1979-80 NHL Births

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League Champion: New York Islanders

Vezina Trophy: Don Edwards (27-9-12, 2.57 GAA), Bob Sauvé (20-8-4, 2.36 GAA)

Calder Memorial Trophy: Ray Bourque (17 G, 48 A, 65 P)

Hart Memorial Trophy: Wayne Gretzky (51 G, 86 A, 137 P)

Points Leaders: Marcel Dionne (137), Wayne Gretzky (137)

Assists Leaders: Wayne Gretzky (86)

Goals Leaders: Danny Gare (56), Charlie Simmer (56), Blaine Stoughton (56)

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Listing births between Sept. 1 before the season began, and Aug. 31 following the season's end.

Births

Births Table
							Scoring						Goalie Stats
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
1	Ramzi Abid	1980-03-24		2003	2007	LW	68	14	16	30	-11	78
2	Dmitry Afanasenkov	1980-05-12		2001	2007	LW	227	27	27	54	-36	52
3	Maxim Afinogenov	1979-09-04		2000	2010	RW	651	158	237	395	-43	486
4	Bryan Allen	1980-08-21		2001	2015	D	721	29	107	136	26	839
5	Nik Antropov	1980-02-18		2000	2013	C	788	193	272	465	55	627
6	Dean Arsene	1980-07-20		2010	2010	D	13	0	0	0	-3	41
7	Sean Avery	1980-04-10		2002	2012	C	580	90	157	247	16	1533
8	Christian Bäckman	1980-04-28		2003	2009	D	302	23	56	79	1	182
9	Jaroslav Balaštík	1979-11-28		2006	2007	RW	74	13	11	24	-4	30
10	Krys Barch	1980-03-26		2007	2014	RW	381	12	23	35	-16	812
11	Ryan Barnes	1980-01-30		2004	2004	LW	2	0	0	0	0	0
12	François Beauchemin	1980-06-04		2003	2018	D	903	76	212	288	14	490
13	Eric Beaudoin	1980-05-03		2002	2004	LW	53	3	8	11	-15	41
14	Mark Bell	1980-08-05		2001	2012	C	450	87	95	182	-45	602
15	Christian Berglund	1980-03-12		2002	2004	LW	86	11	16	27	-6	42
16	Blair Betts	1980-02-16		2002	2011	C	477	41	37	78	-18	118
17	Goran Bezina	1980-03-21		2004	2004	D	3	0	0	0	-1	2
18	Mathieu Biron	1980-04-29		2000	2006	D	253	12	32	44	-69	177
19	Tyler Bouck	1980-01-13		2001	2007	C	91	4	8	12	-9	93
20	Kip Brennan	1980-08-27		2002	2008	LW	61	1	1	2	-2	222
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
21	Ilya Bryzgalov	1980-06-22		2002	2015	G	465	0	12	12	0	20	465	221	162	54	.912	2.58
22	Sébastien Caron	1980-06-25		2003	2012	G	95	0	1	1	0	12	95	26	48	12	.892	3.44
23	Jonathan Cheechoo	1980-07-15		2003	2010	RW	501	170	135	305	29	324
24	Eric Chouinard	1980-07-08		2001	2006	LW	90	11	11	22	-8	16
25	Mathieu Chouinard	1980-04-11		2004	2004	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
26	Artem Chubarov	1979-12-13		2000	2004	C	228	25	33	58	-3	40
27	Martin Cibák	1980-05-17		2002	2006	C	154	5	18	23	-16	60
28	Mike Commodore	1979-11-07		2001	2012	D	484	23	83	106	-3	683
29	Toni Dahlman	1979-09-03		2002	2003	RW	22	1	1	2	-2	0
30	Rob Davison	1980-05-01		2003	2010	D	219	3	15	18	-5	321
