Larry Patey

Larry Patey
Date of birth	March 19, 1953
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1973 , 9th lap, 130th position California Golden Seals
WHA Amateur Draft	1973 , 5th lap, 53rd position New England Whalers
Career stations
1972-1973	Braintree Hawks
1973-1974	Salt Lake Golden Eagles
1974-1975	California Golden Seals
1975-1984	St. Louis Blues
1984	New York Rangers
1984-1985	New Haven Nighthawks

Larry James Patey (born March 19, 1953 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 757 games for the California Golden Seals , St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers in the course of his playing career between 1973 and 1985 National Hockey League has contested on the position of the center . His younger brother Doug was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Patey was born in Toronto, Canada , but made the leap into the professional field via the US junior system in 1973. Although Patex was from the Niagara Falls Flyers of the Association Ontario Hockey drafted , but he decided to study at Boston University . However, since he was not eligible to play for the university's ice hockey team, the center forward ran in the 1972/73 season for the Braintree Hawks in the New England Junior Hockey League . In the summer of 1937, the Canadian was both in the NHL Amateur Draft 1973 by the California Golden Seals from the National Hockey League in the ninth round in 130th place and the New England Whalers from the World Hockey Association competing with the NHL in the WHA Amateur Draft 1973 Selected in the fifth round in 53rd position.

The attacker then switched to the professional field for the 1973/74 season and initially ran for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the Western Hockey League . His 83 points in 76 games in his first season as a pro earned him the league's rookie of the year . He also made his debut in a game for the California Golden Seals in the NHL. With the beginning of the 1974/75 season Patey was a regular with the Golden Seals. In his first full NHL season, he was able to collect 45 points scorer in 79 games. After he got off to a good start in his second league year, he was given a third-round suffrage in the NHL Amateur Draft 1977 to the St. Louis Blues in November 1975 , which in return Wayne Merrick ceded to the Californians.

In St. Louis the offensive player found a new sporting home for the rest of this and the following eight seasons. In the Blues, Patey played a more defensive role than in the California Golden Seals. Nevertheless, he was responsible for 15 to 20 goals and nearly 40 points per season. Particularly in shorthanded situations , the Canadians developed over the years to a specialist. So he scored eight of his 22 goals this season in the 1980/81 season , with which he set a franchise record. In the choice of the best defensive striker this season, he was narrowly defeated by Bob Gainey of the Canadiens de Montréal .

Pateys time in St. Louis finally came in March 1984 to an end when he with the transfer rights to Bob Brooke and in exchange for Dave Barr , a third-round vote in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft and an undisclosed amount of money to the New York Rangers transferred has been. For the Rangers, however, the attacker completed only 21 games by the end of the following season, five of them in the playoffs. Mainly he was in the 1984/85 season for New York's farm team New Haven Nighthawks in the American Hockey League for use. In the summer of 1985, he finally ended his active career at the age of 32.

Achievements and Awards

• 1974 WHL Rookie of the Year

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1972/73	Braintree Hawks	NEJHL		47	36	27	63	-
1973/74	Salt Lake Golden Eagles	WHL		76	40	43	83	91		5	2	2	4th	15th
1973/74	California Golden Seals	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	California Golden Seals	NHL		79	25th	20th	45	68		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	California Golden Seals	NHL		18th	4th	4th	8th	23		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	St. Louis Blues	NHL		53	8th	6th	14th	26th		3	1	1	2	2
1976/77	St. Louis Blues	NHL		80	21st	29	50	41		4th	1	0	1	0
1977/78	St. Louis Blues	NHL		80	17th	17th	34	29		-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	St. Louis Blues	NHL		78	15th	19th	34	60		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	St. Louis Blues	NHL		78	17th	17th	34	76		3	1	0	1	2
1980/81	St. Louis Blues	NHL		80	22nd	23	45	107		11	2	4th	6th	30th
1981/82	St. Louis Blues	NHL		70	14th	12	26th	97		10	2	4th	6th	13
1982/83	St. Louis Blues	NHL		67	9	12	21st	80		4th	1	0	1	4th
1983/84	St. Louis Blues	NHL		17th	0	1	1	8th		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	New York Rangers	NHL		9	1	2	3	4th		4th	0	1	1	6th
1984/85	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		62	14th	14th	28	43		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	New York Rangers	NHL		7th	0	1	1	12		1	0	0	0	0
NHL overall				717	153	163	316	631		40	8th	10	18th	57

( 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

• Larry Patey at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Larry Patey at eliteprospects.com (English)