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| 1977 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Bill Stewart
Selected in
fourth round
No. 68 overall by Buffalo Sabres
Born October
6, 1957
 | Position:
Defense
Height: 6-2 Weight: 190
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Niagara Falls (OMJHL)
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
Hometown:
Toronto, Ontario |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1973-74 |
Dixie | OPJHL | 41 |
9 | 24 |
33 | 38 | | 1974-75 |
Kitchener | OMJHL |
55 | 6 |
15 | 21 |
70 | | 1975-76 |
Kitchener | OMJHL |
4 | 1 |
3 | 4 |
4 | | |
St. Catharines | OMJHL |
48 | 9 |
31 | 40 |
57 | | 1976-77 |
Niagara Falls | OMJHL |
59 | 18 |
37 | 55 |
202 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
Miscellaneous: Traded by Kitchener with Ken Campbell and Marc Thiel to St.
Catharines in exchange for Joe Grant in December 1975. |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 13, 1977 (N.Y. Islanders at
Buffalo)
Numbers: 3 (Buffalo); 20, 33 (St. Louis); 17
(Toronto); 13 (Minnesota)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Playing Status: Retired 1995 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | | 1977-1986 |
BUF, STL, TOR, MIN | 261 |
7 | 64 | 71 |
424 |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS | | Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | | 1978-1981 |
Buffalo, St. Louis | 13 |
1 | 3 | 4 |
11 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Coaching
Career: Named N.Y. Islanders assistant coach on July 22, 1998, and
remained in that position until Jan. 21, 1999. ... Named N.Y. Islanders
interim head
coach on Jan. 21, 1999, and remained in that position until April 30, 1999.
Miscellaneous: Also played right wing for Buffalo in 1977-78. ... Missed
part of 1978-79 season with back injury. ... Left unprotected by Buffalo for 1979 NHL Expansion Draft,
but was reclaimed as fill-in after Lee Fogolin was drafted off Buffalo roster
on June 13, 1979. ... Missed part of 1983-84 season with broken foot, an
injury suffered in January 1984. ... Missed part of 1984-85 season with
strained right shoulder, an injury suffered in October 1984. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Hershey (AHL); Rochester (AHL);
Salt Lake (CHL); St. Catharines (AHL); Springfield (AHL); Brunico, Milan,
Milan Alaska, Milan Devils/Lions, Gardena-Groden, Courmaosta (Italy)
Olympics: 1992
(Italy) (12th), 1994 (Italy) (ninth) (as player-coach)
World Championships: 1992 (Italy) (ninth), 1993
(Italy) (eighth) (as player-coach)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Italian Championship: 1991 (Milan), 1993
(Milan Devils/Lions)
German Championship: 2001 (Mannheim) (as head coach)
OHL
Robertson Cup: 1997 (Oshawa) (as head coach), 2000 (Barrie) (as head
coach)
AHL Pieri Award (Coach of Year):
1997-98 (Saint John)
WHA Draft Pick: 1977 (by Winnipeg,
No. 46 overall in Round 5)
1980-81: Played two games for Salt Lake team that went on to win CHL
playoff title, bust was not with team during postseason.
1981-82:
Played on CHL regular-season champion (Salt Lake).
Coaching Career: Named Muskegon (ColHL) head coach prior to 1995-96
season and remained in that position until June 1996. ... Named Oshawa (OHL)
head coach in June 1996 and remained in that position until July 1997. ...
Named Saint John (AHL) head coach in July 1997 and remained in that position
through 1997-98 season. ... Named Barrie (OHL) head coach on June 21, 1999,
and remained in position until June 15, 2000. ... Named Mannheim
(Germany) head coach on July 3, 2000, and remained in position until January
2004. ... Named Krefeld (Germany) head coach on Jan. 24, 2004, and remained
in position until April 28, 2004. ... Named Lausanne (Switzerland) head
coach on Oct. 31, 2004, and held position into 2004-05 season.
Management Career: Named Barrie (OHL) general
manager on June 21, 1999, and remained in that position until Jan. 28, 2000.
Miscellaneous: Turned down offer to
play 1983-84 season in Switzerland so he could join his hometown Toronto Maple
Leafs. ... Signed three-year contract to be coach and general manager of
Barrie (OH) in June 1999, but remained there for only one season.
The
Smuggling Affair: Stewart stirred up a major controversy as head coach of
the Barrie Colts in 1999-00, when it was learned that he had been smuggling
one of his players over the U.S.-Canadian border. OHL officials discovered
that Stewart had twice smuggled Barrie defenseman Vladimir Chernenko across
the border in the lower baggage compartment of the team's bus. Chernenko, a
Ukrainian, did not have the proper documents to enter the U.S., so Stewart
placed him in the baggage compartment as the team drove to an Oct. 16, 1999,
game at Plymouth, Mich., and a Dec. 4, 1999, game in Erie, Pa. The incidents
cost Stewart his job as Barrie's general manager and also prompted the league
to institute an immigration education program, which Barrie was forced to
fund. In addition, U.S. Immigration authorities prohibited Stewart from future
travel into the U.S. Unable to stay at Barrie under such conditions, Stewart
resigned in June 2000.
Personal: Full name is William
Donald Stewart. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| TRADE: Buffalo traded Stewart to St. Louis in
exchange for Bob Hess and 1981 fourth-round pick (Anders Wickberg) on October
30, 1980. |
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SNAPSHOT '77 | | Total Selected: |
185 | | Forwards: |
104 | | Defense: |
57 | | Goaltenders: |
24 | | Major Junior: |
123 | | College Players: |
51 |
| Canadian: |
141 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
2 | | USA Citizens: |
37 | | U.S.-Born: |
36 |
| European: |
5 |
| Reached NHL: |
97 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
8 | | Hall of Fame: |
2 |
| All-Star Game: |
13 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
5 |
| Olympians: |
9 |
| Picks Traded: |
37 |
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