Danny Lawson

Danny Michael Lawson ( born October 30, 1947 in Toronto, Ontario; † 15 September 2008) was a Canadian ice hockey player ( Right Wing ), who from 1968 to 1977 for the Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars and Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League and the Philadelphia Blazers, Vancouver Blazers, Calgary Cowboys and Winnipeg Jets played in the World Hockey Association.

Career

As a junior he played with the Hamilton Red Wings in the OHA and could shine there. He came in the 1967/68 season for his first NHL - use with the Detroit Red Wings.

In de next season, he started at the Fort Worth Wings in the CHL, but soon he was reinstated in Detroit. There he could convince her and was delivered to the Minnesota North Stars. The North Stars have extraordinary skill flashed again and again, but he could not bring constant good performances and was so again and again. In the farm team, the Iowa Stars pushed in the CHL and the Cleveland Barons in the AHL Also in the 1971/72 season, which he spent with the Buffalo Sabres, he managed not to convince.

It was not until his move to the WHA to the Philadelphia Blazers, he made ​​his breakthrough. With 61 goals he was in the first season of the new League 1972/73 top scorer. Even with the move of the team, which then as Vancouver Blazers and later played as Calgary Cowboys, he was one of the Topscorern. 1977 just before the end of his career he moved together with Mike Ford to the Winnipeg Jets.

In the 80s, Lawson came to Germany. In the 1986/87 season he played in the team of the EC Hedos Munich and helped the team to promotion to the second division. There he trained in the following season, the SV Bayreuth.

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Sporting successes

Personal Awards

• WHA First All -Star Team: 1973