Height: 6-2
Weight: 175
Shoot: L
Born: 12 Jan 1954, Lang SK
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
| year | team | |||||||||||
| 1974-75 | Phoenix | |||||||||||
| 1975-76 | Cincinnati | |||||||||||
| 1976-77 | Cincinnati | |||||||||||
| 1977-78 | Cincinnati | |||||||||||
| Edmonton | ||||||||||||
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| 1978-79 | Edmonton | |||||||||||
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• Brother of Gene Sobchuk.
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Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1975-76 (by Dan Proudfoot)
If all goes as expected, Cincinnati sports fans should prepare themselves for a new love affair. Dennis Sobchuk, only 21, demonstrated in his WHA rookie year at Phoenix that he's the special, flamboyant kind of athlete who can win over fans with his athletic abilities and then hold them with his personality. Sobchuk led the Phoenix team in scoring with 32 goals and 45 assists, a total that gave him 10th place among centers in the league. "We signed him two years ago when he was still a junior," says Stinger coach Terry Slater. "If we hadn't, he obviously would have been the No. 1 pick in the NHL when he turned 20 and became eligible for their draft." |
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Excerpts from Zander Hollander's Guide to Pro Hockey, 1975-76 (by Reyn Davis)
Crown jewel of the Stingers franchise ... Happy young soon-to-be millionaire who hasn't lost the humility of a Saskatchewan farm kid fighting winter's cold to find an unheated rink somewhere on the prairies ... First player ever signed by the Stingers ... Led Regina Pats to junior hockey's prized Memorial Cup and then sparked the Phoenix R\oadrunners to the WHA playoffs in their first season ... A center by trade ... Phoenix coach Sandy Hucul, a strict regimentalist, used him on left wing where he could be harnessed ... Still managed to lead the Roadrunners in scoring ... Stingers vow he'll be permitted to flap his wings at center ... Could mean to Cincinnati hockey fans what Johnny Bench means to Cincinnati baseball fans ... Brother Gene plays, and father Harry scouts, in the Stingers organization. |
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Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1976-77 (by Dan Proudfoot)
The 1975-76 season was a test for Dennis Sobchuk, physically and mentally. He labored in spite of knee and shoulder ailments and considerable pressure from Cincinnati sports fans who knew that the Stingers had signed him to a huge contract in 1974. Sobchuk, 21 and new to Cincinnati, was on the spot: he had to produce immediately. Well, he shot 32 goals and assisted on 40 others. By hockey's old standards that would represent a superb year. By today's figuring it was a slight disappointment because Sobchuk had the same number of goals and 45 assists the year before playing for the Phoenix Roadrunners, where the Stingers had arranged for him to play his rookie year. "When he puts his mind to it he can do anything," says Jerry Rafter. "He can be going full speed and you'll swear he's lost the puck, but then he'll kick the puck up to his stick and be by a defenseman. He has a great future." |
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