Dave Gardner (ice hockey)
David Calvin Gardner ( born August 23, 1952 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1970 to 1985 among others for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, California Golden Seals, Cleveland Barons and Philadelphia Flyers has played in the National Hockey League. His father, Cal and his brother Paul were also professional hockey players. His son Ryan has worked as a professional hockey player.
Career
Dave Gardner began his career as a hockey player with the Toronto Marlboros, for which he was active from 1970 to 1972 in the Ontario Hockey Association. He was then selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1972 in the first round as a whole eighth player of the Montreal Canadiens. For the team from Quebec, the attacker was in the 1972/73 season his debut in the National Hockey League, but played mainly for their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. After he began the following season in Montreal, he was given in exchange for a Erstundenwahlrecht for the NHL Amateur Draft 1974 to the St. Louis Blues just before the trade deadline. For the Blues, he ran only 23 times before moving to the beginning of the season 1974/75 to their league rivals California Golden Seals. From 1976 to 1978 played the right shooter for its successor team, the Cleveland Barons.
After the franchise of the Cleveland Barons was disbanded in the summer of 1978 spent Gardner much of the 1978/79 season in the Central Hockey League, where he played for the Tulsa Oilers and Dallas Blackhawks, before the game time at the Springfield Indians in the AHL finished. In his last year in North America, the Center came in addition to the games for the AHL team, the Binghamton Dusters and Maine Mariners and two appearances in the NHL for the Philadelphia Flyers. Then stood up to the Canadian end of his career in 1985 in Switzerland under contract, where he ran aground on the HC Ambri -Piotta and EHC Visp.