Shot Left Role Ice hockey player Career end 1984 Name Wayne Merrick Career start 1972 | Playing career Weight 86 kg Height 1.85 m Position Centerman | |
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NHL Draft 9th overall, 1972St. Louis Blues | ||
Leonard Wayne Merrick (born April 23, 1952 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a retired former professional ice hockey player who played 774 career National Hockey League games for the St. Louis Blues, California Seals/Cleveland Barons and New York Islanders.
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Playing career
Wayne Merrick helped provide toughness and grit to the talent-laden New York Islanders of the late seventies and early eighties. He played on the famed "Banana Line" centering John Tonelli and Bob Nystrom. He won four Stanley Cups with the Islanders between 1980 and 1983. He scored the Cup-clinching goal in Game Five of the 1981 Finals.
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