Stewart Gavin

Stewart Gavin
Date of birth	March 15, 1960
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1980 , 4th round, 74th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1976-1977	Nepean Raiders
1977	Ottawa 67's
1977-1980	Toronto Marlboros
1980-1985	Toronto Maple Leafs
1985-1988	Hartford Whalers
1988-1993	Minnesota North Stars
1994-1995	Minnesota Moose Kansas City Blades

Robert Stewart "Stew" Gavin (born March 15, 1960 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and scout , who played 834 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Hartford Whalers and Minnesota between 1977 and 1995 North Stars played in the National Hockey League on the right winger position .

Career

Gavin began his junior career in the 1976/77 season with the lower class junior team Nepean Raiders . The team came from a suburb of the Canadian capital Ottawa - his hometown. At the end of the season, the striker was appointed to the squad of the Ottawa 67’s from the higher-class Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . With the 67's, Gavin won the OHL championship trophy in the form of the J. Ross Robertson Cup at the end of the playoffs . He then took part in the prestigious Memorial Cup with the franchise . At the beginning of the 1977/78 season he was finally in the squad of league rivals Toronto Marlboros , which he belonged to the following three seasons. He reached the mark of 40 scorer points and was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1980 in the fourth round in 74th place by the Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League .

Their farm team , the New Brunswick Hawks from the American Hockey League , Gavin joined for the 1980/81 season when they entered the professional world. Including the playoffs, he completed 59 missions for the team and also celebrated his debut for the Maple Leafs in the NHL, where he was used 14 times. At the beginning of the game year 1981/82 , the attacker was then an integral part of the NHL squad of Toronto, but it took until the season 1983/84 before he could finally establish himself. He was considered to be a specialist in outnumbered situations .

After the Maple Leafs had ended the season 1984/85 as the worst team in the league, a rebuilding led to Gavin being given to the Hartford Whalers in October 1985 in exchange for Chris Kotsopoulos . There the winger was able to significantly increase his point yield in the first two years and also scored at least 20 goals. After a weaker third year, he was left unprotected in the NHL Waiver Draft in October 1988 and selected by the Minnesota North Stars . With the North Stars, with whom he reached the final series in the 1991 Stanley Cup playoffs , the Canadian again filled a more defensive role. In addition, injuries meant that he only played all 80 games of the season in one of the five years. In the remaining four years there were even fewer than 40 missions twice due to injuries.

Due to a knee injury sustained in the first half of 1993, Gavin announced his retirement from active sport on the advice of his doctors at the age of 33 before the 1993/94 season. However, he remained in the North Stars franchise that had moved to Dallas before the start of the season and continued operations as the Dallas Stars . There he was employed as a scout . Since the healing of his knee had gone better than expected in the course of the year, Gavin considered a comeback for the 1994/95 season with the help of his ex-team Toronto Maple Leafs. A return to the HNL did not succeed, however, and so he came only in the International Hockey League for the Minnesota Moose - and after a change - the Kansas City Blades to use. In the summer of 1995 he finally retired from professional sports.

Achievements and Awards

• 1977 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Ottawa 67’s

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1976/77	Nepean Raiders	CJHL		49	27	20th	47	27		-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Ottawa 67's	OMJHL		1	0	0	0	0		12	1	0	1	0
1977	Ottawa 67's	Memorial Cup		-	-	-	-	-		5	0	0	0	4th
1977/78	Toronto Marlboros	OMJHL		67	16	24	40	19th		-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Toronto Marlboros	OMJHL		61	24	25th	49	67		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Toronto Marlboros	OMJHL		66	27	30th	57	52		-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	New Brunswick Hawks	AHL		46	7th	12	19th	42		13	1	0	1	2
1980/81	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		14th	1	2	3	13		-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		38	5	6th	11	29		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	St. Catharines Saints	AHL		6th	2	4th	6th	17th		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		63	6th	5	11	44		4th	0	0	0	0
1983/84	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		80	10	22nd	32	90		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		73	12	13	25th	38		-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	Hartford Whalers	NHL		76	26th	29	55	51		10	4th	1	5	13
1986/87	Hartford Whalers	NHL		79	20th	21st	41	28		6th	2	4th	6th	10
1987/88	Hartford Whalers	NHL		56	11	10	21st	59		6th	2	2	4th	4th
1988/89	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		73	8th	18th	26th	34		5	3	1	4th	10
1989/90	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		80	12	13	25th	76		7th	0	2	2	12
1990/91	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		38	4th	4th	8th	36		21st	3	10	13	20th
1991/92	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		35	5	4th	9	27		7th	0	0	0	6th
1992/93	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		63	10	8th	18th	59		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	without a contract			not played after retirement due to injury
1994/95	Minnesota Moose	IHL		22nd	4th	7th	11	21st	-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Kansas City Blades	IHL		18th	2	2	4th	32	-	-	-	-	-
OMJHL overall				195	67	79	146	138	24	3	6th	9	19th
AHL total				52	9	16	25th	59	13	1	0	1	2
IHL total				40	6th	9	15th	53	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				768	130	155	285	584	66	14th	20th	34	75

( 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

• Stewart Gavin at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Stewart Gavin at eliteprospects.com (English)