Gordie Roberts

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Gordie Roberts
Date of birth October 2, 1957
place of birth Detroit , Michigan , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1977 , 3rd lap, 54th position
Montréal Canadiens
Career stations
1973-1974 Detroit Jr. Red Wings
1974-1975 Victoria Cougars
1975-1979 New England Whalers
1979-1980 Hartford Whalers
1980-1988 Minnesota North Stars
1988 Philadelphia Flyers
1988-1990 St. Louis Blues
1990-1992 Pittsburgh Penguins
1992-1994 Boston Bruins
1994-1995 Chicago Wolves
1995-1996 Minnesota Moose

Gordon Douglas Roberts (born October 2, 1957 in Detroit , Michigan ) is a retired American ice hockey player . Between 1975 and 1994 he played a total of 1,250 games in the National Hockey League and more than 350 games in the World Hockey Association on the position of defender . In 1991 and 1992 he won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins . At the international level, he took part in two world championships and the Canada Cup in 1984 with the US national team. In 1999 he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

Roberts was born in Detroit , Michigan . His parents were big fans of the Detroit Red Wings and named him after Red Wings legend Gordie Howe .

As a junior player he was active in 1973/74 for the Detroit Jr. Red Wings in the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League and in the 1974/75 season for the Victoria Cougars in the Western Canada Hockey League . In August 1975 he signed a contract with the New England Whalers from the World Hockey Association (WHA). For the Whalers, he completed 357 WHA games in the following four years. During this time he was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft . After the WHA ceased playing and the Whalers were accepted into the National Hockey League (NHL), the Hartford Whalers received the NHL rights to the player from the Canadiens via the NHL Expansion Draft 1979 .

On December 16, 1980 he was transferred from the Whalers to the Minnesota North Stars , Hartford received Mike Fidler in return . After eight seasons in Minnesota, in which he established himself as a tough player, he was released on February 8, 1988 to the Philadelphia Flyers . After only eleven games for the Flyers, he was passed on to the St. Louis Blues , where he spent the following four seasons.

In October 1990 Gordie Roberts was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins . The defensive player had his most successful sporting period in Pittsburgh and won the Stanley Cup in the 1990/91 and 1991/92 seasons . Following the second Stanley Cup win, his contract expired and Roberts signed a new contract with the Boston Bruins , for which he was active from 1992 to 1994. In the 1992/93 season he became the first American to play more than 1,000 games in the National Hockey League.

After Roberts played for the Chicago Wolves and the Minnesota Moose in the International Hockey League between 1994 and 1996 , he ended his playing career. He then worked from 1997 to 1999 for two seasons as Jim Schoenfeld's assistant coach at the Phoenix Coyotes . From 2007 to 2010 he was a scout for the Montréal Canadiens. Since the 2011/12 season he has been assistant coach for the ice hockey team at Hamline University , a private university from the US state of Minnesota , which plays in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

In 1999, Gordie Roberts was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame for his services to ice hockey in the United States .

International

Gordie Roberts represented his home country with the US national team for the first time at the 1982 World Cup , where he finished eighth and last with his team. He had another assignment at the Canada Cup 1984 , in which the Americans missed a medal in the semi-finals against the Swedish national team . His third and final use was at the 1987 World Cup , which ended the US selection in seventh place.

family

Gordie's older brother Doug Roberts completed a total of 435 games in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings , Oakland Seals / California Golden Seals and the Boston Bruins between 1965 and 1975 . Doug's son and Gordie's nephew David Roberts also played in the NHL in the 1990s and ended his playing career in the German Ice Hockey League in 2004 after three years with the Eisbären Berlin .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
1973-74 Detroit Jr. Red Wings SOJHL 70 25th 55 80 340 - - - - -
1974-75 Victoria Cougars WCHL 53 19th 45 64 145 12 1 9 10 42
1975-76 New England Whalers WHA 77 3 19th 22nd 102 17th 2 9 11 36
1976-77 New England Whalers WHA 77 13 33 46 169 4th 2 2 4th 4th
1977-78 New England Whalers WHA 78 15th 46 61 118 14th 0 5 5 29
1978-79 New England Whalers WHA 79 11 46 57 113 10 0 4th 4th 10
1978-79 New England Whalers WHA 79 11 46 57 113 10 0 4th 4th 10
1979-80 Hartford Whalers NHL 80 8th 28 36 89 3 1 1 2 2
1980-81 Hartford Whalers NHL 27 2 11 13 81 - - - - -
Minnesota North Stars NHL 50 6th 31 37 94 19th 1 5 6th 39
1981-82 Minnesota North Stars NHL 79 4th 30th 34 119 4th 0 3 3 27
1982-83 Minnesota North Stars NHL 80 3 41 44 103 9 1 5 6th 14th
1983-84 Minnesota North Stars NHL 77 8th 45 53 132 15th 3 7th 10 23
1984-85 Minnesota North Stars NHL 78 6th 36 42 112 9 1 6th 7th 6th
1985-86 Minnesota North Stars NHL 76 2 21st 23 101 5 0 4th 4th 8th
1986-87 Minnesota North Stars NHL 67 3 10 13 68 - - - - -
1987-88 Minnesota North Stars NHL 48 1 10 11 103 - - - - -
Philadelphia Flyers NHL 11 1 2 3 15th - - - - -
St. Louis Blues NHL 11 1 3 4th 25th 10 1 2 3 33
1988-89 St. Louis Blues NHL 77 2 24 26th 90 10 1 7th 8th 8th
1989-90 St. Louis Blues NHL 75 3 14th 17th 140 10 0 2 2 26th
1990-91 Peoria Rivermen IHL 6th 0 8th 8th 4th - - - - -
1990-91 St. Louis Blues NHL 3 0 1 1 8th - - - - -
Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 61 3 12 15th 70 24 1 2 3 63
1991-92 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 73 2 22nd 24 87 19th 0 2 2 32
1992-93 Boston Bruins NHL 65 5 12 17th 105 4th 0 0 0 6th
1993-94 Boston Bruins NHL 59 1 6th 7th 40 12 0 1 1 8th
1994-95 Chicago Wolves IHL 68 6th 22nd 28 80 3 0 0 0 4th
1995-96 Minnesota Moose IHL 37 1 12 13 44 - - - - -
WHA total 311 42 144 186 502 46 4th 20th 24 79
IHL total 111 7th 42 49 128 3 0 0 0 4th
NHL overall 1097 61 359 420 1582 153 10 47 57 273

International

year team event result GP G A. Pts PIM
1982 United States WM 8th place 7th 3 4th 7th 12
1984 United States Canada Cup Semifinals 6th 1 0 1 6th
1987 United States WM 7th place 10 0 1 1 33
Men overall 23 4th 5 9 51

( 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

Commons : Gordie Roberts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gordie Roberts. United States Hockey Hall of Fame , accessed September 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Gordie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roberts, Gordon; Roberts, Gordon Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan