Greg Paslawski

Greg Paslawski
Date of birth	August 25, 1961
place of birth	Kindersley , Saskatchewan , Canada
Nickname	Mud
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1979-1981	Prince Albert Raiders
1981-1983	Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1983	Canadiens de Montréal
1983-1989	St. Louis Blues
1989-1991	Winnipeg Jets
1991	Buffalo Sabers
1991-1992	Nordiques de Québec
1992-1993	Philadelphia Flyers
1993	Calgary Flames
1993-1996	Peoria Rivermen

Gregory Stephen Paslawski (born August 25, 1961 in Kindersley , Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 710 games for the Canadiens de Montréal , St. Louis Blues , Winnipeg Jets , Buffalo Sabers during his active career between 1979 and 1996 , Nordiques de Québec , Philadelphia Flyers and Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger .

Career

Paslawski spent between 1979 and 1981 a profitable junior career with the Prince Albert Raiders in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , where he played 117 games during this time and scored 164 points . However, the then 19-year-old was from the franchises of the National Hockey League unnoticed and therefore remained ungedraftet .

The striker therefore joined the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League as a free agent in the summer of 1981 . This put him in the following two seasons up to the summer of 1983 with their farm team , the Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the American Hockey League . For the 1983/84 season Paslawski managed to get a regular place in the NHL squad of the Canadiens and played 26 games for the French Canadians by December 1983. Shortly before Christmas he was transferred to the St. Louis Blues together with Gilbert Delorme and Doug Wickenheiser , while Perry Turnbull moved to the Canadiens. The attacker found a new sporting home in St. Louis for the next five and a half seasons. After two initially mixed game years, Paslawski achieved the breakthrough in the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1986 , when he posted as many scorer points in 17 playoff games. The 1986/87 season he finally ended with Karrierebestwerten in all relevant offensive categories. So he scored 29 goals and prepared another 35. After he only made 17 season appearances in the season 1987/88 due to a back injury suffered in November 1987, he celebrated a respectable comeback in the season 1988/89 with 52 points.

Still, the Blues split from their long-time team member in the summer of 1989 when he was transferred to the Winnipeg Jets . While with him a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 moved to Winnipeg, the Blues received a third-round vote in the same draft as well as a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 1991 . With the move to Winnipeg, Paslawski began a period of many changes within the league. After playing for a year and a half in Winnipeg, he was sold to the Buffalo Sabers in February 1991 . With the Sabers he finished the 1990/91 season . The twelve missions for Buffalo remained due to the selection by the San Jose Sharks in the NHL Dispersal and Expansion Draft 1991 the only ones. Just one day after the draft, Paslawski left the newly founded franchise, as he moved to the Nordiques de Québec in exchange for Tony Hrkac . The now 30-year-old winger only played one season there. In the summer of 1992 he joined the Philadelphia Flyers as a free agent . There, too, he found no sporting home and was involved in the next transfer deal as early as March 1993. The Calgary Flames secured his services for the remainder of the 1992/93 season and the following in exchange for a nine- round vote in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft .

After he had completed his first games for the Peoria Rivermen in the International Hockey League in the 1993/94 season as a player for the Flames , he let his career end there by the summer of 1996. After the 1995/96 playing year , he ended his professional career at the age of 35.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1979/80	Prince Albert Raiders	SJHL		58	17th	32	49	142		-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Prince Albert Raiders	SJHL		59	55	60	115	106		-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Nova Scotia Voyageurs	AHL		43	15th	11	26th	31		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Nova Scotia Voyageurs	AHL		75	46	42	88	32		6th	1	3	4th	8th
1983/84	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		26th	1	4th	5	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	St. Louis Blues	NHL		34	8th	6th	14th	17th		9	1	0	1	2
1984/85	St. Louis Blues	NHL		72	22nd	20th	42	21st		3	0	0	0	2
1985/86	St. Louis Blues	NHL		56	22nd	11	33	18th		17th	10	7th	17th	13
1986/87	St. Louis Blues	NHL		76	29	35	64	27		6th	1	1	2	4th
1987/88	St. Louis Blues	NHL		17th	2	1	3	4th		3	1	1	2	2
1988/89	St. Louis Blues	NHL		75	26th	26th	52	18th		9	2	1	3	2
1989/90	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		71	18th	30th	48	14th		7th	1	3	4th	0
1990/91	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		43	9	10	19th	10		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		12	2	1	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		80	28	17th	45	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		60	14th	19th	33	12		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Calgary Flames	NHL		13	4th	5	9	0		6th	3	0	3	0
1993/94	Calgary Flames	NHL		15th	2	0	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Peoria Rivermen	IHL		29	16	16	32	12		6th	3	3	6th	0
1994/95	Peoria Rivermen	IHL		69	26th	43	69	15th		9	9	1	10	4th
1995/96	Peoria Rivermen	IHL		60	16	27	43	22nd		1	0	0	0	0
SJHL overall				117	72	92	164	248		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				118	61	53	114	63		6th	1	3	4th	8th
IHL total				158	58	86	144	49		16	12	4th	16	4th
NHL overall				650	187	185	372	169		60	19th	13	32	25th

( 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

• Greg Paslawski at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Greg Paslawski at eliteprospects.com (English)