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| 1976 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Mike Liut
Selected in fourth round
No. 56 overall by St. Louis Blues
Born January
7, 1956
 | Position:
Goaltender
Height: 6-2 Weight: 195
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Bowling Green (CCHA)
Birthplace: Weston, Ontario (Canada)
Hometown:
Weston, Ontario |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | W-L-T |
GAA | SO |
SV% | | 1971-72 |
Markham | Jr. B |
-- | -- |
-- | -- |
-- | | 1972-73 |
Bowling Green | CCHA |
-- | -- |
-- | -- |
-- | | 1973-74 |
Bowling Green | CCHA |
24 | 10-12-0 |
4.15 | 1 |
n/a | | 1974-75 |
Bowling Green | CCHA |
20 | 12-6-1 |
3.99 | 0 |
n/a | | 1975-76 |
Bowling Green | CCHA |
21 | 13-5-0 |
2.56 | 2 |
n/a |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
CCHA All-Star First Team: 1974-75 (Bowling Green)
CCHA All-Star Second Team: 1975-76 (Bowling Green)
Miscellaneous: Rated in The Hockey News
draft preview issue as U.S. college hockey's No. 5 prospect for the 1976 NHL
draft. ... Was red-shirted as a freshman at Bowling Green Sate University in
1972-73, extending his NCAA eligibility into 1976-77 season. |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 23, 1979 (Boston at St.
Louis)
Numbers: 1 (St. Louis); 1 (Hartford); 1 (Washington)
Stanley
Cup: Never won. Playing Status: Retired July 1992 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams |
GP |
W-L-T | GAA |
SO | SV% |
| 1979-1992 |
STL, HAR, WAS | 663 |
293-271-74 | 3.49 |
25 | n/a |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams |
GP | W-L |
GAA |
SO | SV% |
| 1980-1991 |
STL, HAR, WAS | 67 |
29-32 | 3.38 | 2 |
n/a |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Lester B. Pearson Award: 1980-81 (St. Louis)
Hockey News NHL MVP: 1980-81 (STL) (co-winner with Gretzky)
NHL All-Star First Team: 1980-81 (St. Louis)
NHL All-Star Second Team: 1986-87 (Hartford)
Sporting News All-Star First Team: 1980-81 (STL), 1986-87 (Har.)
Hockey News All-Star First Team: 1986-87 (Hartford)
All-Star Game: 1981 (St. Louis)
All-Star Game MVP: 1981 (St. Louis)
St. Louis Star of the Game
Award: 1979-80, 1980-81, 1981-82
St. Louis Most Popular Player: 1979-80
St. Louis Fans
Favorite Player: 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83
Hartford Kravitz Award
(MVP): 1986-87
Hartford Booster Club Award (MVP, Fan Vote): 1986-87, 1987-88
Hartford
Westledge Award (Three-Stars Leader): 1986-87
St. Louis Records: Most career games by a goalie (347), most career
minutes (20,010), most career goals allowed (1,149), most goals allowed in one
season (250 in 1981-82), most career wins (151), most career goalie playoff games (39), most career playoff minutes (2,326)
Hartford/Carolina
Records: Most consecutive wins (5, twice -- in 1986-88 and 1987-88 --
record shared with Kay Whitmore)
NHL GAA Leader: 1989-90 (Hartford-Washington) (2.53 GAA,
tie)
NHL Shutouts Leader: 1986-87 (Hart.) (4), 1989-90 (Hart.-Wash.)
(4)
NHL Goalie Games-Played Leader: 1981-82 (St. Louis) (64 GP),
1982-83 (St. Louis) (68 GP)
NHL Minutes Leader: 1981-82 (St. Louis)
(3,691 minutes), 1982-83 (St. Louis) (3,794 minutes)
NHL Wins Leader:
1979-80 (St. Louis) (32 wins)
NHL Playoffs Shutouts Leader: 1986
(Hartford) (1 shutout, tie)
NHL Playoffs Goals-Against Average Leader:
1986 (Hart.) (1.90)
Broadcasting Career: Worked as color commentator for ESPN
and SportsChannel during 1988 and 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Miscellaneous: Entered first NHL game at start of second period with
his St. Louis team trailing Boston 5-1. Shut down Bruins over final 40 minutes
as Blues rallied for 5-5 tie. ... Made first NHL start in St. Louis' Oct. 24,
1979, loss at Minnesota. ... Set St. Louis single-season records (since
broken) for games played by a goalie (64), minutes (3,661), wins (32) and
goals allowed (194) in 1979-80. ... Set St. Louis single-season records (since
broken) for wins (33) and goals allowed (199) in 1980-81. ... Was runner-up to
Wayne Gretzky for 1981 Hart Trophy. ... Missed part of 1980-81 season with
groin injury suffered in St. Louis' Jan. 10, 1981, game vs. Los Angeles. ...
