Gary Doak

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CanadaCanada  Gary Doak Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 25, 1946
place of birth Goderich , Ontario , Canada
date of death March 25, 2017
Place of death Lynnfield , Massachusetts , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 85 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1962-1965 Hamilton Red Wings
1965-1966 Pittsburgh Hornets
1966-1970 Boston Bruins
1970-1971 Vancouver Canucks
1971-1972 New York Rangers
1972-1973 Detroit Red Wings
1973-1981 Boston Bruins

Gary Walter Doak (born February 25, 1946 in Goderich , Ontario ; † March 25, 2017 in Lynnfield , Massachusetts , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 867 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Boston Bruins , Vancouver Canucks and New York Rangers played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . Doak celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Boston Bruins by winning the Stanley Cup in 1970 .

Career

Doak spent his junior years between 1962 and 1965 with the Hamilton Red Wings in the Ontario Hockey Association . At the age of 18, he made his professional debut in the service of the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American Hockey League at the end of the 1963/64 season . Nevertheless, the defender remained in the junior division for another year.

At the end of the 1964/65 season, the Canadian moved permanently to the AHL to the Hornets and played there until February 1966 the following game year, in which he completed his first four games in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings . This finally transferred him together with Bill Lesuk , Ron Murphy and later Steve Atkinson to the Boston Bruins , who in return gave Dean Prentice and Leo Boivin to the Red Wings. Doak played for Boston in 20 other games during the season. The following year, the defender still failed to make his final breakthrough in the NHL, as his games were split between the Bruins in the NHL and the Oklahoma City Blazers in the Central Professional Hockey League . For the 1967/68 season Doak was finally a regular in Boston. Due to his illness of Pfeiffer's glandular fever , which forced him to take a long break in the 1968/69 season , he was in danger again. Nevertheless, he was part of the squad that won the prestigious trophy of the same name in the 1970 Stanley Cup playoffs .

With the title win, Doak's time in Boston initially ended, as he was selected in the NHL Expansion Draft in 1970 by the Vancouver Canucks newly admitted to the league . With the Canucks he spent the 1970/71 season and the beginning of the following, before he was transferred to the New York Rangers in November 1971 together with Jim Wiste in exchange for Dave Balon , Wayne Connelly and Ron Stewart . In the service of the club from New York City , the defensive player also only spent one season, as he was given to the Detroit Red Wings with Rick Newell after the end of the 1972 season . For this, the Broadway blueshirts received Joe Zanussi and a first-round vote in the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft . At the Detroit Red Wings, the now 26-year-old did not find a sporting home even in the second attempt, and so he was sent back to the Boston Bruins in the course of the 1972/73 season in exchange for Garnet Bailey and later Murray Wing . There Doak found a permanent employer for the following eight years up to the summer of 1981 and ended his active career as their player in the summer of 1981 with almost 800 NHL games at the age of 35.

Even after the end of his playing career, Doak remained connected to the Boston Bruins and was immediately accepted into the team's coaching staff. Between 1981 and 1985 he worked as an assistant coach under head coach Gerry Cheevers in his adopted home. After leaving this position in Boston, he was in charge of the hockey team at the University of Massachusetts Boston between 1985 and 1987 , which was based in the ECAC Hockey , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . After that, Doak withdrew completely from ice hockey. He finally passed away in March 2017 at the age of 71 after suffering from cancer in Lynnfield , Massachusetts .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1962/63 Hamilton Red Wings OHA 50 3 10 13 83 5 0 0 0 17th
1963/64 Hamilton Red Wings OHA 55 2 31 33 162 - - - - -
1963/64 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1964/65 Hamilton Red Wings OHA 56 8th 26th 34 216 - - - - -
1964/65 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 2 1 0 1 4th 3 0 0 0 4th
1965/66 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 48 0 6th 6th 88 - - - - -
1965/66 Detroit Red Wings NHL 4th 0 0 0 12 - - - - -
1965/66 Boston Bruins NHL 20th 0 8th 8th 28 - - - - -
1966/67 Boston Bruins NHL 29 0 1 1 50 - - - - -
1966/67 Oklahoma City Blazers CPHL 17th 4th 3 7th 96 - - - - -
1967/68 Boston Bruins NHL 59 2 10 12 100 4th 0 0 0 4th
1968/69 Boston Bruins NHL 22nd 3 3 6th 37 - - - - -
1969/70 Boston Bruins NHL 44 1 7th 8th 63 8th 0 0 0 9
1969/70 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 13 1 5 6th 53 - - - - -
1970/71 Vancouver Canucks NHL 77 2 10 12 112 - - - - -
1971/72 Vancouver Canucks NHL 6th 0 1 1 23 - - - - -
1971/72 New York Rangers NHL 49 1 10 11 54 12 0 0 0 46
1972/73 Detroit Red Wings NHL 44 0 5 5 51 - - - - -
1972/73 Boston Bruins NHL 5 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2
1973/74 Boston Bruins NHL 69 0 4th 4th 44 - - - - -
1974/75 Boston Bruins NHL 40 0 0 0 30th 3 0 0 0 4th
1975/76 Boston Bruins NHL 58 1 6th 7th 60 12 1 0 1 22nd
1976/77 Boston Bruins NHL 76 3 13 16 107 14th 0 2 2 26th
1977/78 Boston Bruins NHL 61 4th 13 17th 50 12 1 0 1 4th
1978/79 Boston Bruins NHL 63 6th 11 17th 28 7th 0 2 2 4th
1979/80 Boston Bruins NHL 52 0 5 5 45 4th 0 0 0 0
1980/81 Boston Bruins NHL 11 0 0 0 12 - - - - -
OHA total 161 13 67 80 461 5 0 0 0 17th
AHL total 51 1 6th 7th 92 3 0 0 0 4th
CPHL / CHL total 30th 5 8th 13 149 - - - - -
NHL overall 789 23 107 130 908 78 2 4th 6th 121

( 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 Doak, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doak, Gary Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Goderich , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2017
Place of death Lynnfield , Massachusetts