David Shand (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  David Shand Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 11, 1956
place of birth Cold Lake , Alberta , Canada
size 186 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1976 , 1st lap, 8th position
Atlanta Flames
WHA Amateur Draft 1976 , 2nd lap, 18th position
Calgary Cowboys
Career stations
1972-1973 Toronto Nationals
1973-1974 University of Michigan
1974-1976 Peterborough Petes
1976-1980 Atlanta Flames
1980-1981 Toronto Maple Leafs
1981-1982 Cincinnati Tigers
1982-1983 St. Catharines Saints
1983-1985 Washington Capitals
1985-1989 EC KAC

David Alistair "Dave" Shand (born August 11, 1956 in Cold Lake , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 447 games for the Atlanta Flames , Toronto Maple Leafs and, among others, during his playing career between 1973 and 1989 Washington Capitals has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of defender . However, Shand celebrated his greatest career success outside of the NHL in the jersey of the Canadian national team by winning the bronze medal at the 1978 World Cup and serving the EC KAC , with which he was Austrian champion three times in a row between 1986 and 1988 .

Career

Shand (center) in the Atlanta Flames jersey

Shand, who was born in Cold Lake , but grew up in Portage la Prairie in the Canadian province of Alberta , first ran in the 1972/73 season for the Toronto Nationals in the sub-division junior division Metro Toronto Junior Hockey League (MTJHL). The 17-year-old then moved to the United States , where he continued his junior career at the University of Michigan . There the defender played parallel to his studies for the university team, the Michigan Wolverines , in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In the early stages of his sophomore year of college, however, Shand made the decision to quit his studies and leave university. He then returned to Canada during the 1974/75 season . He joined the Peterborough Petes from the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL) and played there until the spring of 1976. At the end of the second OMJHL season he was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the league after scoring 46 points in 62 missions had collected. These qualities on the offensive, coupled with his robust defensive play, gave the defender the early selection of eighth overall position in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft by the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). In addition, he was drawn in the 1976 WHA Amateur Draft in the second round in 18th place by the Calgary Cowboys from the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was then competing with the NHL .

The Atlanta Flames brought the young player into the professional field right at the beginning of the 1976/77 season . They first used him on loan with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs , the farm team of the Canadiens de Montréal , in the American Hockey League (AHL). After nine missions, however, they brought him to his debut in the NHL squad in late October 1976. There he played 55 games during the rest of the season, although he was temporarily canceled due to a disease of Pfeiffer's glandular fever . From then on, he established himself in the league, in which he ran up for Atlanta until the end of the game year 1979/80 and came up with excellent plus / minus values. In the previous year he had contested his best year in the league with 26 points scorer. However, the franchise separated from him a few weeks before moving to Calgary, Canada . In June 1980, they transferred Shand with a third-round vote in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft to the Toronto Maple Leafs , who gave it a second-round vote in the same draft to the Atlanta / Calgary franchise.

In the new sporting home, the development of the defensive player took a step backwards. During the 1980/81 season he was only used sporadically for the Maple Leafs, so that at the end of the season he had only been on the ice in 47 games. Before the 1981/82 season , he was demoted to the minor leagues . There he ran this season for the Cincinnati Tigers in the Central Hockey League (CHL) and was appointed to the league's Second All-Star Team. The following year the defender then spent in the AHL with the St. Catharines Saints . For Toronto he ran up to the summer of 1983 only five times, four of them in the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1983 . With the transfer to the Washington Capitals in October 1983 in exchange for Lee Norwood , the long overdue move to another team took place for Shand. With the capital city he made the jump back into the NHL in the 1983/84 season and came to a total of 80 games. After he ran up only 13 more times for the Caps in the 1984/85 season and was also used in the AHL farm team Binghamton Whalers , he turned his back on the North American continent in the summer of 1985.

The 29-year-old moved to Europe and joined the top Austrian club EC KAC , with whom he won the Austrian championship three times in a row between 1986 and 1988 . He was also named Carinthian Ice Hockey Superstar of the Year at the end of the 1987/88 season . Following the 1988/89 season, he ended his active career after four years in the Austrian Ice Hockey League (ÖEL). He immediately returned to his alma mater , where he worked as assistant coach for the Michigan Wolverines under head coach Red Berenson between 1989 and 1993 .

International

Shand represented his native Canada at the World Championships in 1978 in the Czechoslovak capital, Prague, and in 1979 in the Soviet capital, Moscow . He was able to win the bronze medal with the Canadians in 1978, to which the defender contributed three assists in ten tournament games. A year later he remained pointless in seven missions and by placing in fourth place without winning any further medals.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1973/74 University of Michigan NCAA 34 2 8th 10 50
1974/75 University of Michigan NCAA 10 0 4th 4th 20th
1974/75 Peterborough Petes OMJHL 33 4th 11 15th 30th 11 1 4th 5 17th
1975/76 Peterborough Petes OMJHL 62 9 37 46 169 - - - - -
1976/77 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 9 0 5 5 21st - - - - -
1976/77 Atlanta Flames NHL 55 5 11 16 62 3 0 0 0 33
1977/78 Atlanta Flames NHL 80 2 23 25th 94 2 0 0 0 4th
1978/79 Atlanta Flames NHL 79 4th 22nd 26th 64 2 0 0 0 20th
1979/80 Atlanta Flames NHL 74 3 7th 10 104 4th 0 1 1 0
1980/81 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 47 0 4th 4th 60 3 0 0 0 0
1980/81 New Brunswick Hawks AHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1981/82 Cincinnati Tigers CHL 76 8th 37 45 206 4th 0 4th 4th 9
1982/83 St. Catharines Saints AHL 69 9 32 41 154 - - - - -
1982/83 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 1 0 1 1 2 4th 1 0 1 13
1983/84 Washington Capitals NHL 72 4th 15th 19th 124 8th 0 1 1 13
1983/84 Hershey Bears AHL 2 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1984/85 Washington Capitals NHL 13 1 1 2 34 - - - - -
1984/85 Binghamton Whalers AHL 8th 0 1 1 10 - - - - -
1985/86 EC KAC OIL 44 11 21st 32 110
1986/87 EC KAC OIL 26th 4th 21st 25th 95
1987/88 EC KAC OIL 21st 1 18th 19th 73
1988/89 EC KAC OIL 39 5 25th 30th 98
NCAA overall 44 2 12 14th 70
OMJHL overall 95 13 48 61 199 11 1 4th 5 17th
AHL total 90 9 39 48 189 - - - - -
NHL overall 421 19th 84 103 544 26th 1 2 3 83
Total oil 130 21st 85 106 376

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1978 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 10 0 3 3 6th
1979 Canada WM 4th Place 7th 0 0 0 8th
Men overall 17th 0 3 3 14th

( 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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