall position by the Buffalo Sabers .

The defender immediately received a regular place in the squad of the Sabers, with whom he reached the final of the Stanley Cup in his rookie season , but was defeated by the Philadelphia Flyers . As a result, Fogolin developed into a solid defensive player who was also able to open the game in his own third, but the team remained largely unsuccessful. After five seasons in the service of the Sabers, the time in Buffalo came to an abrupt end due to the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft when he was selected by the newly admitted Edmonton Oilers .

The Oilers around Wayne Gretzky developed into a serious title contender in the following years. After the team had been defeated in the final series in 1983 , Fogolin won the Stanley Cup in each of the following two seasons. In the course of the 1986/87 season , Edmonton increasingly relied on younger players, making the now 31-year-old dispensable. Fogolin was transferred back to his ex-team in Buffalo in March 1987, together with Mark Napier . In return, the Oilers secured the services of Normand Lacombe and Wayne Van Dorp and both teams exchanged their four-round voting rights in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft . After nine appearances for the Sabers, Fogolin finally ended his active career after the end of the game year in the summer of 1987.

International

Fogolin took the national team of the United States at the 1976 Canada Cup in part and thereby came in two tournament games used. The Americans took fifth place there.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1972/73 Oshawa Generals OHA 55 5 21st 26th 132 - - - - -
1973/74 Oshawa Generals OHA 47 7th 19th 26th 108 - - - - -
1974/75 Buffalo Sabers NHL 50 2 2 4th 59 8th 0 0 0 6th
1975/76 Buffalo Sabers NHL 58 0 9 9 64 9 0 4th 4th 23
1975/76 Hershey Bears AHL 20th 1 8th 9 61 - - - - -
1976/77 Buffalo Sabers NHL 71 3 15th 18th 100 4th 0 0 0 2
1977/78 Buffalo Sabers NHL 76 0 23 23 98 6th 0 2 2 23
1978/79 Buffalo Sabers NHL 74 3 19th 22nd 103 3 0 0 0 4th
1979/80 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 5 10 15th 104 3 0 0 0 4th
1980/81 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 13 17th 30th 139 9 0 0 0 12
1981/82 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 4th 25th 29 154 5 1 1 2 14th
1982/83 Edmonton Oilers NHL 72 0 18th 18th 92 16 0 5 5 36
1983/84 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 5 16 21st 125 19th 1 4th 5 23
1984/85 Edmonton Oilers NHL 79 4th 14th 18th 126 18th 3 1 4th 16
1985/86 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 4th 22nd 26th 129 8th 0 2 2 10
1986/87 Edmonton Oilers NHL 35 1 3 4th 17th - - - - -
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 9 0 2 2 8th - - - - -
OHA total 102 12 40 52 240 - - - - -
NHL overall 924 44 195 239 1318 108 5 19th 24 173

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1976 United States Canada Cup 5th place 2 0 0 0 6th
Men overall 2 0 0 0 6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

family

Fogolin's father Lee Fogolin senior was also active in the National Hockey League and played over 450 games for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks between 1948 and 1956 . With the Red Wings he was able to win the Stanley Cup in 1950 . His son Michael, born in 1987, was also an active ice hockey player and was a member of the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League in the 2003/04 season . He died in May 2004 at the age of 17 as a result of a heart attack .

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personal data
SURNAME Fogolin, Lee Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fogolin, Lee Joseph junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois