Vic Stasiuk

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CanadaCanada  Vic Stasiuk Ice hockey player
Vic Stasiuk
Date of birth May 23, 1929
place of birth Lethbridge , Alberta , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1948-1950 Kansas City Pla-Mors / Mohawks
1950 Chicago Black Hawks
1950-1955 Detroit Red Wings
Edmonton Flyers
1955-1961 Boston Bruins
1961-1963 Detroit Red Wings
1962-1965 Pittsburgh Hornets
1965-1966 Memphis wings

Victor John "Vic" Stasiuk (born May 23, 1929 in Lethbridge , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach . The left winger completed over 800 games for the Chicago Black Hawks , Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League between 1950 and 1963 , winning the Stanley Cup twice with the Red Wings . He then supervised the Philadelphia Flyers , the California Golden Seals and the Vancouver Canucks as head coach in the NHL .

Career

As a player

Vic Stasiuk was born in Lethbridge and played there in his youth for the Lethbridge Native Sons in the Alberta Junior Hockey League . For the 1948/48 season he moved to the United States Hockey League (USHL), a minor league in the United States, and was active in this from then on for the Kansas City Pla-Mors , who were renamed Mohawks the following year . From the USHL, the winger made it into the National Hockey League (NHL) towards the end of the 1949/50 season when the Chicago Black Hawks signed him . In Chicago, however, he only spent a year before he and Bert Olmstead were handed over to the Detroit Red Wings in December 1950 , which in return transferred Steve Black and Lee Fogolin to the Black Hawks.

Stasiuk then had his most successful period in Detroit, winning the Stanley Cup with the team in 1952 and 1955 . However, he was not a permanent member of the Red Wings NHL squad, but was also regularly on the ice for the Edmonton Flyers in the Western Hockey League (WHL), where he was appointed to the WHL First All-Star Team in 1953 after 80 scorer points from 48 games has been. In addition, this had the consequence that the Canadian was not immortalized in the third success of the Red Wings in this period ( 1954 ) at the Stanley Cup, as he was only used in the regular season and not in the playoffs.

In June 1955, the Red Wings sent him with Terry Sawchuk , Marcel Bonin and Lorne Davis to the Boston Bruins and received Ed Sandford , Réal Chevrefils , Norm Corcoran , Gilles Boisvert and Warren Godfrey . In Boston, Stasiuk formed the Uke Line with Johnny Bucyk and Bronco Horvath , a successful attack series that got its name from the Ukrainian descent of the three players. All three attackers achieved outstanding offensive statistics at the end of the 1950s, so Stasiuk recorded his career best in the 1959/60 season with 68 points from 69 games, placed among the ten best scorers in the league and also represented the team in the NHL All - Star Game 1960 .

In January 1961, Stasiuk returned to Detroit when the Red Wings and Leo Labine bought him and sent Gary Aldcorn , Murray Oliver and Tom McCarthy to Boston. He was then active for three more years for the Red Wings before he let his career end with the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American Hockey League and the Memphis Wings in the Central Professional Hockey League . In 1966 he ended his active career, where he completed a total of 811 games in the NHL and recorded 471 points scorer.

As a trainer

CanadaCanada  Vic Stasiuk
Coaching stations
1963-1965 Pittsburgh Hornets
1965-1966 Memphis wings
1966-1967 Jersey Devils
1967-1969 As de Québec
1969-1971 Philadelphia Flyers
1971-1972 California Golden Seals
1972-1973 Vancouver Canucks
1973-1974 Denver Spurs
1976-1977 Taber Golden Suns
1977-1979 Medicine Hat Tigers
1980 Lethbridge Broncos

During his last three active years, Stasiuk acted as a player-coach in Pittsburgh and Memphis. He then looked after the Jersey Devils from the Eastern Hockey League and the As de Québec from the AHL, where he was honored in 1968 with the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award as the best coach of the AHL. For the 1969/70 season he was hired as the new head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers and thus returned to the NHL. As the second coach in franchise history , he led the team into the playoffs in his second year, losing 4-0 to the Chicago Black Hawks and was subsequently replaced by Fred Shero . In the same year he joined the California Golden Seals to succeed Fred Glover , who was dismissed only a few games after the beginning of the 1971/72 season. He coached the Golden Seals only one season as the following year the Vancouver Canucks , which should be his last NHL station.