Became first St. Louis goaltender to win all games in a season series vs. one
team when he achieved feat vs. Vancouver and N.Y. Rangers in 1980-81. ... Set
St. Louis single-season record (since broken) for minutes (3,691) in
1981-82. ... Set St. Louis single-season records (since broken) for games
played by a goalie (68) and minutes (3,794) in 1982-83. ... Missed part of
1983-84 season with strained knee ligaments, an injury suffered in March 1984.
... Set St. Louis single-season record (since broken) for assists by a
goaltender with four in 1983-84. ... Set St. Louis record (since broken) for
career playoff wins with 17. ... Set Hartford/Carolina single-season record
(since broken) for wins (27) in 1985-86. ... Missed part of 1986 playoffs with
bruised right knee. ... Set Hartford/Carolina single-season record (since
broken) for wins (31) in 1986-87. ... Tied Hartford single-season record
(since broken) for games played by a goalie with 60 in 1987-88. ... Named NHL
Player of Week for week of Jan. 18, 1988. ... Missed part of 1988 playoffs
with strained shoulder. ... Named NHL Player of Week for week of Oct. 29,
1989. ... Was last former WHA goaltender to be active in NHL. ... Set Hartford
record (since broken) for career wins with 90. ... Missed end of 1991-92 season with severe back
spasms and herniated disc in back, an injury first experienced after
Washington's Feb. 20, 1992, practice in Los Angeles. Had an epidural block
performed on March 30, 1992, but was unable to return to action. The back injury was so severe it prevented him from standing up straight without pain
and all but ended his career.
... Served on NHLPA negotiating committee in 1991-92 as players and owners
negotiated a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. ... Interviewed for Hartford
general manager's job but was not offered position in June 1992. It was a
disappointment, since he had hoped to retire and take that job. ... Released
by Washington on June 5, 1992, after playing out his option. Chose to retire
at age 36 rather than attempt to find a new team. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Bowling Green (CCHA);
Cincinnati (WHA)
Canada Cup: 1981 (second place)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Bowling Green Athletic Hall of Fame: Inducted 1982
CCHA Player of Year: 1976-77 (Bowling Green)
CCHA All-Star First Team: 1976-77 (Bowling Green)
Bowling Green Sears Award (MVP): 1976-77 (co-winner)
WHA Draft Pick: 1976 (by New England, No. 50 overall in Round 5)
WHA Shutouts Leader: 1978-79 (Cincinnati) (3 shutouts)
Coaching Career: Named Michigan (CCHA) volunteer assistant coach prior
to 1994-95 season and remained in that position through 1999-00 season. Worked
exclusively with Michigan goaltenders.
Education: Earned law degree from Detroit College of Law, which is now
part of Michigan State University.
Miscellaneous: Set Bowling Green records (since broken) for career
victories (53) and shutouts (4). ... WHA rights traded with 1979 second-round pick (never used since
league had folded) by New England to Cincinnati in
exchange for Greg Carroll and Bryan Maxwell in May 1977. ... Missed part of
1977-78 season with torn cartilage in left knee, an injury that required
off-season surgery. ... Played on
Cincinnati (WHA) team that folded after 1978-79 season as WHA prepared to
merge with NHL. His rights were claimed by Edmonton in the 1979 WHA Dispersal
Draft. ... Played on St. Louis' charity softball team during his playing days.
... Was active in charities during his years in Hartford, working with Whalers
anti-drug program, Hartford Boys Club and UConn Children's Cancer Fund. ...
Moved to Troy, Mich., after his retirement and entered law school. ...
Worked for NHL Players Association while he was attending law school ... Eventually became a player agent, working
first with Brian Lawton and then merging the firm into Larry Kelly's Octagon
Ltd. ... Became director of Octagon Ltd. office in Detroit. His
list of clients has included Sergei Fedorov, Sean Burke, Steve Duchesne, Bob
Essensa, Ben Clymer, Fedor Fedorov and Ryan Miller. ... Markham (OPJHL)
retired his sweater as part of a tribute to its history of top goaltenders in
January 2000. ... Named to CCHA 1970s All-Decade Team in March 2001.
Personal: Full name is Michael Dennis Liut. ... Second cousin of NHL
player Ron Francis. ... Father of junior hockey player Justin Liut. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| WHA/TRADE: Liut did not sign with St. Louis
after the draft, instead he jumped to the WHA. He did not enter NHL until the
1979 NHL-WHA merger. St. Louis took his pro hockey rights back from Edmonton
in the NHL Reclaim Draft on June 9, 1979. Nearly six years later, St. Louis
traded Liut and future considerations (Jorgen Pettersson) to Hartford for Mark Johnson and
Greg Millen on February 22, 1985. |
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SNAPSHOT '76 | | Total Selected: |
135 | | Forwards: |
83 | | Defense: |
39 | | Goaltenders: |
13 | | Major Junior: |
97 | | College Players: |
26 |
| Canadian: |
103 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
1 | | USA Citizens: |
23 | | U.S.-Born: |
23 |
| European: |
8 |
| Reached NHL: |
73 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
8 | | Hall of Fame: |
1 |
| All-Star Game: |
12 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
2 |
| Olympians: |
6 |
| Picks Traded: |
15 |
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