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| 1974 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Larry Finck
Selected in eighth round
No. 133 overall by Pittsburgh Penguins
Born
January 17, 1954
 | Position:
Defense
Height: 5-10 Weight: 180
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
St. Catharines (OMJHL)
Birthplace: Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada)
Hometown:
Halifax, Nova Scotia |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1971-72 |
St. Catharines | OMJHL |
26 |
0 | 2 |
2 | 9 | | 1972-73 |
St. Catharines | OMJHL |
63 | 0 |
13 | 13 |
95 | | 1973-74 |
St. Catharines | OMJHL |
67 | 2 |
14 | 16 |
75 |
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| NHL CAREER |
| Never played in NHL. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Fort Wayne (IHL); London
(OHA Sr.)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
WHA Draft Pick: 1974 (by Michigan, No. 92
overall in Round 7)
Miscellaneous: Became a plumber after his retirement.
Finck's Criminal History: Many years after his retirement,
Finck made headlines across Canada for his role in a bizarre child custody
case that led to a 67-hour standoff with police and the eventual arrests of Finck and his wife Carline VandenElsen. The couple's dispute with
authorities dated back to an earlier incident when Finck lost custody of
another daughter and had faced charges for child abduction. Finck had been
convicted in 2000 for abducting his then 4-year-old daughter, Chantelle
Rose, from the custody of his deceased ex-wife's brother in Ontario in 1999.
He was sentenced to two years in prison and had to undergo psychological
assessment. VandenElsen also had a history of child-abduction charges,
having been tried for taking her triplets away from their father. After the
birth of Finck and VandenElsen's baby, Children's Aid determined that, based on the couple's history,
she should be removed
from their custody until they both underwent psychological evaluation to see
if she could be returned. However, both Finck and VandenElsen refused to
accept these terms and demanded that they should be allowed to retain
custody of 5-month-old Mona-Clare. Finck and VandenElsen said they were the
subjects of a "political witch hunt" by the Children's Aid Society. On the
night of May 18, 2004, the situation reached a critical point as police,
acting in behalf of the Children's Aid Society, attempted to forcibly
enter Finck's mother's home in the south end of Halifax to remove
Mona-Clare. Larry Finck, who was in the house with the baby, VandenElsen and
his 79-year-old mother, Mona Finck, barricaded his door, initiating a long
standoff in which someone in the house fired warning shots out the window
toward police. The armed standoff lasted three days, during which time Mona
Finck died. Police finally went into the home and captured Finck and
VandenElsen on the evening of May 21, 2004. The baby was taken to Children's
Aid. Police charged the couple with obstruction of justice, forcible
confinement of a child and illegal use of firearms. The child-custody
standoff was the longest in Halifax history. |
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SNAPSHOT '74 | | Total Selected: |
246 | | Forwards: |
138 | | Defense: |
84 | | Goaltenders: |
24 | | Major Junior: |
171 | | College Players: |
44 |
| Canadian: |
200 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
0 | | USA Citizens: |
40 | | U.S.-Born: |
39 |
| European: |
6 |
| Reached NHL: |
98 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
15 | | Hall of Fame: |
2 |
| All-Star Game: |
21 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
5 |
| Olympians: |
5 |
| Picks Traded: |
13 |
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