Glen Sharpley

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Glen Sharpley
Date of birth September 6, 1956
place of birth York , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1976 , 1st round, 3rd position
Minnesota North Stars
WHA Amateur Draft 1976 , 1st round, 3rd position
Cleveland Crusaders
Career stations
1972-1973 Richmond Hill Rams
1973-1976 Festivals de Hull
1976-1980 Minnesota North Stars
1980-1982 Chicago Black Hawks
1983-1984 EHC Arosa
1985 Baltimore Skipjacks
1985-1986 Peoria Rivermen
1986-1987 Salt Lake Golden Eagles
Dundee Rockets

Glen Stuart Sharpley (born September 6, 1956 in York , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 416 games for the Minnesota North Stars and Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League (NHL ) has contested on the position of the center . Sharpley celebrated his greatest career success, whose NHL career came to an early end due to a serious eye injury, but in the jersey of the Canadian national team by winning the bronze medal at the 1978 World Cup .

Career

Sharpley spent his junior years at the Festivals de Hull in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) between 1973 and 1976 , after serving for the Richmond Hill Rams in the second division of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA- B) had played. At the Festivals de Hull, the striker developed into a leading player over the course of three seasons, who even led the team onto the ice as team captain in his final year . With his 134 scorer points , he was the undisputed top scorer of the team and made it to fifth place in the entire league. With his 60 goals this season he was also among the ten best players in the league and was consequently appointed to the First All-Star team of the West Division. After the season, the 19-year-old talent in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft was selected by the Minnesota North Stars from the National Hockey League (NHL) in third overall position behind Rick Green and Blair Chapman . He was also drawn at the same point by the Cleveland Crusaders from the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was competing with the NHL at the time, in the 1976 WHA Amateur Draft . This time Chapman and Peter Marsh were again preferred to him.

For the 1976/77 season , the attacker immediately moved to the NHL to the North Stars and completed a successful season there as a rookie . His 57 scorer points - also his career best - made him the third best of all rookies and within the team, Sharpley was in third place in this statistic. In the following two seasons, the offensive player achieved over 50 points. However, this series broke in the game year 1979/80 , when he failed due to a knee injury from February 1980 to the Stanley Cup playoffs 1980 and so only played 51 games in the regular season , in which, however, he scored 47 points. He had a similar quota at the beginning of the 1980/81 season , in which he was given to the Chicago Black Hawks in late December 1980 in exchange for Ken Solheim and a second-round vote in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft .

With the move to Chicago, Sharpley's offensive production slowly decreased. The time with the Black Hawks was overshadowed by a serious eye injury, which was caused in December 1981 by Darren Veitch's bat . Despite significantly reduced eyesight in his left eye, the Canadian made a successful comeback after a three-month injury break and numerous tests. In the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1982 , he collected nine points in 15 missions. There were six gates below. Nevertheless, the doctors subsequently refused permission to continue his career in the NHL, taking into account the severity of the injury. With the exception of a brief stint at EHC Arosa from the Swiss National League A during the 1983/84 season , the center forward sat out for three years and worked for Northwest Orient Airlines in Minneapolis .

It was not until the 1985/86 season that Sharpley found a franchise in the Pittsburgh Penguins from the NHL that enabled him to continue his professional career and offered him a trial contract. However, he came to only seven missions for the farm team Baltimore Skipjacks in the American Hockey League (AHL) and was dismissed after he had succeeded in three assists. The striker then joined the Peoria Rivermen from the International Hockey League (IHL), where he again celebrated a successful comeback with 63 points in 50 games this season. For the following game year he stayed in the IHL and was there for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles . However, he left this during the current season and moved to Europe. There he played a few games in the British Hockey League (BHL) for the Scottish club Dundee Rockets before the 30-year-old declared his career over.

International

For his home country Sharpley played at the 1978 World Cup in the Czechoslovak capital, Prague , wearing the jersey of the Canadian national team . He was able to win the bronze medal with the Canadians, for which the center scored one goal in ten tournament games and contributed another three assists.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1972/73 Richmond Hill Rams OHA-B 42 13 28 41 104 - - - - -
1973/74 Festivals de Hull LHJMQ 52 14th 30th 44 64 - - - - -
1974/75 Festivals de Hull LHJMQ 68 24 45 69 96 4th 2 3 5 0
1975/76 Festivals de Hull LHJMQ 69 60 74 134 97 6th 7th 4th 11 13
1976/77 Minnesota North Stars NHL 80 25th 32 57 48 2 0 0 0 4th
1977/78 Minnesota North Stars NHL 79 22nd 33 55 42 - - - - -
1978/79 Minnesota North Stars NHL 80 19th 34 53 30th - - - - -
1979/80 Minnesota North Stars NHL 51 20th 27 47 38 9 1 6th 7th 4th
1980/81 Minnesota North Stars NHL 28 12 12 24 18th - - - - -
1980/81 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 35 10 16 26th 12 1 0 2 2 0
1981/82 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 36 9 7th 16 11 15th 6th 3 9 16
1982/83 Chicago Black Hawks NHL no game clearance after eye injury
1983/84 EHC Arosa NLA 8th 5 8th 13 - - - - -
1984/85 Chicago Black Hawks NHL no game clearance after eye injury
1985/86 Baltimore Skipjacks AHL 7th 0 3 3 4th - - - - -
1985/86 Peoria Rivermen IHL 50 26th 37 63 32 - - - - -
1986/87 Salt Lake Golden Eagles IHL 32 10 15th 25th 14th - - - - -
1986/87 Dundee Rockets BHL 15th 31 40 71 49 5 6th 13 19th 10
LHJMQ total 189 98 149 247 257 12 9 7th 16 17th
IHL total 82 36 52 88 46 - - - - -
NHL overall 389 117 161 278 199 27 7th 11 18th 24

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1978 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 10 1 3 4th 16
Men overall 10 1 3 4th 16

( 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 Sharpley, Glen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sharpley, Glen Stuart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH York , Ontario , Canada