Wayne Cashman

Wayne Cashman
Cashman in 1981.
Born	June 24, 1945 Kingston, ON, CAN
Height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position	Left Wing[1]
Shot	Right[1]
Played for	Boston Bruins[1]
National team	Canada
Playing career	1965–1983

Wayne Cashman (born June 24, 1945) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and a former NHL head coach. He played 17 seasons for the Boston Bruins, helping the team win two Stanley Cups.

Playing career

Cashman played his junior hockey as a teammate of Bobby Orr's on the Oshawa Generals of the OHA. He played parts of three seasons in the minor leagues for the Oklahoma City Blazers and the Hershey Bears before making the Bruins' squad for good in 1969.

Cashman played his entire NHL career with the Boston Bruins (1964–65, 1967–83). His jersey number was #12.^[2]

Cashman was a hard-grinding left winger on the era's most formidable forward line with superstar centre Phil Esposito and right wing Ken Hodge.^[3] His role was to get into the corners and battle for loose pucks, feeding them to Esposito or Hodge. Cashman was also a tenacious forechecker and he also served as an enforcer to protect Esposito and Bobby Orr.^[4]

Cashman was a member of Stanley Cup winning teams in 1970 and 1972, the latter where he scored twice in the deciding game six against the New York Rangers. He scored 20 goals a season eight times in his career, accomplishing this feat in four straight seasons with 100 or more penalty minutes. His best season was in 1974, when he scored 30 goals and 59 assists to finish fourth in the league in points, played in the All-Star Game, and was named to the NHL Second All-Star team.

He served as the captain of the Bruins from the 1978 season until 1983. When Cashman retired after the Bruins were eliminated from the 1983 playoffs, he was the last active player from the NHL's Original Six era, just beating out Serge Savard, whose team was beaten out in an earlier playoff round.

After his retirement as a player, Cashman served in several coaching positions, largely for his former teammate Phil Esposito; five seasons as an assistant coach for the New York Rangers, four for the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant coach. After Terry Murray was dismissed, Cashman was appointed head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers for the 1997-98 season and held that post for 61 games until being replaced by Roger Neilson and served thereafter as the team's assistant coach.^[5] He was also on the coaching staff of Team Canada in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, as an assistant to Marc Crawford.^[6] He was an assistant coach with the Bruins from 2001 until 2006.

His total NHL coaching record is 32-20-9.

Career achievements and facts

• Finished with 277 goals and 516 assists in 1027 games.
• Played for Team Canada in the 1972 Summit Series.
• At the time of his retirement, was the final active player who had played in the NHL in the "Original Six" era prior to the 1967 expansion.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Wayne Cashman in 1981

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1962–63	Oshawa Generals	OHA-Jr.		1	0	1	1	0		—	—	—	—	—
1963–64	Oshawa Generals	OHA-Jr.		27	9	12	21	37		6	2	2	4	15
1964–65	Oshawa Generals	OHA-Jr.		55	27	46	73	104		6	3	2	5	11
1964–65	Boston Bruins	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		—	—	—	—	—
1965–66	Oshawa Generals	OHA-Jr.		48	26	44	70	98		17	15	20	35	21
1965–66	Oshawa Generals	M-Cup		—	—	—	—	—		14	10	27	37	51
1966–67	Oklahoma City Blazers	CHL		70	20	36	56	98		11	3	4	7	4
1967–68	Boston Bruins	NHL		12	0	4	4	2		1	0	0	0	0
1967–68	Oklahoma City Blazers	CPHL		42	21	30	51	66		—	—	—	—	—
1968–69	Boston Bruins	NHL		51	8	23	31	49		6	0	1	1	0
1968–69	Hershey Bears	AHL		21	6	9	15	30		—	—	—	—	—
1969–70	Boston Bruins	NHL		70	9	26	35	79		14	5	4	9	50
1970–71	Boston Bruins	NHL		77	21	58	79	100		7	3	2	5	15
1971–72	Boston Bruins	NHL		74	23	29	52	103		15	4	7	11	42
1972–73	Boston Bruins	NHL		76	29	39	68	100		5	1	1	2	4
1973–74	Boston Bruins	NHL		78	30	59	89	111		16	5	9	14	46
1974–75	Boston Bruins	NHL		42	11	22	33	24		1	0	2	2	0
1975–76	Boston Bruins	NHL		80	28	43	71	87		11	1	5	6	16
1976–77	Boston Bruins	NHL		65	15	37	52	76		14	1	8	9	18
1977–78	Boston Bruins	NHL		76	24	38	62	69		15	4	6	10	13
1978–79	Boston Bruins	NHL		75	27	40	67	63		10	4	5	9	8
1979–80	Boston Bruins	NHL		44	11	21	32	19		10	3	3	6	32
1980–81	Boston Bruins	NHL		77	25	35	60	80		3	0	1	1	0
1981–82	Boston Bruins	NHL		64	12	31	43	59		9	0	2	2	6
1982–83	Boston Bruins	NHL		65	4	11	15	20		8	0	1	1	0
NHL totals				1027	277	516	793	1041		145	31	57	88	250

International

Year	Team	Event		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1972	Canada	SS		2	0	2	2	14

NHL coaching statistics

Team	Year	Regular season						Post season
		G	W	L	T	Pts	Finish	Result
PHI	1997–98	61	32	20	9	(95)	2nd in Atlantic	(fired)

See also

• List of NHL players with 1000 games played
• list of NHL players who spent their entire career with one franchise

References

1. "Wayne Cashman's profile". The Internet Hockey Database. Retrieved 2007-02-15.
2. http://www.sjjerseys.com/data/images/Cashman%20wp%20A.jpg
3. "Nitro Line (Bruins)". CNN.
4. http://bruinslegends.blogspot.com/2006/05/wayne-cashman.html
5. "N.H.L.: LAST NIGHT -- PHILADELPHIA; Flyers Demote Cashman". The New York Times. March 10, 1998.
6. http://www.kdshf.ca/index.cfm?page=inducteeDetails&id=14

External links

• Wayne Cashman's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database