Elmer Vasko

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Elmer Vasko
Date of birth December 11, 1935
place of birth Duparquet , Quebec , Canada
date of death October 30, 1998
Place of death Maywood , Illinois , USA
Nickname Mosses
size 188 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1953-1956 St. Catharines Teepees
1956-1966 Chicago Black Hawks
1967-1969 Minnesota North Stars
1969-1970 Salt Lake Golden Eagles

Elmer "Moose" Vasko (born December 11, 1935 in Duparquet , Québec ; † October 30, 1998 in Maywood , Illinois , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who, in the course of his active career between 1953 and 1970, among other things, 864 games for the Chicago Black Hawks and Minnesota North Stars played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . With the Black Hawks, Vasko won the Stanley Cup in 1961 .

Career

Vasko, whose ancestors were of Slovak origin, spent his junior years between 1953 and 1956 with the St. Catharines Teepees in the Ontario Hockey Association . With the team, the defender participated in 1954 in the Memorial Cup , which the Teepees also won after they had previously won the J. Ross Robertson Cup in the OHA.

After the successful time in the junior sector, Vasko was committed to the end of the 1955/56 season by the Buffalo Bisons from the American Hockey League and made his professional debut. For the following season he was finally in the regular squad of the Chicago Black Hawks from the National Hockey League , to which he belonged without reservation until the end of his career in the summer of 1966. In the ten years in the service of the Black Hawks, the team with players like Bobby Hull , Stan Mikita and Pierre Pilote , with whom Vasko formed a defensive duo, developed into serious title contenders year after year. At the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1961 , Chicago won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 23 years . Vasko, who together with Pilote formed one of the best defensive duos of the early 1960s, was also appointed twice to the NHL Second All-Star Team in 1963 and 1964 and took part in the NHL All-Star Game three times during his time in Chicago .

Although his resignation in the summer of 1966 succeeded Wren Blair , the chief trainer and general manager of the Minnesota North Stars , the defender in the summer of 1967 to a comeback. The franchise newly admitted to the NHL therefore selected the Canadian in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft . The now 31-year-old spent two seasons with the North Stars, the second of which as team captain and represented the team in his fourth All-Star Game. At the end of his career, he spent the 1969/70 season with the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the Western Hockey League .

Vasko died on 30 October 1998 in Maywood , near his adopted hometown of Chicago , at the age of 62 years a cancer .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1953/54 St. Catharines Teepees OHA 59 5 17th 22nd 25th 15th 0 2 2 10
1954 St. Catharines Teepees Memorial Cup 11 0 2 2 6th
1954/55 St. Catharines Teepees OHA 49 16 20th 36 75 11 2 3 5 17th
1955/56 St. Catharines Teepees OHA 47 9 31 40 90 6th 2 3 5 8th
1955/56 Buffalo bison AHL 4th 0 3 3 4th 3 1 0 1 2
1956/57 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 64 3 12 15th 31 - - - - -
1957/58 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 59 6th 20th 26th 51 - - - - -
1958/59 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 63 6th 10 16 52 6th 0 1 1 4th
1959/60 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 69 3 27 30th 110 4th 0 0 0 0
1960/61 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 63 4th 18th 22nd 40 12 1 1 2 23
1961/62 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 64 2 22nd 24 87 12 0 0 0 4th
1962/63 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 64 4th 9 13 70 6th 0 1 1 8th
1963/64 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 70 2 18th 20th 65 7th 0 0 0 4th
1964/65 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 69 1 10 11 56 14th 1 2 3 20th
1965/66 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 56 1 7th 8th 44 3 0 0 0 4th
1966/67 without a contract not played after resignation
1967/68 Minnesota North Stars NHL 70 1 6th 7th 45 14th 0 2 2 6th
1968/69 Minnesota North Stars NHL 72 1 7th 8th 68 - - - - -
1969/70 Minnesota North Stars NHL 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1969/70 Salt Lake Golden Eagles WHL 54 4th 6th 10 34 - - - - -
OHA total 155 30th 68 98 190 32 4th 8th 12 35
NHL overall 786 34 166 200 719 78 2 7th 9 73

( 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 Vasko, Elmer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vasko, Moose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Duparquet , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1998
Place of death Maywood , Illinois