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Garry Valk
Canadian ice hockey player

Garry Valk

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Canadian ice hockey player
Places
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Edmonton, Canada
Age
57 years
Stats
Weight:
205 lbs
Sports Teams
Chicago Blackhawks
Pittsburgh Penguins
Toronto Maple Leafs
Vancouver Canucks
Anaheim Ducks
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Garry Valk (born November 27, 1967) is a Canadian broadcaster and former professional ice hockey player. He was selected 108th overall in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. Valk had a ten-year NHL career, debuting with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1990–91 season, scoring ten goals and eleven assists for twenty-one points, while recording sixty-seven penalty minutes. Valk's strongest career year came in 1993–94, when he recorded forty-five points in seventy-eight games for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, after being selected in the NHL's expansion draft. After finishing his playing career, Valk became a television analyst.

Playing career

Arguably his best work came in the late 1990s, when he was signed as a free agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Valk became a player-coach that Pat Quinn depended on, fighting off opponents in crucial situations while also being an offensive threat.

Career highlights for Valk include the 1998–1999 playoffs, when he scored a key overtime goal to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the NHL playoffs.

Valk finished his career with a brief stint in 2003 with the Chicago Blackhawks.

Post-playing career

Valk retired to pursue an interest in broadcasting, and to spend time with his wife, son, daughter and Boston terrier named Lola Belle. Today, Garry coaches his son's junior hockey team in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and was featured in a Canadian Business Magazine article on athletes who have gone on to be successful after their careers. He is also a Vancouver Canucks analyst on the sports news show Sportsnet Connected.

In 2010, developers of a downtown Toronto condominium project enlisted the public's assistance in picking a name for the structure.Among the names submitted in the Internet poll, "Garry Valk Plaza" proved to be amongst the most popular entries.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular seasonPlayoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPtsPIMGPGAPtsPIM
1984–85Sherwood Park CrusadersAJHL5320224266
1985–86Sherwood Park CrusadersAJHL40202646116
1986–87Sherwood Park CrusadersAJHL59424486204
1987–88University of North DakotaWCHA3823123564
1988–89University of North DakotaWCHA4014173171
1989–90University of North DakotaWCHA4322173992
1990–91Vancouver CanucksNHL5910112167500020
1990–91Milwaukee AdmiralsIHL10124161330002
1991–92Vancouver CanucksNHL65817255640005
1992–93Vancouver CanucksNHL48671377701112
1992–93Hamilton CanucksAHL73696
1993–94Mighty Ducks of AnaheimNHL78182745100
1994–95Mighty Ducks of AnaheimNHL3636934
1995–96Mighty Ducks of AnaheimNHL79121224125
1996–97Mighty Ducks of AnaheimNHL53771453
1996–97Pittsburgh PenguinsNHL1734725
1997–98Pittsburgh PenguinsNHL3921333
1998–99Toronto Maple LeafsNHL7782129531734722
1999–00Toronto Maple LeafsNHL73101424441212314
2000–01Toronto Maple LeafsNHL74818264651012
2001–02Toronto Maple LeafsNHL635101528111014
2002–03Chicago BlackhawksNHL160116
2002–03Norfolk AdmiralsAHL22651116
NHL totals77710015625674761671379
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