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Playing career
  
1971–1979

Weight
  
83 kg

Career end
  
1979

National team
  
Height
  
1.75 m

Career start
  
1971

Position
  
Winger

Born
  
August 31, 1950 (age 66)Pittsburgh, PA, USA (
1950-08-31
)

NHL Draft
  
36th overall, 1970Toronto Maple Leafs

Gerard Joseph O'Flaherty (born August 31, 1950 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian-American professional ice hockey player.

Career

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where his father, John "Peanuts" O'Flaherty, played for the Pittsburgh Hornets, O'Flaherty later moved to Toronto, Ontario where he played in the MTHL with the North York Rangers. He was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft and played a single year there before being claimed by the Vancouver Canucks during the Intra-League Draft. While serving the Canucks O'Flaherty registered three consecutive 20-goal seasons and appeared in a total of 438 regular season games in 1971–1979.

O'Flaherty represented the United States at the inaugural 1976 Canada Cup.

References

Gerry O'Flaherty Wikipedia


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