Wayne Merrick

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Wayne Merrick
Date of birth April 23, 1952
place of birth Sarnia , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1972 , 1st lap, 9th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1969-1972 Ottawa 67's
1972-1975 St. Louis Blues
1975-1976 California Golden Seals
1976-1988 Cleveland Barons
1978-1984 New York Islanders

Leonard Wayne Merrick (born April 23, 1952 in Sarnia , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The center played over 800 games between 1973 and 1984 for the St. Louis Blues , California Golden Seals , Cleveland Barons and New York Islanders in the National Hockey League . With the Islanders he spent most of his career and won four Stanley Cups with them .

Career

Wayne Merrick was born in Sarnia and played there in his youth for the Sarnia Black Hawks before joining the Ottawa 67’s in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), the highest-ranking junior league in his home province, for the 1969/70 season . In the 67's, the center established itself as a regular scorer, so he scored 95 scorer points in 62 games in the 1971/72 season and was then selected in the NHL Amateur Draft in 1972 in ninth position by the St. Louis Blues . After 22 games with the Denver Spurs in the Western Hockey League , the farm team of the Blues, Merrick earned himself a regular place in St. Louis in the further course of the 1972/73 season. With 28 goals and 37 assists from 76 games, the attacker achieved his personal career best in his second full NHL season before he was handed over to the California Golden Seals in November 1975 after just over three years in the organization of the Blues . In return, St. Louis received Larry Patey and a third-round vote for the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft . In California, Merrick ended the current season and moved the franchise to Cleveland in the summer of 1976 , where the team was henceforth called Cleveland Barons . After his first and only complete season with the Barons, he represented his home country with the Canadian national team at the 1977 World Cup , where he finished fourth.

After Merrick had missed part of the 1977/78 season due to injuries, he was given in January 1978 together with Darcy Regier and a four-round suffrage in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft to the New York Islanders . In return, Jean-Paul Parisé and Jean Potvin moved to Cleveland before the team merged with the Minnesota North Stars at the end of the season . The Islanders, on the other hand, represented one of the emerging teams in the league, which was to establish its own era with four Stanley Cup victories in a row from 1980 to 1983. Merrick played mainly in a row with John Tonelli and Bob Nystrom and was entrusted with them mainly with defensive tasks, but especially in the playoffs, the trio also managed a number of decisive goals, some in overtime . Merrick himself scored the game-winning goal in the last game of the Stanley Cup final in 1981 , while this year with 18 points from 18 games should also produce his personal best playoff statistics. After the Canadian had missed the fifth title in a row with the Islanders in the 1984 final and was instead defeated by the Edmonton Oilers , he declared his active career over.

In total, Merrick scored 210 goals with 505 points scorer in 876 NHL games. After the end of his career, he was involved in broadcasts for the New York Islanders as a TV expert and from then on worked full-time in the insurance industry.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1980 Stanley Cup win with the New York Islanders
  • 1981 Stanley Cup win with the New York Islanders
  • 1982 Stanley Cup win with the New York Islanders
  • 1983 Stanley Cup win with the New York Islanders

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1969/70 Ottawa 67's OHA 51 10 17th 27 10 5 0 2 2 0
1970/71 Ottawa 67's OHA 62 34 42 76 41 11 6th 8th 14th 4th
1971/72 Ottawa 67's OHA 62 39 56 95 21st 18th 13 6th 19th 0
1972/73 Denver Spurs WHL 22nd 6th 13 19th 6th - - - - - -
1972/73 St. Louis Blues NHL 50 10 11 21st -2 10 5 0 1 1 -2 2
1973/74 St. Louis Blues NHL 64 20th 23 43 –11 32 - - - - - -
1974/75 St. Louis Blues NHL 76 28 37 65 +29 57 2 1 1 2 -1 0
1975/76 St. Louis Blues NHL 19th 7th 8th 15th ± 0 0 - - - - - -
1975/76 California Golden Seals NHL 56 25th 27 52 -3 36 - - - - - -
1976/77 Cleveland Barons NHL 80 18th 38 56 -21 25th - - - - - -
1977/78 Cleveland Barons NHL 18th 2 5 7th -10 8th - - - - - -
1977/78 New York Islanders NHL 37 10 14th 24 +2 8th 7th 1 0 1 -1 0
1978/79 New York Islanders NHL 75 20th 21st 41 +13 24 10 2 3 5 -1 2
1979/80 New York Islanders NHL 70 13 22nd 35 +12 16 21st 2 4th 6th –9 2
1980/81 New York Islanders NHL 71 16 15th 31 +12 30th 18th 6th 12 18th +12 8th
1981/82 New York Islanders NHL 68 12 27 39 +4 20th 19th 6th 6th 12 +4 6th
1982/83 New York Islanders NHL 59 4th 12 16 -3 27 19th 1 3 4th -1 10
1983/84 New York Islanders NHL 31 6th 5 11 +2 10 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0
OHA total 175 83 115 198 72 34 19th 16 35 4th
NHL overall 774 191 265 456 +24 303 102 19th 30th 49 +1 30th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1977 Canada WM 4th Place 10 4th 3 7th 10
Men overall 10 4th 3 7th 10

( 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 )

Personal

His son Andrew Merrick was also a professional ice hockey player and was selected in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft at 169th position by the Carolina Hurricanes , but without ever playing in the NHL.

Web links

Commons : Wayne Merrick  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wayne Merrick at hockeydraftcentral.com (accessed November 20, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Merrick, Wayne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merrick, Leonard Wayne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnia , Ontario , Canada