Larry Playfair

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image = Larry Playfair (110410-F-DS336-018) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Playfair with the Buffalo Sabres Alumni Hockey Team in 2011

| image_size =

| position = Defence

| played_for = Buffalo Sabres
Los Angeles Kings

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lb = 215

| ntl_team = CAN

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|6|23|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Fort St. James, British Columbia, Canada

| career_start = 1978

| career_end = 1990

| draft = 13th overall

| draft_year = 1978

| draft_team = Buffalo Sabres

}}

Larry William Playfair (born June 23, 1958) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played for the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings in the NHL and he has worked as a color analyst for Sabres television broadcasts since his 1990 retirement due to chronic back problems.{{cite web |url= http://sabreslegends.blogspot.com/2007/06/larry-playfair.html |title = Larry Playfair |author=Joe Pelletier |date=June 14, 2007 |publisher = Greatest Hockey Legends.com: The Hockey History Blog |accessdate= 2010-06-08}} Along with his younger brother Jim, Playfair was drafted in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft (Larry in 1978 and Jim in 1982), and both played junior hockey for the Portland Winter Hawks of the Western Hockey League.{{cite web |url= http://www.hockeygoon.com/playfair.html |title = Hockey Goon: Larry Playfair |publisher = Hockey Goon (hockeygoon.com) |accessdate= 2010-06-08}}

Playfair was president of the Sabres Alumni Association spanning at least December 2007 and March 2012.{{cite web

|url=http://www.sabresalumni.com/about/letter.php

|title=A Letter from Larry Playfair ...

|publisher=Buffalo Sabres Alumni Association (sabresalumni.com)

|accessdate=2015-09-02

|work=Letter from the President

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105184004/http://sabresalumni.com/about/letter.php

|archivedate=2007-11-05

|url-status=bot: unknown

}} . A similar letter is now from Rob Ray.

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! colspan="5"\|Regular season ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! colspan="5"\|Playoffs
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM
1974–75 \| Langley Lords \| BCHL \| —	—	—	—	— \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1974–75 \| Kamloops Chiefs \| WCHL \| 1	0	0	0	0 \| —	—	—	—	—
1975–76 \| Langley Lords \| BCHL \| 72	10	20	30	162 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1975–76 \| Kamloops Chiefs \| WCHL \| —	—	—	—	— \| 3	0	0	0	0
1976–77 \| Portland Winter Hawks \| WCHL \| 65	2	17	19	199 \| 8	0	0	0	4
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1977–78 \| Portland Winter Hawks \| WCHL \| 71	13	19	32	402 \| 8	0	2	2	58
1978–79 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 26	0	3	3	60 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1978–79 \| Hershey Bears \| AHL \| 45	0	12	12	148 \| —	—	—	—	—
1979–80 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 79	2	10	12	145 \| 14	0	2	2	29
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1980–81 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 75	3	9	12	169 \| 8	0	0	0	26
1981–82 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 77	6	10	16	258 \| 4	0	0	0	22
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1982–83 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 79	4	13	17	180 \| 5	0	1	1	11
1983–84 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 76	5	11	16	211 \| 3	0	0	0	0
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1984–85 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 72	3	14	17	157 \| 5	0	3	3	9
1985–86 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 47	1	2	3	100 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1985–86 \| Los Angeles Kings \| NHL \| 14	0	1	1	28 \| —	—	—	—	—
1986–87 \| Los Angeles Kings \| NHL \| 37	2	7	9	181 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1987–88 \| Los Angeles Kings \| NHL \| 54	0	7	7	197 \| 3	0	0	0	14
1988–89 \| Los Angeles Kings \| NHL \| 6	0	3	3	16 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1988–89 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 42	0	3	3	110 \| 1	0	0	0	0
1989–90 \| Buffalo Sabres \| NHL \| 4	0	1	1	2 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" \| NHL totals ! 688 !! 26 !! 94 !! 120 !! 1814 ! 43 !! 0 !! 6 !! 6 !! 111