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Canadian ice hockey player
Born: April 4, 1963, Toronto, Canada
Died: August 18, 2020, Barrie, Canada
Height: 1.8 m
Spouse: Crystal Hawerchuk (m. ?–2020)
NHL Draft: 1st overall, 1981; Winnipeg Jets
Children: Ben Hawerchuk, Eric Hawerchuk, Alexis Hawerchuk
Throughout his early years, Dale Hawerchuk was constantly facing comparisons to the game’s greatest player, Wayne Gretzky.
Mike Doran, the Winnipeg Jets’ Director of Player Personnel in 1981, once said, “He has the same instincts, that puck sense, of Gretzky.”
Hawerchuk would not disappoint his fans, leading his team in scoring at every age.
Dale Hawerchuk was born on April 4, 1963, in the Rexdale area of Toronto.
At an extremely early age his parents, Ed and Eleanor, moved the family to Oshawa.
Dale received his first pair of skates at age two and, as his father put it, “He was skating before he could walk.”
Beginning competitive hockey at age four, Hawerchuk demonstrated superior skills almost immediately.
At a Peewee tournament in Montreal, he scored all eight goals during an 8-1 victory in the finals, smashing Guy Lafleur’s long-held record.
By age 15, the famed Oshawa Generals offered him a tryout.
He didn’t make the club, but the Generals tried to hide him in their local Junior ‘B’ club, a plan that didn’t work.
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Hawerchuk became the president, director of hockey operations, and primary owner of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League’s Orangeville Crushers in 2007.
He left this position in 2010.
On June 4, 2010, the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League named Hawerchuk as their head coach and director of hockey operations.
The 2010–11 season was a rebuilding one for the Colts, as the team went 15–49–2–2, missing the playoffs for the first time in team history.
In his sophomore year, the 2011–12 season, Hawerchuk amassed a record of 40–23–3–2; a significant improvement over his rookie season as bench boss of the 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.
He was 57 years old.
Dale Hawerchuk was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Hawerchuk played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 16 seasons as a member of the Winnipeg Jets, Buffalo Sabres, St. Louis Blues and Philadelphia Flyers.
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.