Lyle Moffat

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CanadaCanada  Lyle Moffat Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 19, 1948
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1966-1967 Calgary Buffaloes
1967-1971 Michigan Technological University
1971-1973 Tulsa Oilers
1973-1975 Oklahoma City Blazers
1975-1976 Cleveland Crusaders
1976-1980 Winnipeg Jets
1980-1981 Tulsa Oilers

Lyle Gordon Moffat (born March 19, 1948 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official who played 325 games for the Cleveland Crusaders and Winnipeg Jets in the world during his active career between 1966 and 1981 Hockey Association (WHA) and 97 other games for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of left winger . In the service of the Winnipeg Jets, Moffat won the WHA's Avco World Trophy three times between 1976 and 1979 .

Career

Moffat first played during his junior years in the 1966/67 season in the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League (CMJHL), where he went on the ice for the Calgary Buffaloes from his native Calgary . After he had scored 63 scorer points in 56 games in his first year there, he was offered a scholarship from Michigan Technological University . He completed his studies after four years in 1971 with a Bachelor of Business Administration . Parallel to his studies, he was a member of the university's ice hockey team from 1968/69. With this, the attacker fought for points in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Moffat completely missed his senior year of college due to a back injury.

Although the striker had effectively only played ice hockey for two years in his four college years, he was awarded a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) in September 1971 as an undrafted free agent . The Maple Leafs used the winger for the next four years mainly in their farm teams in the Central Hockey League (CHL). Initially, Moffat was two years in the squad of the Tulsa Oilers . He then ran for the Oklahoma City Blazers for just as long . In his second year with the Tulsa Oilers in particular, Moffat was able to convince when he collected 80 points in 71 games and shared the CHL Leading Top Scorer Award with Danny Gruen . His 40 goals, together with teammate Reg Bechtold, were also a league record. He was rewarded for this with his NHL debut in March 1973 for Toronto. It remained until the beginning of the season 1974/75 but his only NHL use. Only then was he regularly used by the Maple Leafs until the end of the 1974 calendar year, before he was sent back to Oklahoma City by the end of the season.

With no prospect of permanent involvement in the NHL, Moffat decided not to extend his expiring contract in the summer of 1975. Instead, he moved to the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was in competition with the NHL at the time. There he was obliged by the Cleveland Crusaders before the 1975/76 season , for which he played 33 games by January 1976. During the season, the Canadian was transferred to league competitor Winnipeg Jets in exchange for Randy Legge . There he spent the most successful period of his career in the following four and a half years. Between 1976 and 1979, the offensive player won the Avco World Trophy three times with the Jets. He also stayed in the team when it was included in the NHL as one of four franchises for the 1979/80 season after the dissolution of the WHA. Thus Moffat played his first full NHL season at the age of 31. After another year of play, which he completed again in Tulsa in the CHL, he ended his active career in the summer of 1981 at the age of 33.

After his resignation, Moffat was head coach of the Kamloops Junior Oilers from the Western Hockey League (WHL) for one year for the 1981/82 season . There was a longer break before he returned to the WHL as a coach in the 1989/90 season. Shortly after the start of the season, he was with the Victoria Cougars for a month behind the gang before he was replaced by Gary Cunningham . However, another term followed, as Cunningham lost his job after three months in February 1990 and Moffat looked after the team until the end of the season. In the 1990/91 season he was general manager of the Cougars.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1966/67 Calgary Buffaloes CMJHL 56 30th 33 63 64 - - - - -
1967/68 Michigan Technological University NCAA not played
1968/69 Michigan Technological University NCAA 28 10 19th 29 36
1969/70 Michigan Technological University NCAA 29 12 11 23 44
1970/71 Michigan Technological University NCAA not played because of back injury
1971/72 Tulsa Oilers CHL 70 15th 16 31 82 13 2 4th 6th 25th
1972/73 Tulsa Oilers CHL 71 40 40 80 108 - - - - -
1972/73 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1973/74 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 50 19th 30th 49 70 - - - - -
1974/75 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 39 17th 19th 36 87 5 3 3 6th 18th
1974/75 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 22nd 2 7th 9 13 - - - - -
1975/76 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 33 4th 7th 11 33 - - - - -
1975/76 Winnipeg Jets WHA 42 13 9 22nd 44 13 3 3 6th 9
1976/77 Winnipeg Jets WHA 74 13 11 24 90 17th 2 0 2 6th
1977/78 Winnipeg Jets WHA 57 9 16 25th 39 9 5 7th 12 9
1978/79 Winnipeg Jets WHA 70 14th 18th 32 38 10 3 1 4th 22nd
1979/80 Winnipeg Jets NHL 74 10 9 19th 38 - - - - -
1980/81 Tulsa Oilers CHL 66 17th 31 48 59 8th 4th 8th 12 8th
NCAA overall 57 22nd 30th 52 80
CHL total 296 108 136 244 406 26th 9 15th 24 51
NHL overall 97 12 16 28 51 - - - - -
WHA total 276 53 61 114 244 49 13 11 24 46

( 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 Moffat, Lyle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moffat, Lyle Gordon (full name); Moffatt, Lyle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada