Brian Stapleton
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Brian Gregory Stapleton (born December 25, 1951) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey
right winger
who played in one National Hockey League
game for the Washington Capitals
during the 1975–76 NHL season.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
right winger
Winger (ice hockey)
Winger, in the game of hockey, is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play on the ice is along the outer playing area. They typically work by flanking the centre forward. Originally the name was given to forward players who went up and down the sides of the rink...
who played in one National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
game for the Washington Capitals
Washington Capitals
The Washington Capitals are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Since their founding in 1974, "The Caps" have won one conference championship to reach the 1998 Stanley Cup...
during the 1975–76 NHL season.
Regular season and playoffs
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an... |
Team | League | GP | G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to... |
A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal... |
Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one... |
PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,... |
GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1971-72 | Brown University | ECAC | 25 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1972-73 | Brown University | ECAC | 25 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 54 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1973-74 | Brown University | ECAC | 23 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1974-75 | Fort Wayne Komets/Dayton Gems | IHL | 69 | 14 | 19 | 33 | 66 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 1975-76 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1975-76 | Dayton Gems | IHL | 74 | 26 | 34 | 60 | 69 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 4 | ||
| 1976-77 | Dayton Gems | IHL | 68 | 20 | 46 | 66 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| NHL totals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||