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Club 1974:
New England Whalers
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Tom Webster
# 8, Team CANADA 1974
Club: New England Whalers
Position: RW Shoots:
Right
Height: 5-10 Weight: 170
Born: 10/4/1948 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario
Tom Webster was a player who scored at every level of hockey he played. He was a 50- goal scorer with the junior A Niagara Falls Flyers, and was drafted by the Boston Bruins in 1966. Unable to crack their lineup he joined the Detroit Red Wings in 1970-71 and scored 30 goals in his first full NHL season. He injured his back early the following season and that prompted Detroit to trade him to the California Golden Seals. After only 7 games with the Seals his back forced him out of the lineup
for the rest of the year.
In the summer of 1972 he joined the rush of NHL players who began jumping to the new World Hockey Association. Tom signed with the New England Whalers and showed everyone who had written him off due to his bad back that they were wrong! He scored 53 goals in 1972-73 and was a key member of the Whalers championship team that year. Tom would continue to score and is among the top ten scorers in WHA history. His back injury came back in 1977-78 forcing him into an early retirement.
Tom was named to Team Canada 1974, and despite a solid training camp, did not make the starting line-up. He made his first appearance in the Summit in Game 3, where he played well, scoring a goal and adding an assist in Canada's 8-5 loss. Tom then sat out game 4. He scored a goal in Canada's 8-3 victory over Finland in an exhibition game played in Helsinki. He played in game 5 and like most of his teammates that night played poorly. After sitting out game 6, Billy Harris put Tom onto his big line with Bobby Hull, and Andre Lacroix for game 7. Webster responded with a crucial goal that night and played solidly in game 8 as well. In Team Canada's final game played in Prague against the Czechoslovakian Nationals, Tom scored Canada's only goal in a 3-1 defeat.
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Career Statistics
| Competitions |
GP |
G |
A |
PTS |
PIM |
| NHL Reg. Season |
102 |
33 |
42 |
75 |
61 |
| NHL Playoffs |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| WHA Reg. Season |
352 |
220 |
205 |
425 |
241 |
| WHA Playoffs |
43 |
28 |
26 |
54 |
19 |
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CAREER HIGHLIGTS:
- Played in the professional hockey leagues: 1968-80
- Pro hockey clubs:
NHL: Boston, Detroit, California, Detroit; WHA: New England
- AVCO Trophy (1): 1973
- WHA awards:
WHA All Star (2nd Team) 1973
PERFORMANCE IN THE 1974 SUMMIT
Statistics
| GP |
Goals |
Assists |
Points |
PIM |
| 4 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
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Scoring History| Game | Period | Time | Scoring | Notes | | Game 3 | 2 | 12:40 | Goal | | | Game 3 | 3 | 04:01 | Assist | | | Game 7 | 1 | 05:42 | Goal | |
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Penalties History| Game | Period | Time | Description | | Game 5 | 2 | 04:14 | slashing | | Game 8 | 1 | 07:57 | roughing |
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