Dick Decloe is a former professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player. A Memorial Cup

Memorial Cup

The Memorial Cup is a junior ice hockey club championship trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Hockey League champion. It is awarded following a four-team, round robin tournament between a host team and the champions of the CHL's three member leagues: the Ontario Hockey League , Quebec Major...

 winner, Decloe spent most of his playing career as a top scorer in the first German Bundesliga. A Canadian, he played international for the Netherlands at the 1980 Winter Olympics

1980 Winter Olympics

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Decloe was a member of the 1973 Toronto Marlboros

Toronto Marlboros

The Toronto Marlborough Athletic Club, commonly known as the Toronto Marlboros, was founded in 1903. It operated a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association and Ontario Hockey League from 1904 to 1989...

 Memorial Cup championship team. He began his pro career with IJHC Den Haag

HYS The Hague

HYS The Hague is the professional ice hockey team in The Hague, Netherlands. Founded in 1933, the team plays in the North Sea Cup as well as competing annually in the Dutch Cup tournament. The most successful hockey team in the Netherlands during the 1960s, it broke a 40-year championship drought...

 of the Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

 in 1973. Decloe spent the next 8 seasons in the Bundesliga, 1974 to 1978 and 1980-1 with Krefeld Pinguine

Krefeld Pinguine

The Krefeld Pinguine are an ice hockey team in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. They play in Krefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany at the KönigPALAST. Founded first in 1936, the pro team became a limited liability company in 1994 and joined the top tier Deutsche Eishockey Liga...

, 1978-9 with Cologne EC, and 1979-80 and 1981-2 with Düsseldorfer EG. He was the league's top point getter three times (1974-5, 1976-7, and 1980-81), top goal scorer four times (1974-5, 1975-6, 1976-7, and 1977-8). He was named to the league All-Star team for 1976-7.

Of Dutch ethnic descent, Decloe scored 5 points in 5 games at Lake Placid, as the Dutch finished in 8th place.

Dick Decloe currently resides in Canada and runs a successful hockey training programme in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. http://www.decloehockeyacademy.info/

• B.Sc., Business Management – Boston University
• NCAA Hockey Scholarship Boston University
• Assistant Team Canada Coach...Spengler Cup 1993
• 21 Yrs. Player & Coach...European Pro Hockey 1973-94
• Voted "Best Foreign Player of the Decade" 1970-1980

Sources

• Decloe's career stats at eurohockey.net