Mike Gillis

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CanadaCanada  Mike Gillis Ice hockey player
Mike Gillis
Date of birth 1st December 1958
place of birth Sudbury , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1978 , 1st lap, 5th position
Colorado Rockies
Career stations
1975-1988 Kingston Canadians
1978-1980 Colorado Rockies
1980-1984 Boston Bruins

Michael David Gillis (born December 1, 1958 in Sudbury , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who was active in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1978 to 1984 . From 2008 to 2014 he was President and General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks . Since June 2016 he has been a member of the executive committee of the Swiss club Genève-Servette HC . His younger brother Paul was also a professional ice hockey player in the NHL and then worked as a coach in the minor leagues .

Player career

Mike Gillis began his professional ice hockey career with the Kingston Canadians of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . There he played 111 games from 1975 to 1978 and achieved 132 scorer points (39 goals and 93 assists). Due to a serious leg injury, which he had sustained in a game against Sudbury on October 1, 1976, Gillis had to suspend almost the entire 1976/77 season. In the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft , the left winger was selected by the Colorado Rockies in fifth place overall in the first round .

In the season 1978/79 followed a short interlude of two games with the Philadelphia Firebirds in the American Hockey League . He then played his first games with the Colorado Rockies in the National Hockey League . In 30 games of the season he got eight scorer points (one goal and seven assists). Due to the aftermath of a knee operation that had been performed on him in 1978, Gillis could not finish this season completely uninjured. The 1979/80 season spent the striker both with the Colorado Rockies, with whom he completed 40 games and collected nine points (four goals and five assists) and with the Fort Worth Texans in the League Central Hockey League , where he had 22 points (nine goals and 13 assists) came.

The 1980/81 season began for Gillis with the Colorado Rockies. He played 51 games there, in which the winger scored 18 points with eleven goals and seven assists. On February 18, 1981, Gillis became part of a transfer deal between the Rockies and the Boston Bruins . They exchanged the left winger for Bob Miller . With his new team, he scored six points in 17 games, including two goals and four assists. The total number of points this season of 24 points, including 13 goals and eleven assists, should remain his best point performance in the NHL.

In his first full season with the Bruins 1981/82 , Gillis played 52 games this season and scored 17 points. In the subsequent playoffs he ran on eleven games and collected three points. A year later, the winger was a member of the Baltimore Skipjacks team in the American Hockey League. In these he was able to finish the season as the fourth best scorer in the league, because he came to 113 scorer points in 74 games, including 32 goals and 81 assists. In the same season, Gillis also completed five games for the Bruins, in which he brought it to a template. In the following playoffs he played twelve games with a yield of four points (one goal and three assists). The season 1983/84 spent Gillis with the Bruins (17 points in 50 games) and the Hershey Bears in the AHL (29 points in 26 games). In his last NHL playoff appearances, the striker could not show any points.

Mike Gillis could not play the entire 1984/85 season because he broke his leg again in training camp. After this injury, a return to professional sport was impossible, the Boston Bruins finally fired Gillis a year later in September 1985. The striker then ended his professional ice hockey career.

talent

Gillis was considered a great talent, which explains the early selection in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft . He was versatile and sometimes even played as a defender. Due to the many and serious injuries, Gillis was never able to meet the expectations placed on him at the NHL level.

Managerial career

agent

After Gillis had finished his playing career, he coached the team of the Golden Gaels of Queen's University in the 1985/86 game year. The then even active in the NHL player was after 1990 at the aforementioned Queen's University with a degree in law making, player agent. From 1994 he looked after several well-known ice hockey players, including Pawel Bure , Markus Näslund , Mike Richter , Bobby Holík and Pat Verbeek .

General manager

The Vancouver Canucks were looking for a new general manager after Dave Nonis was fired at the end of the 2007-08 season . They found this in Mike Gillis, who succeeded Nonis on April 23, 2008. Since then, Gillis has served as General Manager and President of Canucks Sports & Entertainment . At the end of the 2013/14 season, Gillis was removed from all positions. Jim Benning became the new General Manager , while Trevor Linden succeeded him in the office of President .

In June 2016 he became a member of the executive committee of the Swiss NLA club Genève-Servette HC , and in March 2017 he was given the task of overseeing the sporting development of the club.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1975/76 Kingston Canadians OMJHL 64 16 45 61 34 7th 1 2 3 11
1976/77 Kingston Canadians OMJHL 4th 2 2 4th 4th - - - - -
1977/78 Kingston Canadians OMJHL 43 21st 46 67 86 5 3 12 15th 0
1978/79 Colorado Rockies NHL 30th 1 7th 8th 6th - - - - -
1978/79 Philadelphia Firebirds AHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1979/80 Colorado Rockies NHL 40 4th 5 9 22nd - - - - -
1979/80 Fort Worth Texans CHL 29 9 13 22nd 43 - - - - -
1980/81 Colorado Rockies NHL 51 11 7th 18th 54 - - - - -
1980/81 Boston Bruins NHL 17th 2 4th 6th 15th 1 0 0 0 0
1981/82 Boston Bruins NHL 53 9 8th 17th 54 11 1 2 3 6th
1982/83 Boston Bruins NHL 5 0 1 1 0 12 1 3 4th 2
1982/83 Baltimore Skipjacks AHL 74 32 81 113 33 - - - - -
1983/84 Boston Bruins NHL 50 6th 11 17th 35 3 0 0 0 2
1983/84 Hershey Bears AHL 26th 8th 21st 29 13 - - - - -
OMJHL overall 111 39 93 132 124 12 4th 14th 18th 11
CHL total 29 9 13 22nd 43 - - - - -
AHL total 102 40 102 142 46 - - - - -
NHL overall 246 33 43 76 186 27 2 5 7th 10

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mike David Gillis Player Stats. legendsofhockey.net, accessed May 26, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c 1978 NHL Draft Pick - Mike Gillis. hockeydraftcentral.com, accessed May 26, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Joe Pelletier: Mike Gillis. bruinslegends.blogspot.com, accessed May 26, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b Mike Gillis, President, GM & Alternate Governor, NHL. canucks.nhl.com, accessed May 27, 2011 .
  5. ^ Mike Gillis introduced as Canucks GM. cbcsports.ca, accessed May 27, 2011 .
  6. ^ Hockey: Mike Gillis entre au conseil d'administration de Genève-Servette . In: RTSSport.ch . ( rts.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  7. ↑ www.gshc.ch, GSHC - Site officiel du Genève-Servette Hockey Club: Le Genève-Servette Hockey Club redéfinit son organization - Genève-Servette Hockey Club. Retrieved March 22, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Gillis, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gillis, Michael David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH 1st December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Sudbury , Ontario