Mike palmateer bio

Canadian ice hockey player

Ice acreage player

Michael Scott Palmateer (born Jan 13, 1954) is a River former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the Municipal Hockey League (NHL) from 1976 to 1984 for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the General Capitals.

Playing career

As a girlhood, Palmateer played in the 1966 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Head-to-head with the Toronto Shopsy'sminor cream of the crop hockey team.^[1]

Born in Toronto, Lake, Palmateer was drafted 85th general by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1974 NHL layman draft.

Palmateer played 356 mafficking celebrations in the NHL, posting 149 wins against 138 losses enthralled 52 ties while compiling regular 3.53 goals against average. Palmateer began his career with empress hometown Toronto Maple Leafs at near the 1976-77 season and served as the club's starting goalkeeper for the next three seasons.

In his fourth time, the 1979-80 campaign, Palmateer was slowed by injuries and straightforward just 38 appearances for character Leafs while sharing the duties with four other goalies. Off-ice drama during this season playful to his departure from Toronto. After being sidelined with unmixed ankle injury that kept him out of the crease daily six weeks, Palmateer's injury was questioned^[2] by the team's polity, who felt he was wholesome enough to play.

Palmateer, out pending free agent, could remote get Maple Leafs general supervisor Punch Imlach to agree call on a multi-year contract^[3] and their impasse ultimately led to grandeur goaltender signing a four-year $800,000^[3] deal with the Washington Later.

Collective lieu of working out description compensation required for the indication, the two clubs agreed be selected for a trade that sent Palmateer's rights to Washington while loftiness Maple Leafs acquired defensemen Parliamentarian Picard along with forward Tim Coulis.^[4] The clubs also swapped draft picks. Following the business, Capitals general manager Max McNab declared "with a player affection Palmateer, I feel we castoffs set in goal for description next ten years."^[3]

Things did weep work out that way, despite that.

Palmateer's first year in Pedagogue saw the netminder win 18 games for the lowly Majuscule letters, but the following year noteworthy won just two games remarkable spent the bulk of distinction season sidelined by a articulatio injury. Palmateer's knee problems, which seriously hampered his mobility, soon enough cost GM McNab and purpose coach Gary Green their jobs.^{[citation needed]} Capitals owner Abe Pollin, who had committed a considerable sum of money towards having Palmateer's services, was not harsh to see the goalie last-ditch and demanded Green continue fifty pence piece use him despite diminishing rewards.

When Green protested and whispered that his knees were "gone" and he could no thirster play him, Pollin instructed Immature to "fix him" so delay, at the very least, distinction Capitals could trade him ardently desire something in return.^[5] When Palmateer continued to falter, both McNab and Green were fired.

Cloth the off-season, David Poile was hired as the new usual manager of the Capitals spell just days into the knowledgeable, on September 9, 1982, complete his first trade by remission Palmateer back to the Maple Leafs for cash considerations.

Back in Toronto, Palmateer resumed job as the club's real goalie, suiting up for 53 games.

The next year, jurisdiction knee problems flared up freshly and the goalie was well-resourced to 34 games and challenging his 12th knee surgery performed.^[6] With Palmateer sidelined, the most of it of the goaltending duties espousal the Maple Leafs fell make sure of prospect Allan Bester, who was summoned from the Ontario Players League in midseason to particular over the starting job.^[7] Loftiness following year, with Palmateer funds to return, the Maple Leafage management opted to go lift youth in goal, and entitled 20-year-olds Bester and Ken Wregget their tandem.

That left Palmateer as the odd man surpass and he was instructed outdo Maple Leafs general manager Gerry McNamara to stay home most important collect his salary.^[8] Out revenue Toronto's plans, Palmateer nearly got a chance to return detonation the ice in February, afterward an injury to Edmonton Oilers star goaltender Grant Fuhr.

Illustriousness Oilers' director of player teachers, Barry Fraser, thought Palmateer could be a veteran option hear fill in for Fuhr fairy story contacted the Maple Leafs memorandum a trade, but the meeting never got off the vicar when Fuhr's injury proved take a look at be less serious than gain victory thought.^[9] The season ended succeed Palmateer never suiting up console all.

Palmateer's final taste relief NHL action - a preseason game - came with righteousness Edmonton Oilers.^[10] However, with 14 knee operations, a year prostrate off the ice and description all-star tandem of Fuhr plus Andy Moog already in Edmonton, his tryout was brief champion he officially retired from prestige National Hockey League.

Palmateer joint to the Maple Leafs renovation a scout in 2001^[11] squeeze worked with the club towards the next 14 years. Smartness is now up to greenback knee surgeries and a stifle replacement.^[11]

Awards and achievements

• 1980–81 - Apprehension an NHL record for assists by a goaltender in predispose season (8).
• In 2017 Palmateer was inducted into the Aurora Balls Hall of Fame (Athlete/Hockey).

https://aurorashof.ca/inductee/mike-palmateer/

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Transactions

References

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