Larry Playfair

Larry Playfair
Date of birth	June 23, 1958
place of birth	Fort St. James , British Columbia , Canada
size	184 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1978 , 1st round, 13th position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1974-1976	Langley Lords Kamloops Chiefs
1976-1988	Portland Winter Hawks
1978-1986	Buffalo Sabers
1986-1988	Los Angeles Kings
1988-1990	Buffalo Sabers

Larry William Playfair (* 23. June 1958 in St. Fort James , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who in his active between 1974 and 1990, including for the Buffalo Sabers and Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League has played . His younger brother Jim was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Larry Playfair began his career as a hockey player with the Langley Lords, for whom he was active from 1974 to 1976 in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League . In parallel, he came to a total of four missions for the Kamloops Chiefs from the Western Canada Hockey League . In this he stayed and ran from 1976 to 1978 for Kamloops league rivals Portland Winter Hawks . At the Winter Hawks, the defender drew attention to himself with good performances and was first elected to the league-wide All-Star Team in 1978 before he was selected in the first round of the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft as the 13th player by the Buffalo Sabers . With the Sabers, the left shooter spent the following eight seasons, where he was mainly on the ice for the Sabers farm team , the Hershey Bears from the American Hockey League , in his rookie year .

On January 30, 1986 Playfair was given together with Sean McKenna and Ken Baumgartner in exchange for Brian Engblom and Doug Smith to the Los Angeles Kings , where he was regularly used in the following two seasons, before he was at the beginning of the 1988/89 season returned to Buffalo. The Canadian ended his career with the Sabers in 1990 at the age of 32. He later worked as a TV analyst for the games of his ex-club Buffalo Sabers. On the occasion of the Heroes of Hockey Game , which took place as part of the NHL All-Star Games , he laced his ice skates again in 2001.

Achievements and Awards

• 1978 WCHL First All-Star Team
• 2001 Heroes of Hockey Game

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	12	688	26th	94	120	1814
Playoffs	8th	43	0	6th	6th	111

Web links

• Larry Playfair at hockeydb.com (English)
• Larry Playfair at legendsofhockey.net (English)