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| 1978 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Willie Huber
Selected in first round
No.
9 overall by Detroit Red Wings
Born January 15, 1958
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Defense
Height: 6-5 Weight: 228
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Hamilton (OMJHL)
Birthplace: Strasskirchen, West Germany
Hometown:
Hamilton, Ontario |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1974-75 |
Hamilton | Ont. AAA |
-- |
-- | -- |
-- | -- |
| 1975-76 |
Hamilton | OMJHL |
58 | 2 |
8 | 10 |
64 | | 1976-77 |
St. Catharines | OMJHL |
36 | 10 |
24 | 34 |
111 | | 1977-78 |
Hamilton | OMJHL |
61 | 12 |
45 | 57 |
168 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
Memorial Cup: 1976 (Hamilton)
World Junior Championships: 1977 (silver),
1978 (bronze)
OMJHL All-Star Second Team: 1977-78 (Hamilton)
OMJHL All-Star Game:
1977 (St. Catharines)
Miscellaneous: Rated in The Hockey News draft preview issue as
the No. 4 overall prospect for the 1978 NHL draft. ... Was on Hamilton (OMJHL)
team that relocated to St. Catharines for 1976-77 season and then returned to
Hamilton for the 1977-78 season. ... Attended St. Mary's Catholic Secondary
School in Hamilton, Ontario. |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 11, 1978 (St. Louis at
Detroit)
Numbers: 7 (Detroit); 27 (NYR); 2 (Vancouver); 47,
44 (Philadelphia)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Playing Status: Retired 1989 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | | 1978-1988 |
DET, NYR, VAN, PHI | 655 |
104 | 217 | 321 |
950 |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS | | Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | | 1984-1988 |
N.Y. Rangers, Philadelphia | 33 |
5 | 5 | 10 |
35 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
All-Star Game: 1983 (Detroit)
Detroit
Rookie of Year: 1978-79
Detroit Penalty-Minutes Leader: 1979-80 (164)
Miscellaneous: Missed parts of 1981-82 season with slight separation of
left shoulder, an injury suffered during Detroit's Jan. 9, 1982, game vs.
Winnipeg, and with broken left cheekbone, an injury suffered in March 1982.
... Missed part of 1982-83 season with cracked rib, an injury suffered during
Detroit's Feb. 12, 1983, game vs. Winnipeg. ... Missed parts of 1983-84 season
with strained groin, an injury suffered in November 1983, with strained left
thigh, an injury suffered in November 1983, and with torn MCL in right knee,
an injury suffered during N.Y. Rangers' Dec. 31, 1983, game at Buffalo. The
knee injury required arthroscopic surgery. ... Missed part of 1984-85 season
with torn ligaments in left knee, an injury suffered in January 1985. ...
Missed end of 1984-85 regular-season while recovering from March 16, 1984,
surgery on injured left knee. ... Missed part of 1986-87 season with strained
left knee, an injury suffered during N.Y. Rangers' Dec. 21, 1986, game vs.
Hartford. ... Missed part of 1987-88 season and part of 1988 playoffs
with twisted left knee. ... Offered $150,000 contract by Philadelphia for
1988-89 season -- a much lower salary than the $235,000 he earned in 1987-88.
Huber refused to take such a dramatic cut in his pay and held out for the
entire 1988-89 season before retiring in 1989. ... Was NHL's tallest and
heaviest player throughout most of his playing career, and was tallest player
in N.Y. Rangers history at the time he played for team. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Kansas City (CHL);
Adirondack (AHL)
World Championships: 1981 (fourth place)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Personal: Full name is Wilhelm
Heinrich Huber. ... Born in West Germany, but his family moved to Canada when
he was 10 months old, and he never even learned to speak German. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| TRADE: Detroit traded Huber, Mike Blaisdell
and Mark Osborne to N.Y. Rangers in exchange for Ron Duguay, Eddie Mio and
Eddie Johnstone on June 13, 1983. |
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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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