Carey Wilson (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Carey Wilson Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 19, 1962
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size 189 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1980 , 4th round, 67th position
Chicago Black Hawks
Career stations
1978-1979 Calgary Wranglers
Calgary Chinooks
1979-1981 Dartmouth College
1981-1983 Helsingfors IFK
1983-1984 Team Canada
1984-1988 Calgary Flames
1988 Hartford Whalers
1988-1990 New York Rangers
1990-1991 Hartford Whalers
1990-1992 Calgary Flames
1996-1997 Manitoba mosses

Carey John Wilson (born May 19, 1962 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The center played a total of over 600 games for the Calgary Flames , Hartford Whalers and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League between 1984 and 1992 after starting his career at Helsingfors IFK in Finland. The latter enabled him to take part in the 1984 Winter Olympics with the Canadian national team . In addition, he won the first gold medal at Junior World Championships in the team's history with the U20 national team of his home country in 1982 .

Career

Beginnings

Carey Wilson played in his youth for the Calgary Chinooks in the Alberta Junior Hockey League and for the Calgary Wranglers in the Western Hockey League , but subsequently took the path to a university in the USA, which is rather unusual for Canadians, so he switched for the 1979/80 season at Dartmouth College . In the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association , the center convinced immediately, he scored 38 points in 31 games and was subsequently selected in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft in 67th position by the Chicago Black Hawks . After another year in Dartmouth, he decided to move to Europe, where he played the next two seasons for Helsingfors IFK in the Finnish SM-liiga . With the team he won the Finnish championship in 1983 and also led the league in the plus / minus statistics (+31), so that he was awarded the Matti-Keinonen trophy .

NHL

After his time in the jersey of the national team, Wilson returned to North America towards the end of the 1983/84 season and made his debut in March 1984 for the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League (NHL). This had already received the player rights to him in November 1982 in exchange for Denis Cyr . As a result, the attacker established himself as a regular scorer in the NHL, with his career record already as a rookie . With 72 points from 74 games, he finished third behind Mario Lemieux and Warren Young among the league beginners this year and set a franchise record for the Flames, which Joe Nieuwendyk would surpass three years later (92 points). In the 1986 playoffs he reached the final of the Stanley Cup with the Flames , but could not deny this due to injury, while his team was defeated by the Canadiens de Montréal with 1: 4. After he was unable to build on his performance shown at the beginning, he was handed over to the Hartford Whalers after almost four years with the Flames in January 1988 together with Neil Sheehy and the rights to Lane MacDonald . In return, Dana Murzyn and Shane Churla moved to Calgary.

In Hartford, Wilson was less than a year active, since he was transferred to the New York Rangers in December 1988, including a five-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 . The Whalers received Brian Lawton , Norm Maciver and Don Maloney for this . With the Rangers he took over the post of assistant captain and ended the season with an average of well over 1.0 scorer points per game (55 in 41 games). Nevertheless, the Broadway Blueshirts sent him back to Hartford in July 1990 with a third-round vote in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft and received Jody Hull for it . His second engagement with the Whalers was even less long than the first, as the Canadian returned to the Calgary Flames in March 1991 in exchange for Mark Hunter .

His last NHL years were marked by injuries, so Wilson completed less than 80 games in just under two years before he had to end his career due to a serious knee injury in December 1992. In the 1996/97 season, over three years later, he returned to the ice for the Manitoba Moose in the International Hockey League , but declared his career to be over after seven games. In total, the center had completed 604 NHL games and recorded 451 points.

International

On an international level, Wilson represented the Canadian U20 national team at the Junior World Championships in 1982 and won the first gold medal for his home country in the history of this competition. He then spent the 1983/84 season with the senior national team , for which he played over 60 games during this period. This enabled him to take part in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , as players from an NHL squad were still not eligible to play. With Team Canada , the attacker reached the final round of the games, but only finished fourth after three defeats from three games there.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1978/79 Calgary Chinooks AJHL 60 30th 34 64 - - - - - -
1978/79 Calgary Wranglers WHL 5 1 1 2 0 - - - - - -
1979/80 Dartmouth College NCAA 31 16 22nd 38 20th
1980/81 Dartmouth College NCAA 24 9 13 22nd 52
1981/82 Helsingfors IFK SM-liiga 29 15th 17th 32 +9 58 6th 1 4th 5 4th
1982/83 Helsingfors IFK SM-liiga 36 16 24 40 +31 62 4th 2 0 2 12
1983/84 Calgary Flames NHL 15th 2 5 7th -1 2 6th 3 1 4th +3 2
1984/85 Calgary Flames NHL 74 24 48 72 +25 27 4th 0 0 0 -4 0
1985/86 Calgary Flames NHL 76 29 29 58 +2 24 9 0 2 2 +1 2
1986/87 Calgary Flames NHL 80 20th 36 56 ± 0 42 6th 1 1 2 -1 6th
1987/88 Calgary Flames NHL 34 9 21st 30th +2 18th - - - - - -
1987/88 Hartford Whalers NHL 36 18th 20th 38 -5 22nd 6th 2 4th 6th +1 2
1988/89 Hartford Whalers NHL 34 11 11 22nd -12 14th - - - - - -
1988/89 New York Rangers NHL 41 21st 34 55 +1 45 4th 1 2 3 -4 2
1989/90 New York Rangers NHL 41 9 17th 26th +4 57 10 2 1 3 -5 0
1990/91 Hartford Whalers NHL 45 8th 15th 23 -14 16 - - - - - -
1990/91 Calgary Flames NHL 12 3 3 6th +1 2 7th 2 2 4th +2 0
1991/92 Calgary Flames NHL 42 11 12 23 –6 37 - - - - - -
1992/93 Calgary Flames NHL 22nd 4th 7th 11 +10 8th - - - - - -
1993-1996 Without any effort
1996/97 Manitoba mosses IHL 7th 0 4th 4th -8th 2 - - - - - -
NCAA overall 55 25th 35 60 72
SM-liiga total 65 31 41 72 +40 120 10 3 4th 7th 16
NHL overall 552 169 258 427 +7 314 52 11 13 24 –7 14th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1982 Canada June World Cup gold medal 7th 4th 1 5 6th
1984 Canada Olympia 4th Place 7th 3 3 6th 6th
Juniors overall 7th 4th 1 5 6th
Men overall 7th 3 3 6th 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 )

Personal

His father Jerry Wilson played three games for the Canadiens de Montréal in the NHL in the 1956/57 season and then worked as a team doctor for the Winnipeg Jets . With his twin brother Geoff Wilson he was on the ice for one season for Helsingfors, in which the team won the Finnish championship. His son Colin Wilson also made the leap into the NHL as a hockey player.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Carey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Carey John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada