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Dan Gratton
Selected in first round
No.
10 overall by Los Angeles Kings
Born
December 7, 1966
 | Position:
Center / Left Wing
Height: 6-1 Weight: 185
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Oshawa (OHL)
Birthplace:
Brantford, Ontario (Canada)
Hometown: Brantford, Ontario |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1980-81 |
Brantford | Ont. AAA |
5 | 4 |
4 | 8 |
2 | | 1981-82 |
Guelph | Ont. AAA |
40 | 14 |
26 | 40 |
70 | | |
Guelph | OPJHL |
12 | 3 |
2 | 5 |
27 | | 1982-83 |
Oshawa | OHL |
64 | 15 |
28 | 43 |
55 | | 1983-84 |
Oshawa | OHL |
65 | 40 |
34 | 74 |
55 | | 1984-85 |
Oshawa | OHL |
56 | 24 |
48 | 72 |
67 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
World Junior Championships: 1985 (gold medal)
Miscellaneous: Ranked by NHL Central Scouting Bureau as No. 5 overall
prospect for the 1985 NHL draft. ... Rated in The Hockey News draft preview issue as
No. 5 overall prospect for the 1985 NHL draft. .. Was Oshawa's first-round
pick, No. 12 overall, in 1982 OHL priority selection. ... Also played left
wing before entering major junior hockey. ... Played on Guelph team that
lost to Prince Albert in 1982 Centennial Cup finals in Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan. ... Played left wing for Canada during 1985 World Junior
Championships in Helsinki, Finland. ... Grew up in Brantford, Ontario, where
he was a close childhood friend of Wayne Gretzky's younger brother Keith. |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 8, 1987 (N.Y. Islanders at
Los Angeles)
Numbers: 38, 32 (Los Angeles)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Playing Status:
Retired 1997 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years |
Teams | GP |
G | A |
TP | PIM | | 1987-88 |
Los Angeles | 7 |
1 | 0 |
1 | 5 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Miscellaneous: Was represented by agent Rick Curran at the time of the
1985 NHL Entry Draft. ... Wore No. 28 in Los Angeles' 1986 training camp.
... Shifted from natural position of center to play both right wing and left
wing during his years in Los Angeles organization. ... Signed with Minnesota as an unrestricted free
agent on Aug. 22, 1990, but never played for parent team. He had become
eligible for unrestricted free agency by spending the 1989-90 season with
Team Canada rather than resigning with Los Angeles. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams:
Oshawa, Ottawa, Belleville (OHL); New Haven (AHL); Flint (IHL); Team Canada;
Kalamazoo (IHL); Brantford (ColHL); Lyss (Switzerland); Innsbruck (Austria);
Aalborg (Denmark); Hamilton (AHL); Alba di Canazei (Italy); Zeltweg
(Austria); Slough (Great Britain); Muskegon (ColHL/UHL)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
OHL Playoffs Goals Leader: 1986 (Belleville) (20 goals)
Coaching Career: Named Muskegon (ColHL) player-assistant coach prior
to 1996-97 season, stopped playing after 1996-97 season, moved with team
into UHL prior to 1997-98 season and remained team's assistant coach through
1997-98 season.
Miscellaneous: Traded by Ottawa (OHL)
to Belleville in exchange for Frank DiMuzio in February 1986. ... Named
third-best skater in OHL's Leyden Division by a poll of Leyden Division
coaches in 1985-86. ... Finished third in OHL with 29 points in 1986
playoffs. ... Was on
Minnesota team that joined Montreal to compete in the 1990 NHL Friendship
Tour in Soviet Union. ... Played for Brantford (ColHL) team coached by his
father in 1992-93 and 1993-94. ... Came out of retirement to play four games
for Muskegon (UHL) team that he was serving as assistant coach during
1997-98 season. ... Went into the business of helping North American players
find teams in Europe with the founding of Brantford-based TransWorldSports
and the former TransWorldHockey.com web site after his retirement in 2000.
He later gave up the business to become Director of Business Development and
a coach at HockeyTech International hockey school in Toronto.
Personal: Also known as Danny
Gratton during playing days. ... Son of former minor-league player and
coach Ken Gratton. ... Nephew of ex-WHA player Bill Gratton. ... Cousin of
NHL player Chris Gratton.
Gratton Leaves Oshawa: In October
1986, Gratton made headlines when he left the Oshawa Generals a few games
into the 1985-86 season and went home to Brantford, Ontario. After he
returned home, Gratton and his agent, Rick Curran, demanded that Oshawa
trade him because he did not want to spend another season with the Generals.
The trade demand came through Curran, and Oshawa coach Paul Theriault
decided to give Gratton what he wanted because he realized Gratton probably
needed a "change of scenery" -- the words Gratton had used after spending
three years with the same team. Gratton, who had failed to win a spot on the
Los Angeles Kings roster out of training camp, wanted to play in the
Canadian Olympic program, but the Kings did not want to give him up for the
minimum commitment of two years. While Gratton was sitting out in Brantford,
the Kings contacted him and insisted he return to Oshawa rather than stay
out of hockey at a critical time in his development. Seventeen days after
leaving Oshawa, Gratton came back to the team -- no longer requesting a
trade. Even though Gratton was willing to stay, the Generals were not
pleased with his performance. "He's just going through the motions out
there," Theriault told the Oshawa Times. "Instead of being a dominant
player, he's not even noticeable." Oshawa solved its prolem by trading
Gratton Ottawa for Dean Morton and Dennis Wigle in November 1985. |
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