Gordie Roberts
Gordon Douglas Roberts ( born October 2, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player. Between 1975 and 1994, he completed a total of 1250 games in the National Hockey League as well as more than 350 games in the World Hockey Association in the position of the defender. In 1991 and 1992 he won with the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup. At the international level, he participated with the U.S. national team in two World Championships and at the Canada Cup in 1984. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Career
Roberts was born in Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. His parents were big fans of the Detroit Red Wings and named it after Red Wings legend Gordie Howe.
As a junior player he was, among others, in 1973/74 is active for the Detroit Jr. Red Wings in the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League and in the season 1974/75 for the Victoria Cougars in the Western Canada Hockey League. In August 1975 he signed a contract with the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association (WHA ). For the Whalers, he completed in the next four years 357 WHA games. During this time he was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft in 1977 by the Montreal Canadiens. After the WHA ceased the operation of gambling and the Whalers were included in the National Hockey League ( NHL), the Hartford Whalers received the NHL rights to the player of the Canadiens via the NHL Expansion Draft 1979.
On December 16, 1980, he was transerfiert of the Whalers to the Minnesota North Stars, Hartford received in return Mike Fidler. After eight seasons in Minnesota, where he established himself as a tough player, he was released on 8 February 1988 at the Philadelphia Flyers. After only eleven games for the Flyers, he was passed on to the St. Louis Blues, where he spent the next four seasons.
In October 1990, Gordie Roberts was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins. In Pittsburgh, the defensive player had his most successful period sporty and won in the seasons 1990/91 and 1991/92 the Stanley Cup. Following the second Stanley Cup winning his contract ran out and Roberts signed a new contract with the Boston Bruins, where he was active from 1992 to 1994. In the 1992/93 season he became the first American who has completed more than 1,000 games in the National Hockey League.
After Roberts played between 1994 and 1996 for the Chicago Wolves and the Minnesota Moose of the International Hockey League, he finished his playing career. He then worked from 1997 to 1999 for two seasons as an assistant coach Jim Schoenfeld at the Phoenix Coyotes. From 2007 to 2010 he was a scout with the Montreal Canadiens. Since the season 2011/12 he is an assistant coach for the hockey team Hamline University, a private university in the U.S. state of Minnesota, which plays in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA).
1999 Gordie Roberts was taken for his services around the sport of ice hockey in the United States in the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.
Internationally
Gordie Roberts represented his country with the U.S. national team for the first time at the 1982 World Cup, where he finished in eighth and last place with his team. He had another use in Canada Cup in 1984, in which the Americans missed a medal rank in the semifinals against the Swedish national team. He had his third and final use in the 1987 World Championships, which ended the American selection in seventh place.
Family
Gordie's older brother Doug Roberts graduated among others between 1965 and 1975 a total of 435 games in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals / California Golden Seals and the Boston Bruins. Doug's son and nephew David Gordie Roberts played in the 1990s, also in the NHL and ended in 2004 after three years at the polar bear Berlin in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga his playing career.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
Internationally
( 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 )