Doug Sulliman

Doug Sulliman
Date of birth	August 29, 1959
place of birth	Glace Bay , Nova Scotia , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1979 , 1st lap, 13th position New York Rangers
Career stations
1976-1979	Kitchener Rangers
1979-1981	New York Rangers New Haven Nighthawks
1981-1984	Hartford Whalers
1984-1988	New Jersey Devils
1988-1990	Philadelphia Flyers

Simon Douglas "Doug" Sulliman (born August 29, 1959 in Glace Bay , Nova Scotia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 647 games for the New York Rangers and Hartford Whalers in the course of his playing career between 1976 and 1990 , New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . His brothers-in-law Dave and Don Maloney were also professional ice hockey players.

Career

Sulliman spent his junior years between 1976 and 1979 with the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League , after he had previously stood exclusively in his home province of Nova Scotia on the ice. In the Rangers jersey, the striker completed over 220 games over the three years, in which he scored slightly more than 300 points . This ultimately led to the fact that he was selected in the first round of the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League in the first round in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft . Even before the later Hockey Hall of Fame members Mark Messier , Glenn Anderson and Michel Goulet .

In the 1979/80 season, the 20-year-old finally moved to the pros and came in his first two years for both the New York Rangers in the NHL and their farm team , the New Haven Nighthawks , in the American Hockey League . It was only when he switched to the Hartford Whalers in October 1981 that the attacker established himself as a permanent NHL player. To acquire Sulliman from the Rangers, the Whalers transferred Mike Rogers and a ten- round vote in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft to New York. As compensation, Hartford also received the players Chris Kotsopoulos and Gerry McDonald from New York. In the jersey of the Hartford Whalers, the winger completed his best year in the NHL in the 1981/82 season with 69 points in 77 games. Finally, he stayed two more seasons in Hartford, in which his point yield fell to a meager 19 points in the 1983/84 game year .

As a result, the Canadian's contract was not extended by the Hartford Whalers, so that he entered into a new employment relationship with the New Jersey Devils in the summer of 1984 as a free agent . With the Devils, Sulliman was able to build on the performance of previous years. He played seasons with 38 and later 43 and 53 points scorer. In the 1986/87 season, this brought him not only numerous awards within the team but also a nomination for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy from his team. After Sulliman had spent a total of four game years with the New Jersey Devils, he was selected in the NHL Waiver Draft in October 1988 by the Philadelphia Flyers . There the now 29-year-old played another two years in the NHL. After he had completed only 26 games in the 1989/90 season due to a knee injury, he ended his active career in the summer of 1990 after 647 games in which he scored 332 times.

After early retirement, Sulliman immediately returned to the New Jersey Devils franchise , where he was employed as an assistant coach for the next three years . First under head coach John Cunniff , then under Tom McVie and Herb Brooks . After the 1992/93 season he ended his engagement and turned his back on active ice hockey for the next 15 years. Sulliman worked, among other things, on Wall Street and in insurance , in addition, sporadically as an analyst on television broadcasts of the New Jersey Devils Games. It was not until the 2008/09 season that the Canadian returned to the NHL and took over an assistant coaching position with the Phoenix Coyotes , who were supervised by Wayne Gretzky at the time . In the following two years until 2011 he held this position under the new head coach Dave Tippett .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1975/76	Glace Bay metros	NSAHA		35	44	53	97	42		-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Kitchener Rangers	OMJHL		65	30th	41	71	123		3	0	2	2	2
1977/78	Kitchener Rangers	OMJHL		68	50	39	89	87		9	5	7th	12	24
1978/79	Kitchener Rangers	OMJHL		68	38	77	115	88		10	5	7th	12	7th
1979/80	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		31	9	7th	16	9		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	New York Rangers	NHL		31	4th	7th	11	2		-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		45	10	16	26th	18th		1	0	0	0	0
1980/81	New York Rangers	NHL		32	4th	1	5	32		3	1	0	1	0
1981/82	Hartford Whalers	NHL		77	29	40	69	39		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Hartford Whalers	NHL		77	22nd	19th	41	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Hartford Whalers	NHL		67	6th	13	19th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	New Jersey Devils	NHL		57	22nd	16	38	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	New Jersey Devils	NHL		73	21st	22nd	43	20th		-	-	-	-	-
1986/87	New Jersey Devils	NHL		78	27	26th	53	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	New Jersey Devils	NHL		59	16	14th	30th	22nd		9	0	3	3	2
1988/89	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		52	6th	6th	12	8th		4th	0	0	0	0
1989/90	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		28	3	4th	7th	0		-	-	-	-	-
OMJHL overall				201	118	157	275	298		22nd	10	16	26th	33
AHL total				76	19th	23	42	27		1	0	0	0	0
NHL overall				631	160	168	328	175		16	1	3	4th	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 )

Web links

• Doug Sulliman at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Doug Sulliman at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Doug Sulliman at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doug Sulliman: Phoenix Coyotes - Assistant Coach. National Hockey League , accessed February 7, 2019 .