Curt Giles
Curtis Jon Giles ( born November 30, 1958 in The Pas, Manitoba ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1973 to 1993 among others for the Minnesota North Stars, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League played.
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Career
Curt Giles began his career as a hockey player with the Humboldt Broncos, for which he was active from 1973 to 1975 in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. Then he attended for four years, the University of Minnesota Duluth, for their hockey team he played parallel to his studies in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1978 in the fourth round as a total of 54 players, of the Minnesota North Stars. In the 1979/80 season the defender made his debut for the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League, played in parallel but also for their farm team in Oklahoma City Stars of the Central Hockey League. In the following six years he was one of the leading players in the franchise of the Minnesota North Stars. He also began the 1986/87 season before he was released to the league rival New York Rangers in November 1986. Almost exactly one year later, he returned shortly after the beginning of the 1987/88 season to Minnesota back. The majority of the 1991/92 season he spent with the Olympiavorbreitung of Team Canada. Following the Winter Games he finished the season with the St. Louis Blues of the NHL, where he ended his career at the age of 34 years following the 1992/93 season.
Internationally
For Canada Giles took part in the 1982 World Cup and the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville. In the 1982 World Cup, he won the bronze at the Winter Games in 1992 the silver medal with his team.