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Ian Wilkie • Ian Clair Wilkie

Height: 5-9
Weight: 150
Catch: L
Born: 20 Jul 1949, Edmonton AB

 

Regular Season Goaltending Record (key)

year team
gp
min
ga
sho
w-l-t
gaa
a
pim
1972-73 New York
5
253
27
0
1-3-0
6.40
0
0
1973-74 Los Angeles
23
1257
82
1
11-9-0
3.91
0
2
Edmonton
5
256
9
0
3-1-1
2.11
0
0
Totals (2 teams)
28
1513
91
1
14-10-1
3.61
0
2
Totals:
33
1766
118
1
15-13-1
4.01
0
2

 

Playoff Goaltending Record

year team
gp
min
ga
sho
w-l
gaa
a
pim
1974 Edmonton
1
41
4
0
0-1
5.85
0
0
Totals:
1
41
4
0
0-1
5.85
0
0

 

Shutouts

Date Opponent Home/Away Score Saves
Nov 23, 1973EdmontonHome2-013

 

Regular Season Coaching Record

Regular Season Playoffs
year team
w
l
t
pts
pct
finish
w
l
pts
pct
finish
1972-73 New York
1
0
0
2
1.000
Interim
1
0
0
2
1.000

• Coached team in absence of Camille Henry on February 21, 1973 (Henry was a "spotter" during the game, watching from different vantages and relaying information to Wilkie behind the bench).

 

Raiders' Future Came Early (excerpt) • by Bill Verigan • New York Raiders 1972-73 Hockey Program

Ian Wilkie was one who drove to camp. He was 23, a goalie who attracted attention in the juniors, a law student, and he had the kind of face that attracts a fan club filled with the fairer sex. "He's beautiful" is the way one potential member described him before seeing him play. "It's too bad he's married, it's too bad he has to wear a mask."

He came to camp saying "I'm through with traveling in a bus. I decided that in the juniors." He had given up the idea of making the NHL because he hated buses and he knew how many times he would have to ride in them to minor league games before finally getting to the top.

"I went to the Canadiens' camp twice," He said. "And there were 13 goalies. The first year I was leading goalie in camp but I could tell I wasn't going to make the team because they had made up their minds to send us down before we ever came to camp. Instead I went to law school at British Columbia and played hockey there."

When the Raiders drafted him, he was only mildly surprised. He had expected to be drafted by some WHA team on the basis of his junior hockey reputation with the Edmonton Oil Kings, but he didn't realize his reputation reached as far as New York.

"I decided this is what I wanted." he said. "Ken Dryden was doing the same thing, keeping up with his reading at law school while playing with Montreal. I enrolled at Rutgers and looked around for a place to live I didn't come with the idea of riding buses again."

 

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