Wayne King (ice hockey)
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Wayne Gordon King is a retired professional ice hockey
centre
who played in the National Hockey League
for the California Golden Seals
. During the 1973-74 season, King piled up 34 goals and 34 assists, skating for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the Western Hockey League, the Seals' top farm team. A left-shot operating from the opposite wing, his performance earned him WHL Second Team All-Star Right Wing honors at season's end. Following his retirement from professional hockey in 1977, King continued as an amateur forward, joining the Senior A Barrie Flyers, and later the Collingwood Shipbuilders and Midland Athletics intermediate clubs in the Ontario Hockey Association. In 1996, King was one of the inaugural inductees selected to the Midland (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame.
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...
centre
Centre (ice hockey)
The centre in ice hockey is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play is the middle of the ice, away from the side boards. Centres have more flexibility in their positioning and are expected to cover more ice surface than any other player...
who played in the National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
for the California Golden Seals
California Golden Seals
The California Golden Seals were a team in the National Hockey League from 1967–76. Initially named California Seals, the team was renamed Oakland Seals part-way through the 1967–68 season, and then to California Golden Seals in 1970. The Seals were one of six teams added to the league as part of...
. During the 1973-74 season, King piled up 34 goals and 34 assists, skating for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the Western Hockey League, the Seals' top farm team. A left-shot operating from the opposite wing, his performance earned him WHL Second Team All-Star Right Wing honors at season's end. Following his retirement from professional hockey in 1977, King continued as an amateur forward, joining the Senior A Barrie Flyers, and later the Collingwood Shipbuilders and Midland Athletics intermediate clubs in the Ontario Hockey Association. In 1996, King was one of the inaugural inductees selected to the Midland (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame.
Playing career
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1968–69 | Niagara Falls Flyers Niagara Falls Flyers ----The Niagara Falls Flyers were two junior ice hockey franchises that played in the top tier in the Ontario Hockey Association. The first, a Junior "A" team existed from 1960 until 1972, and the second in Tier I Junior "A" from 1976 until 1982.... |
OHA Ontario Hockey League The Ontario Hockey League is one of the three Major Junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The league is for players aged 15-20.The OHL also operates under the Ontario Hockey Federation of Hockey Canada.... |
4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1969–70 | Niagara Falls Flyers | OHA | 54 | 8 | 26 | 34 | 61 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1970–71 | Niagara Falls Flyers | OHA | 59 | 14 | 18 | 32 | 112 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1971–72 | Columbus Seals | IHL | 72 | 22 | 29 | 51 | 29 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1972–73 | Salt Lake Golden Eagles Salt Lake Golden Eagles The Salt Lake Golden Eagles were a minor professional hockey team based in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1969 to 1994.They played in the Western Hockey League from 1969 to 1974, the Central Hockey League from 1974 to 1984 and the International Hockey League from 1984 to 1994... |
WHL Western Hockey League (minor pro) The Western Hockey League was a minor pro ice hockey league that operated from 1952 to 1974. Managed for most of its history by Hockey Hall of Fame member Al Leader, it was created out of the merger of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Canada Senior Hockey League... |
72 | 16 | 27 | 43 | 55 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | ||
| 1973–74 | California Golden Seals California Golden Seals The California Golden Seals were a team in the National Hockey League from 1967–76. Initially named California Seals, the team was renamed Oakland Seals part-way through the 1967–68 season, and then to California Golden Seals in 1970. The Seals were one of six teams added to the league as part of... |
NHL National Hockey League The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States... |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1973–74 | Salt Lake Golden Eagles | WHL | 76 | 34 | 34 | 68 | 72 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | ||
| 1974–75 | California Golden Seals | NHL | 25 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1975–76 | California Golden Seals | NHL | 46 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 26 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1975–76 | Salt Lake Golden Eagles | CHL | 20 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | ||
| 1976–77 | Salt Lake Golden Eagles | CHL | 51 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 36 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1977–78 | Barrie Flyers | OHA Sr. A OHA Senior A League (1929–1979) The Ontario Hockey Association Senior A League was a top tier Canadian Senior ice hockey league in Ontario from 1890 until 1979. The league was sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and its clubs competed for the Allan Cup.-History:The league was... |
40 | 24 | 16 | 40 | 47 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| NHL Totals | 73 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 34 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||