Tom Laidlaw

Tom Laidlaw
Date of birth	April 15, 1958
place of birth	Brampton , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1978 , 6th lap, 93rd position New York Rangers
Career stations
1973-1976	Bramalea Blues
1976-1980	Northern Michigan University
1980-1987	New York Rangers
1987-1990	Los Angeles Kings
1990	Phoenix Roadrunners

Thomas John "Tom" Laidlaw (born April 15, 1958 in Brampton , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 774 games for the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings in national hockey between 1976 and 1990 League on the position of defender .

Career

Laidlaw spent his junior career between 1973 and 1976 first in the lower class junior leagues of his home province of Ontario with the Bramalea Blues . The defense attorney then moved to Northern Michigan University because of his studies in the United States . In addition to his four-year studies, the Canadian played for the university team in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . At the end of his college career, he won the championship of the CCHA with the team and thus crowned his four years in the team that he had always led as team captain . In addition, he was elected to the First All-Star Team of the division, which he had already succeeded in the previous year, and was also in the All-Star team of the national championship tournament of the entire NCAA game operations.

At the end of the 1979/80 season Laidlaw was appointed to the squad of the New Haven Nighthawks from the American Hockey League , which served as the farm team of the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League . The Rangers had already selected the defender in the sixth round in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft in 93rd place and then signed him. After the successful start in the professional field, Laidlaw was with the beginning of the season 1980/81 in the NHL squad of New York and shone there in the following seven years as a reliable defensive player. In March 1987 he was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings with Bobby Carpenter , while Jeff Crossman , Marcel Dionne and a third-round suffrage in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft moved to the New York Rangers. In Los Angeles, Laidlaw had three more NHL years to follow before he was given to the farm team in the lower class International Hockey League to the Phoenix Roadrunners at the beginning of the 1990/91 game year . There the 32-year-old ended his active career after only four missions before the end of the 1990 calendar year. As a result, Laidlaw decided to work as a player's agent.

Achievements and Awards

• 1979 CCHA First All-Star Team
• 1980 CCHA championship with Northern Michigan University
• 1980 CCHA First All-Star Team
• 1980 NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1976/77	Northern Michigan University	CCHA		32	1	13	14th	95
1977/78	Northern Michigan University	CCHA		24	1	7th	8th	95
1978/79	Northern Michigan University	CCHA		29	10	20th	30th	137
1979/80	Northern Michigan University	CCHA		39	8th	30th	38	83
1979/80	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		1	0	0	0	0		10	1	6th	7th	27
1980/81	New York Rangers	NHL		80	6th	23	29	100		14th	1	4th	5	18th
1981/82	New York Rangers	NHL		79	3	18th	21st	104		10	0	3	3	14th
1982/83	New York Rangers	NHL		80	0	10	10	75		9	1	1	2	10
1983/84	New York Rangers	NHL		79	3	15th	18th	62		5	0	0	0	8th
1984/85	New York Rangers	NHL		61	1	11	12	52		3	0	2	2	4th
1985/86	New York Rangers	NHL		68	6th	12	18th	103		7th	0	2	2	12
1986/87	New York Rangers	NHL		63	1	10	11	65		-	-	-	-	-
1986/87	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		11	0	3	3	4th		5	0	0	0	2
1987/88	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		57	1	12	13	47		5	0	2	2	4th
1988/89	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		70	3	17th	20th	63		11	2	3	5	6th
1989/90	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		57	1	8th	9	42		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Phoenix Roadrunners	IHL		4th	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				124	20th	70	90	410
NHL overall				705	25th	139	164	717		69	4th	17th	21st	78

( 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

• Tom Laidlaw at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Tom Laidlaw at eliteprospects.com (English)