Virginia Wings Players - Robbie Ftorek, Herb Boxer, Nelson Debenedet, Terry Richardson, Bob Cook, Serge Lajeunesse, Art Stratton, Meehan Bonnar (Paperback)

Chapters: Robbie Ftorek, Herb Boxer, Nelson Debenedet, Terry Richardson, Bob Cook, Serge Lajeunesse, Art Stratton, Meehan Bonnar, Dan Newman, Mike Korney, Bill Hogaboam, Bill Mckenzie, Michel Bergeron, Nelson Pyatt, Ren Drolet, Terry Clancy, Ken Murray, Pierre Jarry, Tom Mellor, Jim Nahrgang. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert Brian Ftorek (born January 2, 1952 in Needham, Massachusetts) is a former NHL player and coach. He was enshrined as member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991. Ftorek is currently the head coach of the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League. As a player, he was a member of the 1972 United States Olympic Hockey team that surprisingly won the silver medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics. Ftorek also played for Team USA at the 1972 "Pool B" Ice Hockey World Championship where he was selected to the tournament all-star team. Originally drafted by the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association in 1972, he instead signed with the NHL's Detroit Red Wings. However, the Red Wings regarded Ftorek as too small to make it as a professional and he only appeared in a handful of NHL games. Having spent most of his time in the minors with the AHL's Virginia Wings, Ftorek decided to move over to the WHA in 1974, and it was at this time the Whalers traded his WHA rights to the Phoenix Roadrunners. Ftorek quickly became the Roadrunners' biggest star and he made history in 1977 when he won the Gordie Howe Trophy as the league's most valuable playerthe first American ice hockey player in major professional hockey to accomplish this feat. Ftorek confirmed his status as the most accomplished American player of the 1970s in the inaugural 1976 Canada Cup where he was elected MVP of Team USA and also was the US team's lea...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4890456