John Gould (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  John Gould Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 11, 1949
place of birth Alliston , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1967-1969 London Nationals / Knights
1969-1971 Charlotte Checkers
1971-1973 Buffalo Sabers
Cincinnati Swords
1973-1976 Vancouver Canucks
1976-1979 Atlanta Flames
1979-1980 Buffalo Sabers
Rochester Americans

John Milton Gould (born April 11, 1949 in Alliston , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 518 games for the Buffalo Sabers , Vancouver Canucks and Atlanta Flames in the National Hockey League ( NHL) on the right winger position . However, Gould celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Cincinnati Swords by winning the Calder Cup of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 1973. His younger brother Larry was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Gould spent his junior years in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) between 1967 and 1969 . There he played for the London Knights , who were still known as Nationals in his rookie season . During this period, the winger completed 114 games for the franchise , in which he scored 127 times.

In contrast to many other talents, the offensive player could not find a team from the National Hockey League (NHL) at the end of the junior period that offered him a contract and at least put him in one of their farm teams . Finally, in the summer of 1969, the 20-year-old received an offer from the Charlotte Checkers of the Eastern Hockey League (EHL), with whom he spent the following two years of play until the summer of 1971. With seasons of 89 and 118 scorer points and winning the EHL championship in 1971, Gould finally recommended himself for a contract with an NHL franchise and was signed in August 1971 by the Buffalo Sabers . Buffalo initially used the attacker mainly in their farm team, the Cincinnati Swords , in the American Hockey League (AHL). There, too, he showed a positive development, which he came at the end of the 1971/72 season as a reward for his NHL debut. After he had won the Calder Cup with the Swords in the 1972/73 season , had scored the most goals in the playoffs and his services had earned him a place in the AHL Second All-Star Team , the Canadian made it to the 1973/74 season the leap into the Sabers squad and the regular player.

By the end of December 1973, Gould completed 30 games for Buffalo, after having been on the ice for them only ten times in the previous two years. His only six goal participations, however, led to the fact that he was transferred together with Tracy Pratt to the Vancouver Canucks , which in return gave Jerry Korab to the Sabers. In the service of the Canucks, the qualities of the winger were better shown to advantage. In the 1974/75 and 1975/76 seasons he achieved more than 30 goals in the Vancouver jersey. After nearly three years in the jersey of the franchise from the Canadian west coast, Gould was given in December 1976 together with a second-round vote in the NHL Amateur Draft 1977 to the Atlanta Flames . The Flames sent Hilliard Graves and Larry Carrière to Vancouver in return .

Gould spent two and a half years in Atlanta, during which he did not succeed in building on his performance in Vancouver. After collecting only 15 points in 61 games in the 1978/79 season , the Atlanta Flames left the now 30-year-old unprotected in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft , so that he was selected there by the Edmonton Oilers , one of four franchises the World Hockey Association (WHA) had been inducted into the NHL. Before Gould was used by the Oilers in the NHL, however, they transferred him to his ex-team in Buffalo in mid-November 1979 in exchange for Alex Tidey . There he ended the 1979/80 season , in which he also came to work for the Rochester Americans in the AHL. After the season he ended his active career shortly after his 31st birthday.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1967/68 London Nationals OHA 54 19th 27 46 14th 5 1 2 3 13
1968/69 London Knights OHA 49 30th 44 74 20th 6th 1 3 4th 0
1969/70 Charlotte Checkers EHL 69 25th 48 73 18th 11 10 6th 16 6th
1969/70 Tulsa Oilers CHL - - - - - 3 1 0 1 0
1970/71 Charlotte Checkers EHL 72 48 52 100 50 13 10 8th 18th 6th
1971/72 Cincinnati Swords AHL 73 26th 15th 41 34 10 4th 6th 10 6th
1971/72 Buffalo Sabers NHL 2 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
1972/73 Cincinnati Swords AHL 56 30th 42 72 71 15th 10 6th 16 9
1972/73 Buffalo Sabers NHL 8th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1973/74 Buffalo Sabers NHL 30th 4th 2 6th 2 - - - - -
1973/74 Vancouver Canucks NHL 45 9 10 19th 8th - - - - -
1974/75 Vancouver Canucks NHL 78 34 31 65 27 5 2 2 4th 0
1975/76 Vancouver Canucks NHL 70 32 27 59 16 2 1 0 1 0
1976/77 Vancouver Canucks NHL 25th 7th 8th 15th 2 - - - - -
1976/77 Atlanta Flames NHL 54 8th 15th 23 8th 3 0 0 0 2
1977/78 Atlanta Flames NHL 79 19th 28 47 21st 2 0 0 0 2
1978/79 Atlanta Flames NHL 61 8th 7th 15th 18th 2 0 0 0 0
1979/80 Buffalo Sabers NHL 52 9 9 18th 11 - - - - -
1979/80 Rochester Americans AHL 13 6th 5 11 6th 4th 0 1 1 2
OHA total 103 49 71 120 34 11 2 5 7th 13
EHL total 141 73 100 173 68 24 20th 14th 34 12
AHL total 142 62 62 124 111 29 14th 13 27 17th
NHL overall 504 131 138 269 113 14th 3 2 5 4th

( 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 Gould, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gould, John Milton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Alliston , Ontario , Canada