Height: 5-10
Weight: 175
Shoot: L
Born: 18 May 1946, Ottawa ON (d. 2022)
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
| year | team | |||||||||||
| 1972-73 | Chicago | |||||||||||
| 1973-74 | Chicago | |||||||||||
| 1974-75 | Chicago | |||||||||||
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Self Control Vital to Penalty Killer (excerpt) • by Reid Grosky • The Hockey Spectator • March 23, 1973
...The feisty Zaine, who has been a penalty killer on other teams, lists New York, Cleveland, Winnipeg, Quebec and just about every other team in the league as capable of making his job tough. For a while, Zanie's big achievement of the season was coaxing J.-C. Tremblay of Quebec into what Tremblay said afterward was only the second fist-fight of his 13-year career. But Zaine denied his action was a deliberate attempt to remove Tremblay for the last five minutes of the game and thus secure a Chicago victory — which, by the way, it did. Rather, the hardest part of penalty killing, he says, "is to keep yourself controlled. You don't wanna get mesmerized by the puck and start following it around." "It's a pretty basic job, he says. Just about all the kids in the pee-wee leagues now know what a penalty killer has to do." To Zaine the biggest threat on a power play in the WHA is not Bobby Hull or dangerous Danny Lawson. It's Philadelphia's Johnny McKenzie. "He moves so well behind the net," Zaine says, "that he makes things happen." |
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Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1975-76 (by Dan Proudfoot)
With the crowd of big names Toronto Toros alreadypossess, there was little chance of Rod Zaine getting any prominence when Toros acquired him in the special WHA auction draft after the 1974-75 season. Zaine was offered because his team, the Chicago Cougars, had folded and the league didn't want to get stuck for his full $40,000 contract. Toros offered to pay $20,000 ard there were no other bidders. Zaine had only three goals and six assists for Chicago. "I have the idea he can kill penalties for us," said Toro manager Buck Houle, "he can skate." |
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