Hector Marini

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CanadaCanada  Hector Marini Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 27, 1957
place of birth Timmins , Ontario , Canada
Nickname The wreaker
size 185 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1977 , 3rd round, 50th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
1974-1977 Sudbury Wolves
1977-1988 Muskegon Mohawks
1978-1979 Fort Worth Texans
1979-1981 Indianapolis Checkers
1981-1982 New York Islanders
1982-1984 New Jersey Devils
1984-1985 Maine Mariners
1985 Fort Wayne Comet

Joseph Hector Marini (* 27. January 1957 in Timmins , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1974 to 1985 among other 164 games for the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League on the Has contested the position of the right winger . In the service of the New York Islanders, Marini won the Stanley Cup twice in 1981 and 1982 . In his only full NHL season, he was nominated as a member of the New Jersey Devils for the 1983 NHL All-Star Game . But mainly he played in the minor leagues .

Career

Marini spent his junior years between 1974 and 1977 with the Sudbury Wolves in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . In these three years of play, the right winger was able to increase from 31 to 77 to 91 points and was finally selected in the third round of the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft in 50th position by the New York Islanders from the National Hockey League . In the 1975/76 season Marini reached the final series of the J. Ross Robertson Cup with the Wolves team .

In the 1977/78 season, the Canadian finally switched to the professional sector as a member of the New York Islanders franchise . Mainly Marini came in his first year as a professional with the Muskegon Mohawks in the International Hockey League , but also played sporadically games for the Fort Worth Texans from the Central Hockey League . For this he was then exclusively active in the following game year. Except for this, however, was his NHL debut for the Islanders. As a result, the attacker still failed to make it to the NHL. Between 1979 and 1981 he was on the ice for the Indianapolis Checkers in the CHL. It was not until February 1981 that he succeeded in serving in the NHL for a longer period of time. At the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1981, this led to Marini winning the trophy of the same name with the Islanders for the first time . In the 1981/82 season , the winger was still a member of the Islanders squad, but came only sporadically to minutes. Nevertheless, he repeated the title win of the previous year with the team.

Shortly before the start of the 1982/83 season , Marini was given a four-round vote in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft from the New York Islanders to the New Jersey Devils . As compensation, these received New York’s four-round voting rights for the same draft. With the Devils, the striker completed his only complete NHL season with 77 appearances. With 45 points, he was the team's sixth-best scorer at the end of the season and represented the club - to his own amazement - as the only player in the 1983 NHL All-Star Game . In the following season Marini could not build on the performances of the previous year and so he had only four points scorer in early January 1984 after 32 games. The almost 27-year-old was sent to the American Hockey League following a knee injury , where he played for the Maine Mariners until the beginning of the 1985/86 season. He also ran this season for the Fort Wayne Komets in the IHL. There he was hit by a puck in the left eye during a game against his ex-club Indianapolis Checkers in December 1985 . It was so damaged in the process that it had to be surgically removed a few days later and Marini had to end his career prematurely at the age of 28.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1974/75 Sudbury Wolves OMJHL 69 12 19th 31 70 15th 2 6th 8th 9
1975/76 Sudbury Wolves OMJHL 66 32 45 77 102 17th 7th 5 12 32
1976/77 Sudbury Wolves OMJHL 64 32 58 90 89 6th 1 3 4th 9
1977/78 Fort Worth Texans CHL 2 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
1977/78 Muskegon Mohawks IHL 80 33 60 93 127 6th 7th 4th 11 5
1978/79 Fort Worth Texans CHL 74 21st 27 48 172 5 1 4th 5 7th
1978/79 New York Islanders NHL 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
1979/80 Indianapolis Checkers CHL 76 29 34 63 144 7th 1 4th 5 20th
1980/81 Indianapolis Checkers CHL 54 15th 37 52 85 - - - - -
1980/81 New York Islanders NHL 14th 4th 7th 11 39 9 3 6th 9 14th
1981/82 New York Islanders NHL 30th 4th 9 13 53 - - - - -
1982/83 New Jersey Devils NHL 77 17th 28 45 105 - - - - -
1983/84 New Jersey Devils NHL 32 2 2 4th 47 - - - - -
1983/84 Maine Mariners AHL 17th 7th 4th 11 23 - - - - -
1984/85 Maine Mariners AHL 30th 1 5 6th 67 - - - - -
1985/86 Maine Mariners AHL 6th 0 5 5 17th - - - - -
1985/86 Fort Wayne Comet IHL 7th 1 1 2 5 - - - - -
OMJHL overall 199 76 122 198 261 38 10 14th 24 50
CHL total 206 65 98 163 405 12 2 8th 10 27
IHL total 87 34 61 95 132 6th 7th 4th 11 5
AHL total 53 8th 14th 22nd 107 - - - - -
NHL overall 154 27 46 73 246 10 3 6th 9 14th

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joe Pelletier: New Jersey Devils Legends: Hector Marini. greatesthockeylegends.com, January 23, 2011, accessed January 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Marini, Hector
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marini, Joseph Hector (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Timmins , Ontario