Don Awrey

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CanadaCanada  Don Awrey Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 18, 1943
place of birth Kitchener , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 79 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1961-1963 Niagara Falls Flyers
1963-1973 Boston Bruins
1973-1974 St. Louis Blues
1974-1976 Canadiens de Montréal
1976-1977 Pittsburgh Penguins
1977-1988 New York Rangers
1978-1979 Colorado Rockies

Donald William "Don" Awrey (born July 18, 1943 in Kitchener , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The defender played over 1,000 games in the National Hockey League , most of them for the Boston Bruins , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 1970 and 1972 . With the Canadian national team he took part in the 1972 Summit Series .

Career

Don Awrey played in his youth for the Waterloo Siskins , among others , whereby his sporting development in the youth field was affected by severe back pain. As a result, he did not run until the season 1961/62, at the age of 18, regularly with the Niagara Falls Flyers in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), the highest junior league in his home province. After two years in Niagara Falls, the Canadian moved as a free agent to the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League (NHL), where he needed two seasons to finally earn a regular place in the highest league in North America. Previously, the defender was regularly used on the farm teams of the Bruins, the Minneapolis Bruins from the Central Professional Hockey League and the Hershey Bears from the American Hockey League (AHL).

In Boston, Awrey established himself as a defensively oriented NHL defender who primarily impressed with physical ice hockey. After poor sporting years in the early and mid-1960s, the Bruins rose a little later to one of the best teams in the league and won their first Stanley Cup since 1941 with him in 1970 , which they immediately followed in 1972 with another. He also represented his home country at the 1972 Summit Series , but only played there in two games. Awrey spent a total of ten years in the organization before he was given in October 1973 in exchange for Jake Rathwell and a second-round vote in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft to the St. Louis Blues . He promptly represented the Blues at the 1974 NHL All-Star Game , but was transferred to the Canadiens de Montréal in November 1974 , who in return sent Chuck Lefley to St. Louis.

In his second year in Montréal, the Canadiens won another Stanley Cup, but Awrey was not used in the playoffs and therefore was not immortalized a third time on the trophy. By today's standards - he had played more than half of the regular season games - he would have been automatically qualified. For a third-round suffrage in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft , the defender was given up in August 1976 to the Pittsburgh Penguins , where he only played for one year, as did the New York Rangers , which he joined as a free agent in October 1977 would have. For a financial return he moved to the Colorado Rockies for the last time in November 1978 and let his career end there. In total, he completed 1050 games in his NHL career and scored 207 points scorer .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1960/61 Niagara Falls Flyers OHA 3 0 0 0 11 - - - - - -
1961/62 Niagara Falls Flyers OHA 41 6th 12 18th 90 10 0 3 3 15th
1962/63 Niagara Falls Flyers OHA 50 7th 23 30th 111 9 4th 9 13 29
1963 Niagara Falls Flyers Memorial Cup 16 4th 8th 12 58
1963/64 Minneapolis Bruins CPHL 54 4th 15th 19th 136 5 0 0 0 9
1963/64 Boston Bruins NHL 16 1 0 1 -1 4th - - - - - -
1964/65 Hershey Bears AHL 23 2 4th 6th 38 15th 0 1 1 29
1964/65 Boston Bruins NHL 47 2 3 5 -12 41 - - - - - -
1965/66 Boston Bruins NHL 70 4th 3 7th -35 72 - - - - - -
1966/67 Hershey Bears AHL 63 1 13 14th 153 5 0 0 0 19th
1966/67 Boston Bruins NHL 4th 1 0 1 -8th 6th - - - - - -
1967/68 Boston Bruins NHL 74 3 12 15th +17 153 4th 0 1 1 -4 4th
1968/69 Boston Bruins NHL 73 0 13 13 +26 149 10 0 1 1 +4 28
1969/70 Boston Bruins NHL 73 3 10 13 +29 120 14th 0 5 5 +19 32
1970/71 Boston Bruins NHL 74 4th 21st 25th +41 143 7th 0 0 0 ± 0 17th
1971/72 Boston Braves AHL 3 0 1 1 2 - - - - - -
1971/72 Boston Bruins NHL 34 1 8th 9 +19 52 15th 0 4th 4th +1 45
1972/73 Boston Bruins NHL 78 2 17th 19th +29 90 4th 0 0 0 -3 6th
1973/74 St. Louis Blues NHL 75 5 16 21st –6 51 - - - - - -
1974/75 St. Louis Blues NHL 20th 0 8th 8th -8th 4th - - - - - -
1974/75 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 56 1 11 12 +21 58 11 0 6th 6th +8 12
1975/76 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 72 0 12 12 +31 29 - - - - - -
1976/77 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 79 1 12 13 -2 40 3 0 1 1 +2 0
1977/78 New York Rangers NHL 78 2 8th 10 -14 38 3 0 0 0 -2 6th
1978/79 New Haven Nighthawks AHL 6th 2 1 3 6th - - - - - -
1978/79 Colorado Rockies NHL 56 1 4th 5 -33 18th - - - - - -
OHA total 94 13 35 48 212 19th 4th 12 16 44
AHL total 95 5 19th 24 199 20th 0 1 1 48
NHL overall 979 31 158 189 +94 1068 71 0 18th 18th +25 150

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1972 Canada Summit Series 1st place 2 0 0 0 -2 2
Men overall 2 0 0 0 -2 2

( 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 Awrey, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Awrey, Donald William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitchener , Ontario , Canada