Danny O'Shea (ice hockey player)

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Danny O'Shea (ice hockey player)
Date of birth June 15, 1945
place of birth Ajax , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1961-1963 Peterborough Petes
1963-1966 Oshawa Generals
1966-1968 Hockey Canada
1968-1971 Minnesota North Stars
1971-1972 Chicago Black Hawks
1972-1973 St. Louis Blues
1974-1975 Minnesota Fighting Saints

Daniel Patrick "Danny" O'Shea (born June 15, 1945 in Ajax , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 409 games for the Minnesota North Stars , Chicago Black Hawks and St Louis Blues has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and 87 other games for the Minnesota Fighting Saints in the World Hockey Association (WHA) on the position of the center . O'Shea, who in the years 1969 and 1970 at the NHL All-Star Game took part, but celebrated his biggest career success in the jersey of the Canadian national team by winning the bronze medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics in the French Grenoble . His younger brother Kevin was also active as a hockey player in the NHL and WHA.

Career

O'Shea spent his junior career over five years in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), where he first played for the Peterborough Petes between 1961 and 1963 . This was followed by three years in the service of league rivals Oshawa Generals , with whom the striker won the J. Ross Robertson Cup , the OHA championship trophy, at the end of the 1965/66 season. In the run-up to the playoffs he had completed his best regular season with 81 scorer points in 48 appearances and contributed 33 points in 17 games in the playoffs himself. He was the second best scorer in the playoffs behind his teammate Wayne Cashman . Bobby Orr was also part of the winning team, which then lost to the Edmonton Oil Kings in the prestigious Memorial Cup in the final series .

Subsequently, the 21-year-old was signed for two years by the Canadian ice hockey association Hockey Canada , where he prepared for the 1968 Winter Olympics in the following two years . During this period, the offensive player - like some of his other national team colleagues at the time - only appeared in games for the Winnipeg Nationals in the Western Canada Senior Hockey League (WCSHL) during the 1967/68 season . After the Canadiens de Montréal , who owned his transfer rights, had already given them to the Minnesota North Stars in June 1967 for first-round voting rights in the NHL Amateur Draft in 1970 and 1971 , the Olympian made his debut in the Minnesota squad in the beginning of the 1968/69 season National Hockey League (NHL). In his first year in the league, the rookie set a career record with 49 points in 74 games, but was unable to reach this mark in the following two seasons. Nevertheless, he represented the North Stars in 1969 and 1970 twice in a row in the NHL All-Star Game . During the 1970/71 season , more precisely in February 1971, the Canadian was transferred to the Chicago Black Hawks in exchange for Doug Mohns and Terry Caffery .

In Chicago, however, the center forward did not manage to meet the expectations placed in him. Although he reached the final series of the Stanley Cup with the Black Hawks in the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1971 , which was lost 3: 4 to the Canadiens de Montréal, Chicago separated from him after a year in February 1972 . At that point, he had worn Chicago's jersey 84 times and scored 33 points. Another transfer, in which he was exchanged for Christian Bordeleau and - later following - John Garrett , united him with his younger brother Kevin at the St. Louis Blues . Both played together until the end of the 1972/73 season in St. Louis, before Kevin moved to the Western Hockey League (WHL).

Danny O'Shea himself was hit by a tragic blow in July 1973 when the 28-year-old suffered a myocardial infarction . As a result, he was not allowed to play in the NHL for the 1973/74 season from the treating doctors. Only for the following season did he return to the ice hockey stage. After his transfer rights in the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was competing with the NHL at that time , had been acquired by the Minnesota Fighting Saints from the Winnipeg Jets , he went on the ice for this in the 1974/75 season . After he had reached the playoff semi-finals with the team, he ended his active career. An engagement with the Swiss club HC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the National League A for the following season did not materialize.

International

For his home country, O'Shea took part with the Canadian national team at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , France , after spending nearly two years as an amateur player in the Canadian ice hockey association, Hockey Canada . As part of the Olympic ice hockey tournament, the striker and the team won the bronze medal at the end of the final round. In seven tournament games, O'Shea scored three goals and prepared as many goals.

The attacker had previously participated in the 1967 World Cup in the Austrian capital of Vienna , where he had also won the bronze medal.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1961/62 Peterborough Petes OHA 47 5 4th 9 21st - - - - -
1962/63 Peterborough Petes OHA 30th 7th 7th 14th 16 - - - - -
1963/64 Oshawa Generals OHA 55 30th 49 79 92 6th 6th 3 9 16
1964/65 Oshawa Generals OHA 24 16 19th 35 60 6th 0 5 5 17th
1965/66 Oshawa Generals OHA 48 36 45 81 132 17th 15th 18th 33 47
1966 Oshawa Generals Memorial Cup 12 11 14th 25th 20th
1966/67 Hockey Canada International Statistics not available
1967/68 Winnipeg Nationals WCSHL 7th 5 12 27 - - - - -
1968/69 Minnesota North Stars NHL 74 15th 34 49 88 - - - - -
1969/70 Minnesota North Stars NHL 75 10 24 34 82 6th 1 0 1 8th
1970/71 Minnesota North Stars NHL 59 14th 12 26th 16 - - - - -
1970/71 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 18th 4th 7th 11 10 18th 2 5 7th 15th
1971/72 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 48 6th 9 15th 28 - - - - -
1971/72 St. Louis Blues NHL 20th 3 3 6th 11 10 0 2 2 36
1972/73 St. Louis Blues NHL 76 12 26th 38 30th 5 0 0 0 2
1973/74 without a contract no play after myocardial infarction
1974/75 Minnesota Fighting Saints WHA 76 16 25th 41 47 11 0 0 0 6th
OHA total 204 94 124 218 321 29 21st 26th 47 80
NHL overall 370 64 115 179 265 39 3 7th 10 61

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1967 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze Statistics not available
1968 Canada Olympia 3rd place, bronze 7th 3 3 6th 10

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends.com: Danny O'Shea. greatesthockeylegends.com, November 2009, accessed May 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Shea, Danny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Shea, Daniel Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ajax , Ontario , Canada