Ed Hatoum
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Ed Hatoum ( born December 7, 1947 in Beirut ) is a former Canadian- Lebanese ice hockey player and coach, who in his active years from 1968 to 1974 for the Detroit Red Wings and Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and the Chicago Cougars and Vancouver Blazers played in the World Hockey Association.
Career
The native Lebanese Ed Hatoum emigrated in 1957 with his family to Canada, where he began his career as a hockey player. First he played from 1964 to 1968 in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey Association for the Hamilton Red Wings. Subsequently, the winger has been committed by the Detroit Red Wings, for he was the first player of his country in the National Hockey League was on the ice in the 1968/69 season. He also played this season for the Baltimore Clippers of the American Hockey League. In Detroit itself Hatoum could not prevail, so that he came there in his second season only five appearances and the majority of the year was active for the Fort Worth Wings of the Central Hockey League.
On June 10, 1970 Hatoum in the NHL Expansion Draft was selected by the Vancouver Canucks, for whom he in the following season in 26 games four points scorer, including a goal scored, before it in the course of the season to the Seattle Totems of the Western Hockey League was borrowed. The 1971/72 season Hatoum spent exclusively in the AHL, where he stood for the Rochester Americans on the ice. This was followed by one year each for the Chicago Cougars and the Vancouver Blazers in the World Hockey Association, before he trailed off his career from 1974 to 1977 at the Nelson Maple Leafs in the Western International Hockey League, he also in the season 1974/75 served as player-coach.