Morris Titanic

Morris Titanic
Date of birth	January 7, 1953
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1973 , 1st lap, 12th position Buffalo Sabers
WHA Amateur Draft	1973 , 2nd lap, 17th position in Nordiques de Québec
Career stations
1970-1972	Niagara Falls Flyers
1972-1973	Sudbury Wolves
1973-1974	Cincinnati Swords
1974-1988	Hershey Bears
1978-1979	Milwaukee Admirals
1979-1980	Rochester Americans

Morris Steven Titanic (born January 7, 1953 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player of Ukrainian origin, who in the course of his active career between 1970 and 1980, among other things, 19 games for the Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League on the position of the left Has denied the winger . However, he spent most of his career in the American Hockey League .

Career

Titanic, who was born to Ukrainian immigrants in Toronto, Canada in the province of Ontario , had a very successful youth. First for two years between 1970 and 1972 with the Niagara Falls Flyers in the Ontario Hockey Association , and after their relocation in the summer of 1972 for a year with the Sudbury Wolves in the same league. There the winger impressed in his last junior year with 121 points scorer in 63 missions - including 61 goals. Due to his performance, Titanic was selected in the first round in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft in twelfth overall position by the Buffalo Sabers of the National Hockey League . In addition, he was the Quebec Nordiques from competing with the NHL World Hockey Association in WHA Amateur Draft in 1973 pulled in the second round at the 17th position.

The striker then decided to sign a contract with the Buffalo Sabers and was used in the course of the 1973/74 season exclusively for their farm team , the Cincinnati Swords , in the American Hockey League . With the beginning of the following season Titanic was in the squad of the new cooperation partner Hershey Bears - also in the AHL - on the ice. During the 1974/75 season , the attacker also made his debut in the NHL and made 17 appearances. In the course of this game year, the striker had severe back problems for the first time, so that he missed many games in the 1975/76 season and completely suspended the following year after a necessary operation. Because of this, only two more NHL appearances were added in the course of his career.

For the 1977/78 season Titanic returned to the Hershey Bears squad and was able to convince with 30 points scorer. The following year, the offensive player found a new employer in the Milwaukee Admirals from the International Hockey League . He then returned to the AHL and ran in his final professional season for the Rochester Americans , before he declared his active career at the age of 27 for an end.

Achievements and Awards

• 1973 OHA First All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1970/71	Niagara Falls Flyers	OHA		59	27	17th	44	61		-	-	-	-	-
1971/72	Niagara Falls Flyers	OHA		64	29	28	57	105		6th	1	5	6th	6th
1972/73	Sudbury Wolves	OHA		63	61	60	121	80		4th	2	0	2	0
1973/74	Cincinnati Swords	AHL		62	31	28	59	47		5	4th	2	6th	0
1974/75	Hershey Bears	AHL		34	9	17th	26th	64		6th	3	3	6th	16
1974/75	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		17th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1975/76	Hershey Bears	AHL		35	6th	13	19th	10		10	2	1	3	8th
1975/76	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Hershey Bears	AHL		not played because of back injury
1977/78	Hershey Bears	AHL		69	10	20th	30th	54	-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Milwaukee Admirals	IHL		75	26th	44	70	31	8th	3	1	4th	0
1979/80	Rochester Americans	AHL		25th	3	3	6th	6th	-	-	-	-	-
OHA total				186	117	105	222	246	10	3	5	8th	6th
AHL total				225	59	81	140	181	21st	9	6th	15th	24
NHL overall				19th	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Morris Titanic at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Morris Titanic at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joe Pelletier: Buffalo Sabers Legends: Morris Titanic. greatesthockeylegends.com, November 2013, accessed December 3, 2018 .