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
Coaching stations | |
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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
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Career statistics
Player statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||
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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
- Vic Stasiuk in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Vic Stasiuk at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Vic Stasiuk at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stasiuk, Victor. ashfm.ca, accessed June 2, 2018 .
personal data | |
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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 |