Harold Snepsts

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CanadaCanada  Harold Snepsts Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 24, 1954
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 4th lap, 59th position
Vancouver Canucks
WHA Amateur Draft 1974 , 6th lap, 76th position
Indianapolis Racers
Career stations
1972-1974 Edmonton Oil Kings
1974-1984 Vancouver Canucks
1984-1985 Minnesota North Stars
1985-1988 Detroit Red Wings
1988-1990 Vancouver Canucks
1990-1991 St. Louis Blues

Harold John Snepsts (born October 24, 1954 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach and current scout , who played 1126 games for the Vancouver Canucks , Minnesota North Stars , Detroit during his playing career between 1972 and 1991 Red Wings and St. Louis Blues played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . In addition, he worked in various coaching positions in the National Hockey League, International Hockey League and Western Hockey League between 1991 and 2000 . Since the beginning of the 2005/06 season , Snepsts has been working as an amateur scout for his ex-team Vancouver Canucks.

Career

Snepsts spent his junior years between 1972 and 1974 with the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Western Canada Hockey League . After completing his junior career, he was selected in both the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft by the Vancouver Canucks and the 1974 WHA Amateur Draft by the Indianapolis Racers . The defender then decided to sign a contract with the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League . After a few appearances on the farm team , the Seattle Totems in the Central Hockey League , the 20-year-old made it to the NHL roster. He belonged to this for the following ten years until the end of the 1983/84 season , before he was transferred to the Minnesota North Stars in exchange for Al MacAdam . During his time in Vancouver Snepsts took part twice in the NHL All-Star Game and reached the final of the Stanley Cup with the Canucks in the 1981/82 season . There Vancouver was defeated by the New York Islanders .

With the Minnesota North Stars, the defender only spent one season and then switched to the Detroit Red Wings as a free agent for the following three years until the summer of 1988 . He then returned to Vancouver as a free agent to his ex-team. His second stay in Vancouver ended after one and a half seasons, since he was given in March 1990 together with Rich Sutter and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 to the St. Louis Blues . In return, Adrien Plavsic , a first-round suffrage of the same draft and a second-round suffrage in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft moved to the Canucks. In the jersey of the Blues, the defensive player ended his active career after the 1990/91 game year at the age of 36.

After his career, however, Snepsts remained in the St. Louis Blues franchise and served as head coach of the Peoria Rivermen farm team in the International Hockey League in the 1991/92 season . In the following year he rose to the position of assistant coach of the St. Louis Blues under the head coaches Bob Plager and Bob Berry , before he returned to the IHL and was responsible for the San Diego Gulls in the 1993/94 season . The former defender then paused and only worked as head coach for the Portland Winter Hawks from the Western Hockey League at the beginning of the 1998/99 season . There he was released in the course of the following season. Snepsts then took another break and returned to the 2005/06 season as a scout in the Vancouver Canucks organization.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1972/73 Edmonton Oil Kings WCHL 68 2 24 26th 155 - - - - -
1973/74 Edmonton Oil Kings WCHL 68 8th 41 49 293 - - - - -
1974/75 Seattle totems CHL 19th 1 6th 7th 58 - - - - -
1974/75 Vancouver Canucks NHL 27 1 2 3 30th - - - - -
1975/76 Vancouver Canucks NHL 78 3 15th 18th 125 2 0 0 0 4th
1976/77 Vancouver Canucks NHL 79 4th 18th 22nd 149 - - - - -
1977/78 Vancouver Canucks NHL 75 4th 16 20th 118 - - - - -
1978/79 Vancouver Canucks NHL 76 7th 24 31 130 3 0 0 0 0
1979/80 Vancouver Canucks NHL 79 3 20th 23 202 4th 0 2 2 8th
1980/81 Vancouver Canucks NHL 76 3 16 19th 212 3 0 0 0 8th
1981/82 Vancouver Canucks NHL 68 3 14th 17th 153 17th 0 4th 4th 50
1982/83 Vancouver Canucks NHL 46 2 8th 10 80 4th 1 1 2 8th
1983/84 Vancouver Canucks NHL 79 4th 16 20th 152 4th 0 1 1 15th
1984/85 Minnesota North Stars NHL 71 0 7th 7th 232 9 0 0 0 24
1985/86 Detroit Red Wings NHL 35 0 6th 6th 75 - - - - -
1986/87 Detroit Red Wings NHL 54 1 13 14th 129 11 0 2 2 18th
1987/88 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 3 0 2 2 14th - - - - -
1987/88 Detroit Red Wings NHL 31 1 4th 5 67 10 0 0 0 40
1988/89 Vancouver Canucks NHL 59 0 8th 8th 69 7th 0 1 1 6th
1989/90 Vancouver Canucks NHL 39 1 3 4th 26th - - - - -
1989/90 St. Louis Blues NHL 7th 0 1 1 10 11 0 3 3 38
1990/91 St. Louis Blues NHL 54 1 4th 5 50 8th 0 0 0 12
WCHL overall 136 10 65 75 448 - - - - -
CHL total 19th 1 6th 7th 58 - - - - -
AHL total 3 0 2 2 14th - - - - -
NHL overall 1033 38 195 233 2009 93 1 14th 15th 231

( 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 Snepsts, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Snepsts, Harold John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, trainer and scout
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta