Dan Hodgson
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Daniel W. " Dan " Hodgson ( born August 29, 1965 in Fort Vermillion, Alberta ) is a former Swiss- Canadian professional ice hockey player who from 1985 to 2004 for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League, the EC Hedos Munich played in the hockey league and for different clubs in Switzerland.
Career
At 15, he was in the Cowichan Valley Capitals in a team with Geoff Courtnall, Dave O'Brien and Rick Nasheim. As a junior he played for the Prince Albert Raiders of the Western Hockey League. After a strong season, the Toronto Maple Leafs picked him at the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 in the fifth round as 83. It was followed by two outstanding years in the WHL, where he scored over 180 points each. Especially in 1985, when he was the Memorial Cup win with his team, he has won many awards. He was the best player in the final round of the Memorial Cup, but also followed Mario Lemieux as the CHL Player of the Year.
After a decent start in the NHL in the 1985/86 season with 25 points in 40 games, he was sent to the AHL farm team of the St. Catharines Saints. The following year, they gave him from the Vancouver Canucks. Again, he did not make the breakthrough and played again and again in the AHL with the Fredericton Express and in the IHL for the Milwaukee Admirals.
In 1989 he decided to move to Europe one. He played two games in Austria, the EHC Lustenau, but most of the season he spent in Switzerland in Fribourg- Gottéron. For the 1990/91 season brought him the EC Hedos Munich to Germany. Injuries disabled him in his first year, in the following season, although he was the best scorer of Munich, but could not meet the high expectations. Here he met with Ken Berry on a player with whom he had played in Vancouver.
He joined the Swiss National League B. From the 1994/95 season he played for HC Davos again top notch. Thanks to the marriage with a Swiss woman he had received Swiss citizenship and no longer burdened the foreigner quota. After four years in Davos, he joined the 1998/99 season to the ZSC Lions. It was in these years one of the top players of the Swiss league. After a year at the EHC Basel in 2004, he returned to Fribourg- Gottéron back to end his active career there in 2005.
NHL stats
Sporting successes
- Memorial Cup: 1985
- Gold medal at the World Youth Championship: 1985
- Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions: 2000 and 2001
Personal Awards
- Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy: 1983
- WHL East First All-Star Team: 1985
- CHL Player of the Year: 1985
- Memorial Cup Tournament All-Star Team: 1985
- Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy: 1985