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Dan Quinn
Born (1965-06-01) June 1, 1965 (age 59)
Ottawa, ON, CAN
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight 175 lb (79 kg; 12 st 7 lb)
Position Centre
Shot Left
Played for Calgary Flames
Pittsburgh Penguins
Vancouver Canucks
St. Louis Blues
Philadelphia Flyers
Minnesota North Stars
Ottawa Senators
Los Angeles Kings
National team  Canada
NHL draft 14th overall, 1983
Calgary Flames
Playing career 1983–1996

Daniel Peter Quinn (born June 1, 1965) is a Canadian professional golfer and former professional ice hockey player. Quinn played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Quinn was born in Ottawa, Ontario, but grew up in Brockville, Ontario.

Playing career

Quinn was drafted 13th overall by the Calgary Flames in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft, while he was playing for the Belleville Bulls of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Quinn made his debut with Calgary halfway through the next season, scoring 52 points in 54 games. When he was called up he had been leading the OHL in scoring with 59 points. On November 12, 1986, Quinn was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Mike Bullard. It was in Pittsburgh where Quinn would have the most individual success, as he scored a career high 40 goals in 1987–88, and a career-high 94 points the next season. This was in large part because he got to play on the same team as phenom Mario Lemieux.

Quinn was traded to the Vancouver Canucks in 1990, and that started a period where Quinn played for 7 teams in 5 years. Quinn was alleged to have raped a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in 1992. He was released by the Minnesota North Stars, the team he was playing for at the time. Quinn maintained that he and the woman had sex, but that it was consensual. The police did not press charges, and Quinn was back in the NHL the next season.[1]

Quinn retired in November 1996, after being released by the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Quinn currently resides in Florida with his wife and their 2 daughters and a son.

Awards

  • Pittsburgh's Player's Players Award (1986–87 co-winner)

Golf

Quinn embarked on a career in golf after his career, and was one of the top players on the Celebrity Tour. In 2000, he caddied for John Daly at the U.S. Open. Quinn also caddies part-time for Ernie Els.[2][3]

At the end of April 2014, Quinn became caddie for golfer Joost Luiten from the Netherlands, ranked number 43 at the Official World Golf Ranking.

Quinn has competed at the American Century Celebrity Golf Classic, an annual competition to determine the best golfers among American sports and entertainment celebrities. He won the tournament in 1992, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2012, and has a total of eighteen top-10 finishes.[4] The tournament, televised by NBC in July, is played at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.[5]

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1981–82 Belleville Bulls OHL 67 19 32 51 41 — — — — —
1982–83 Belleville Bulls OHL 70 59 88 147 27 4 2 6 8 2
1983–84 Belleville Bulls OHL 24 23 36 59 12 — — — — —
1983–84 Calgary Flames NHL 54 19 33 52 20 8 3 5 8 4
1984–85 Calgary Flames NHL 74 20 38 58 22 3 0 0 0 0
1985–86 Calgary Flames NHL 78 30 42 72 44 18 8 7 15 10
1986–87 Calgary Flames NHL 16 3 6 9 14 — — — — —
1986–87 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 64 28 43 71 40 — — — — —
1987–88 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 70 40 39 79 50 — — — — —
1988–89 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 79 34 60 94 102 11 6 3 9 10
1989–90 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 41 9 20 29 22 — — — — —
1989–90 Vancouver Canucks NHL 37 16 18 34 27 — — — — —
1990–91 Vancouver Canucks NHL 64 18 31 49 46 — — — — —
1990–91 St. Louis Blues NHL 14 4 7 11 20 13 4 7 11 32
1991–92 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 67 11 26 37 26 — — — — —
1992–93 Minnesota North Stars NHL 11 0 4 4 6 — — — — —
1993–94 SC Bern Switz. 25 13 18 31 56 — — — — —
1993–94 Ottawa Senators NHL 13 7 0 7 6 — — — — —
1994–95 EV Zug Switz. 7 7 6 13 26 — — — — —
1994–95 Los Angeles Kings NHL 44 14 17 31 32 — — — — —
1995–96 Ottawa Senators NHL 28 6 18 24 24 — — — — —
1995–96 Detroit Vipers IHL 4 0 5 5 2 — — — — —
1995–96 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 35 7 14 21 22 12 1 4 5 6
1996–97 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 16 0 3 3 10 — — — — —
14 seasons NHL career 805 266 419 685 533 65 22 26 48 62

International play

International statistics
Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM
1987 Canada WC 10 2 2 4 12

References

  1. ^ "Quinn rape charge dropped". New York Times. November 25, 1992. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
  2. ^ Ferguson, Doug (March 20, 2012). "Els sticking with caddie plan". USA Today. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
  3. ^ Harig, Bob (July 25, 2012). "Ernie Els wins with unusual caddie platoon". ESPN. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
  4. ^ http://www.tahoecelebritygolf.com/tournamentstats/topten.html
  5. ^ http://www.edgewoodtahoe.com/
  • Total Hockey (Second Edition), Editor - Dan Diamond, ISBN 1-892129-85-X

Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database

Preceded by
None
 Jack Ferguson Award
1981 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Calgary Flames' first round draft pick
1983 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Vancouver Canucks captain
1990–91,
with Doug Lidster and Trevor Linden 		Succeeded by
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