Darryl Sittler
Darryl Sittler Glen ( born September 18, 1950 in Kitchener, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played from 1970 to 1985 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League. His brother Gary and his son Ryan were also professional hockey players.
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Career
Sittler grew up as one of eight children in native conditions in the country on this rural and working attitude he maintained throughout his career at. In the Ontario Hockey Association, he went into the 1967/68 season first for the London Nationals on the ice, where he finished his rookie season as the best scorer of the team. After the sale of the team and renamed to the name of the London Knights Sittler stayed two years play in the OHA, in which the striker was again the best scorer of the team was promoted in 1969 elected to the All-Star second team in the league. In the NHL Amateur Draft 1970, he was selected in the first round as the eighth player from the Toronto Maple Leafs. With his determination and a combination of good shot and runs -driven strength he was from the 1972/73 season until the end of the 1970s, eight seasons in a row, Toronto's always scorer after he acts rather unremarkable in the first two seasons. At first he had acted on the position of the left winger, but was changed after his second NHL season on the position of the center. During this period, the Maple Leafs were in rebuilding after numerous players ended the career or had left the team in a barter. 1975 Dave Keon went to the World Hockey Association and Sittler was appointed as his successor in Toronto to the team captain of the Leafs.
During the 1975/76 season he scored on February 7, 1976 game against the Boston Bruins ten points. Although goalie Gerry Cheevers was the Bruins available, head coach Don Cherry decided to give him a rest and instead put the inexperienced Dave Reece as the starting goalkeeper on. Sittler scored six goals in that game and four assists, with the striker in the second and last third of each recorded a hat-trick. With ten points in this game he broke the NHL record set by Maurice Richard, who once scored eight points in a game. In the same season, Sittler scored in a playoff game against the Philadelphia Flyers into the net five times, another still valid record he shares with several players. Sittler managed together with Lanny McDonald and Börje Salming not the Leafs to the Stanley Cup to lead. In the season 1977/78 Sittler reached its Karrierebestwert of 117 points scorer in the regular season.
In December 1979, the management of the Leafs Lanny McDonald transferred to the Colorado Rockies, whereupon Sittler temporarily resigned in protest from his post as team captain. His former advisor was Alan Eagleson, who also looks after the NHL star Bobby Orr. It managed to calm things down and Sittler was again captain of the Leafs, but two years later it no longer held him in Toronto, and he asked for a change of club. The agreement made on his own request barter took place in January 1982, when the Leafs charges the striker in exchange for the rights to Rich Costello and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 at the Philadelphia Flyers, where he remained three years. This was followed by one last year in Detroit. After it had transferred to the Detroit Red Wings, the Flyers, the striker initially refused to play in Hockeytown.
In 1989, Sittler was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1991 he was appointed as Special Consultant to the Maple Leafs, a position he held until 1997. Later he worked in Toronto in the areas of marketing and public relations.
1997 brought him the journal The Hockey News ranked the 93 best NHL players of all time. After the end of his playing career, the Toronto Maple Leafs detained on February 8, 2003 his shirt number 27
Internationally
For Canada Sittler participated in the World Championships in 1982 and 1983 as well as the Canada Cup in 1976 in part. At the Canada Cup in 1976, he scored in the second game of the final series against Czechoslovakia the winning goal in extra time to win the tournament for the Canadians. At the World Cup finals in 1982 and 1983 he reached with the Canadians each third place and won the bronze medal.
Furthermore, the attacker for the team of NHL All-Stars played the Challenge Cup in 1979, when these three games completed against the national team of the USSR.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Records
Sittler presented in his career to a total of two records that have 1976 members since year.
On 7 February 1976, it succeeded the Canadians as the only player in the NHL history to achieve ten points scorer in a game. In 11:4 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Boston Bruins, he scored six goals and prepared four more before. Good two months later, Sittler on another record. In the playoff game the Maple Leafs against the Philadelphia Flyers on April 22, 1976, he met five times in 8:5 victory. The record shall inform the striker with four other players - Newsy Lalonde, Maurice Richard, Reggie Leach and Mario Lemieux.
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- Canada Cup 1976
- World Cup 1982
- World Cup 1983
Represented National Hockey League at:
- Challenge Cup 1979
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )