Height: 5-8
Weight: 185
Shoot: R
Born: 7 Nov 1948, Calgary AB
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
| year | team | |||||||||||
| 1973-74 | Minnesota | |||||||||||
| 1974-75 | Minnesota | |||||||||||
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| 1975-76 | Indianapolis | |||||||||||
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Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1975-76 (by Dan Proudfoot)
The move from Minnesota Fighting Saints, a playoff team, to the lowly, expansion Racers brought nothing but delight to the 27-year-old Heatley, who was growing tired of being a big-league hanger-on. Heatley scored 15 goals and added eight assists in 29 games as he finished the 1974-75 season with the Racers. Earlier, used sparingly, he was credited with only five goals and nine assists as a Saint. "We knew what we were looking for," says coach Gerry Moore, "and that was a goal scorer. This guy can skate and shoot, which means goals." Heatley started his pro career in the Toronto Maple Leaf NHL organization, but after spending three years in the minor leagues the University of Wisconsin graduate switched to Minnesota and the WHA. Now, at last, he's with a team that wants to make full use of his talents. For Heatley it's a matter of doubling his production, doubling his fun. |
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Excerpts from Zander Hollander Complete Hockey Handbook, 1975-76 (by Reyn Davis)
Racers best man in front of the net ... Has a scoring touch on a team that has been agonizingly impotent in front of its own dear, patient fans ... Minnesota Fighting Saints devoted as much time, if not money, in trying to sign "Mole" as they did with Mike Walton ... Once signed, it wasn't long before he was in coach Harry Neale's doghouse ... Trade to Indianapolis gave him a new lease on life ... Consequently, he shaved his beard of protest ... Possesses an excellent wrist shot that is also accurate ... Racers' top sniper in 1974-75, connecting on 18 percent of his shots. |
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