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| 1977 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Ron Areshenkoff
Selected in second round
No.
32 overall by Buffalo Sabres
Born June 13, 1957
 | Position:
Center
Height: 6-0 Weight: 175
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Medicine Hat (WCHL)
Birthplace: Grand Forks, B.C. (Canada)
Hometown:
Grand Forks, British Columbia |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1974-75 |
Vernon | BCJHL |
65 | 36 |
50 | 86 |
40 | | 1975-76 |
Medicine Hat | WCHL |
71 | 25 |
35 | 60 |
77 | | 1976-77 |
Medicine Hat | WCHL |
60 | 51 |
42 | 93 |
57 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
WCHL All-Star Second Team: 1976-77 (Medicine Hat)
Miscellaneous: Rated in The Hockey News draft preview issue as
WCHL's No. 6 prospect for the 1977 NHL draft. |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 23, 1979 (Edmonton at N.Y.
Islanders)
Numbers: 10 (Edmonton)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Playing Status: Retired 1984 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | | 1979-80 |
Edmonton | 4 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
1979-80: Played on first Edmonton Oilers NHL team.
Miscellaneous: Traded by Edmonton with 1980 10th-round pick (Bob O'Brien)
to Philadelphia for Barry Dean on June 11, 1980, but never played for parent
team. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Hershey (AHL); Houston (CHL);
Trail (WIHL)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
WHA Draft Pick: 1977 (by New
England, No. 11 overall in Round 1)
Miscellaneous: Missed end of
1977-78 season and entire 1978-79 season while recovering from January 1978
surgery to remove chipped bone in shoulder. ... Moved to Whitehorse, Yukon,
and later Estevan, Saskatchewan, after his retirement and became a financial
advisor, running his own firm called Areshenkoff Financial. ... Became active
in Estevan's adult amateur hockey scene. ... Served as head coach of Yukon
province's women's hockey team during the 1990s.
Personal: Full name is Ronald
Areshenkoff. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| EXPANSION: Buffalo left Areshenkoff
unprotected for the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft, and he was claimed by Edmonton
on June 13, 1979. |
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SNAPSHOT '77 | | Total Selected: |
185 | | Forwards: |
104 | | Defense: |
57 | | Goaltenders: |
24 | | Major Junior: |
123 | | College Players: |
51 |
| Canadian: |
141 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
2 | | USA Citizens: |
37 | | U.S.-Born: |
36 |
| European: |
5 |
| Reached NHL: |
97 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
8 | | Hall of Fame: |
2 |
| All-Star Game: |
13 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
5 |
| Olympians: |
9 |
| Picks Traded: |
37 |
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