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| 1980 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Doug Wickenheiser
Selected in first round
No. 1 overall by
Montreal Canadiens
Born March 30, 1961. Died
January 12, 1999
 | Position:
Center
Height: 6-1 Weight: 200
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Regina (WHL)
Birthplace: Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada)
Hometown:
Regina, Saskatchewan |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1976-77 |
Regina | SJHL |
59 | 42 |
46 | 88 |
63 | | 1977-78 |
Regina | WCHL |
68 | 37 |
51 | 88 |
49 | | 1978-79 |
Regina | WHL |
68 | 32 |
62 | 94 |
141 | | 1979-80 |
Regina | WHL |
71 | 89 |
81 | 170 |
99 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
Canadian Major-Junior Player of Year: 1979-80
(Regina)
WHL MVP: 1979-80 (Regina)
CCM WHL Player of Year: 1979-80
(Regina)
WHL Brownridge Trophy (Points
Leader): 1979-80 (Regina) (170)
WHL All-Star First Team: 1979-80
(Regina)
Regina Labatt's Cup (Three-Stars Leader): 1979-80
Regina Captain: 1979-80
Regina Records: Most goals in one season (89 in 1979-80),
most points in one playoff year (40 in 1980), most assists in one playoff year
(26 in 1980)
WHL Goals Leader: 1979-80 (Regina) (89 goals)
WHL Playoffs Points
Leader: 1980 (Regina) (40 points)
WHL Playoffs Assists Leader:
1980 (Regina) (26 assists)
Miscellaneous: Rated in The Hockey News draft preview issue as
No. 1 prospect for the 1980 NHL draft. ... Set Regina single-season record
(since broken) with 170 points in 1979-80 |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 15, 1980 (Montreal at
Washington)
Numbers: 25 (Montreal); 14
(St. Louis); 17, 14 (Vancouver); 14 (NYR);
18 (Washington)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Playing Status: Retired 1994 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | | 1980-1990 |
MTL, STL, VAN, NYR, WAS | 556 |
111 | 165 | 276 |
286 |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS | | Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | | 1984-1989 |
St. Louis, Washington | 41 |
4 | 7 | 11 |
18 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Miscellaneous: Was an unpopular draft pick with Montreal fans, who were
angry at team for not using No. 1 pick to select Denis Savard. ... Missed part
of 1982-83 season with broken rib, an injury suffered during Montreal's March 30, 1983, game at Pittsburgh. ... Scored for
St. Louis at 7:30 of overtime as Blues beat Calgary 6-5 in Campbell Conference
Finals on May 12, 1986, to force a Game 7, which Calgary won en route to the
Stanley Cup Finals. Wickenheiser's OT goal in Game 6 ended "Monday
Night Miracle" game in which Blues rallied from a three-goal deficit with
under 12 minutes remaining in the third period. ... Left unprotected by St. Louis for 1987 NHL Waiver Draft. He
was claimed by Hartford on Oct. 5, 1987, but never played for parent team,
which immediately placed him back into waiver draft, where he was claimed by
Vancouver. ... Released by N.Y. Rangers on Nov. 30, 1988, and became unrestricted free agent. He signed with Washington on Feb. 23, 1989, after
spending three months with Team Canada.
Wickenheiser's Freak Injury: Wickenheiser missed
the remainder of the 1984-85 season, the entire 1985 playoffs and the first
half of the 1985-86 season with complete tears of
ACL and MCL in left knee, an injury suffered when he was hit by a car in the
St. Louis suburb of Eureka, Missouri, on March 13, 1985. The injury happened
on a day Wickenheiser and his
Blues teammates had gathered for a hazing "snipe hunt" in Eureka. The victims
of their prank were Gilbert Delorme and Kevin LaVallee, who were to be
arrested by local authorities for violating local hunting law. While Delorme and LaVallee
sat in jail, Wickenheiser and the other Blues went out for some pizza. As they
exited the pizza
place, the Blues players began climbing into a pickup truck. When Wickenheiser
climbed up onto the truck, he fell backward into a 17-year-old driver's oncoming car, which was going no faster
than 15 mph. Wickenheiser was thrown onto the car's windshield and rolled off
into the street. The severe knee injury required four hours of
reconstructive surgery on March 14, 1985. Wickenheiser did not return to
action with the Blues until Jan. 21, 1986. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Flint (IHL); Team Canada;
Baltimore (AHL); Asiago (Italy); Unna, Bayreuth, Klagenfurt (Germany); Peoria,
Fort Wayne (IHL)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Miscellaneous: Was on Washington team
that joined Calgary to compete in the 1989 NHL Friendship Tour in Soviet
Union. ... Was a pitcher on amateur baseball team in Regina, Saskatchewan, during off-seasons
of his early playing days. ... Took business classes during off-seasons of his
later playing days. ... Returned to St. Louis area after his retirement and
remained there until his death in 1999. ... Prior to the 2000-01 season, the
WHL renamed a trophy honoring players for humanitarian work the Doug
Wickenheiser Memorial Trophy.
The Death of Doug Wickenheiser: In
October 1997, just three years after Wickenheiser's playing career ended,
doctors discovered that he had an inoperable form of cancer in his lung. The
illness dated back to August 1994, when Wickenheiser had a malignant cyst
removed from his wrist. He had first noticed the cyst four years earlier in
1990. The cyst/tumor was a rare bone cancer. It forced his
retirement before resurfacing in his lung and brain three years later. The
lung/brain cancer
would led to his tragic death within two years of its discovery. A year
before Wickenheiser's death, the St. Louis Blues established the Fourteen Fund
charity on Jan. 14, 1998. Although Wickenheiser's
No. 14 was not retired, players wore a special helmet decal with the wick of a candle
and the No. 14 during parts of the 1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons. The Blues held
an emotional ceremony to honor Wickenheiser's memory prior to their Jan. 21,
1999, game vs. Toronto, and a banner with the Fourteen Fund logo was
permanently placed in the rafters at St. Louis' arena. The NHL also honored
Wickenheiser when players wore the Fourteen Fund sticker during the NHL
All-Star Game in Tampa on Jan. 24, 1999. A rink in Wickenheiser's native
Regina was named Doug Wickenheiser Arena in his memory, and in March 2000,
Wickenheiser's father-in-law, Ted Pepple, published a book called The Last
Face Off: The Doug Wickenheiser Story.
Personal: Full name is Douglas
Peter Wickenheiser. ... Older brother of former minor-leaguer Kurt
Wickenheiser. ... Fourth cousin of Canadian Olympic women's hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| TRADE: Montreal traded Wickenheiser, Gilbert
Delorme and Greg Paslawski to St. Louis for Perry Turnbull on December 21,
1983. |
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SNAPSHOT '80 | | Total Selected: |
210 | | Forwards: |
122 | | Defense: |
71 | | Goaltenders: |
17 | | Major Junior: |
138 | | Tier II Junior: |
7 | | College Players: |
42 | | High School: |
8 |
| Canadian: |
159 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
3 | | USA Citizens: |
35 | | U.S.-Born: |
35 |
| European: |
13 |
| Reached NHL: |
132 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
24 | | Hall of Fame: |
4 |
| All-Star Game: |
17 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
5 |
| Olympians: |
19 |
| Picks Traded: |
25 |
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