Nick Harbaruk
Date of birth | August 16, 1943 |
place of birth | Drohiczyn , Poland |
date of death | March 10, 2011 |
Place of death | Scarborough , Ontario , Canada |
size | 183 cm |
Weight | 86 kg |
position | Right wing |
Shot hand | Right |
Career stations | |
1960-1964 | Toronto Marlboros |
1964-1969 | Tulsa Oilers |
1969-1973 | Pittsburgh Penguins |
1973-1974 | St. Louis Blues |
1974-1976 | Indianapolis Racers |
1976-1977 | Oklahoma City Blazers |
Mikołaj "Nick" Harbaruk (born August 16, 1943 in Drohiczyn ; † March 10, 2011 in Scarborough , Ontario ) was a Polish - Canadian ice hockey player who, during his active career between 1960 and 1977, among other things, 364 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins and the St. Louis Blues has played in the National Hockey League .
Harbaruk was born in Poland and immigrated to Toronto , Ontario with his family when he was five years old . In 2011 he died of a bone tumor at the age of 67 . He left a wife and two daughters.
Career
Harbaruk began his career with the Toronto Marlboros , for which he played four seasons in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1960 . In 1964 he won the Memorial Cup with the Marlboros . After that, Harbaruk, playing on the right wing position, spent five seasons with the Tulsa Oilers , a farm team of the Toronto Maple Leafs , in the Central Hockey League (CHL). There he also graduated from college. In the Intra-League Draft 1969, in which the weaker teams were allowed to commit players from the strong teams who were only used in the farm team, he was committed by the Pittsburgh Penguins , for which he spent the next four seasons in National Hockey League was in use. In October 1973 he was transferred to the St. Louis Blues . After a season with the Blues, Harbaruk moved to the World Hockey Association , where he spent two and a half seasons for the Indianapolis Racers . At the end of his career as an ice hockey player, he played one last season with the Oklahoma City Blazers in the CHL in the 1976/77 season . After his resignation, Nick Harbaruk was the coach of the ice hockey team at Seneca College in Toronto on the gang.
Achievements and Awards
- 1964 Memorial Cup win with the Toronto Marlboros
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1960/61 | Toronto Marlboros | OHA | 36 | 4th | 8th | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1961/62 | Toronto Marlboros | OHA | 31 | 7th | 10 | 17th | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1961/62 | Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1962/63 | Toronto Marlboros | OHA | 54 | 15th | 25th | 40 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1963/64 | Toronto Marlboros | OHA | 54 | 15th | 25th | 40 | 71 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 9 | ||
1964 | Toronto Marlboros | Memorial Cup | 11 | 5 | 4th | 9 | 15th | |||||||
1964/65 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1964/65 | Tulsa Oilers | CPHL | 67 | 27 | 43 | 70 | 65 | 12 | 5 | 8th | 13 | 25th | ||
1965/66 | Tulsa Oilers | CPHL | 70 | 20th | 46 | 66 | 97 | 11 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 10 | ||
1966/67 | Tulsa Oilers | CPHL | 70 | 14th | 26th | 40 | 84 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1967/68 | Tulsa Oilers | CPHL | 54 | 20th | 30th | 50 | 96 | 11 | 1 | 6th | 7th | 14th | ||
1968/69 | Tulsa Oilers | CHL | 69 | 26th | 19th | 45 | 89 | 7th | 2 | 5 | 7th | 18th | ||
1968/69 | Vancouver Canucks | WHL | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1969/70 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 74 | 5 | 17th | 22nd | 56 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 20th | ||
1970/71 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 78 | 13 | 12 | 25th | 108 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1971/72 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 78 | 12 | 17th | 29 | 46 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
1972/73 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 78 | 10 | 15th | 25th | 47 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1973/74 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 56 | 5 | 14th | 19th | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1974/75 | Indianapolis Racers | WHA | 78 | 20th | 23 | 43 | 52 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1975/76 | Indianapolis Racers | WHA | 76 | 23 | 19th | 42 | 26th | 7th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | ||
1976/77 | Oklahoma City Blazers | CHL | 42 | 17th | 18th | 35 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1976/77 | Indianapolis Racers | WHA | 27 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 2 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
OHA total | 137 | 38 | 51 | 89 | 208 | 12 | 6th | 5 | 11 | 38 | ||||
AHL total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
CPHL / CHL total | 372 | 124 | 182 | 306 | 453 | 41 | 9 | 23 | 32 | 67 | ||||
NHL overall | 364 | 45 | 75 | 120 | 273 | 14th | 3 | 1 | 4th | 20th | ||||
WHA total | 181 | 45 | 44 | 89 | 78 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 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
- Nick Harbaruk in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Nick Harbaruk at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Nick Harbaruk at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Nick Harbaruk at hockeydb.com (English)
- Nick Harbaruk in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former NHL player Nick Harbaruk dies at 67.nhl.com, March 15, 2011, accessed May 19, 2017 (American English).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Harbaruk, Nick |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harbaruk, Mikołaj (maiden name); Harbaruk, Nicholas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1943 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Drohiczyn , Poland |
DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 2011 |
Place of death | Scarborough (Toronto) , Ontario |