Danny Gare

Daniel Mirl Gare ( born May 14, 1954 in Nelson, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who is captain of the Buffalo Sabres and the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League was.

Career

Danny Gare began his career in 1971 in the Canadian Junior Football League with the Calgary Centennials WCHL. While he did not eye-catching performances in his first season, he has developed in his second year at a good scorer, scoring 88 points in 65 games. Only in the NHL Amateur Draft 1974, he was selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round at position 29, after he had achieved in Calgary in the 1973/74 season 127 points.

In his first year in Buffalo, he was able to convince and gathered like 62 points. The team pushed on to the finals for the Stanley Cup, but where they lost. Gare stood with Don Luce and Craig Ramsay in a forward line. While he was missing injured in the 1976/77 season a long time, he was appointed in the autumn of 1977 to the team captain of the Sabres. Danny Gare continued his good performances continued as a point forming and defensively strong striker and was in the 1979/80 season with 56 goals, along with Charlie Simmer and Blaine Stoughton top scorer in the NHL. At the same time, he scored 89 points the best result of his career.

After another strong season with 85 points, he was 1981/82 transferred to the Detroit Red Wings. Prior to the 1982/83 season, he took over the post of captain of the Red Wings, who belonged to this period of the worst teams in the league. His points haul went in the following years decreased significantly and he was able to bring in the 1983/84 season only 26 points in 63 games. But the team made ​​this season a step forward and qualified after a long time for the playoffs, what had committed only in the fall of 1983, 18- year-old Steve Yzerman large proportion.

Gare played two more years for Detroit before his contract expired in the summer of 1986. He left the team and Yzerman took over the " C" of the Team Captain. Then signed a contract with the Gare Edmonton Oilers, who were riddled with superstars such as Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier and Paul Coffey. The team was able to win the Stanley Cup in the 1986/87 season, but since Gare was out of the playoffs for the use and only 18 season games had denied that his name was not engraved on the trophy.

In the summer of 1987 he left America and moved to the ECD Iserlohn to Germany. However, more than a test match he did not complete there. After it was in previous years because of financial inconsistencies of the association to house search, which also Gare was concerned, he left Germany again and ended his career.

Shortly after, he got a job as a commentator and expert on the television broadcast of the game of the Buffalo Sabres. He remained there until 1992, when he became a TV commentator for the Tampa Bay Lightning, who stood before their first NHL season. In the summer of 1993 he took the post as an assistant coach of Tampa Bay and remained in that position for two years. In 1995 he returned to Buffalo, where for a year he commented that the Sabres games on the radio before he again worked in television in 1996 for the Buffalo Sabres and it did until 2004.

2005 honored the Buffalo Sabres Danny Gare, where they hung a banner with his number 18 in a ceremony at the hall ceiling, the HSBC Arena. The number is assigned to no more players the Sabres. Gare is the fifth player in team history to receive this honor came.

Since 2006, he analyzed the televised games of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

NHL stats

Awards and achievements

  • Canada Cup 1976
  • Scorer in the NHL 1980 ( together with Charlie Simmer and Blaine Stoughton )
  • NHL Second All-Star Team in 1980
  • NHL All-Star Game in 1980 and 1981
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