Mike Gillis
Michael David Gillis ( born December 1, 1958 in Sudbury, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who was from 1978 to 1984 in the National Hockey League ( NHL) active. Since April 2008 he is the President and General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks.
- 2.1 Agent
- 2.2 General Manager
Playing career
Mike Gillis began his professional hockey career with the Kingston Canadians of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League. There he played in the years 1975 to 1978 in 111 games and gained in these 132 points scorer ( 39 goals and 93 assists). Due to a serious leg injury he had suffered in a game against Sudbury on 1 October 1976, Gillis had to expose almost the entire 1976/77 season. In the NHL Amateur Draft 1978, the left winger was selected in the first round of fifth overall by the Colorado Rockies.
In the season 1978/79 was followed by a brief interlude of two games with the Philadelphia Firebirds in the American Hockey League. Thereafter, he completed his first games with the Colorado Rockies in the National Hockey League. In 30 games this season he came on eight scorer points (one goal and seven assists ). By aftermath of a knee surgery that had been performed with him in 1978, Gillis could not finish completely unharmed even this season. The season 1979/80 spent the striker in both the Colorado Rockies, with whom he completed 40 games and nine points collected ( four goals and five assists ) and the Fort Worth Texans in the League Central Hockey League, where at 22 he points ( nine goals and 13 assists ) came.
The 1980/81 season began for Gillis in the Colorado Rockies. He denied there 51 games in which the winger came on 18 points scorer with eleven goals and seven assists. On February 18, 1981 Gillis was part of a transfer of assets between the Rockies and the Boston Bruins. They exchanged the left winger against Bob Miller. With his new team he scored in 17 games six points scorer, including two goals and four assists. The whole point yield this season of 24 points, including 13 goals and eleven originals should remain its Punktbestleistung in the NHL.
In his first full season with the Bruins 1981/82 Gillis played in 52 games this season and scored 17 points. In the subsequent playoffs he ran in eleven games and collected three points. A year later, the winger was a member of the team of the Baltimore Skipjacks of the American Hockey League. With these he was able to season as the fourth- best scorer of the league finish since he came to a total of 74 games on 113 points scorer, among them were 32 goals and 81 templates. In the same season, Gillis also completed five games for the Bruins, where he brought it to a template. In the following playoffs, he played twelve games with a yield of four points (one goal and three assists ). The season 1983/84 spent Gillis at the Bruins ( 17 points in 50 games ) and the Hershey Bears in the AHL ( 29 points in 26 games). In his final NHL playoff inserts the striker could produce no yield point.
Mike Gillis could not play the entire 1984/85 season, as he again drew upon a complicated broken leg in training camp. After this injury to return to professional sport was impossible, the Boston Bruins dismissed Gillis finally a year later in September 1985. The striker ended his professional hockey career then.
Talent
Gillis was a great talent, which explains the early selection in the NHL Amateur Draft 1978. He was versatile and played some cases even to the position of a defender. Due to the many and serious injuries, however, Gillis was the expectations that were placed in it, on the NHL level never meet.
Manager career
Agent
After Gillis had ended his active playing career, he coached the team the Golden Gaels of Queen's University in the Game 1985 / 86th The then active even in the NHL player was after 1990 at the above-mentioned Queen's University, a degree in law made , player agent. He was in charge from 1994 several prominent hockey players, such as Pavel Bure, Markus Naslund, Mike Richter, Bobby Holik and Pat Verbeek.
General Manager
The Vancouver Canucks were looking after the dismissal of Dave Nonis at the end of the season 2007/ 08 a new general manager. This they found in Mike Gillis, who succeeded Nonis on 23 April 2008. Since then, Gillis is in the post of general manager and president of Canucks Sports & Entertainment.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
( 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 )