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Second Group of
Inductees, The Class of 2004 Announced
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June, 2005
Neil Belland
Defense
Born April 3, 1961 -- Parry Sound, Ontario
Height 5.11 -- Weight 180
Neil Belland learned to skate on the Magnetawan River in
Britt, just north of Parry Sound along Georgian Bay.
He developed his skills
as a
triple-A player in Sudbury, Ontario, minor hockey. In
the 1977-78 season he played junior hockey with the North
Bay Trappers and then moved on to the Ontario Hockey League’s Kingston Canadians. Belland's strength was head-manning the puck and pinching in
from the point to score goals.
Belland was signed as a free agent by Vancouver on October
1st, 1980. He would go on to score 28 goals in the OHA. |
Neil Belland
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He spent five years in the Canucks organization, most of it
with the Dallas Black Hawks of the CHL and the AHL's
Fredericton Express. As a rookie in 1981-82, he saw
action in 28 regular season games. He was a mainstay
in the playoffs of that season when Vancouver went all
the way to the finals for the first time in franchise
history. Two years later he saw the most action of his
career and scored 20 points in 44 games for the club.
Pittsburgh signed Belland as a free agent on September 29th,
1986. He won a Calder Cup with Pennsylvania’s Hershey
Bears, and a Spengler Cup with Canada’s national team in
1987.
In 1987-88, he was signed with the Lukko club of Finland
before joining Innsbruck of Austria for three years.
He brought experience and mobility to the Canadian National
Team in the 1990-91 season.
This was followed by a three-year stint with the Austrian
outfit EC Graz.
Belland retired in 1994.
Statistics
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Regular Season |
Playoffs |
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Season |
Club |
League |
GP |
G |
A |
TP |
PIM |
+/- |
GP |
G |
A |
TP |
PIM |
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1977-78 |
North Bay Trappers |
NOJHA |
50 |
25 |
36 |
61 |
30 |
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1978-79 |
Kingston Canadians |
OMJHL |
64 |
8 |
41 |
49 |
14 |
|
8 |
3 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
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1979-80 |
Kingston Canadians |
OMJHL |
54 |
7 |
44 |
51 |
44 |
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3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
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1980-81 |
Kingston Canadians |
OMJHL |
53 |
28 |
54 |
82 |
54 |
|
14 |
5 |
6 |
11 |
23 |
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1981-82 |
Vancouver Canucks |
NHL |
28 |
3 |
6 |
9 |
16 |
-1 |
17 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
16 |
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1981-82 |
Dallas Black Hawks |
CHL |
27 |
2 |
20 |
22 |
18 |
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1982-83 |
Vancouver Canucks |
NHL |
14 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
-4 |
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1982-83 |
Fredericton Express |
AHL |
46 |
4 |
17 |
21 |
12 |
|
7 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
8 |
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1983-84 |
Vancouver Canucks |
NHL |
44 |
7 |
13 |
20 |
24 |
-8 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
7 |
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1983-84 |
Fredericton Express |
AHL |
17 |
3 |
15 |
18 |
2 |
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1984-85 |
Vancouver Canucks |
NHL |
13 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
-4 |
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1984-85 |
Fredericton Express |
AHL |
57 |
7 |
34 |
41 |
31 |
|
6 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
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1985-86 |
Vancouver Canucks |
NHL |
7 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
-2 |
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1985-86 |
Fredericton Express |
AHL |
36 |
6 |
18 |
24 |
10 |
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6 |
1 |
6 |
7 |
2 |
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1986-87 |
Pittsburgh Penguins |
NHL |
3 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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1986-87 |
Baltimore Skipjacks |
AHL |
61 |
6 |
18 |
24 |
12 |
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1987-88 |
Lukko Rauma |
Finland |
44 |
8 |
14 |
22 |
36 |
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8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
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1987-88 |
Hershey Bears |
AHL |
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1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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1988-89 |
Innsbrucker EV |
Austria |
46 |
17 |
39 |
56 |
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1989-90 |
Innsbrucker EV |
Austria |
34 |
15 |
38 |
53 |
51 |
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1990-91 |
Team Canada |
Nat-Tm |
9 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
10 |
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1990-91 |
Innsbrucker EV |
Austria |
17 |
5 |
7 |
12 |
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1991-92 |
ATSE Graz |
Austria |
28 |
11 |
11 |
22 |
12 |
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1992-93 |
EC Graz |
Austria |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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1993-94 |
EC Graz |
Austria |
57 |
8 |
29 |
37 |
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NHL Totals |
109 |
13 |
32 |
45 |
54 |
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21 |
2 |
9 |
11 |
23 |
Awards
AHL Second All-Star Team (1985)
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