Pat Price (ice hockey)
{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player (born 1955)}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| name = Pat Price
| played_for = Vancouver Blazers
New York Islanders
Edmonton Oilers
Pittsburgh Penguins
Quebec Nordiques
New York Rangers
Minnesota North Stars
| position = Defence
| shoots = Left
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 2
| weight_lb = 195
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|3|24|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
| draft = 11th overall
| draft_year = 1975
| draft_team = New York Islanders
| wha_draft = 1st overall
| wha_draft_year = 1974
| wha_draft_team = Vancouver Blazers
| career_start = 1974
| career_end = 1988
}}
Shaun Patrick Price (born March 24, 1955) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Vancouver Blazers and the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders, Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Quebec Nordiques, New York Rangers and Minnesota North Stars. He reached the NHL playoff semifinals four times, three times with the Islanders and once with the Nordiques.
Early life
Born in Nelson, British Columbia, Price was a highly touted junior star with the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), with 95 points, despite being a defenseman, in the 1973–74 WCHL season. He was a member of the WCHL All-Star Team in 1974.
Career
In the 1974 WHA Amateur Draft, Price was drafted first overall by the Vancouver Blazers. The WHA had trouble holding onto its draft picks, who often went to the more established NHL teams, but the Blazers landed the untested rookie with a contract offer of $1.3 million (${{Inflation|CA|1.3|1974|r=1|fmt=c}} million today).
Price did not meet the Blazers' expectations, with 34 points in the 1974–75 WHA season, and he went to the NHL after being drafted 11th overall by the New York Islanders in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft. Price spent most of that season in the minor leagues, as he learned the professional game.
Price became an NHL regular in 1976–77, and played three seasons with the Islanders before he was claimed by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft.
Despite the original expectation that he should be a scoring defenceman with Vancouver in his rookie season, Price grew to be a balanced professional, playing 726 total NHL games over 13 seasons, scoring 43 goals and having 218 assists before retiring in 1988.{{cite web |url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=14044 |title=Pat Price player profile |publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame |accessdate=2010-01-30}}
After retiring, Price returned to his hometown of Nelson, British Columbia.
Career statistics
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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! colspan="5" | Regular season ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! colspan="5" | Playoffs |
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! Season ! Team ! League ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM |
| 1970–71
| WCHL | 66 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 56 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
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| 1971–72 | Saskatoon Blades | WCHL | 66 | 10 | 48 | 58 | 85 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 25 |
| 1972–73
| Saskatoon Blades | WCHL | 67 | 12 | 56 | 68 | 134 | 16 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 24 |
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| 1973–74 | Saskatoon Blades | WCHL | 68 | 27 | 68 | 95 | 147 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 |
| 1974–75
| WHA | 68 | 5 | 29 | 34 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — |
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| 1975–76 | NHL | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1975–76
| CHL | 72 | 6 | 44 | 50 | 119 | — | — | — | — | — |
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| 1976–77 | New York Islanders | NHL | 71 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1977–78
| New York Islanders | NHL | 52 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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| 1977–78 | AHL | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1978–79
| New York Islanders | NHL | 55 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 50 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 25 |
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| 1979–80 | NHL | 75 | 11 | 21 | 32 | 134 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 1980–81
| Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 59 | 8 | 24 | 32 | 193 | — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1980–81 | NHL | 13 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 33 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21 |
| 1981–82
| Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 77 | 7 | 31 | 38 | 322 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1982–83 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 38 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 104 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1982–83
| NHL | 14 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1983–84 | Quebec Nordiques | NHL | 72 | 3 | 25 | 28 | 188 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 1984–85
| Quebec Nordiques | NHL | 68 | 1 | 26 | 27 | 118 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 51 |
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| 1985–86 | Quebec Nordiques | NHL | 54 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 82 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1986–87
| Quebec Nordiques | NHL | 47 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 81 | — | — | — | — | — |
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| 1986–87 | AHL | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1986–87
| NHL | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 49 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
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| 1987–88 | NHL | 14 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1987–88
| IHL | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — |
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! colspan="3" | NHL totals ! 726 ! 43 ! 218 ! 261 ! 1456 ! 74 ! 2 ! 10 ! 12 ! 195 |
References
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External links
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{{succession box | before = Colin Campbell | title = Vancouver Blazers first round draft pick | years = 1974 | after = Denny McLean}}
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