Height: 6-0
Weight: 170
Shoot: L
Born: 21 Dec 1956, Halifax NS
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
| year | team | |||||||||||
| 1976-77 | Cincinnati | |||||||||||
| 1977-78 | Cincinnati | |||||||||||
| 1978-79 | Cincinnati | |||||||||||
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Excerpts from Zander Hollander's Guide to Pro Hockey, 1978-79 (by Reyn Davis)
Excellent shooter, low and hard ... Streaky sort, however, who must become more consistent to be a better pro ... Plays any style well ... Former first-round draft choice (1976) of Cincinnati ... Figured ninth among the WHA's busiest shooters, taking 234 shots ... Endeared himself to everyone by working long hours last summer in the promotion of the Stingers in their successful drive to sell 5,000 season tickets ... Great potential |
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Fans Excite ex-Stinger • by Reyn Davis • The Winnipeg Free Press • October 11, 1979
Crowds excite Peter Marsh. And he trusts they'll make him a better hockey player. "You won't want to make a mistake in Winnipeg," he said. "If you do, 15,000 people will tell you. But if you entertain them and make a good play, you know they'll just be as quick to praise you." Marsh has felt like the lonely Maytag repairman. He's spent the last three seasons playing in relative seclusion, biding his time in Cincinnati, where the Stingers were a colossal flop. There are times when he can recall his mother urging him to shun the World Hockey Association and go with the National Hockey League. But he stayed because the Cincinnati owners treated him well and the money was every bit as good as Pittsburgh's. His mom's pleadings began to make more sense late in 1977 when he was the player to be named later in the two-for-two trade that sent Peter Mahovlich and Peter Lee from Montreal to Pittsburgh for Pierre Larouche. After all, Montreal is his hometown and doesn't every Canadian kid aspired to be a Maple Leaf or Habitant? In Cincinnati, he developed into a player who could appreciate what fans mean to a franchise. No one worked harder to convert a baseball-crazy city into a hockey-happy town. He was always accessible to speak, to hold a clinic, or to sign autographs. But to draw a crowd in Cincinnati, it helped to have Johnny Bench or Pete Rose along. "I could have been Gordie Howe and I don't think it would have made any difference," he said. "Cincinnati is a great town. But they wouldn't buy hockey." On the ice, he thrilled their few fans with spectacular bursts of speed and a powerful slap shot that made the boards shudder when he missed the net. But he beat the goaltenders regularly and the goals mounted until he had 43 last season to go along with 23 assists. He was the league leader in power play goals (23) and tiebreaking goals (12). his dashing good looks caught the eye of cameras and ladies but they couldn't tell backchecking from an offside. Oblivious to them, he became a sloppy checker. And statistics were unforgiving. They still insist that Peter Marsh, a Cincinnati right winger, had the worst plus minus factor, -31, in the entire WHA last season. "The thing I've noticed already about Winnipeg is that you can be having a scrimmage in practice and if you make a good defensive play, the people who are always in the stands are giving you a hand," he said. "That's really strange for me." Winnipeg is one of the many Canadian cities in which he has lived. His father was a shoe salesman and he was constantly being transferred. When he was 12, the Marsh family lived in Winnipeg and Peter remembers attending three different schools in Westwood the same year. "All there was, was a farmers field behind Sansome junior high," he said. "The area wasn't built up at all like it is today." He spent hours on outdoor rinks freezing his toes and hands like the other kids. It was during that year in Winnipeg that he attended his first hockey school. One of the instructors was Bill Robinson, the Jets office manager and travel secretary. Now he's back in Winnipeg with three years of pro experience behind him, plying his trade for an NHL club that needs all the talent it can find. |
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