Rick Hampton
Date of birth | January 14, 1956 |
place of birth | Toronto , Ontario , Canada |
size | 183 cm |
Weight | 86 kg |
position | defender |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Amateur Draft |
1974 , 1st round, 3rd position California Golden Seals |
Career stations | |
1972-1974 | St. Catharines Black Hawks |
1974-1976 | California Golden Seals |
1976-1988 | Cleveland Barons |
1978-1979 | Los Angeles Kings |
1979-1980 | Binghamton Dusters |
1980-1981 |
New Brunswick Hawks Houston Apollos |
1981-1983 | HC Ambrì-Piotta |
1983-1984 | Rochester Americans |
Richard Charles "Rick" Hampton (born January 14, 1956 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 339 games for the California Golden Seals , Cleveland Barons and Los Angeles Kings in the course of his active career between 1972 and 1984 of the National Hockey League in the position of defender . Hampton, who had already been selected in third position in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft, celebrated his greatest career success in the jersey of the Canadian national team by winning the bronze medal at the 1978 World Cup .
Career
Hampton spent his junior years with the St. Catharines Black Hawks in the Ontario Hockey Association between 1972 and 1974 . With the Black Hawks, which also included Rick Adduono , Dave Gorman and Wilf Paiement , the defender won the J. Ross Robertson Cup , the OHA championship trophy , at the end of the 1973/74 season . He made a large contribution to this in a total of 77 season appearances with 61 points scorer . As a result, Hampton was selected in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft in third overall position by the California Golden Seals of the National Hockey League .
The 18-year-old then immediately moved to the NHL for the Golden Seals for the 1974/75 season . In his rookie season , he completed 78 games. After another year in Oakland , California , the franchise was relocated to Cleveland , Ohio , where it operated under the name Cleveland Barons for the next two years until it was dissolved . After nearly 300 appearances for the franchise, Hamptons transfer rights went to the Minnesota North Stars in the course of the 1978 NHL Dispersal Draft in June . However, this transferred him only a month later with Steve Jensen and Dave Gardner to the Los Angeles Kings in order to compensate for the commitment of the free agent Gary Sargent to the Kings. For Los Angeles he completed only 54 missions over a period of two years and his NHL career came to an early end at the age of 24.
Already in the 1979/80 season, the Canadian played mainly for the Kings farm team in the American Hockey League , the Binghamton Dusters . The 1980/81 season he then spent exclusively in the minor leagues - he ran for both the New Brunswick Hawks in the AHL and the Houston Apollos in the Central Hockey League . For the game year 1981/82 Hampton dared the leap to Europe to give his career new impetus. He joined the HC Ambri-Piotta from the second-class Swiss National League B on. With the HCAP, after four years in the second division, he was promoted to the National League A at the end of the season . After the season 1982/83 , in which Ambrì was relegated back to the NLB, Hampton returned to North America. The defender completed the 1983/84 season with the Rochester Americans in the AHL, before he declared his career ended in the summer of 1984 at the age of only 28.
International
For his homeland Hampton took in the years 1977 in the Austrian capital Vienna and 1978 in the Czech capital Prague at the World Cup in part. After he had contributed three scorer points in ten games to reaching fourth place in 1977, he won the bronze medal with the Canadian national team the following year . But he remained pointless in ten tournament games.
Achievements and Awards
- 1974 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the St. Catharines Black Hawks
- 1978 bronze medal at the world championship
- 1982 Promotion to the National League A with HC Ambrì-Piotta
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1972/73 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | OHA | 50 | 1 | 20th | 21st | 98 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1973/74 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | OHA | 65 | 25th | 25th | 50 | 110 | 12 | 3 | 8th | 11 | |||
1974 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | Memorial Cup | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4th | |||||||
1974/75 | California Golden Seals | NHL | 78 | 8th | 17th | 25th | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1975/76 | California Golden Seals | NHL | 73 | 14th | 37 | 51 | 54 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1976/77 | Cleveland Barons | NHL | 57 | 16 | 24 | 40 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1977/78 | Cleveland Barons | NHL | 77 | 18th | 18th | 36 | 19th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1978/79 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 49 | 3 | 17th | 20th | 22nd | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1979/80 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1979/80 | Binghamton Dusters | AHL | 19th | 4th | 5 | 9 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1980/81 | Houston Apollos | CHL | 33 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 17th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1980/81 | New Brunswick Hawks | AHL | 36 | 4th | 23 | 27 | 37 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30th | ||
1981/82 | HC Ambrì-Piotta | NLB | Statistics not available | |||||||||||
1982/83 | HC Ambrì-Piotta | NLA | 32 | 3 | 8th | 11 | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1983/84 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 21st | 1 | 3 | 4th | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
OHA total | 115 | 26th | 45 | 71 | 208 | 12 | 3 | 8th | 11 | |||||
AHL total | 76 | 9 | 31 | 40 | 55 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30th | ||||
NHL overall | 337 | 59 | 113 | 172 | 147 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1977 | Canada | WM | 4th Place | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | |
1978 | Canada | WM | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||
Men overall | 20th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
( 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
- Rick Hampton at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Rick Hampton at eliteprospects.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hampton, Rick |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hampton, Richard Charles (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Ontario |