Pat Hughes (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Pat Hughes Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 25, 1955
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1975 , 3rd lap, 52nd position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1973-1976 University of Michigan
1976-1988 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1977-1979 Canadiens de Montréal
1979-1981 Pittsburgh Penguins
1981-1985 Edmonton Oilers
1985-1986 Buffalo Sabers
Rochester Americans
1986-1987 St. Louis Blues
1987 Hartford Whalers

Patrick James "Pat" Hughes (born March 25, 1955 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The right winger played over 600 games in the National Hockey League between 1977 and 1987 , playing for the Canadiens de Montréal , Pittsburgh Penguins , Edmonton Oilers , Buffalo Sabers , St. Louis Blues and Hartford Whalers . During this time he won the Stanley Cup three times , in 1979 with the Canadiens and in the playoffs in 1984 and 1985 with the Oilers.

Career

Pat Hughes was not active in his youth in the Western Hockey League , the highest junior league in his Canadian homeland, but enrolled in 1973 at the University of Michigan . With their ice hockey team, the Wolverines , he took part in the game operations of the Big Ten Conference , a league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In Michigan, the winger scored 43 points from 38 games in the 1974/75 season, a point average of over 1.0 per game and was then selected in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft at 52nd position by the Canadiens de Montréal . For the season 1976/77 he moved after three years at college in the organization of the Canadiens, but was initially used in their farm team , the Nova Scotia Voyageurs , in the American Hockey League (AHL). With the Voyageurs he won the AHL playoffs for the Calder Cup as a rookie , before he recorded 68 points in 74 games the following year and was consequently elected to the AHL Second All-Star Team . After he made his debut for Montréal in the National Hockey League (NHL) in December 1977 , the attacker established himself in the Canadiens' squad from the 1978/79 season and won his first Stanley Cup with the team in the following playoffs in 1979 as well the fourth in a row for the franchise .

Despite this success, Hughes was released in August 1979 together with Rob Holland to the Pittsburgh Penguins , who in return sent Denis Herron and a second-round vote for the 1982 NHL Entry Draft to Montreal. Even with the Penguins, however, he was only active for barely a year and a half before he was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers in March 1981 in exchange for Pat Price . In Edmonton, the Canadian increased his personal statistics significantly, recording over 20 goals and about 50 points scorer in each of the following three seasons. In addition, he set an NHL record in a game against the St. Louis Blues on January 11, 1983 by scoring two underpaid goals within 25 seconds . This record was beaten almost five and a half years later by Esa Tikkanen , who in November 1988 - also wearing the Oilers jersey - only needed twelve seconds. As a result, the attacker won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history with the Oilers in the 1984 playoffs, as well as his second overall title, which was to be followed directly by the third in 1985 , after the New York Islanders failed in the 1983 playoff final .

Following these two successes, Hughes was transferred to the Buffalo Sabers in a three-party swap in October 1985 . This enabled the Pittsburgh Penguins to sign Buffalo's Randy Cunneyworth , who was considered a Restricted Free Agent , without paying compensation in the form of draft voting rights. At the same time, the Sabers sent Mike Moller to the Oilers, with the Penguins acting as a middleman. Hughes did not succeed in Buffalo to build on his previous performances, so he spent parts of the following season 1985/86 with the AHL farm team, the Rochester Americans . Finally, he was signed in October 1986 as part of the NHL Waiver Draft by the St. Louis Blues , who sent him to the Hartford Whalers in exchange for a ten- round vote in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft, however, before the end of the 1986/87 season . The Whalers should represent the last station of the attacker, so he ended his active career after another five NHL games. Overall, Hughes had completed 644 games in the NHL and recorded 285 points scorer.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1973/74 University of Michigan NCAA 38 14th 12 26th 40
1974/75 University of Michigan NCAA 38 24 19th 43 64
1975/76 University of New Hampshire NCAA 35 16 18th 34 70
1976/77 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 77 29 39 68 144 12 2 2 4th 8th
1977/78 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 74 40 28 68 128 11 5 9 14th 24
1977/78 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 3 0 0 0 -2 2 - - - - - -
1978/79 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 41 9 8th 17th +7 22nd 8th 1 2 3 -3 4th
1979/80 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 76 18th 14th 32 -39 78 5 0 0 0 -4 21st
1980/81 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 58 10 9 19th –9 161 - - - - - -
1980/81 Edmonton Oilers NHL 2 0 0 0 -3 0 5 0 0 0 -1 4th
1981/82 Edmonton Oilers NHL 68 24 22nd 46 +22 99 5 2 1 3 ± 0 6th
1982/83 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 25th 20th 45 ± 0 85 16 2 5 7th +10 14th
1983/84 Edmonton Oilers NHL 77 27 28 55 +18 61 19th 2 11 13 +13 12
1984/85 Edmonton Oilers NHL 73 12 13 25th -8th 85 10 1 0 1 +1 4th
1985/86 Rochester Americans AHL 10 3 3 6th 7th - - - - - -
1985/86 Buffalo Sabers NHL 50 4th 9 13 -5 25th - - - - - -
1986/87 St. Louis Blues NHL 43 1 5 6th -4 26th - - - - - -
1986/87 Hartford Whalers NHL 2 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 0 0 -1 0
NCAA overall 111 54 49 103 174
AHL total 161 72 70 142 279 23 7th 11 18th 32
NHL overall 573 130 128 258 -24 646 71 8th 19th 27 +15 65

( 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 )

Personal

His brother-in-law Mark Napier was also an NHL professional, with whom he temporarily played together in Montréal and Edmonton and with whom he shared two of his three Stanley Cup successes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jim Matheson: Edmonton Oilers history: Esa Tikkanen scores two shorthanded goals 12 seconds apart, Nov. 12, 1988. edmontonjournal.com, accessed June 26, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, Patrick James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada