Larry Playfair
Larry William Playfair ( born June 23, 1958 in Fort St. James, British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in his playing days from 1974 to 1990 among others for the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League. His younger brother Jim was also a professional hockey player.
Career
Larry Playfair began his career as a hockey player with the Langley Lords, for which he was active from 1974 to 1976 in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League. In parallel, he came to a total of four appearances for the Kamloops Chiefs of the Western Canada Hockey League. In this he was followed and ran from 1976 to 1978 for Kamloops League rivals Portland Winter Hawks on. At the Winter Hawks of the defenders made with good performances attracted attention and in 1978 was selected first team in the league -wide All-Star before he was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1978 in the first round than a total of 13 players from the Buffalo Sabres. The Sabres of links Sagittarius spent the next eight seasons, where he mainly in his rookie year for the farm team of the Sabres, the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, was on the ice.
On January 30, 1986 Playfair was given along with Sean McKenna and Ken Baumgartner in exchange for Brian Engblom and Doug Smith to the Los Angeles Kings, where he was employed in the following two seasons regularly, before the start of the 1988/89 season returned to Buffalo. The Sabres of Canadians graduated in 1990 at the age of 32 years of his career. Later he worked as a TV analyst at the games of his ex- clubs Buffalo Sabres. On the occasion of the Heroes of Hockey Game, which took place as part of the NHL All- Star Games, in 2001 he packed once the skates.