Bob Dailey

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Bob Dailey
Date of birth May 3, 1953
place of birth Kingston , Ontario , Canada
date of death September 7, 2016
Place of death Florida , USA
Nickname The Count
size 196 cm
Weight 100 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1973 , 1st lap, 9th position
Vancouver Canucks
WHA Amateur Draft 1973 , 5th round, 52nd position
Toronto Toros
Career stations
1970-1973 Toronto Marlboros
1973-1977 Vancouver Canucks
1977-1981 Philadelphia Flyers
1986 Hershey Bears

Robert Scott "Bob" Dailey (born May 3, 1953 in Kingston , Ontario ; † September 7, 2016 in Florida , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 624 games for the Vancouver Canucks between 1970 and 1981, among other things and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League on the position of the defender has denied. During his nine seasons in the NHL, Dailey took part in the NHL All-Star Game twice.

Career

Dailey spent his junior years between 1970 and 1973 with the traditional Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Hockey Association . There the defender had a very successful time, which was crowned in 1973 by winning the double from the J. Ross Robertson Cup of the OHA and the Memorial Cup of the entire Canadian Hockey League . After serving as offensive defenders in his last two juniors years each have 80 points scorer had collected, he was finally in both the NHL Amateur Draft in 1973 in the first round in ninth overall place of the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and in the WHA Amateur Draft same year of the Toronto Toros selected from the World Hockey Association competing with the NHL .

The defensive player finally decided to move to the NHL in the summer of 1973, where he signed a contract with the Vancouver Canucks. With the Western Canadians he spent the first three and a half years of his professional career, which he had started directly in the NHL. In the middle of the 1976/77 season , Dailey was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers in January 1977 in exchange for Larry Goodenough and Jack McIlhargey, who were looking for a versatile defender after the Stanley Cup triumphs in 1974 and 1975 . to be able to play for the championship again. In his first full year of play with the so-called "Broad Street Bullies" , Dailey set a career record with 57 scorer points and was invited to the NHL All-Star Game for the first time . Finally, the Canadians played until the start of the 1981-82 season with the Flyers and took in 1981 a second and last time at the All-Star Game in part before one suffered in November 1981 breach of his ankle to abrupt withdrawal from active competition at the age of 28 years.

After a four and a half year break, Dailey dared to make another comeback in March 1986 in the jersey of the Hershey Bears from the American Hockey League , which only lasted five games. He then settled in the US state of Florida and worked in the real estate industry. In his adopted country, he finally died in September 2016 at the age of 63 after a long battle with cancer .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1970/71 Toronto Marlboros OHA 36 2 3 5 36 - - - - -
1971/72 Toronto Marlboros OHA 62 23 55 78 124 10 3 7th 10 18th
1972/73 Toronto Marlboros OHA 60 9 55 64 200 16 9 11 20th 22nd
1973 Toronto Marlboros Memorial Cup 3 0 1 1 19th
1973/74 Vancouver Canucks NHL 76 7th 17th 24 143 - - - - -
1974/75 Vancouver Canucks NHL 70 12 36 48 103 5 1 3 4th 14th
1975/76 Vancouver Canucks NHL 67 15th 24 39 119 2 1 1 2 0
1976/77 Vancouver Canucks NHL 44 4th 16 20th 52 - - - - -
1976/77 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 32 5 14th 19th 38 10 4th 9 13 15th
1977/78 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 76 21st 36 57 62 12 1 5 6th 22nd
1978/79 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 70 9 30th 39 63 8th 1 2 3 14th
1979/80 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 61 13 26th 39 71 19th 4th 13 17th 22nd
1980/81 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 53 7th 27 34 141 7th 0 1 1 18th
1981/82 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 12 1 5 6th 22nd - - - - -
1982/83 without a contract not played after retirement due to injury
1983/84 without a contract not played after retirement due to injury
1984/85 without a contract not played after retirement due to injury
1985/86 Hershey Bears AHL 5 0 0 0 8th - - - - -
OHA total 158 22nd 97 119 371 26th 12 18th 30th 40
NHL overall 561 94 231 325 814 63 12 34 46 105

( 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 )

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SURNAME Dailey, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dailey, Robert Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2016
Place of death Florida , USA