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| Ron Meighan | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
May 26, 1963 | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | ||
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg; 13 st 13 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shot | Right | ||
| Played for |
Minnesota North Stars Pittsburgh Penguins | ||
| NHL draft |
13th overall, 1981 Minnesota North Stars | ||
| Playing career | 1981–1984 | ||
Ron James Meighan (born May 26, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Biography
[edit]Meighan was born in Montreal, Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1975 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Gloucester, Ontario.[1] He was awarded the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the most outstanding defenceman in the Ontario Hockey League, during the 1981–82 OHL season.
He was drafted in the first round, 13th overall, by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1981 NHL entry draft. He played forty-eight games in the National Hockey League: seven with the North Stars in the 1981–82 season and forty-one more with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1982–83 season.
Career statistics
[edit]| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1979–80 | Niagara Falls Flyers | OMJHL | 61 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 1980–81 | Niagara Falls Flyers | OHL | 63 | 8 | 27 | 35 | 92 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | ||
| 1981–82 | Niagara Falls Flyers | OHL | 58 | 27 | 41 | 68 | 85 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | ||
| 1981–82 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1982–83 | North Bay Centennials | OHL | 29 | 19 | 22 | 41 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1982–83 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 41 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1983–84 | Baltimore Skipjacks | AHL | 75 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| OMJHL/OHL totals | 211 | 57 | 100 | 157 | 227 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 23 | ||||
| NHL totals | 48 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
References
[edit]- ↑ "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
External links
[edit]- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
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- Living people
- Anglophone Quebec people
- Baltimore Skipjacks players
- Canadian ice hockey defencemen
- Ice hockey people from Montreal
- Minnesota North Stars draft picks
- NHL first-round draft picks
- Niagara Falls Flyers players
- North Bay Centennials players
- Pittsburgh Penguins players
- Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
- 20th-century Canadian sportsmen
- Canadian ice hockey defenceman, 1960s birth stubs