In the years to come, Stasiuk did not work for a team for more than two years, so he still looked after the Denver Spurs from the Western Hockey League in the professional field before he took over three junior teams with the Taber Golden Suns , Medicine Hat Tigers and Lethbridge Broncos . In 1980 he ended his coaching career.

In 2009 he was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1948/49 Kansas City Pla-Mors USHL 66 7th 3 20th 52 2 0 0 0 0
1949/50 Kansas City Mohawks USHL 39 10 13 23 27 - - - - - -
1949/50 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 17th 1 1 2 2 - - - - - -
1950/51 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 21st 5 3 8th 6th - - - - - -
1950/51 Detroit Red Wings NHL 49 3 10 13 12 - - - - - -
1951/52 Indianapolis Capitals AHL 8th 7th 1 8th 6th - - - - - -
1951/52 Detroit Red Wings NHL 58 5 9 14th 19th 7th 0 2 2 0
1952/53 Edmonton Flyers WHL 48 37 43 80 71 - - - - - -
1952/53 Detroit Red Wings NHL 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - - -
1953/54 Edmonton Flyers WHL 21st 6th 12 18th 37 13 2 6th 8th 23
1953/54 Detroit Red Wings NHL 42 5 2 7th 4th - - - - - -
1954/55 Edmonton Flyers WHL 11 7th 6th 13 32 - - - - - -
1954/55 Detroit Red Wings NHL 59 8th 11 19th 67 11 5 3 8th 6th
1955/56 Boston Bruins NHL 59 19th 18th 37 118 - - - - - -
1956/57 Boston Bruins NHL 64 24 16 40 67 10 2 1 3 2
1957/58 Boston Bruins NHL 70 21st 35 56 55 12 0 5 5 13
1958/59 Boston Bruins NHL 70 27 33 60 63 7th 4th 2 6th 11
1959/60 Boston Bruins NHL 69 27 39 68 -4 121 - - - - - -
1960/61 Boston Bruins NHL 46 5 25th 30th –6 33 - - - - - -
1960/61 Detroit Red Wings NHL 23 10 13 23 -2 16 11 2 5 7th +5 4th
1961/62 Detroit Red Wings NHL 59 15th 28 43 +1 45 - - - - - -
1962/63 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 22nd 9 20th 29 24 - - - - - -
1962/63 Detroit Red Wings NHL 36 6th 11 17th +1 37 8th 3 0 3 -1 4th
1963/64 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 42 10 10 20th 32 5 0 0 0 4th
1964/65 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 63 14th 21st 35 58 3 0 0 0 0
1965/66 Memphis wings CPHL 25th 9 3 12 14th - - - - - -
USHL total 105 17th 26th 43 79 2 0 0 0 0
WHL overall 80 50 61 111 140 13 2 6th 8th 23
AHL total 135 40 52 92 120 8th 0 0 0 4th
NHL overall 745 183 254 437 665 66 16 18th 34 40

( 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 )

NHL coaching statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U Pt Pt% Place (division) Sp S. N result
1969/70 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 76 17th 35 24 58 .382 5th, west not qualified
1970/71 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 78 28 33 17th 73 .468 3rd, west 4th 0 4th Quarter finals
1971/72 California Golden Seals NHL 75 21st 38 16 58 .387 6th, west not qualified
1972/73 Vancouver Canucks NHL 78 22nd 47 9 53 .340 7th, East not qualified
NHL overall 307 88 153 66 242 .394 0 division title 4th 0 4th 0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stasiuk, Victor. ashfm.ca, accessed June 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stasiuk, Vic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stasiuk, Victor John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Lethbridge , Alberta , Canada