Tim Higgins

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CanadaCanada  Tim Higgins Ice hockey player
Date of birth 7th February 1958
place of birth Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1978 , 1st round, 10th position
Chicago Black Hawks
Career stations
1975-1988 Ottawa 67's
1978-1984 Chicago Black Hawks
1984-1986 New Jersey Devils
1986-1989 Detroit Red Wings

Timothy Raymond "Tim" Higgins (born February 7, 1958 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and scout , who played 771 games for the Chicago Black Hawks , New Jersey Devils and in the course of his active career between 1975 and 1989 Detroit Red Wings has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of right winger .

Career

Higgins spent his junior years in his native Ottawa . There he was initially active for the Ottawa Junior Senators in the Central Ontario Junior Hockey League (COJHL) in the 1974/75 season , before he was signed over the course of the season by the Ottawa 67’s , who were responsible for the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL) participated. There the winger developed continuously until the end of the 1977/78 season and in his third year in the league was responsible for the fact that the 67's could win the J. Ross Robertson Cup at the end of the season . In the subsequent participation in the prestigious Memorial Cup , he was behind Bobby Smith and Doug Wilson third-best scorer of the team that lost in the final game to the New Westminster Bruins . In the summer of 1978, the 19-year-old was selected after completing his time in the junior division in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft at the tenth overall position of the Chicago Black Hawks from the National Hockey League (NHL). Before that, he had broken the 100 scorer point mark for the first time during the regular season .

The Black Hawks immediately brought the young striker into their expanded squad for the 1978/79 season and from December 1978, after playing a few games for the New Brunswick Hawks farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), regularly used him in the NHL . In his rookie year he collected 23 points in 36 races. In the 1979/80 season , the Canadian played almost all of the season's games as a regular player and stayed there until the 1983/84 season . He played in the 1980/81 season with 59 points scorer, his best year in the league; in the following season he scored 50 times. In January 1984 Higgins, who had to show only five goals in the first 32 appearances of the season, was transferred to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Jeff Larmer . There his offensive yield improved noticeably, so that by the end of the 1984/85 season he had reached 48 scorer points. After a 1985/86 game year marked by injuries and illnesses , the attacker was transferred to the Detroit Red Wings in June 1986 . They let Claude Loiselle move to the Devils for this.

With the Red Wings Higgins spent three seasons, but in which he could no longer match his previous performances. After he had also accumulated in the 1988/89 season for Detroit's cooperation partner Adirondack Red Wings in the AHL, he was released from his current contract in April 1989. The 30-year-old then ended his active career. Between 1991 and 1993 Higgins was then al Scout for the Ottawa Senators in the NHL. He performed the same function between 1996 and 2003 with his ex-team, the Chicago Blackhawks.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1974/75 Ottawa 67's OMJHL 22nd 1 3 4th 6th - - - - -
1975/76 Ottawa 67's OMJHL 59 15th 10 25th 59 12 1 2 3 20th
1976/77 Ottawa 67's OMJHL 66 35 52 87 80 19th 10 14th 24 39
1977 Ottawa 67's Memorial Cup 5 4th 3 7th 0
1977/78 Ottawa 67's OMJHL 50 41 60 101 99 16 9 13 22nd 36
1978/79 New Brunswick Hawks AHL 17th 3 5 8th 14th - - - - -
1978/79 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 36 7th 16 23 30th 4th 0 0 0 0
1979/80 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 74 13 12 25th 50 7th 0 3 3 10
1980/81 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 78 24 35 59 86 3 0 0 0 0
1981/82 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 74 20th 30th 50 85 12 3 1 4th 15th
1982/83 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 64 14th 9 23 63 13 1 3 4th 10
1983/84 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 32 1 4th 5 21st - - - - -
1983/84 New Jersey Devils NHL 37 18th 10 28 27 - - - - -
1984/85 New Jersey Devils NHL 71 19th 29 48 30th - - - - -
1985/86 New Jersey Devils NHL 59 9 17th 26th 47 - - - - -
1986/87 Detroit Red Wings NHL 77 12 14th 26th 124 12 0 1 1 16
1987/88 Detroit Red Wings NHL 62 12 13 25th 94 13 1 0 1 26th
1988/89 Detroit Red Wings NHL 42 5 9 14th 62 1 0 0 0 0
1988/89 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 14th 7th 4th 11 24 - - - - -
OMJHL overall 197 92 125 217 244 47 20th 29 49 95
AHL total 31 10 9 19th 38 - - - - -
NHL overall 706 154 198 352 719 65 5 8th 13 77

( 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 Higgins, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Higgins, Timothy Raymond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and scout
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Ontario , Canada