Rick Hampton

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CanadaCanada  Rick Hampton Ice hockey player
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

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
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
1977 Canada WM 4th Place 10 1 2 3 4th
1978 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 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 )

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personal data
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