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| 1978 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Dean Turner
Selected in third round
No.
44 overall by New York Rangers
Born June 22, 1958
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Defense
Height: 6-2 Weight: 215
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Michigan (WCHA)
Birthplace: Dearborn, Michigan (USA)
Hometown:
Farmington Hills, Michigan |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1975-76 |
Detroit Little Caesar's | Met Jr. A |
50 | 34 |
34 | 68 |
-- | | 1976-77 |
Michigan | WCHA |
45 | 13 |
18 | 31 |
106 | | 1977-78 |
Michigan | WCHA |
36 | 5 |
14 | 19 |
88 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
Detroit Metro Jr. A Championship: 1976 (Little
Caesar's)
Mich. Dekers Club Award (Rookie of Year): 1976-77 (co-winner)
Miscellaneous: Attended Brother Rice High School in Detroit. ... Was
pre-dental major at University of Michigan. |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: February 24, 1979 (N.Y. Rangers at
Toronto)
Numbers: 6 (N.Y. Rangers); 5 (Colorado); 2 (Los
Angeles)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Playing Status: Retired 1983 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM |
| 1979-1983 | N.Y. Rangers, Colorado, L.A. |
35 | 1 | 0 |
1 | 59 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Miscellaneous: Signed by Buffalo as unrestricted free agent on Sept.
24, 1981, but never played for parent team. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: New Haven (AHL); Fort Worth
(CHL); Springfield, Rochester (AHL)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
1979-80: Played 6 games for AHL
regular-season champ (New Haven).
Miscellaneous: Missed part of
1980-81 season with shoulder injury suffered in February 1981. ... Went into
financial services business after his retirement, co-founding Lease Equities,
Inc., and later becoming a senior vice
president at Dean Witter Reynolds, where he remained until 1995.
Mail-Fraud Conviction: In 1996, Turner and his Lease Equities Inc. business partner,
William Malek, were accused of running a Ponzi scheme in which old investors were paid
with money from new investors. During the period between 1990 and 1995, Turner and Malek
were reported to have stolen more than $10 million from these investors, a
group that included Turner's mother. Malek pled guilty to six counts of mail fraud in
August 1996 and was sentenced to more than three years in jail. Turner was
indicted by the U.S. government in November 1997 and again in May 1998 for
selling the fraudulent notes. He was ultimately found guilty on two counts of mail fraud
but acquitted of 16 other mail-fraud charges. In January 2000, Turner was
sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison, and on July 26, 2001, the SEC banned
him from working as a
securities trader.
Personal: Full name is Dean Cameron
Turner. ... Son of Detroit TV talk show personality Marilyn Turner. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| TRADE: N.Y. Rangers traded Turner, Pat
Hickey, Mike McEwen, Lucien DeBlois and future considerations (Bobby Crawford)
to Colorado in exchange for Barry Beck on November 2, 1979. |
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SNAPSHOT '78 | | Total Selected: |
234 | | Forwards: |
143 | | Defense: |
67 | | Goaltenders: |
24 | | Major Junior: |
127 | | College Players: |
80 |
| Canadian: |
170 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
0 | | USA Citizens: |
47 | | U.S.-Born: |
47 |
| European: |
17 |
| Reached NHL: |
95 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
16 | | Hall of Fame: |
1 |
| All-Star Game: |
18 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
1 |
| Olympians: |
16 |
| Picks Traded: |
46 |
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