Danny Lawson

Danny Lawson
Date of birth	October 30, 1947
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
date of death	September 15, 2008
Place of death	Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1964-1968	Hamilton Red Wings
1968-1969	Detroit Red Wings
1969-1971	Minnesota North Stars
1971-1972	Buffalo Sabers
1972-1973	Philadelphia Blazers
1973-1975	Vancouver Blazers
1975-1977	Calgary cowboys
1977	Winnipeg Jets

Danny Michael Lawson (born October 30, 1947 in Toronto , Ontario , † September 15, 2008 in Calgary , Alberta ) was a Canadian ice hockey player (right winger) who played for the Detroit Red Wings , Minnesota North Stars and Buffalo Sabers in from 1968 to 1977 of the National Hockey League as well as the Philadelphia Blazers , Vancouver Blazers , Calgary Cowboys and Winnipeg Jets in the World Hockey Association .

Career

As a junior he played with the Hamilton Red Wings in the OHA and was able to shine there. So he came in the 1967/68 season on January 10, 1968 for his first NHL mission with the Detroit Red Wings, the only one in this season. The next season he started with the Fort Worth Wings in the CHL , but he was soon used again in Detroit and scored his first goal on October 31, 1968 against the Boston Bruins . The breakthrough he did not succeed and so he was given to the Minnesota North Stars after 40 games . With the North Stars his extraordinary ability flashed again and again, but he could not bring the good performances consistently and was pushed again and again into the farm teams, the Iowa Stars in the CHL and the Cleveland Barons in the AHL . Even in the 1971/72 season , which he spent with the Buffalo Sabers , he did not manage to convince.

It was only with his move to the WHA to the Philadelphia Blazers that he made his breakthrough. With 61 goals he was top scorer in the first season of the new league 1972/73 . Even with the move of the team, which then played as the Vancouver Blazers and later as the Calgary Cowboys , he was one of the top scorers. In 1977, shortly before the end of his career, he joined the Winnipeg Jets with Mike Ford , who gave up Veli-Pekka Ketola , Heikki Riihiranta and Ron Ward .

Lawson came to Germany in the 1980s. In the 1986/87 season he played in the team of the EC Hedos Munich and helped the team to promotion to the second division. There he trained the SV Bayreuth in the following season .

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	5	219	28	29	57	61
NHL playoffs	2	16	0	1	1	2
WHA regular season	5	392	218	204	422	142
WHA playoffs	3	26th	6th	9	15th	25th

Sporting successes

Personal awards

• WHA First All-Star Team : 1973

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cthockeyhof.org, WHA Profile: Danny Lawson  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Danny Lawson in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Danny Lawson at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Danny Lawson at rodi-db.de
• Danny Lawson at hockeydb.com (English)