Don Spring
| Don Spring | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
June 15, 1959 Maracaibo, Venezuela | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||
| Weight | 194 lb (88 kg; 13 st 12 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| Played for |
EHC Essen-West | ||
| National team |
 Canada | ||
| NHL draft | Undrafted | ||
| Playing career | 1979–1985 | ||
Donald Neil Spring (born June 15, 1959) is a
defenceman
.
Spring was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela and raised in Edson, Alberta.
Spring was a 2 time national champion with the University of Alberta Golden Bears hockey team. Spring represented Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, where he scored one assist in six games.[1]
Spring started his
Winnipeg Jets in 1980. He would play his entire career with the Jets. He would leave the NHL after the 1984 season. Spring still holds the record for the most career games in the NHL (259) by a player with only one career goal.[2]
He finished his hockey career with one season with EHC Essen-West in West Germany. Presently he is president of Spring Fuel Distributors Inc. in Kelowna, B.C.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Regular season
|
Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1976–77 | University of Alberta | CIAU | 34 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1977–78 | University of Alberta | CIAU | 30 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1978–79 | University of Alberta | CIAU | 42 | 7 | 29 | 36 | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1979–80 | Canadian National Team | Intl | 51 | 1 | 23 | 24 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1980–81 | Winnipeg Jets
|
NHL | 80 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1981–82 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 78 | 0 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 1982–83 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 80 | 0 | 16 | 16 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 1983–84 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 21 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1983–84 | Sherbrooke Jets | AHL | 50 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1984–85 | EHC Essen-West
|
GER | 36 | 8 | 19 | 27 | 32 | 18 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 12 | ||
| NHL totals | 259 | 1 | 54 | 55 | 80 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||
International
| Year | Team | Event | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Canada | OLY
|
6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Senior totals | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
References
- ISBN 978-0-9867964-0-1.
- ^ Macleod, Robert (20 December 2013). "Meet the NHL's one-goal wonders". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
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