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Clark Gillies
Clark Gillies was born on the 7th of April 1954 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. He Played 14 National Hockey League seasons from 1974 to 1988. He was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame in 2002.
Clark Gillies was a 6 foot 3 inch and 215 pound, premiere power forward in the League, during the second half of the 1970's and early 1980's. The left winger formed one of the decade's most lethal forward lines, nicknamed the, Trio Grande.
In 1973-74, his amateur career with the Regina Pats, was highlighted by winning the Memorial Cup championship and the west to become the best junior team in the nation. He was named to the Western Canada Junior Hockey League First All-Star team that season. Later that spring he was drafted fourth overall by the New York. At around the halfway point of Gillies' third NHL season, the young Gillies was chosen as the new team captain. Gillies backed it up with leadership on the ice. During the 1977 NHL playoffs during a quarterfinal round against Buffalo he recorded three consecutive game-winning goals to tie an NHL record.
After two and a half seasons, Gillies resigned as captain and a period of league domination continued in the spring of 1980 as the Islanders won their first of four consecutive Stanley Cups. During the 1984 playoffs, Gillies notched a career-best 12 goals that included a hat trick in game two of the finals against the Edmonton Oilers.
Gillies was a two-time NHL First Team All-Star left wing in 1977-78 and 1978-79. He participated in the 1978 NHL All-Star Game and the following year was selected to play with the NHL All-Stars in the 1979 Challenge Cup. His Islander line was the number one NHL unit against the Soviet Union national team. The Trio Grande, was also an obvious choice to lead Team Canada at the 1981 Canada Cup, where Gillies helped Canada earn a second place finish.
He retired from the NHL with regular season totals of 319 goals, 378 assists for 697 points. In 147 NHL playoff games he scored 47 times and assisted on the same for 94 points. On December 7, 1996, Clark Gillies' number 9 was retired by the New York Islanders as a symbol of his great contribution and significance to the team.
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