Billy Carroll

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Billy Carroll
Date of birth January 19, 1959
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1979 , 2nd round, 38th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
1976-1979 London Knights
1979-1981 Indianapolis Checkers
1981-1984 New York Islanders
1984-1985 Edmonton Oilers
Nova Scotia Oilers
1985-1987 Detroit Red Wings

William Allan "Billy" Carroll (born January 19, 1959 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The center played over 300 games between 1981 and 1987 for the New York Islanders , Edmonton Oilers and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League . He won the Stanley Cup four times , from 1981 to 1983 with the Islanders and another in 1985 with the Oilers.

Career

Billy Carroll was born in Toronto and played there in his youth for the St. Michael's Buzzers, among others . For the 1976/77 season he moved to the London Knights in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL), the highest junior league in his home province. At the Knights, the center established itself as a regular scorer, recording more than one point per game in two of his three seasons. In the 1978/79 season he recorded 85 points scorer in 63 games, was consequently appointed to the OMJHL Second All-Star Team and then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1979 in 38th position by the New York Islanders .

From 1979 Carroll was active in the organization of the Islanders, but was initially used in their farm team , the Indianapolis Checkers , in the Central Hockey League . After his performance had also convinced there, he made his debut in February 1981 for New York in the National Hockey League (NHL), where he earned a regular place in the sequence. The Islanders were the measure of all things in the NHL at the time, so they defended their title in the 1981 playoffs while Carroll won his first Stanley Cup . This was to be followed by two more successes in 1982 and 1983 , with the Canadian reaching his career best in the NHL with 29 points scorer in the 1981/82 season. After the Islanders lost to the Edmonton Oilers in the 1984 playoff finals and thus missed the fifth Stanley Cup in a row, his time in New York ended as the team left him unprotected in the NHL Waiver Draft .

As part of the Waiver Draft, Carroll was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in October 1984, so that he was once again committed by a reigning Stanley Cup winner. As a result, the attacker also managed to defend the title with the Oilers, so that he won his fourth and last Stanley Cup in the 1985 playoffs . With the beginning of the 1985/86 season he lost his regular place in Edmonton, so that he was used from now on with the farm team, the Nova Scotia Oilers , in the American Hockey League , before the Oilers in December 1985 in exchange for Bruce Eakin to the Detroit Red Wings transferred.

With the Red Wings, Carroll played his last almost one and a half years in the NHL before ending his active career after the 1986/87 season. In total, the center forward had played 393 NHL games and recorded 102 points scorer.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1976/77 London Knights OMJHL 64 18th 31 49 37 - - - - - -
1977/78 London Knights OMJHL 68 37 36 73 42 11 3 6th 9 6th
1978/79 London Knights OMJHL 63 35 50 85 38 7th 1 5 6th 14th
1979/80 Indianapolis Checkers CHL 49 9 17th 26th 19th 7th 0 1 1 0
1980/81 Indianapolis Checkers CHL 59 27 37 64 67 - - - - - -
1980/81 New York Islanders NHL 18th 4th 4th 8th +3 6th 18th 3 9 12 +14 4th
1981/82 New York Islanders NHL 72 9 20th 29 +12 32 19th 2 2 4th +4 8th
1982/83 New York Islanders NHL 71 1 11 12 +3 24 20th 1 1 2 -1 2
1983/84 New York Islanders NHL 39 5 2 7th -1 12 5 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1984/85 Edmonton Oilers NHL 65 8th 9 17th +1 22nd 9 0 0 0 +3 4th
1985/86 Nova Scotia Oilers AHL 26th 7th 18th 25th 15th - - - - - -
1985/86 Edmonton Oilers NHL 5 0 2 2 +2 0 - - - - - -
1985/86 Detroit Red Wings NHL 21st 2 4th 6th –7 11 - - - - - -
1986/87 Detroit Red Wings NHL 31 1 2 3 –9 6th - - - - - -
OMJHL overall 195 90 117 207 117 18th 4th 11 15th 20th
CHL total 108 36 54 90 86 7th 0 1 1 0
NHL overall 322 30th 54 84 +4 113 71 6th 12 18th +20 18th

( 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 )

Personal

His nephew Boone Jenner also made the leap into the NHL as a hockey player.

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personal data
SURNAME Carroll, Billy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carroll, William Allan (full name); Carroll, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada