Dwight Foster (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Dwight Foster Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 2, 1957
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 181 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1977 , 1st lap, 16th position
Boston Bruins
WHA Amateur Draft 1977 , 1st round, 10th position
Houston Eros
Career stations
1973-1977 Kitchener Rangers
1977-1981 Boston Bruins
1981-1982 Colorado Rockies
1982 New Jersey Devils
1982-1986 Detroit Red Wings
1986-1987 Boston Bruins

Dwight Alexander "Dewey" Foster (born April 2, 1957 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 576 games for the Boston Bruins , Colorado Rockies , New Jersey Devils and Detroit in the course of his playing career between 1973 and 1987 Red Wings has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) as the right winger . However, Foster celebrated his greatest career success in the jersey of the Canadian U20 national team , with which he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championship in 1977 .

Career

Foster spent his junior years between 1973 and 1977 with the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL). There the striker already achieved 55 scorer points in his rookie season . After increases to 90 and 94 points in the two following years, he was able to win the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy as top scorer of the OMJHL in his fourth year of play with 143 points . His 83 assists were also a league top value, which was finally honored with his appointment to the league's third all-star team. As a result, Foster was selected in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft in the first round in 16th place by the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League (NHL). In the 1977 WHA Amateur Draft of the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was at the time in competition with the NHL , he was already drawn in tenth overall position by the Houston Eros . With 382 points in 262 missions, he left the Rangers as the best point collector in franchise history .

For the 1977/78 season, the 20-year-old talent moved to the professional area to the Boston Bruins in the NHL. There he played ten games at the start of the season until the beginning of November 1977, before he was out due to injury due to a cartilage damage in his left knee - with the exception of four games in January 1978 - for the rest of the season. Thus, he was not available to the Bruins in the Stanley Cup playoffs 1978 , in the course of which Boston reached the final series of the Stanley Cup . It was not until the 1978/79 season that the Canadian was back in the Bruins' squad after another knee operation was necessary in the summer of 1978. In addition to 44 games for the Bruins, he was also used 21 times for their farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League (AHL). His breakthrough in the NHL finally came Foster in the game year 1979/80 , when he scored 38 times in 57 missions. The following year he improved again and achieved a career record of 52 goals in 77 appearances.

With the best performance of the season to date as a bargaining chip, Foster tested the market as a so-called Restricted Free Agent in the summer of 1981 and therefore signed a contract with the Colorado Rockies in July 1981 . To compensate, the Rockies gave under the rules of that time a second-round voting right of the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 and the option to swap the first-round voting rights of the same draft to the Bruins. The Bruins drew this option the following summer, who could therefore choose first overall position due to the following weak season of the Rockies . For the Rockies franchise, the Canadian played 70 games in the 1981/82 season , in which he scored 31 times. He then moved in the summer of 1982 with the team from Denver to the state of New Jersey , where it continued to play under the name New Jersey Devils . The offensive player only wore the Devils jersey four times until the end of October 1982. After an injury sustained during a game by New Jersey's farm team Wichita Wind in the Central Hockey League (CHL), he was sold to the Detroit Red Wings for the symbolic sum of one US dollar in order to purchase his costly contract discard.

With the Detroit Red Wings, the right winger found a sporting home for three and a half years until March 1986. However, injuries threw him back again and again, so that he completed no more than 60 games for Detroit in any season. In March 1986 he was finally transferred to his ex-team Boston Bruins in exchange for Dave Donnelly . There he was under contract until the end of the 1986/87 season . After he had missed many games during the season due to another cartilage damage in his left knee, the Bruins did not offer him a new contract in the summer of 1987. The 30-year-old then ended his active career.

International

For his home country Foster took part with the Canadian U20 national team in the Junior World Championship in 1977 in Czechoslovakia . He won the silver medal with the team. With seven points scorer in as many games, he was the fifth-best point collector in the Canadian squad. There were two gates underneath.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1973/74 Kitchener Rangers OHA 67 23 32 55 61 - - - - -
1974/75 Kitchener Rangers OMJHL 70 39 51 90 88 - - - - -
1975/76 Kitchener Rangers OMJHL 61 36 58 94 110 8th 4th 6th 10 28
1976/77 Kitchener Rangers OMJHL 64 60 83 143 88 3 2 4th 6th 2
1977/78 Boston Bruins NHL 14th 2 1 3 6th - - - - -
1977/78 Rochester Americans AHL 3 0 3 3 2 - - - - -
1978/79 Boston Bruins NHL 44 11 13 24 14th 11 1 3 4th 0
1978/79 Rochester Americans AHL 21st 11 18th 29 8th - - - - -
1979/80 Boston Bruins NHL 57 10 28 38 42 9 3 5 8th 2
1979/80 Binghamton Dusters AHL 7th 1 3 4th 2 - - - - -
1980/81 Boston Bruins NHL 77 24 28 52 62 3 1 1 2 0
1981/82 Colorado Rockies NHL 70 12 19th 31 41 - - - - -
1982/83 New Jersey Devils NHL 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1982/83 Wichita wind CHL 2 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1982/83 Detroit Red Wings NHL 58 17th 22nd 39 58 - - - - -
1983/84 Detroit Red Wings NHL 52 9 12 21st 50 3 0 1 1 0
1984/85 Detroit Red Wings NHL 50 16 16 32 56 3 0 0 0 0
1985/86 Detroit Red Wings NHL 55 6th 12 18th 48 - - - - -
1985/86 Boston Bruins NHL 13 0 0 0 4th 3 0 2 2 2
1986/87 Boston Bruins NHL 47 4th 12 16 37 3 0 0 0 0
OHA / OMJHL total 262 156 224 382 347 11 6th 10 16 30th
AHL total 32 12 24 36 12 - - - - -
NHL overall 541 111 163 274 420 35 5 12 17th 4th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1977 Canada June World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 2 5 7th 4th
Juniors overall 7th 2 5 7th 4th

( 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 )

family

Foster's son Alex also made the leap into professional ice hockey, where he was mainly active in the North American minor leagues American Hockey League (AHL) and ECHL as well as in the top European leagues between 2006 and 2018 . In the 2007/08 season , the striker also played three games for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL). In Europe he was on the ice for the Adler Mannheim and Iserlohn Roosters, among others .

Foster is married to the sister of Wes Jarvis , who played 239 games in the NHL and is therefore his brother-in-law. As a result, there is also a distant family relationship with his cousin Doug Jarvis . Foster's son-in-law is Corey Elkins .

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personal data
SURNAME Foster, Dwight
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foster, Dwight Alexander (full name); Foster, Dewey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada