Norm Ferguson (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Norm Ferguson Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 16, 1945
place of birth Sydney , Nova Scotia , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 73 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1963-1964 Maroons de Lachine
1964-1966 Canadien junior de Montréal
1966-1967 Houston Apollos
1967-1968 Cleveland Barons
1968-1972 California / Oakland (Golden) Seals
1972-1973 New York Raiders
1973 New York Golden Blades
1973-1974 Jersey Knights
1974-1977 San Diego Mariners
1977-1988 Edmonton Oilers

Norman Gerald "Norm" Ferguson (born October 16, 1945 in Sydney , Nova Scotia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 289 games for the Oakland Seals and California Golden Seals in the course of his active career between 1963 and 1978 in the National Hockey League (NHL) and 462 other games for the New York Raiders, New York Golden Blades or Jersey Knights , San Diego Mariners and Edmonton Oilers in the World Hockey Association (WHA) on the position of the center . His son Craig was also a professional ice hockey player in the NHL.

Career

Ferguson first spent his junior years in the province of Québec , where he took part in the Memorial Cup with the Monarchs de Montréal in 1964 . With the beginning of the 1964/65 season, the striker was on the ice for the Canadien junior de Montréal in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) for the following two years . These were in turn in cooperation with the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League (NHL), with which Ferguson was under contract.

From the beginning of the 1966/67 season , the Canadian played in the professional field for the Canadiens' farm teams . First for one season for the Houston Apollos in the Central Professional Hockey League (CPHL), then one season for the Cleveland Barons in the American Hockey League (AHL). With no prospect of an engagement in the jersey of Canadiens in the NHL, Ferguson was part of a major transfer between Montréal and the Oakland Seals , who had been admitted to the league the previous year, in May 1968 . Ferguson moved to California with Stan Fuller , François Lacombe and Michel Jacques , while the French-Canadians Wally Boyer , Alain Caron and Lyle Bradley and Oakland received first-round voting rights in the NHL Amateur Drafts in 1968 and 1970 . In the franchise , which operated under the name California Golden Seals from the 1970/71 season , Ferguson spent a total of four seasons as a regular in the NHL. His best year was already in his rookie season when he collected 54 scorer points .

After four years in the NHL, Ferguson decided in the summer of 1972 to switch to the newly founded World Hockey Association (WHA), which was established as a competitive league for the NHL . There the New York Raiders had secured his transfer rights for the WHA in the WHA General Player Draft , which took place in February 1972. In the NHL, meanwhile, he was selected by the New York Islanders in the 1972 NHL Expansion Draft . For the 1972/73 season the attacker was in the squad of the New York Raiders, where he scored 68 times in his first year in the league in 56 missions. The following season the franchise began under the name New York Golden Blades , but still moved to neighboring New Jersey during the current season , where it ended the season as Jersey Knights . In the summer of 1974 Ferguson moved with the team to San Diego, California and wore the jersey of the San Diego Mariners for the next three years until the summer of 1977 . There he was able to achieve more than 70 points and 30 goals in each of the three years. After the dissolution of the Mariners in the summer of 1977, the offensive player played his last professional season in the jersey of the Edmonton Oilers in the 1977/78 season . The 32-year-old then ended his active career.

After retiring Ferguson worked briefly in the 1978/79 season as head coach of the junior team Edmonton Oil Kings in the Western Hockey League (WHL), when he replaced Wayne Tennant during the season on this post. Ferguson successfully qualified for the playoffs. Due to the dissolution of the franchise in the summer of 1979, however, his engagement ended immediately.

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1963/64 Maroons de Lachine LHJQ 42 32 60 92 12 - - - - -
1964 Monarchs de Montréal Memorial Cup 4th 2 1 3 2
1964/65 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 51 17th 16 33 0 6th 2 0 2 0
1965/66 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 43 16 29 45 27 10 4th 3 7th 2
1966/67 Houston Apollos CPHL 55 8th 6th 14th 20th 1 0 0 0 0
1967/68 Cleveland Barons AHL 72 42 33 75 27 - - - - -
1968/69 Oakland Seals NHL 76 34 20th 54 31 7th 1 4th 5 7th
1969/70 Oakland Seals NHL 72 11 9 20th 19th 3 0 0 0 0
1970/71 California Golden Seals NHL 54 14th 17th 31 9 - - - - -
1971/72 California Golden Seals NHL 74 14th 20th 34 13 - - - - -
1972/73 New York Raiders WHA 56 28 40 68 8th - - - - -
1973/74 New York Golden Blades / Jersey Knights WHA 75 15th 21st 36 12 - - - - -
1974/75 San Diego Mariners WHA 78 36 33 69 6th 10 6th 5 11 0
1975/76 San Diego Mariners WHA 79 37 37 74 12 4th 2 0 2 9
1976/77 San Diego Mariners WHA 77 39 32 71 5 7th 2 4th 6th 0
1977/78 Edmonton Oilers WHA 71 26th 21st 47 2 5 0 0 0 0
OHA total 94 33 45 78 27 16 6th 3 9 2
NHL overall 279 73 66 139 72 10 1 4th 5 7th
WHA total 436 181 184 365 45 26th 10 9 19th 9

( 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 Ferguson, Norm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferguson, Norman Gerald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Nova Scotia , Canada