Dave Hoyda

{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}

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{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image =

| image_size = 180px

| position = Left wing

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lb = 205

| played_for = Philadelphia Flyers
Winnipeg Jets

| birth_date = {{birth date|1957|05|20|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

|death_date={{death date and age |2015|2|8|1957|5|20}}

|death_place=Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.

| draft = 53rd overall

| draft_year = 1977

| draft_team = Philadelphia Flyers

| wha_draft = 60th overall

| wha_draft_year = 1977

| wha_draft_team = Edmonton Oilers

| career_start = 1977

| career_end = 1981

}}

David Allan Hoyda (May 20, 1957 – February 8, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Hoyda played four seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers and Winnipeg Jets.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/barrheadleader/obituary.aspx?n=David-Allan-Hoyda&pid=174254483 |title=David Allan Hoyda (1957 - 2015) |publisher=The Barrhead Leader |date=2015-02-24 |accessdate=2015-08-24}} He was known primarily as an enforcer.

Hoyda was raised in Cherhill, Alberta, and later attended St. Francis Xavier High School in Edmonton while he played Canadian Junior "A" hockey with the Spruce Grove Mets.{{cite web |url=http://www.mobley-dodsonfuneralservice.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=2960690&fh_id=10322 |title=David Allan Hoyda, 1957 - 2015, Obituary |publisher=Mobley Dodson Funeral Service |date=2015-02-10 |accessdate=2015-08-24}} Hoyda and the Mets won the 1975 Canadian Junior "A" national championship. He moved up to Major Junior hockey for his next two seasons, playing with the Edmonton Oil Kings/Portland Winterhawks (franchise moved).

Hoyda was drafted in both the World Hockey Association and NHL Amateur Drafts in 1977, signing a contract with the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers.

Hoyda died in 2015.