31	Patrick DesRochers	1979-10-27		2002	2003	G	11	0	0	0	0	2	11	2	6	1	.872	3.66
32	Micki DuPont	1980-04-15		2002	2008	D	23	1	3	4	-7	12
33	Brian Eklund	1980-05-24		2006	2006	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.842	3.09
34	Matt Elich	1979-09-22		2000	2001	RW	16	1	1	2	-6	0
35	Dan Ellis	1980-06-19		2004	2015	G	212	0	6	6	0	6	212	87	79	18	.906	2.79
36	John Erskine	1980-06-26		2002	2014	D	491	15	39	54	-17	865
37	Brad Fast	1980-02-21		2004	2004	D	1	1	0	1	1	0
38	Rico Fata	1980-02-12		1999	2007	RW	230	27	36	63	-60	104
39	Vernon Fiddler	1980-05-09		2003	2017	C	877	104	157	261	-18	558
40	Jeff Finger	1979-12-18		2007	2010	D	199	17	40	57	4	114
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
41	Jiří Fischer	1980-07-31		2000	2006	D	305	11	49	60	29	295
42	Mike Fisher	1980-06-05		2000	2018	C	1104	278	311	589	27	815
43	Ryan Flinn	1980-04-20		2002	2006	LW	31	1	0	1	0	84
44	Johan Franzén	1979-12-23		2006	2016	LW	602	187	183	370	93	401
45	Jonas Frögren	1980-08-28		2009	2009	D	41	1	6	7	0	28
46	Simon Gagné	1980-02-29		2000	2015	LW	822	291	310	601	129	328
47	Jonathan Girard	1980-05-27		1999	2003	D	150	10	34	44	6	46
48	Mike Glumac	1980-04-05		2006	2008	RW	40	7	6	13	-8	38
49	Eric Godard	1980-03-07		2003	2011	RW	335	6	12	18	-12	833
50	Scott Gomez	1979-12-23		2000	2016	C	1079	181	575	756	-1	655
51	Niklas Hagman	1979-12-05		2002	2012	LW	770	147	154	301	-40	220
52	Adam Hall	1980-08-14		2002	2014	RW	682	69	87	156	-76	282
53	Adam Hauser	1980-05-27		2006	2006	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.750	7.08
54	Darren Haydar	1979-10-22		2003	2010	RW	23	1	7	8	3	2
55	Jeff Heerema	1980-01-17		2003	2004	RW	32	4	2	6	-7	6
56	Barrett Heisten	1980-03-19		2002	2002	LW	10	0	0	0	-4	2
57	Colin Hemingway	1980-08-12		2006	2006	RW	3	0	0	0	-2	0
58	Alex Henry	1979-10-18		2003	2009	D	177	2	9	11	-7	269
59	Darcy Hordichuk	1980-08-10		2001	2013	LW	542	20	21	41	-25	1140
60	Petr Hubáček	1979-09-02		2001	2001	C	6	1	0	1	-1	2
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
61	Trent Hunter	1980-07-05		2003	2012	RW	497	101	135	236	-5	209
62	Andrew Hutchinson	1980-03-24		2004	2011	D	140	12	27	39	-13	70
63	Doug Janik	1980-03-26		2003	2012	D	190	3	16	19	-19	154
64	Ryan Jardine	1980-03-15		2002	2002	LW	8	0	2	2	0	2
65	Jeff Jillson	1980-07-24		2002	2006	D	140	9	32	41	-9	96
66	Mikko Jokela	1980-03-04		2003	2003	D	1	0	0	0	0	0
67	Dmitri Kalinin	1980-07-22		2000	2009	D	539	36	126	162	2	321
68	Tomáš Klouček	1980-03-07		2001	2006	D	141	2	8	10	-9	250
69	Matt Koalska	1980-05-16		2006	2006	C	3	0	0	0	-1	2
70	Milan Kraft	1980-01-17		2001	2004	C	207	41	41	82	-45	52
71	Jaroslav Kristek	1980-03-16		2003	2003	RW	6	0	0	0	-2	4
72	Chris Kunitz	1979-09-26		2004	2019	LW	1022	268	351	619	184	746
73	Zdeněk Kutlák	1980-02-13		2001	2004	D	16	1	2	3	-4	4
74	Jason LaBarbera	1980-01-18		2001	2015	G	187	0	2	2	0	10	187	62	73	20	.907	2.85
75	Jay Leach	1979-09-02		2006	2011	D	70	1	2	3	3	60
76	Vincent Lecavalier	1980-04-21		1999	2016	C	1212	421	528	949	-140	848
77	David Legwand	1980-08-17		1999	2016	C	1136	228	390	618	7	551
78	Jordan Leopold	1980-08-03		2003	2015	D	695	67	147	214	-37	293
79	Junior Lessard	1980-05-26		2006	2008	RW/C	27	3	1	4	-5	23
80	Joey MacDonald	1980-02-07		2007	2014	G	133	0	1	1	0	8	133	44	61	15	.902	3.00
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
81	Steve MacIntyre	1980-08-08		2009	2013	LW	91	2	2	4	-6	175
82	Manny Malhotra	1980-05-18		1999	2015	C	991	116	179	295	-26	451
83	Ryan Malone	1979-12-01		2004	2015	LW	647	179	191	370	-59	693
84	Paul Mara	1979-09-07		1999	2011	D	734	64	189	253	-110	776
85	Patrick Marleau	1979-09-15		1998	2021	C	1779	566	631	1197	-27	527
86	Tony Mårtensson	1980-06-23		2004	2004	C	6	1	1	2	-2	0
87	Antti Miettinen	1980-07-03		2004	2013	RW	539	97	133	230	-24	234
88	Ryan Miller	1980-07-17		2003	2021	G	796	0	12	12	0	48	796	391	289	88	.914	2.64
89	Norm Milley	1980-02-14		2002	2006	RW	29	2	4	6	-4	12
90	Steve Montador	1979-12-21	2015-02-15	2002	2012	D	571	33	98	131	31	807
91	Dominic Moore	1980-08-03		2004	2018	C	897	106	176	282	-23	487
92	Joe Motzko	1980-03-14		2004	2009	RW	25	4	2	6	0	0
93	Matt Murley	1979-12-17		2004	2008	LW	62	2	7	9	-14	38
94	Douglas Murray	1980-03-12		2006	2014	D	518	7	57	64	19	412
95	Andrej Nedorost	1980-04-30		2002	2004	LW	28	2	3	5	-9	12
96	Chris Nielsen	1980-02-16		2001	2002	RW	52	6	8	14	1	8
97	Antero Niittymäki	1980-06-18		2004	2011	G	234	0	3	3	0	6	234	95	86	31	.902	2.95
98	Jimmie Ölvestad	1980-02-16		2002	2003	LW	111	3	14	17	1	40
99	Mike Pandolfo	1979-09-15		2004	2004	LW	3	0	0	0	-2	0
100	Justin Papineau	1980-01-15		2002	2004	C	81	11	8	19	2	12
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
101	George Parros	1979-12-29		2006	2014	RW	474	18	18	36	-11	1092
102	Stephen Peat	1980-03-10	2024-09-12	2002	2006	RW	130	8	2	10	-16	234
103	Andrew Peters	1980-05-05		2004	2010	LW	229	4	3	7	-17	650
104	Libor Pivko	1980-03-29		2004	2004	LW	1	0	0	0	0	0
105	Alexei Ponikarovsky	1980-04-09		2001	2013	LW	678	139	184	323	47	419
106	David Printz	1980-07-24		2006	2007	D	13	0	0	0	-3	4
107	Andrew Raycroft	1980-05-04		2001	2012	G	280	0	3	3	0	14	280	113	114	27	.900	2.89
108	Robyn Regehr	1980-04-19		2000	2015	D	1089	36	163	199	30	972
109	Mike Ribeiro	1980-02-10		2000	2017	C	1074	228	565	793	5	577
110	Brad Richards	1980-05-02		2001	2016	C	1126	298	634	932	-66	251
111	Kyle Rossiter	1980-06-09		2002	2004	D	11	0	1	1	-3	9
112	Allan Rourke	1980-03-06		2004	2008	D	55	1	4	5	4	31
113	Mike Rupp	1980-01-13		2003	2014	C	610	54	45	99	-28	855
114	Michael Ryan	1980-05-16		2007	2009	C	83	7	8	15	-15	34
115	Prestin Ryan	1980-06-29		2006	2006	D	1	0	0	0	-1	2
116	Michael Ryder	1980-03-31		2004	2015	RW	806	237	247	484	18	353
117	Curtis Sanford	1979-10-05		2003	2012	G	144	0	1	1	0	4	144	47	55	15	.904	2.72
118	Philippe Sauvé	1980-02-27		2004	2007	G	32	0	0	0	0	23	32	10	14	3	.888	3.45
119	Nolan Schaefer	1980-01-15		2006	2006	G	7	0	0	0	0	2	7	5	1	0	.920	1.88
120	Peter Sejna	1979-10-05		2003	2007	LW	49	7	4	11	-6	12
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
121	Mike Siklenka	1979-12-18		2003	2004	RW	2	0	0	0	0	0
122	Martin Škoula	1979-10-28		2000	2010	D	776	44	152	196	16	328
123	Bruno St. Jacques	1980-08-22		2002	2006	D	67	3	7	10	-6	47
124	Garrett Stafford	1980-01-28		2008	2011	D	7	0	2	2	0	0
125	Rastislav Staňa	1980-01-10		2004	2004	G	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	2	0	.890	3.12
126	Garret Stroshein	1980-04-04		2004	2004	RW	3	0	0	0	-1	14
127	Brad Stuart	1979-11-06		2000	2016	D	1056	80	255	335	8	565
128	Mike Stuart	1980-08-31		2004	2006	D	3	0	0	0	0	0
129	Jaroslav Svoboda	1980-06-01		2002	2006	LW	134	12	17	29	-5	62
130	Petr Svoboda	1980-06-20		2001	2001	D	18	1	2	3	-5	10
131	David Tanabe	1980-07-19		2000	2008	D	449	30	84	114	-47	245
132	Alex Tanguay	1979-11-21		2000	2016	LW	1088	283	580	863	163	527
133	Mikael Tellqvist	1979-09-19		2003	2009	G	113	0	2	2	0	2	113	45	41	10	.898	3.01
134	Matt Underhill	1979-09-16		2004	2004	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.879	3.95
135	Ossi Väänänen	1980-08-18		2001	2009	D	479	13	55	68	26	482
136	Jim Vandermeer	1980-02-21		2003	2012	D	461	25	80	105	-9	664
137	Julien Vauclair	1979-10-02		2004	2004	D	1	0	0	0	1	2
138	Vitaly Vishnevski	1980-03-18		2000	2008	D	552	16	52	68	-27	494
139	Matt Walker	1980-04-07		2003	2012	D	314	4	26	30	-9	464
140	Rickard Wallin	1980-04-19		2003	2010	C	79	8	11	19	-5	34
Rk	Name	Birth Date	Death Date	From	To	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	GP	W	L	T/O	SV%	GAA
141	Mattias Weinhandl	1980-06-01		2003	2007	RW	182	19	37	56	1	70
142	Jason Williams	1980-08-11		2001	2012	C	455	94	133	227	-2	157
143	Andy Wozniewski	1980-05-25		2006	2010	D	79	2	10	12	-4	81
144	Jeremy Yablonski	1980-03-21		2004	2004	LW	1	0	0	0	-1	5
145	Miroslav Zálešák	1980-01-02		2003	2004	RW	12	1	2	3	-3	0
146	Greg Zanon	1980-06-05		2006	2013	D	493	12	50	62	-9	230
147	Sergei Zinovjev	1980-03-04		2004	2004	C/LW	10	0	1	1	1	2
148	Tomáš Žižka	1979-10-10		2003	2004	D	25	2	6	8	-8	16

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