Greg Terrion

Greg Terrion
Date of birth	May 2, 1960
place of birth	Marmora , Ontario , Canada
date of death	28th September 2018
Place of death	Marmora , Ontario , Canada
Nickname	Tubby
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1980 , 2nd round, 33rd position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
1976-1977	Belleville Bobcats
1977-1988	Hamilton Fincups
1978-1980	Brantford Alexander
1980-1982	Los Angeles Kings
1982-1988	Toronto Maple Leafs
1988-1989	Newmarket Saints

Gregory Patrick "Greg" Terrion (born May 2, 1960 in Marmora , Ontario ; † September 28, 2018 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 596 games for the Los Angeles Kings and Toronto in the course of his playing career between 1977 and 1989 Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger .

Career

Terrion first spent his junior years between 1976 and 1977 with the Belleville Bobcats in Group B of the Ontario Hockey Association . From there, the striker moved to the 1977/78 season to the Hamilton Fincups in the higher-class Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . With the team reached the finals of the J. Ross Robertson Cup that year , in which they were subject to the Peterborough Petes . He was then active for the Brantford Alexanders in the same league for two seasons until the summer of 1980 , after the franchise had been relocated from Hamilton to Brantford . In his third and final season in the league, Terrion collected 122 scorer points , which ultimately led to the fact that he was selected in the second round of the 1980 NHL Entry Draft in 33rd position by the Los Angeles Kings from the National Hockey League .

The 20-year-old then switched to the professional field in the summer of 1980. The rookie immediately received a regular place in the Los Angeles NHL line-up and completed 73 games in which he scored 37 points. He confirmed this value in the following game year, but played a dozen fewer games than in the previous year. Nevertheless, Terrion's time in California came to an end after two seasons, as he was given in October 1982 - shortly after the start of the season - in exchange for a four-round vote in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft to the Toronto Maple Leafs . With the Kings he had not been used in the course of the season and had only played for their farm team , the New Haven Nighthawks , in the American Hockey League .

In his home province of Ontario with the Maple Leafs, Terrion was immediately back in the NHL squad and was the following six seasons until the summer of 1988 an integral part of the team. In his first four years he always scored over 30 points, although he played a more defensive role among the strikers. Only when his point yield decreased significantly from the 1986/87 season , the winger was dispensable, so that he also completed a few matches in the AHL for the Newmarket Saints in the course of the 1987/88 season . There he played his last professional season in 1988/89 before he declared his active career at the age of 29 for an end.

Terrion died in September 2018 at the age of 58 in his hometown of Marmora.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1977/78	Hamilton Fincups	OMJHL		64	11	30th	41	43		20th	4th	5	9	26th
1978/79	Brantford Alexander	OMJHL		59	27	28	55	48		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Brantford Alexander	OMJHL		67	44	78	122	13		11	4th	7th	11	12
1980/81	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		73	12	25th	37	99		3	1	0	1	4th
1981/82	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		61	15th	22nd	37	23		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		4th	0	1	1	7th		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		74	16	16	32	59		4th	1	2	3	2
1983/84	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		79	15th	24	39	36		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		72	14th	17th	31	20th		-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		76	10	22nd	32	31		10	0	3	3	17th
1986/87	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		67	7th	8th	15th	6th		13	0	2	2	14th
1987/88	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		59	4th	16	20th	65		5	0	2	2	4th
1987/88	Newmarket Saints	AHL		4th	1	3	4th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	Newmarket Saints	AHL		60	15th	34	49	64		4th	0	1	1	2
OMJHL overall				190	82	136	218	104		31	8th	12	20th	38
AHL total				68	16	38	54	77		4th	0	1	1	2
NHL overall				561	93	150	243	339		35	2	9	11	41

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