Harold Phillipoff

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CanadaCanada  Harold Phillipoff Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 14, 1956
place of birth Kamsack , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1976 , 1st lap, 10th position
Atlanta Flames
WHA Amateur Draft 1976 , 3rd lap, 28th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1973-1974 Bellingham Blazers
1974-1976 New Westminster Bruins
1976-1977 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1977-1979 Atlanta Flames
1979-1980 Chicago Black Hawks
1980-1981 Dallas Black Hawks
1981 Oklahoma City Stars
1981-1982 Fredericton Express

Harold Michael "Hal" Phillipoff (born February 14, 1956 in Kamsack , Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 147 games for the Atlanta Flames and Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League between 1973 and 1982 (NHL) on the position of the left winger . His greatest career success was celebrated by Phillipoff, who embodied the power forward player type , but in the service of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs by winning the Calder Cup of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 1977.

Career

Phillipoff (right) in the Atlanta Flames jersey

Phillipoff first played during his junior years in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League (BCJHL), where he went on the ice in the 1973/74 season for the American franchise of the Bellingham Blazers . At the end of the season, the attacker moved to the higher-class Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). There he played from then on for the New Westminster Bruins , who were one of the best Canadian junior teams in the mid-1970s. With the Bruins, Phillipoff won the President's Cup , the championship trophy of the WCHL , in 1975 and 1976 . The robust striker played a key role in this. In both playoff campaigns he collected 34 scorer points in 33 appearances . The team was denied winning the prestigious Memorial Cup while Phillipoff was with him. Still, he was on the tournament's All-Star Team in 1976 . He was then selected in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft in the first round in tenth place by the Atlanta Flames from the National Hockey League (NHL). Likewise, the Edmonton Oilers pulled him from the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was competing with the NHL at the time, in the 1976 WHA Amateur Draft in the third round in 28th position.

Before the start of the 1976/77 season , the Canadian finally received a professional contract with the Atlanta Flames, which initially loaned him to the Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the American Hockey League (AHL), who were the farm team of the Canadiens de Montréal at the time. In the service of the Voyageurs, the rookie was able to win the Calder Cup in a minor role at the end of the season. Nevertheless, he impressed those responsible for the Atlanta Flames with his versatile style of play as a power forward so much that at the beginning of the 1977/78 season he got a place in the NHL squad of Atlantas. The 21-year-old more than paid back his trust with 53 scorer points in 67 missions. However, there was no increase on the part of Phillipoff in the following season, so that in March 1979 he was part of the largest transfer business in NHL history to date - measured by the players involved. In addition to him, Pat Ribble , Greg Fox , Tom Lysiak and Miles Zaharko joined the Chicago Black Hawks with five players , while Ivan Boldirev , Phil Russell and Darcy Rota took the opposite route to Atlanta.

In Chicago, however, the Canadian did not manage to build on his achievements from his rookie year. During the rest of the season he prepared only four goals in 14 games, and after he had remained pointless in nine missions at the start of the 1979/80 season , the Black Hawks parted ways in a new transfer from him. With Dave Logan he was given to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Ron Sedlbauer . However, he did not manage there to recommend himself for a place in the NHL squad. Instead he was active in the Central Hockey League (CHL) for the Dallas Black Hawks farm team for the rest of the year . As a result, his contract in Vancouver was not renewed, after which Phillipoff joined the Oklahoma City Stars from the CHL, which he left after 13 missions but ended the season with the Fredericton Express in the AHL. After the season, the striker retired from active sport at the age of 26.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1973/74 Bellingham Blazers BCJHL 61 27 35 62 182 - - - - -
1973/74 New Westminster Bruins WCHL 2 1 0 1 0 11 0 1 1 45
1974/75 New Westminster Bruins WCHL 70 26th 32 58 280 18th 6th 12 18th 94
1975 New Westminster Bruins Memorial Cup 4th 1 1 2 12
1975/76 New Westminster Bruins WCHL 67 38 51 89 146 15th 7th 9 16 28
1976 New Westminster Bruins Memorial Cup 4th 3 1 4th 7th
1976/77 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 67 6th 16 22nd 155 12 1 2 3 8th
1977/78 Atlanta Flames NHL 67 17th 36 53 128 2 0 1 1 2
1978/79 Atlanta Flames NHL 51 9 17th 26th 113 - - - - -
1978/79 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 14th 0 4th 4th 6th 4th 0 1 1 7th
1979/80 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 9 0 0 0 20th - - - - -
1980/81 Dallas Black Hawks CHL 75 26th 37 63 121 2 4th 0 4th 7th
1981/82 Oklahoma City Stars CHL 13 1 5 6th 44 - - - - -
1981/82 Fredericton Express AHL 58 19th 28 47 122 - - - - -
WCHL overall 139 65 83 148 426 44 13 22nd 35 167
CHL total 88 27 42 69 165 2 4th 0 4th 7th
AHL total 125 25th 44 69 277 12 1 2 3 8th
NHL overall 141 26th 57 83 267 6th 0 2 2 9

( 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 Phillipoff, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phillipoff, Harold Michael (full name); Phillipoff, Hal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamsack , Saskatchewan , Canada