Height: 6-0
Weight: 180
Shoot: R
Born: 29 Oct 1959, Ottawa ON
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
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• Member, Hockey Hall of Fame.
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Stingers' Gartner Has Eye For Net • no byline • The Hockey News • December 29, 1978
As a junior hockey player, Mike Gartner always had one noticeable talent — he knew where the net was and he could put the puck in the goal. Now that he is a budding pro with the Cincinnati Stingers, Gartner hasn't lost any of his junior scoring touch. In fact he has been one of the offensive surprises of the WHA team with 13 goals in his first 28 games as a professional. The 18-year-old Gartner, who stands six feet tall and weighs 180, was rated one of the top junior players in Canada and considered by many as the number one player for the 1979 NHL draft before deciding to cast his lot with the WHA. In his last 90 games as a junior with Niagara Falls Flyers of the OHA, Gartner scored 59 times. The Stingers are high on Gartner's scoring potential but his coach, Floyd Smith, looks at him in a different light. "He's a great skater who is strong in the corners," said Smith in tribute to his brilliant young right winger. The NHL hasn't given up on Gartner as a draft prospect either. They are constantly charting his progress in WHA games and have been scouting him since he joined Cincinnati last September as one of nine underage juniors who went to the WHA. |
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