Darcy Rota

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Darcy Rota
Date of birth February 16, 1953
place of birth Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1973 , 1st round, 13th position
Chicago Black Hawks
WHA Amateur Draft 1973 , 1st round, 9th position
Houston Eros
Career stations
1970-1973 Edmonton Oil Kings
1973-1979 Chicago Black Hawks
1979-1980 Atlanta Flames
1980-1984 Vancouver Canucks

Darcy Irwin Rota (born February 16, 1953 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official who played 854 games for the Chicago Black Hawks , Atlanta Flames and during his active career between 1970 and 1984 Vancouver Canucks played in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger . After the end of his career, Rota held various positions in the junior league British Columbia Hockey League for over 15 years .

Career

Rota spent between 1970 and 1973 a very successful junior time with the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Western Canada Hockey League , which culminated in a double win of the President's Cup and the associated participation in the Memorial Cup . The striker left the franchise after three seasons as a record holder in the goals and scorer points categories . He had his best game year in the 1972/73 season , when he came to 129 points in 68 missions. This ultimately means that he both led NHL Amateur Draft in 1973 and in the WHA Amateur Draft in 1973 was selected in each case in the first round. In the NHL Amateur Draft he was selected in 13th position by the Chicago Black Hawks , while the Houston Eros in the WHA Amateur Draft pulled him already in ninth overall position.

Due to the fact that the National Hockey League's draft preceded that of competitor World Hockey Association , the Black Hawks had been able to contract their draft election in time for the Eros. Rota made it to the season 1973/74 straight away in the regular team of Chicago and completed 74 games in which he scored 33 points. From then on, Rota took on a less offensive, but more balanced role alongside Stan Mikita and Cliff Koroll in the Chicago squad . Still, the striker scored at least 30 points in each of his six seasons with the Black Hawks. His time with the Chicago Black Hawks finally ended in March 1979, when Chicago handed him over to the Atlanta Flames , along with Ivan Boldirev and Phil Russell . In return, they let Tom Lysiak , Pat Ribble , Harold Phillipoff , Greg Fox and Miles Zaharko move to the " Windy City " .

In Atlanta, Rota only found a new sporting home for a short time, as he was involved in a transfer business again in February 1980. Together with Boldirev, who like him had come to the Flames from Chicago a year ago, the attacker was handed over to the Vancouver Canucks , who sent Don Lever and Brad Smith to Atlanta for it. On the Canadian west coast in his birthplace, Rota found his qualities as a scorer from his junior times and was able to increase his career best in the 1982/83 season from 56 to 81 points. Rota kept his good shape in the following game year, when he was nominated for the NHL All-Star Game for the first time in his career . However, an injury to the spine in the neck area suffered in February 1982 meant that the playing time for him changed prematurely. As a result, Rota was no longer able to actively return to the ice and finally announced his retirement from active professional sport in December 1984 at the age of 31 without having played another game.

Following his active career, Rota worked for many years in the Vancouver Canucks team of officials - including as Director of Player Personnel . For the 1998/99 season he finally decided to pursue a career as a coach and worked for about one and a half years until February 2000 as the head coach of the Burnaby Bulldogs in the Canadian junior league British Columbia Hockey League . In the summer of 2000 Rota acquired shares in the Coquitlam Express from the BCHL, which began operations as a new franchise for the 2001/02 season. There he acted in personal union until the summer of 2012 as general manager , president and chairman of the owner group, which included Dave Lowry , Kirk McLean and Bill Ranford other former NHL players. After he had retired from the post of general manager in 2012 and had also sold his team shares, he resigned his presidency two years later following the 2013/14 season and finally retired from ice hockey.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1970/71 Edmonton Oil Kings WCHL 64 43 39 82 60 17th 13 10 23 15th
1971 Edmonton Oil Kings Memorial Cup 2 0 0 0 4th
1971/72 Edmonton Oil Kings WCHL 67 51 54 105 68 16 8th 9 17th 11
1972 Edmonton Oil Kings Memorial Cup 2 1 1 2 2
1972/73 Edmonton Oil Kings WCHL 68 73 56 129 104 4th 5 4th 9 14th
1973/74 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 74 21st 12 33 58 11 3 0 3 11
1974/75 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 78 22nd 22nd 44 93 7th 0 1 1 24
1975/76 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 79 20th 17th 37 73 4th 1 0 1 2
1976/77 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 76 24 22nd 46 82 2 0 0 0 0
1977/78 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 78 17th 20th 37 67 4th 0 0 0 2
1978/79 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 63 13 17th 30th 77 - - - - -
1978/79 Atlanta Flames NHL 13 9 5 14th 21st 2 0 1 1 26th
1979/80 Atlanta Flames NHL 44 10 8th 18th 49 - - - - -
1979/80 Vancouver Canucks NHL 26th 5 6th 11 29 4th 2 0 2 8th
1980/81 Vancouver Canucks NHL 80 25th 31 56 124 3 2 1 3 14th
1981/82 Vancouver Canucks NHL 51 20th 20th 40 139 17th 6th 3 9 54
1982/83 Vancouver Canucks NHL 73 42 39 81 88 3 0 0 0 6th
1983/84 Vancouver Canucks NHL 59 28 20th 48 73 3 0 1 1 0
WCHL overall 199 167 149 316 232 37 26th 23 49 40
NHL overall 794 256 239 495 973 60 14th 7th 21st 147

( 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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personal data
SURNAME Rota, Darcy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rota, Darcy Irwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , British Columbia