Mike Hough

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CanadaCanada  Mike Hough Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 6, 1963
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 89 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 9th lap, 181st position
Nordiques de Québec
Career stations
1978-1979 Mississauga Reps
1979-1980 Toronto Marlboros
1980-1981 Dixie Beehives
1981-1983 Kitchener Rangers
1983-1986 Fredericton Express
1986-1993 Nordiques de Québec
1993-1997 Florida panthers
1997-1998 New York Islanders
1998-1999 Lowell Lock Monsters

Michael Lloyd "Mike" Hough (born February 6, 1963 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 751 games for the Nordiques de Québec , Florida Panthers and New York Islanders in the course of his active career between 1979 and 1999 of the National Hockey League on the position of the left winger . In the 1991/92 season he was the ninth team captain in the franchise history of the Nordiques de Québec.

Career

Hough spent between 1978 and 1983 an eventful junior time, which led him from the Mississauga Reps first in the summer of 1979 to the Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL). Despite 70 scorer points this year, the striker moved to the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League (OPJHL) for the Dixie Beehives after just one year . He was ignored in the summer of 1981 in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft and changed teams again. Hough returned to the now renamed Ontario Hockey League (OHL) league and ran there for the Kitchener Rangers , in whose ranks Brian Bellows , Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens played on. With the Rangers he won at the end of the 1981/82 season the double from the J. Ross Robertson Cup of the OHL and the Memorial Cup of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). In the 1982 NHL Entry Draft he was finally selected in the ninth round in 181st place by the Nordiques de Québec from the National Hockey League (NHL).

After another season with the Kitchener Rangers, the 20-year-old switched to the professional field in the summer of 1983. There the winger spent the first three years - with the exception of two missions for the Nordiques in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1985  - exclusively with the farm team Fredericton Express in the American Hockey League (AHL). Despite solid point yields in the AHL, Hough was only able to establish himself slowly from the 1986/87 season in the Québec squad and thus in the NHL. Up until the 1988/89 season - then with the new cooperation partner Halifax Citadels  - the attacker also had significant periods of play in the AHL. It was not until the 1989/90 game year that Hough was in his seventh year as a professional permanently in the Franco-Canadians' squad. As a result, he continuously increased his points and achieved a personal best in the 1991/92 season with 38 scorer points. During this season he also acted as the ninth team captain in the franchise history of the Nordiques de Québec.

In June 1993, Hough's ten-year time in the Nordiques organization ended when he was transferred to the Washington Capitals in exchange for Reggie Savage and Paul MacDermid in the run-up to the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft . However, Hough only stayed six days with the franchise from the US state capital, as he was selected in the expansion draft himself by the newly founded Florida Panthers . There he helped establish the team in the league over the next four years. In the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1996 he reached the finals of the Stanley Cup with the team . In the summer of 1997, the offensive player left the Panthers and joined the New York Islanders as a free agent . There he worked until the end of 1998, in addition to some assignments for the Utah Grizzlies farm team in the International Hockey League (IHL). Through a loan deal, he let the 1998/99 season end with the Lowell Lock Monsters in the AHL, before he declared his career at the age of 36 for over.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1979/80 Toronto Marlboros OMJHL 44 20th 50 70 - - - - -
1980/81 Dixie Beehives OPJHL 24 15th 20th 35 84 - - - - -
1981/82 Kitchener Rangers OHL 58 14th 34 48 172 14th 4th 1 5 16
1982 Kitchener Rangers Memorial Cup - - - - - 5 1 1 2 11
1982/83 Kitchener Rangers OHL 61 17th 27 44 156 12 5 4th 9 30th
1983/84 Fredericton Express AHL 69 11 16 27 142 1 0 0 0 7th
1984/85 Fredericton Express AHL 76 21st 27 48 49 6th 1 1 2 2
1984/85 Nordiques de Québec NHL - - - - - 2 0 0 0 0
1985/86 Fredericton Express AHL 74 21st 33 54 68 6th 0 3 3 8th
1986/87 Nordiques de Québec NHL 56 6th 8th 14th 79 9 0 3 3 26th
1986/87 Fredericton Express AHL 10 1 3 4th 20th - - - - -
1987/88 Nordiques de Québec NHL 17th 3 2 5 2 - - - - -
1987/88 Fredericton Express AHL 46 16 25th 41 133 15th 4th 8th 12 55
1988/89 Nordiques de Québec NHL 46 9 10 19th 39 - - - - -
1988/89 Halifax Citadels AHL 22nd 11 10 21st 87 - - - - -
1989/90 Nordiques de Québec NHL 43 13 13 26th 84 - - - - -
1990/91 Nordiques de Québec NHL 63 13 20th 33 111 - - - - -
1991/92 Nordiques de Québec NHL 61 16 22nd 38 77 - - - - -
1992/93 Nordiques de Québec NHL 77 8th 22nd 30th 69 6th 0 1 1 2
1993/94 Florida panthers NHL 78 6th 23 29 62 - - - - -
1994/95 Florida panthers NHL 48 6th 7th 13 38 - - - - -
1995/96 Florida panthers NHL 64 7th 16 23 37 22nd 4th 1 5 8th
1996/97 Florida panthers NHL 69 8th 6th 14th 48 5 1 0 1 2
1997/98 New York Islanders NHL 74 5 7th 12 27 - - - - -
1998/99 New York Islanders NHL 11 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1998/99 Utah grizzlies IHL 26th 5 7th 12 8th - - - - -
1998/99 Lowell Lock Monsters AHL 11 0 3 3 21st - - - - -
O (MJ) HL total 163 51 111 162 26th 9 5 14th 46
AHL total 308 81 117 198 520 28 5 12 17th 72
NHL overall 707 100 156 256 675 44 5 5 10 38

( 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 Hough, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hough, Michael Lloyd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada