John Hughes (ice hockey player, 1954)

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CanadaCanada  John Hughes Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 18, 1954
place of birth Charlottetown , PEI , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 3rd lap, 41st position
Vancouver Canucks
WHA Secret
Amateur Draft 		1974 , 1st round, 9th position
Houston Eros
Career stations
1972-1974 Toronto Marlboros
1974-1975 Phoenix Roadrunners
1975-1977 Cincinnati stingers
1977-1988 Houston Eros
1978 Indianapolis Racers
1979 Edmonton Oilers
1979-1980 Vancouver Canucks
1980-1981 Edmonton Oilers
Wichita Wind
1981 New York Rangers
New Haven Nighthawks
1981-1982 Springfield Indians

John Spencer Hughes (born March 18, 1954 in Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The defender denied 77 appearances for during his 1974 to 1982, continuing professional career, among others, Edmonton Oilers , Vancouver Canucks and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League . However, he spent most of his career in the World Hockey Association , where he played over 300 games for five teams.

Career

John Hughes spent his junior years in Ontario , where he was only active for the Markham Waxers before he moved to the Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) in the 1971/72 season. After his first full season he won the OHA playoffs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup as well as the subsequent Memorial Cup with the team . As a physically robust defender, he also recommended himself for the professional sector, so that he was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1974 on 41st by the Vancouver Canucks and in the WHA Secret Amateur Draft 1974 in ninth place by the Houston Eros .

In the choice between the two competing North American professional leagues, Hughes initially opted for the World Hockey Association (WHA), in which he ran for the Phoenix Roadrunners at the beginning of the 1974/75 season. The Roadrunners had hired him on loan from the Cincinnati Stingers , who in turn acquired him in June 1974 together with Dick Spannbauer and sent Don Larway to the Houston Eros for it. In the 1975/76 season, the Stingers franchise also started playing, in whose jersey the defender recorded his career best in the WHA with 37 scorer points from 79 games. In addition, he placed with 204 penalty minutes among the ten most punished players in the league. After two years in Cincinnati, he was transferred to the Houston Eros in May 1977, while in return Craig Norwich and the rights to Dave Taylor moved to the Stingers.

As a result, the end of the WHA, which was to dissolve in 1979, was already looming in Houston, where Hughes was only to spend a year before the Eros ceased playing in 1978. He was transferred for financial consideration to the Indianapolis Racers , which also disbanded six months later, so that he joined the Edmonton Oilers as a free agent in the middle of the 1978/79 season. With the team around Wayne Gretzky , he reached the final for the Avco World Trophy in the 1979 playoffs , but lost to the Winnipeg Jets there before both teams transferred to the National Hockey League (NHL).

Hughes remained in the course of the NHL Expansion Draft 1979 not received the Oilers, but was reclaimed (reclaimed) by the Vancouver Canucks , who still held his NHL rights. So he spent a year in the Pacific Northwest before returning to the Oilers via the Waiver in December 1980 . There he was, however, already mainly used in Edmonton's farm team , the Wichita Wind from the Central Hockey League , before he was exchanged for Ray Markham for the New York Rangers in March 1981 . There, too, he was mostly on the ice with the farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL), the New Haven Nighthawks , before ending his career in the AHL with the Springfield Indians the following year . In total, Hughes had played 77 NHL games and 395 WHA games.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1971/72 Toronto Marlboros OHA 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1972/73 Toronto Marlboros OHA 63 13 42 55 195 16 0 7th 7th 46
1973/74 Toronto Marlboros OHA 67 6th 34 40 189 - - - - - -
1974/75 Phoenix Roadrunners WHA 72 4th 25th 29 +49 201 - - - - - -
1975/76 Cincinnati stingers WHA 79 3 34 37 -3 204 8th 3 3 6th 8th
1976/77 Cincinnati stingers WHA 79 3 27 30th +15 113 4th 0 0 0 -5 8th
1977/78 Houston Eros WHA 79 3 25th 28 +20 130 6th 1 1 2 +2 6th
1978/79 Indianapolis Racers WHA 22nd 3 4th 7th -16 48 - - - - - -
1978/79 Edmonton Oilers WHA 41 2 15th 17th +22 82 13 1 0 1 +4 35
1979/80 Vancouver Canucks NHL 52 2 11 13 ± 0 181 4th 0 0 0 ± 0 10
1980/81 Wichita wind CHL 23 2 4th 6th 88 - - - - - -
1980/81 Edmonton Oilers NHL 18th 0 3 3 –6 30th - - - - - -
1980/81 New Haven Nighthawks AHL 14th 3 6th 9 50 2 0 0 0 8th
1980/81 New York Rangers NHL - - - - - - 3 0 1 1 +3 6th
1981/82 Springfield Indians AHL 76 1 33 34 174 - - - - - -
OHA total 132 19th 76 95 384 17th 0 7th 7th 46
WHA total 372 18th 130 148 +87 778 23 2 1 3 +1 49
NHL overall 70 2 14th 16 –6 211 7th 0 1 1 +3 16

( 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 Hughes, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, John Spencer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island , Canada