Dan Djakalovic

Dan Djakalovic
Date of birth	June 30, 1956
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	striker
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1976 , 6th round, 102nd position Toronto Maple Leafs
WHA Amateur Draft	1976 , 5th round, 59th position Toronto Toros
Career stations
1973-1976	Kitchener Rangers
1976-1977	Hampton Gulls
1977-1988	Tulsa Oilers Binghamton Dusters
1979-1981	Mannheim ERC
1981-1982	EHC Freiburg

Daniel Djakalovic (born June 30, 1956 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player . Among other things, he was active in the ice hockey Bundesliga for the Mannheim ERC .

Career

Dan Djakalovic played as a junior in the OHA with the Kitchener Rangers . In the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft , the Toronto Maple Leafs selected him in the sixth round from 102nd. He was also drawn in the 1976 WHA Draft. The Toronto Toros picked up number 59 in the fifth round.

A few years followed with various lower-class teams, such as the Saginaw Gears in the IHL , the Tulsa Oilers in the CHL and the Binghamton Dusters in the AHL , before he moved to the ice hockey Bundesliga for the Mannheim ERC in 1978 . Djakalovic was of German descent and, as a German ice hockey player, was able to stay in Mannheim with his teammates Harold Kreis , Peter Ascherl , Manfred Wolf and Roy Roedger while acquiring German citizenship . This bypassed the league's restriction on foreigners. In Mannheim he scored a total of 91 points scorer in 102 games , including 38 goals. In 1980 he became German champions with the team . In 1981 he moved to the EHC Freiburg , where he scored 11 goals and provided 14 assists in 44 games. After a season in Freiburg im Breisgau , he ended his career.

Web links

• Dan Djakalovic at hockeydb.com (English)
• Dan Djakalovic at eurohockey.com
• Dan Djakalovic at hockeydraftcentral.com