Dale Hawerchuk
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Dale Hawerchuk (born April 4, 1963) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former professional player.
Hawerchuk played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 16 seasons.
He won the NHL's Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's Rookie of the Year in 1982 and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in his second year of eligibility in 2001.
Hawerchuk served as the head coach of the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League from 2010 to 2019.
Personal life
Hawerchuk was born in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Oshawa, Ontario. He was married to Crystal, whom he met in Manitoba while playing for the Jets. The couple had three children.
Hawerchuck's son Ben Hawerchuck plays professional hockey as a forward for the Jacksonville Icemen of the ECHL. Ben had previously played for the Barrie Colts.
In 2019, Hawerchuk announced he would be taking a leave of absence from the Colts for health reasons, which was later revealed to be stomach cancer. Hawerchuk completed a course of chemotherapy in April 2020, but died on August 18, 2020 at the age of 57. He was buried in Thornton Cemetery in Oshawa.
Playing career
Hawerchuk, a young prodigy, received his first pair of skates at age two and, according to his father, "was skating before he could walk." Hawerchuk demonstrated exceptional technique from the start of competitive hockey at age four. During an 8–1 victory in the finals, he scored all eight goals, breaking the long-standing record set by legendary Guy Lafleur. The respected Oshawa Generals gave him a try out before age 15, but he didn't make the team. Hawerchuk was ranked 6th overall by the Cornwall Royals of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in 1979, and he was regarded with skepticism; a Toronto-born player competing in the QMJHL. He scored 103 points and was named Rookie of the Year. Hawerchuk was the playoff MVP and led the Royals to the Memorial Cup championship. He scored 81 goals and 183 points in his second year as a senior player and helped the Royals win their second straight Memorial Cup title. He was named a QMJHL First Team All-Star, the Canadian Major Junior Player of the Year, and the Memorial Cup MVP.
In the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, the Winnipeg Jets selected Hawerchuk first overall, ahead of fellow Hall of Famers Ron Francis, Grant Fuhr, and Chris Chelios. Hawerchuk made Winnipeg immediately become Winnipeg's star attraction, leading the Jets to what was to be the biggest single season change-around in NHL history, a 48-point increase. He became the youngest NHL player to reach 100 points (a record sett by Sidney Crosby in 2006), finishing with 103 points and winning the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's Rookie of the Year. He appeared in the All-Star Game for the second season. In his second season, Hawerchuk scored 91 points in his second season and then hit the 100-point plateau for the next five years, with a career-high 53 goals and 130 points in 1984–85.
Hawerchuk was involved in a blockbuster trade in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. He was traded to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for Phil Housley, Scott Arniel, Jeff Parker, and Buffalo's 1st round pick, Keith Tkachachuk). He won no fewer than 86 points in the next four years. His points dropped off because of an injury-plagued schedule and a lockout that shortened the 1994–95 season. In 1995, he signed with the St. Louis Blues, scoring 41 points in 66 games before being traded to the Philadelphia Flyers in March, 1996. He finished the season strong, scoring 20 points in the season's final 16 games and adding 9 points in the playoffs. He was plagued by injuries this season, but he still scored 34 points and appeared in his fifth All-Star Game. Following the 1996–97 season, Hawerchuk announced his retirement from football at age 34 due to a degenerative left hip. His time with the Flyers in the 1997 Stanley Cup Finals was the first time any of his teams advanced past the second round of the playoffs.
In the deciding third game of the Finals against the Soviets, he competed for Team Canada in the 1987 Canada Cup tournament, scoring a goal and two assists. He won the match that resulted in Canada's most popular goal and tied up with Lemieux at center ice, allowing Lemieux to take Wayne Gretzky's slot in the series's champion later in the third period. For that dramatic game, Hawerchuk was named Canada's MVP. Commentators weighed in on his potential in the series of him going from being a goal scorer to a mucker and grinder. Hawerchuk was also instrumental in Canada's 1991 Canada Cup triumph.
Hawerchuk finished third in a poll of NHL general managers during the mid-1980s, with them choosing the player they would start a franchise with, behind only Gretzky and Paul Coffey. He retired with 518 goals, 891 assists, and 1,409 points, placing him 18th on the career NHL points list. In 2001, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The Phoenix Coyotes (successor to the Jets) renamed Hawerchuk's No. 63. During the 2006–07 NHL season, he was one of ten players.
Post-playing career
In 2007, Hawerchuk became the president, director of hockey operations, and the primary owner of the Orangeville Crushers, the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League's Orangeville Crushers. In 2010, he left this position.
The Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League announced Hawerchuk as their head coach and director of hockey operations on June 4, 2010. The 2010-11 season marked a rebuilding effort for the Colts, with the team going 15-49–2–2, missing the playoffs for the first time in team history. Hawerchuk's rookie season, 2011-2012, was his best record in his second season as the Colts' bench boss.
Awards and achievements
- RDS Cup (QMJHL Rookie of the Year) (1980)
- Guy Lafleur Trophy (QMJHL Playoff MVP) (1980)
- QMJHL Championships (1980 and 1981)
- Memorial Cup championships (1980 and 1981)
- Memorial Cup All-Star First Team (1980 and 1981)
- Jean Béliveau Trophy (QMJHL Scoring Champion) (1981)
- QMJHL First Team All-Star (1981)
- Michel Brière Memorial Trophy (QMJHL Player of the Year) (1981)
- Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy (Memorial Cup MVP) (1981)
- CHL Player of the Year (1981)
- Played in NHL All-Star Game 5 times - 1982,1985,1986,1988,1997
- Calder Memorial Trophy winner (1982)
- World Championships bronze medal (1982 and 1986)
- World Championships silver medal (1989)
- NHL Second Team All-Star Centre (1985)
- Canada Cup Championships (1987 and 1991)
- First NHL player to reach 1000 career NHL games before age 31
- Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001
- Honoured Member of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
- Member of the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame (2013)
- Inducted into the Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame in 2011
- Inducted into the Phoenix Coyotes Ring of Honor in 2007,[1] joining Bobby Hull and Thomas Steen. The Jets/Coyotes franchise retired his number 10 on April 5, 2007. Unlike Hull and Steen, who were honored in Jets colors, Hawerchuk's number was retired in Coyotes apparel, despite the fact that Hawerchuk never played in Phoenix.
- Honored by the second Winnipeg Jets franchise: named captain of the Jets' alumni squad at the 2016 Heritage Classic, inducted into the team's Hall of Fame in 2017, and by a statue near the Canada Life Centre, the Jets' current arena located in downtown Winnipeg. Out of respect for Hawerchuk, number 10 has not been worn by any Jets player since that team relocated to Winnipeg in 2011.