Greg Hawgood
Greg Hawgood ( born August 10, 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. During his career he played for the Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, Vancouver Canucks and Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League and Tappara Tampere and TPS Turku in the Finnish SM- liiga and the Kölner Haie in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
Career
Hawgood played first five years 1983-1988 in the Western Hockey League with the Kamloops Blazers and Kamloops Chiefs. There he rendered so good performances that he was elected between 1986 and 1988 three times in a row to West First All-Star Team in 1984 and 1986 with the crew of the Blazers won the President's Cup, twice a Memorial Cup tournament and the Junior World Championships 1987 and 1988 participated. He won the gold medal in 1988. His shirt number 4 was not awarded after his departure at the Blazers.
After the defense had already been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1986 in the tenth round at 202 position of the Boston Bruins, he still played in the 1987/88 season his first game in the NHL. From the season 1988/89 Hawgood belonged to the permanent staff of the Bruins before he was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers for Vladimír Růžička shortly after the beginning of the season 1990/91. There the Canadians played for the time being only in the farm team in the American Hockey League, making it the Eddie Shore Award was awarded for the best defender of the AHL in 1992. The following season, the Oilers Hawgood to the Philadelphia Flyers gave off. Until the game in 1996/97 was followed by other changes to the Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins and San Jose Sharks, but only in San Jose, he was able to work out a place in the NHL squad.
For the 1997/98 season left Hawgood North America and ran into some games on for the Cologne Sharks of the German Ice Hockey League before moving to the Houston Aeros in the International Hockey League. In the IHL he had won in 1995/ 96, the Governor's Trophy for the best defender. He repeated this success in the 1998/99 season when he won the now renamed Larry D. Gordon Trophy Trophy for the second time. Like the San Jose Sharks three years earlier were aware of him, the Vancouver Canucks through the services Hawgoods and committed him to the Millennium season. After his first full NHL season since 1996/ 97, he was deported to the farm team again the following year, after which he moved to the Dallas Stars. He did not make the jump to the NHL again and went in the summer of 2003 on the Chicago Wolves in the AHL.
The 2005/06 season, his last as an active player, spent the Canadians in the Finnish SM- liiga in Tappara Tampere and Turku TPS. From November 8, 2007, he was head coach of the Kamloops Blazers, however, was the end of season 2007/ 08 replaced. In the 2009/10 season Hawgood was head coach at the Kamloops Storm in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League.