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| 1982 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Ken Yaremchuk
Selected in first round
No.
7 overall by Chicago Black Hawks
Born
January 1, 1964
 | Position:
Center
Height: 5-11 Weight: 185
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Portland (WHL)
Birthplace:
Edmonton, Alberta (Canada)
Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1978-79 |
Edmonton | Alb. Ban. |
-- | -- |
-- | -- |
-- | | 1979-80 |
Ft. Saskatchewan | AJHL |
59 | 40 |
72 | 112 |
39 | | |
Portland | WHL |
-- | -- |
-- | -- |
-- | | 1980-81 |
Portland | WHL |
72 | 35 |
72 | 107 |
105 | | 1981-82 |
Portland | WHL |
72 | 58 |
99 | 157 |
181 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
AJHL Rookie of Year: 1979-80 (Fort Saskatchewan)
WHL All-Star First Team: 1981-82 (Portland)
Fort Saskatchewan
Rookie of Year: 1979-80
Fort Saskatchewan Coaches Award:
1979-80
Miscellaneous: Rated in The Hockey News draft preview issue as
No. 4 overall prospect and No. 3 WHL prospect for the 1982 NHL draft. ...
Joined Portland for 1980 WHL playoffs, without having played in any 1979-80
regular-season games. ... Openly requested Toronto not draft him in 1982
because he did not want to compete with his brother Gary for a job on the
Maple Leafs roster. ... Also played fullback for his high school football
team in Edmonton. ... Had never skated until he was 9
years old because his mother felt it was too dangerous. |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 19, 1983 (New Jersey at
Chicago)
Numbers: 7, 15 (Chicago); 15, 16, 13, 34
(Toronto)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Playing Status:
Retired 1999 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years |
Teams | GP |
G | A |
TP | PIM | | 1983-1989 |
Chicago, Toronto | 235 |
36 | 56 |
92 | 106 |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS | | Years |
Teams | GP |
G | A |
TP | PIM | | 1984-1988 |
Chicago, Toronto | 31 |
6 | 8 |
14 | 49 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Miscellaneous: Had assist and fought Pat Verbeek in first period of
his first NHL game. ... Also played right wing for Chicago as rookie in 1983-84.
He played both center and right wing throughout remainder of his
NHL career. ...
Missed two months of 1983-84 season with groin injury, suffered in January
1984. ... Missed part of 1984-85 season with bruised toe, an injury suffered
in November 1984. ... Missed remainder of 1986-87 regular season and start
of 1987 playoffs with broken bone in right foot, suffered during
Toronto's practice on Dec. 29, 1986. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams:
Portland (WHL); Milwaukee (IHL); Newmarket (AHL); Team Canada; Asiago
(Italy); Zug, Davos, Rapperswil-Jona (Switzerland)
Olympics: 1988
(fourth place)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Memorial Cup: 1983
(Portland)
Memorial
Cup All-Star First Team: 1983 (Portland)
WHL All-Star Second Team:
1982-83 (Portland)
Memorial Cup Points Leader: 1983 (Portland) (11 points)
WHL
Assists Leader: 1982-83 (Portland) (109 assists)
1994-95 Played on
Switzerland regular-season champion (Zug).
Miscellaneous: Loaned by Toronto to
Team Canada for 1987-88 pre-Olympic tour and 1988 Winter Olympics in
Calgary. He rejoined Maple Leafs after the Olympics on March 2, 1988. ...
Named to center position on al-time Portland (WHL) team by a CHL panel in
1999.
Personal: Full name is
Kenneth William Yaremchuk. ...
Younger brother of former NHL player Gary Yaremchuk. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| FREE-AGENT COMPENSATION: Chicago sent Yaremchuk,
Jerome Dupont and 1987 fourth-round pick (Joe Sacco) to Toronto as
compensation for its signing of restricted free agent Gary Nylund on Aug.
27,1986. An arbitrator set the compensation on Sept. 6, 1986. |
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SNAPSHOT '82 | | Total Selected: |
252 | | Forwards: |
152 | | Defense: |
82 | | Goaltenders: |
18 | | Major Junior: |
129 | | Tier II/Jr. B: |
27/4 | | College Players: |
20 | | High School: |
37 |
| Canadian: |
152 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
3 | | USA Citizens: |
62 | | U.S.-Born: |
62 |
| European: |
35 |
| Reached NHL: |
109 |
| Stanley Cup: |
18 | | Hall of Fame: |
0 |
| All-Star Game: |
14 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
4 |
| Olympians: |
37 |
| Picks Traded: |
50 |
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