Gary Nylund

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CanadaCanada  Gary Nylund Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 28, 1963
place of birth Surrey , British Columbia , Canada
size 193 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 1st round, 3rd position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1979-1982 Portland Winter Hawks
1982-1986 Toronto Maple Leafs
1986-1988 Chicago Blackhawks
1988-1993 New York Islanders

Gary Nylund (born October 28, 1963 in Surrey , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The defender played over 600 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Chicago Blackhawks and New York Islanders in the National Hockey League between 1982 and 1993 . With the Canadian U20 national team , he won the first gold medal at junior world championships in the team's history in 1982 .

Career

Gary Nylund was born in Surrey and played in his youth for the Delta Suns in the neighboring Delta . In the 1978/79 season he moved to the Portland Winter Hawks in the Western Hockey League (WHL), the highest-ranking junior league in the region. There he increased his personal statistics from year to year until he got 66 scorer points in 65 games in the 1981/82 season and was honored with the Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy as the best defender in the league as well as in the WHL First All-Star Team was called. In addition, he won the WHL playoffs for the President's Cup with the Winter Hawks that year , while the team failed in the subsequent Memorial Cup in the group stage. Still, the defender was chosen to join the tournament's all-star team. After this successful season he was selected third in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs .

The demands of this high draft position was not met Nylund in the sequence, among other things due to a knee injury, as a result of which he missed large parts of his first two seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He then spent two more years in Toronto before his expiring contract was not renewed at the end of the 1985/86 season. As a result, he joined the Chicago Blackhawks in August 1986 , in which he reached his personal career best in the following season 1986/87 with 27 points and in the season 1987/88 with his always physically emphasized style of play collected over 200 penalty minutes. After a little more than two years, the Blackhawks gave it to the New York Islanders along with Marc Bergevin in November 1988 and in return received Steve Konroyd and Bob Bassen .

With the Islanders Nylund was regularly active until 1991, before another injury left him sidelined for almost the entire 1991/92 season. After another 22 games for New York and a handful of games for their farm team , the Capital District Islanders from the American Hockey League , he ended his career after the 1992/93 season. In total, he had played 632 NHL games and recorded 177 points and 1298 penalty minutes. After his active career, the Canadian returned to his homeland and has been working as a firefighter there ever since. In addition, he was several times between 2010 and 2016 as assistant coach for the Surrey Eagles , a local junior team, behind the gang, but did not pursue this career further.

International

During his final season with the Portland Winter Hawks, Nylund was called up to the Canadian U20 national team and won the gold medal with this at the Junior World Championship in 1982 , the first for his home country in the history of the competition.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1978/79 Portland Winter Hawks WHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - - -
1979/80 Portland Winter Hawks WHL 72 5 21st 26th 59 8th 0 1 1 2
1980/81 Portland Winter Hawks WHL 70 6th 40 46 186 9 1 7th 8th 17th
1981/82 Portland Winter Hawks WHL 65 7th 59 66 267 15th 3 16 19th 74
1982 Portland Winter Hawks Memorial Cup 4th 0 2 2 10
1982/83 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 16 0 3 3 ± 0 16 - - - - - -
1983/84 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 47 2 14th 16 -27 103 - - - - - -
1984/85 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 76 3 17th 20th -42 99 - - - - - -
1985/86 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 79 2 16 18th -33 180 10 0 2 2 -5 25th
1986/87 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 80 7th 20th 27 –7 190 4th 0 2 2 -1 11
1987/88 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 76 4th 15th 19th –9 208 5 0 0 0 -1 10
1988/89 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 23 3 2 5 -4 63 - - - - - -
1988/89 New York Islanders NHL 46 4th 8th 12 -15 74 - - - - - -
1989/90 New York Islanders NHL 64 4th 21st 25th +8 144 5 0 2 2 +1 17th
1990/91 New York Islanders NHL 72 2 21st 23 -8th 10 - - - - - -
1991/92 Capital District Islanders AHL 4th 0 0 0 +1 0 - - - - - -
1991/92 New York Islanders NHL 7th 0 1 1 -3 10 - - - - - -
1992/93 Capital District Islanders AHL 2 0 0 0 +3 0 - - - - - -
1992/93 New York Islanders NHL 22nd 1 1 2 -2 43 - - - - - -
WHL overall 209 18th 120 138 512 32 4th 24 28 93
AHL total 6th 0 0 0 +4 0 - - - - - -
NHL overall 608 32 139 171 -142 1235 24 0 6th 6th –6 63

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1982 Canada June World Cup gold medal 7th 1 3 4th 0
Juniors overall 7th 1 3 4th 0

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eagles Add Nylund to Coaching Staff. surreyeagles.ca, June 4, 2015, accessed January 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nylund, Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Surrey , British Columbia , Canada