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John Danby • John Joseph Danby

Height: 5-10
Weight: 165
Shoot: R
Born: 20 Jul 1948, Toronto ON

 

Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)

year team
gp
g
a
pts
pim
gp
g
a
pts
pim
1972-73 New England
77
14
23
37
10
8
0
0
0
0
1973-74 New England
72
2
2
4
6
7
1
0
1
0
1974-75 New England
4
0
1
1
0
1975-76 New England
1
0
0
0
0
Totals:
150
16
25
41
16
19
1
1
2
0

 

Whaler Mites Make it Big (excerpt) • by Dick Dew • The Hockey Spectator • December 22, 1972

...Then there is Danby, the tiny center assigned to try and check the opposing team's top scorer and to handle the penalty killing chores where possible.

Danby is so skinny his teammates claim he hides behind his hockey stick on penalty-kill missions, using the handle as an ambush, darting out to breakup a play, and thereby confusing the enemy no end.

John, who is trying hard to shake the nickname of "Jake" that he picked up while playing college hockey for Kelley, isn't adverse to scoring a goal or two and already owns two game winners for the Whalers.

"He's the kind of guy who quickly learns from his mistakes or those of anybody else," Kelley praised. "He has a total discipline that means he is always hustling. He's always been that way and I expect he always will be."

Danby had recently seen a couple of his mates foiled on prime scoring bids by the New York Raiders' acrobatic, belly-flopping goalie, Pete Donnelly.

John recognized that only time, patience and a little elbow room could beat the quick-reacting Donnelly. So when the score was tied and the pressure was on, Danby calmly skated clear of a standard Donnelly sprawl and notched his fourth goal in three games.

In the meantime, the 24-year-old Danby makes use of those exact same qualities while killing off penalties.

He's generally the Whalers' front man, the forward who goes deep to try and delay or break up the rival powerplay before it gets rolling.

His quick moves and quicker stick frequently result in as much as a 30-second delay in the enemy end, a crucial period that almost invariably results in a hurried and therefore ineffective rush.

 

 

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