Gord Lane

Gord Lane
Date of birth	March 31, 1953
place of birth	Brandon , Manitoba , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1973 , 9th lap, 134th position Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1970-1972	Brandon Wheat Kings
1972-1973	New Westminster Bruins
1973-1974	Fort Wayne Comet
1974-1976	Dayton Gems
1976-1979	Washington Capitals
1979-1985	New York Islanders
1986-1987	Springfield Indians

Gordon Thomas Lawrence "Gord" Lane (born March 31, 1953 in Brandon , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach and scout , who in the course of his active career between 1970 and 1987, among other things, 614 games for the Washington Capitals and New York Islanders has played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . In the service of the New York Islanders Lane, who embodied the player type of the Enforcer , won the Stanley Cup four times in a row in the early 1980s .

Career

Lane spent his junior years in the Western Canada Hockey League between 1970 and 1973 . There he went in the first two years of play for the Brandon Wheat Kings from his hometown on the ice before the defender was transferred to the New Westminster Bruins . With the Bruins he completed the 1972/73 season . Following this, Lane was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1973 in the ninth round in 173rd place by the Pittsburgh Penguins from the National Hockey League .

The defensive player switched to the professional field after the draft in the summer of 1973, but ignored by the Penguins. He completed his first professional season with the Fort Wayne Komets in the International Hockey League , followed by two successful years with the Dayton Gems in the same league. With the team he won in the 1975/76 season , in which he made his debut in the NHL for the Washington Capitals , the Turner Cup . Before the 1976/77 season Lane was finally taken as a free agent by the capital club from Washington under contract. He immediately won a regular place in the franchise squad and played for the Capitals for the next three years. In December 1979, the defender, who was in a contract dispute with the management and had threatened an early retirement, was transferred to the New York Islanders in exchange for Mike Kaszycki .

The most successful six years of Lane's career followed in the service of the Islanders. Between 1980 and 1983, the Enforcer won the Stanley Cup four times in a row with the New York Islanders, led by Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier and coached by Al Arbor . A fifth title was the team by the defeat in the finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs 1984 , which Lane missed due to an injury, thwarted by the Edmonton Oilers to Wayne Gretzky . Lane was seen in retrospect as the main defensive player of the Islanders dominance in the early 1980s. He was one of 17 players who saw all four of the Islanders' title wins.

At the end of the 1984/85 season , the 32-year-old defender retired as an active player from professional business after a total of 614 NHL missions and 1442 penalty minutes. He supervised the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Western Hockey League as head coach for a year, before moving to the American Hockey League as a playing assistant coach for the Springfield Indians for the 1986/87 season. In the following year - after his final career as a player - he was primarily responsible for the gang of the team. After the season 1987/88 his engagement there ended. He then worked between 1990 and 1993 as a scout at his ex-club New York Islanders.

Achievements and Awards

1976 Turner Cup win with the Dayton Gems 1980 Stanley Cup win with the New York Islanders 1981 Stanley Cup win with the New York Islanders

1982 Stanley Cup win with the New York Islanders 1983 Stanley Cup win with the New York Islanders

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1970/71	Brandon Wheat Kings	WCHL		20th	0	4th	4th	53		-	-	-	-	-
1971/72	Brandon Wheat Kings	WCHL		63	7th	16	23	106		11	1	2	3	19th
1972/73	New Westminster Bruins	WCHL		36	2	13	15th	115		5	0	0	0	29
1973/74	Fort Wayne Comet	IHL		67	1	14th	15th	214		4th	0	1	1	27
1974/75	Dayton Gems	IHL		50	6th	10	16	225		14th	1	3	4th	31
1975/76	Washington Capitals	NHL		3	1	0	1	12		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	Hampton Gulls	SHL		12	1	7th	8th	58		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	Dayton Gems	IHL		55	12	22nd	34	227		15th	0	11	11	85
1976/77	Washington Capitals	NHL		80	2	15th	17th	207		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Washington Capitals	NHL		69	2	9	11	195		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Hershey Bears	AHL		4th	0	1	1	8th		-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Washington Capitals	NHL		64	3	15th	18th	147		-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Hershey Bears	AHL		5	0	1	1	48		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Washington Capitals	NHL		19th	2	4th	6th	53		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	New York Islanders	NHL		55	2	14th	16	152		21st	1	3	4th	85
1980/81	New York Islanders	NHL		60	3	9	12	124		12	1	5	6th	32
1981/82	New York Islanders	NHL		51	0	13	13	98		19th	0	4th	4th	61
1982/83	New York Islanders	NHL		44	3	4th	7th	87		18th	1	2	3	32
1983/84	New York Islanders	NHL		37	0	3	3	70		4th	0	0	0	2
1984/85	New York Islanders	NHL		57	1	8th	9	83		1	0	0	0	2
1985/86	without a contract			not played because of coaching
1986/87	Springfield Indians	AHL		62	2	6th	8th	117	-	-	-	-	-
WCHL overall				119	9	33	42	274	16	1	2	3	48
IHL total				172	19th	46	65	666	33	1	15th	16	143
AHL total				71	2	8th	10	173	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				539	19th	94	113	1228	75	3	14th	17th	214

( 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

• Gord Lane at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Gord Lane at eliteprospects.com (English)