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- Wood, Art
- Wood, John
- Young, Mike
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Name:
GILBERT, Greg
Sport:
Hockey
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It’s a long and challenging road from the Port Credit house league paperweights to the heavyweights of the National Hockey League. Greg Gilbert travelled that road and, along the way, found the kind of success paperweight hockey kids dreams about when they laces up their skates for the first time. In a distinguished professional career spanning nearly two decades, the Mississauga native — he was born, raised and introduced to Canada’s great sporting passion here — was on three Stanley Cup winners with two NHL clubs. He nearly had a fourth, but missed it due to a quirk in technicality. For all this success, Gilbert remained a modest man. When his hometown recognized him after his playing days by electing him to the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame at the dawn of the new millennium, Gilbert said the honour caught him by surprise. “Are you sure you got the right person?” was his first reaction. He said he was “very honoured” to be inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame alongside “the likes of Larry Patey (another former NHL star with the St. Louis Blues, also a product of the Port Credit minor hockey system) and other prominent athletes.” A chronic back injury forced Gilbert to sidelines in 1996 at 34 years of age. In his NHL years, he had seasons in the sun with the New York Islanders, Chicago Blackhawks, a second taste of New York — this one complete with all the Broadway glitter that comes from playing for the Rangers — and in the end, the St. Louis Blues. “My body forced me to retire,” Gilbert explained. “At 34, I still would have liked to be playing, but my body just wouldn’t allow it.” Glancing in the rearview mirror, Gilbert could see Mississauga in his far-distance. “I was very fortunate growing up in Mississauga,” he said. “I was pointed in the right direction by all the right people, friends, family and coaches.” It all started in 1970 with the Port Credit paperweights on a team known as the Maple Leafs. Gilbert later played for Cawthra in the Mississauga Hockey League before rising to a loftier level with the Mississauga Reps in the the Metro Toronto Hockey League. Gilbert was drafted by the Toronto Marlies in ’79 and, still a junior, was called up by the New York Islanders during the 1981 playoffs. Even though he scored a goal for the Islanders in his very first playoff game he didn’t but qualify for a Stanley Cup ring, having spent the earlier part of the ’81 season in the Ontario Hockey League with the Toronto Marlies. |
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