Bill Hajt

Bill Hajt
Date of birth	November 18, 1951
place of birth	Radisson , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	defender
number	# 24
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1971 , 3rd round, 33rd position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1967-1971	Saskatoon Blades
1972-1974	Cincinnati Swords
1974-1987	Buffalo Sabers

William Albert Hajt (* 18th November 1951 in Radisson , Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1967 to 1987 among other 934 games for the Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League on the position of the defender has denied . His son Chris Hajt was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Hajt began his junior career with the Saskatoon Blades , for whom he played in the Western Canada Hockey League between 1967 and 1971 . The defender increased his points in four consecutive years of play from the beginning of 14 to 72 points . This led to the fact that he was selected in the third round in the third round of the Buffalo Sabers from the National Hockey League in 1971 in the NHL Amateur Draft .

Although he had left the junior division after the 1970/71 season , Hajt could not agree on a contract with the Buffalo Sabers over the summer of 1971. Since no agreement had been reached between the two parties during the current season, the Canadian suspended the entire 1971/72 season with ice hockey. It was not until the 1972/73 season that the defender signed a contract in the Sabers franchise and was used for their farm team , the Cincinnati Swords , in the American Hockey League . With 35 points in 69 appearances, Hajt was able to impress in his rookie season and celebrated winning the Calder Cup with the Swords at the end of the season . For Cincinnati he ran - with the exception of his first six games for Buffalo in the NHL - also in the 1973/74 season .

It was not until the 1974/75 season that the defensive player was given a regular place in Buffalo's squad. He convinced with 29 points scorer in 76 games - the best season record of his career - and reached the final of the Stanley Cup with the Sabers in the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1975 . There the team was subject to the Philadelphia Flyers . In the following years Hajt developed into an indispensable player in Buffalo's defense network, who only had a negative plus / minus balance once in his 13 seasons . Overall, he played for the Sabers until the end of the 1986/87 season , before ending his career in the summer of 1987 at the age of 35 after a number of injuries.

Achievements and Awards

• 1973 Calder Cup win with the Cincinnati Swords

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1967/68	Saskatoon Blades	WCHL		60	4th	10	14th	35		7th	0	1	1	2
1968/69	Saskatoon Blades	WCHL		60	3	18th	21st	54		4th	0	0	0	0
1969/70	Saskatoon Blades	WCHL		60	10	21st	31	40		7th	2	3	5	8th
1970/71	Saskatoon Blades	WCHL		66	19th	53	72	50		5	1	4th	5	2
1971/72	without a contract			not played because of contractual dispute
1972/73	Cincinnati Swords	AHL		69	4th	31	35	40	15th	2	9	11	14th
1973/74	Cincinnati Swords	AHL		66	5	30th	35	66	5	0	4th	4th	4th
1973/74	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		6th	0	2	2	0	-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		76	3	26th	29	68	17th	1	4th	5	18th
1975/76	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		80	6th	21st	27	48	9	0	1	1	15th
1976/77	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		79	6th	20th	26th	56	6th	0	1	1	4th
1977/78	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		76	4th	18th	22nd	30th	8th	0	0	0	2
1978/79	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		40	3	8th	11	20th	-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		75	4th	12	16	24	14th	0	5	5	4th
1980/81	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		68	2	19th	21st	42	8th	0	2	2	17th
1981/82	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		65	2	9	11	44	2	0	0	0	0
1982/83	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		72	3	12	15th	26th	10	0	0	0	4th
1983/84	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		79	3	24	27	32	3	0	0	0	0
1984/85	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		57	5	13	18th	14th	3	1	3	4th	6th
1985/86	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		58	1	16	17th	25th	-	-	-	-	-
1986/87	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		23	0	2	2	4th	-	-	-	-	-
WCHL overall				246	36	102	138	179	23	3	8th	11	12
AHL total				135	9	61	70	106	20th	2	13	15th	18th
NHL overall				854	42	202	244	433	80	2	16	18th	70

( 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

• Bill Hajt at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Bill Hajt at eliteprospects.com (English)