Dave Langevin

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United StatesUnited States  Dave Langevin Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 15, 1954
place of birth Saint Paul , Minnesota , USA
Nickname Bam Bam
size 188 cm
Weight 98 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 7th lap, 112th position
New York Islanders
WHA Amateur Draft 1974 , 5th lap, 67th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1969-1972 Hill-Murray School
1972-1976 University of Minnesota Duluth
1976-1979 Edmonton Oilers
1979-1985 New York Islanders
1985-1986 Minnesota North Stars
1987 Los Angeles Kings
New Haven Nighthawks

David Richard "Dave" Langevin (born May 15, 1954 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) is a former American ice hockey player and coach who played 600 games for the New York Islanders , Minnesota, between 1972 and 1987 North Stars and Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League and 239 others for the Edmonton Oilers in the World Hockey Association on the position of defender . In the service of the New York Islanders, Langevin won the Stanley Cup four times in a row between 1980 and 1983 . In addition, the one-time participant in the NHL All-Star Game for the national ice hockey team of the United States played the 1976 World Cup and the 1981 Canada Cup . He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993 for his services to ice hockey in the United States .

Career

Langevin attended the Hill-Murray School in Maplewood , Minnesota , from the late 1960s to the early 1970s . From there he moved in the summer of 1972 to the University of Minnesota Duluth , where he studied for the next four years. The defender played in parallel for the university team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . For the team Langevin completed a total of 142 games over the course of four years, in which he had achieved 107 points . He was also appointed to the Division's Second All-Star Team in 1976. The defensive player's talent was noticed by the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association franchises after just his sophomore year of college . So he was selected both in the NHL Amateur Draft 1974 in the seventh round in 112th place by the New York Islanders from the NHL and the Edmonton Oilers from the WHA competing with the NHL.

After completing his studies, the American decided to move across the border and signed a contract with the Edmonton Oilers, with whom he - starting with the 1976/77 season  - went on the ice. At the side of Wayne Gretzky , the defender reached at the end of the 1978/79 season the final series of the Avco World Trophy , where the team was defeated by the Winnipeg Jets . With 27 points scorer in 77 missions, Langevin was elected to the WHA Second All-Star Team . Following the game year, the WHA stopped playing, and the Oilers were one of the few franchises that were included in the NHL for the 1979/80 season . When moving to the NHL, however, the New York Islanders insisted on their transfer rights to the player acquired in 1974, so that he moved to the Islanders in June 1979 in the run-up to the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft .

The move should pay off for Langevin as the New York Islanders became the dominant team in the early 1980s. Between 1980 and 1983, the team won the Stanley Cup four times in a row with Langevin as a regular in the squad . The defender was able to contribute around 20 scorer points to the team's success per year. In 1983 he was also invited to the NHL All-Star Game for the only time . When the Islanders began to rejuvenate their aging team in the summer of 1985, after six years in the team's jersey, the defensive player was also one of the players who fell victim to these structural changes. In October 1985 he was selected in the NHL Waiver Draft by the Minnesota North Stars , where he spent his last full NHL year.

After his expiring contract was not renewed in the summer of 1986, Langevin was looking for a new employer as a free agent until the late winter of 1987. He found this in February 1987 in the Los Angeles Kings , for which he completed eleven games by the end of the 1986/87 season . He was also used ten times for the New Haven Nighthawks farm team in the American Hockey League . At the end of the season, Langevin announced his retirement from active sport at the age of 33. As a result, Langevin went to numerous jobs as a coach. He initially worked as a head coach at Tartan High School between 1987 and 1989 . His first post as head coach on a professional level was in the 1992/93 season with the St. Paul Fighting Saints of the American Hockey Association . However, the league stopped playing before the end of their only season. Only in the 1997/98 game year did the American reappear as head coach of the Idaho Steelheads from the West Coast Hockey League . Most recently he was employed as an assistant trainer at Edina High School between 2010 and 2016 . He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993 for his services to ice hockey in the United States .

International

At international level, Langevin played with the national ice hockey team of the United States in the 1976 World Cup in Katowice, Poland, and the Canada Cup in 1981 . He finished fourth with the US team at both tournaments and ended up just outside the medal ranks. In a total of 16 appearances in international tournaments, he scored one goal and prepared another.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1972/73 University of Minnesota Duluth WCHA 36 6th 11 17th 74
1973/74 University of Minnesota Duluth WCHA 37 2 11 13 56
1974/75 University of Minnesota Duluth WCHA 35 8th 24 32 91
1975/76 University of Minnesota Duluth WCHA 34 19th 26th 45 82
1976/77 Edmonton Oilers WHA 77 7th 16 23 94 5 2 1 3 9
1977/78 Edmonton Oilers WHA 62 6th 22nd 28 90 5 0 2 2 10
1978/79 Edmonton Oilers WHA 77 6th 21st 27 76 13 0 1 1 25th
1979/80 New York Islanders NHL 76 3 13 16 109 21st 0 3 3 32
1980/81 New York Islanders NHL 75 1 16 17th 122 18th 0 3 3 25th
1981/82 New York Islanders NHL 73 1 20th 21st 82 19th 2 4th 6th 16
1982/83 New York Islanders NHL 73 4th 17th 21st 64 8th 0 2 2 2
1983/84 New York Islanders NHL 69 3 16 19th 53 12 0 4th 4th 18th
1984/85 New York Islanders NHL 56 0 13 13 35 4th 0 0 0 4th
1985/86 Minnesota North Stars NHL 80 0 8th 8th 58 5 0 1 1 9
1986/87 Los Angeles Kings NHL 11 0 4th 4th 7th - - - - -
1986/87 New Haven Nighthawks AHL 10 1 1 2 7th - - - - -
NCAA overall 142 35 72 107 303
WHA total 216 19th 59 78 260 23 2 4th 6th 44
NHL overall 513 12 107 119 530 87 2 17th 19th 106

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1976 United States WM 4th Place 10 1 0 1 11
1981 United States Canada Cup 4th Place 6th 0 1 1 8th
Men overall 16 1 1 2 19th

( 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 Langevin, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langevin, David Richard (full name); Bam Bam (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Paul , Minnesota