Garry Monahan

Garry Monahan
Date of birth	October 20, 1946
place of birth	Barrie , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1963 , 1st lap, 1st position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1963-1964	St. Michael's Buzzers
1964-1967	Peterborough Petes
1967-1968	Canadiens de Montréal
1968-1969	Cleveland Barons
1969-1970	Detroit Red Wings
1970	Los Angeles Kings
1970-1974	Toronto Maple Leafs
1974-1988	Vancouver Canucks
1978-1979	Toronto Maple Leafs
1979-1982	Seibu Tetsudō Tokyo

Garry Michael Monahan (born October 20, 1946 in Barrie , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 770 games for the Canadiens de Montréal , Detroit Red Wings , Los Angeles Kings , Toronto Maple in the course of his active career between 1963 and 1982 leafs and Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League on the position of the center has denied. Monahan was selected in the first overall position in the 1963 NHL Amateur Draft .

Career

When talent was first selected by the NHL teams with the NHL Amateur Draft in 1963 , the Canadiens de Montréal used the opportunity of first right to select 16-year-old Monahan. Only a year later he moved as a junior to the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey Association . In his third and final year, he played with Billy Harris , among others , who was to be selected first nine years after him in the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft .

In the 1967/68 season he made his debut with the Canadiens, but played mostly in the Central Professional Hockey League with the Houston Apollos . Together with Jacques Lemaire he fought for the last available place in the very strong squad of Montreal. After a year that he had spent mostly in the American Hockey League with the Cleveland Barons , he moved to the Detroit Red Wings in a swap deal that brought Pete Mahovlich to Montreal . Here he made it to a regular player, but was passed on to the Los Angeles Kings in February until the end of the 1969/70 season . After the season ended, a barter deal brought him to the Toronto Maple Leafs . In return, Bob Pulford moved to Los Angeles.

In a row with Dave Keon , he developed into a solid, hard-working, defensive attacker. He played with the Leafs for four years. After only one game in the 1974/75 season , he was passed on to the Vancouver Canucks . He had three successful years, but was the 1978 CHL - farm team to the Tulsa Oilers sent. He returned to the Maple Leafs in the summer, for whom he played his final season in the NHL.

Following his NHL career, he played for three years for Seibu Tetsudo Tokyo in Japan and ended his active career there in 1982.

Achievements and Awards

• 1981 Japanese master with Seibu Tetsudō Tokyo

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1964/65	Peterborough Petes	OHA Jr.		55	12	16	28	28		12	1	2	3	11
1965/66	Peterborough Petes	OHA Jr.		46	6th	10	16	43		6th	0	3	3	9
1966/67	Peterborough Petes	OHA Jr.		47	30th	54	84	79		6th	2	2	4th	20th
1966/67	Houston Apollos	CPHL		-	-	-	-	-		3	1	0	1	0
1967/68	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		11	0	0	0	8th		-	-	-	-	-
1967/68	Houston Apollos	CPHL		56	17th	31	48	86		-	-	-	-	-
1968/69	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1968/69	Cleveland Barons	AHL		70	18th	26th	44	81		5	2	0	2	10
1969/70	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		51	3	4th	7th	24		-	-	-	-	-
1969/70	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		21st	0	3	3	12		-	-	-	-	-
1970/71	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		78	15th	22nd	37	79		6th	2	0	2	2
1971/72	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		78	14th	17th	31	47		5	0	0	0	0
1972/73	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		78	13	18th	31	53		-	-	-	-	-
1973/74	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		78	9	16	25th	70		4th	0	1	1	7th
1974/75	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		78	14th	20th	34	51		5	1	0	1	2
1975/76	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		66	16	17th	33	39		2	0	0	0	2
1976/77	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		76	18th	26th	44	48		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		67	10	19th	29	28		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Tulsa Oilers	CHL		7th	3	2	5	0		-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		62	4th	7th	11	25th		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Seibu Tetsudō Tokyo	JIHL		20th	13	17th	30th
1980/81	Seibu Tetsudō Tokyo	JIHL		20th	12	14th	26th
1981/82	Seibu Tetsudō Tokyo	JIHL		20th	17th	19th	36
OHA Jr. total				148	48	80	128	150		24	3	7th	10	40
CPHL / CHL total				63	20th	33	53	86		3	1	0	1	0
NHL overall				748	116	169	285	484		22nd	3	1	4th	13
JIHL overall				60	42	50	92

( 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

• Garry Monahan at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Garry Monahan at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Garry Monahan at hockeydb.com (English)