Gary Bergman

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CanadaCanada  Gary Bergman Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 7, 1938
place of birth Kenora , Ontario , Canada
date of death December 8, 2000
Place of death Detroit , Michigan , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 85 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1957-1959 Winnipeg Braves
1959-1960 Winnipeg Warriors
1960-1961 Buffalo bison
1961–1962 Cleveland Barons
1962 As de Québec
1962-1963 Cleveland Barons
1963-1964 Springfield Indians
1964-1973 Detroit Red Wings
1973-1974 Minnesota North Stars
1974-1975 Detroit Red Wings
1975-1976 Kansas City Scouts

Gary Gunnar Bergman (born October 7, 1938 in Kenora , Ontario , † December 8, 2000 in Detroit , Michigan , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 859 games for the Detroit Red Wings between 1957 and 1976 , Minnesota North Stars and Kansas City Scouts in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . The one-time NHL All-Star served at times as the team captain of the Detroit Red Wings, with which he spent most of his career.

Career

Bergman, who in Kenora in the province of Ontario was born, spent his junior time from 1957 to 1959 in Winnipeg . There he played for two years for the Winnipeg Braves in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League . In the course of his first year there, he gained his first professional experience when he played two games for the Winnipeg Warriors in the Western Hockey League . In his sophomore year, he led the Braves to win the Turnbull Cup , the MJHL championship trophy, and the Memorial Cup . The defender collected just as many scorer points in 24 playoff matches .

For the season 1959/60 Bergman finally moved permanently to the professional area and joined Winnipeg professional team, the Warriors from the WHL. His balanced game, which made it usable in both outnumbered and outnumbered situations, led to his playing in the American Hockey League from the 1960/61 season . The defender was selected in the summer of 1960 in the intra-league draft by the Chicago Black Hawks from the National Hockey League , who used him in their farm team , the Buffalo Bisons , in the American Hockey League. After a year they sold the defender to the Canadiens de Montréal , where he also played in the AHL with the Cleveland Barons . But Bergman did not find a sporting home there either, as he was sold from Montréal to the Boston Bruins in the summer of 1962 . In their service he played for the As de Québec from the AHL until December 1962 , before he was transferred back to Montréal and Cleveland, so that Boston got the NHL rights back to Terry Gray . In the course of another transfer business, Bergman played from the summer of 1963 for the Springfield Indians in the American Hockey League, to which he had been loaned from Montréal.

For the game year 1964/65 , the versatile defensive player was finally selected in a recent intra-league draft by the Detroit Red Wings . This gave the now 26-year-old the opportunity to prove himself in the NHL. Bergman took the chance and was a solid regular in the Detroit squad for the next nine seasons. In the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1966 he reached the final series with the team, but was subject to his ex-employer, the Canadiens de Montréal. At the beginning of the 1973/74 season - his tenth with the Red Wings - the all-star game participant of the preseason and winner of the Charlie Conacher Humanitarian Award , which he shared with Jimmy Peters junior , temporarily served as team captain . Nevertheless, he left the club after eleven appearances this season, since he was given in November 1973 in exchange for Ted Harris to the Minnesota North Stars .

Bergman spent the remainder of the game year in Minnesota, making 57 appearances for the North Stars. In the summer of 1974 he was brought back by the Red Wings in exchange for a third-round suffrage in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft . He collected another respectable 30 points for Detroit in the 1974/75 season . However, his second employment with the Detroit Red Wings ended after just a year. In August 1975 he was again part of a transfer deal when he was given to the Kansas City Scouts together with Bill McKenzie . In return, Peter McDuffe and Glen Burdon moved to Detroit. With the Scouts, Bergman spent his twelfth and final year in the NHL before he announced his retirement from active sports in the summer of 1976 at the age of 38.

After his retirement, Bergman worked for many years in the alumni department of the Detroit Red Wings. He died in December 2000 at the age of 62 in his adopted home Detroit of complications from cancer diagnosed in the spring of the same year . In 2005, he was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of Canadian Sports as a player on the Canadian team for the 1972 Summit Series .

International

For his homeland, Bergman took part in the 1972 Summit Series against the USSR national team. He was one of only six players in the Canadian squad , who played all eight games in the series. He himself contributed a template to three goals.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1957/58 Winnipeg Braves MJHL 30th 4th 2 6th 73 5 1 2 3 14th
1957/58 Winnipeg Warriors WHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1958/59 Winnipeg Braves MJHL 29 15th 15th 30th 114 24 4th 20th 24 46
1959/60 Winnipeg Warriors WHL 58 1 9 10 147 - - - - -
1960/61 Buffalo bison AHL 67 5 14th 19th 104 4th 0 0 0 12
1961/62 Cleveland Barons AHL 68 10 30th 40 164 6th 1 2 3 14th
1962/63 As de Québec AHL 8th 1 2 3 14th - - - - -
1962/63 Cleveland Barons AHL 47 4th 19th 23 127 7th 1 5 6th 10
1963/64 Springfield Indians AHL 60 13 24 37 106 - - - - -
1964/65 Detroit Red Wings NHL 58 4th 7th 11 85 5 0 1 1 4th
1965/66 Detroit Red Wings NHL 61 3 16 19th 96 12 0 3 3 14th
1965/66 Memphis wings CPHL 5 2 3 5 4th - - - - -
1966/67 Detroit Red Wings NHL 70 5 30th 35 129 - - - - -
1967/68 Detroit Red Wings NHL 74 13 28 41 109 - - - - -
1968/69 Detroit Red Wings NHL 76 7th 30th 37 80 - - - - -
1969/70 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 6th 17th 23 122 4th 0 1 1 2
1970/71 Detroit Red Wings NHL 68 8th 25th 33 149 - - - - -
1971/72 Detroit Red Wings NHL 75 6th 31 37 138 - - - - -
1972/73 Detroit Red Wings NHL 68 3 28 31 71 - - - - -
1973/74 Detroit Red Wings NHL 11 0 6th 6th 18th - - - - -
1973/74 Minnesota North Stars NHL 57 3 23 26th 66 - - - - -
1974/75 Detroit Red Wings NHL 76 5 25th 30th 104 - - - - -
1975/76 Kansas City Scouts NHL 75 5 33 38 82 - - - - -
MJHL total 59 19th 17th 36 187 29 5 22nd 27 60
WHL overall 60 1 9 10 147 - - - - -
AHL total 250 33 89 122 515 17th 2 7th 9 36
NHL overall 838 68 299 367 1249 21st 0 5 5 20th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1972 Canada Summit Series 1st place 8th 0 3 3 13
Men overall 8th 0 3 3 13

( 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 Bergman, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergman, Gary Gunnar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenora , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2000
Place of death Detroit , Michigan