Douglas Robert Gilmour was born on June 25,1963 and is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
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59 Facts About Doug Gilmour
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Doug Gilmour played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League for seven different teams.
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Doug Gilmour was nicknamed "Killer" by a Blues teammate due to his having the same last name as serial killer Gary Gilmore.
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Doug Gilmour played three seasons of junior hockey for the Cornwall Royals where he was a member of their Memorial Cup championship team in 1981.
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Doug Gilmour returned to the OHL following his playing career as he joined the Kingston Frontenacs as head coach in 2008 and was promoted to general manager in 2011.
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Doug Gilmour was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2011 and his uniform number 93 is retired by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Doug Gilmour is the younger son of Don and Dolly Gilmour, and has an elder brother, David.
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Doug Gilmour coached youth baseball and hockey teams in the city.
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The younger Doug Gilmour played in the 1976 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Kingston.
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Originally a defenceman, Doug Gilmour began his 16-year-old season in Junior B with his hometown Kingston Voyageurs.
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The Royals were the defending Memorial Cup champions, and Doug Gilmour was not expected to play a significant role with the team.
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Doug Gilmour appeared in all five tournament games, though he scored no points, as the team struggled to a seventh-place finish in the eight team tournament.
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Doug Gilmour recorded seven points in five games at the tournament.
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Doug Gilmour played a more significant role with the Royals and led the team offensively; Gilmour's 119 points in 67 games was sixth best in the league.
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Doug Gilmour won the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy as the leading scorer, was named a league all-star, and was named recipient of the Red Tilson Trophy as the OHL's most outstanding player.
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Doug Gilmour had a 55-game point streak that lasted from October 19,1982, until February 27,1983, and which remains an OHL record.
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Unsure if a contract offer would materialize, Doug Gilmour made plans to play in Dusseldorf, West Germany, and had already traveled to Europe when the Blues finally offered him a deal in mid-August 1983.
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St Louis coach Jacques Demers believed Doug Gilmour had the potential to be a defensive specialist at forward.
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Doug Gilmour established a role as a top offensive scorer for the Blues in the 1986 Stanley Cup Playoffs as he recorded 21 points in 19 games.
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Doug Gilmour tied with teammate Bernie Federko for the league lead in playoff scoring, despite the fact that the Blues failed to reach the Stanley Cup Final.
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Doug Gilmour had two goals in the tournament as Canada won the championship.
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The Blues were accused of pretending to negotiate a payment while attempting to trade Doug Gilmour without informing the other team of the allegations.
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Doug Gilmour denied the allegations and by the end of the year, the grand jury chose not to indict Doug Gilmour.
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Doug Gilmour played a pivotal role in the Flames' run to the 1989 Stanley Cup Final; he was particularly effective in Calgary's second round series against the Los Angeles Kings where he scored or assisted on key goals in three of the four games while playing an effective role in preventing the Kings' star Wayne Gretzky from establishing his own offensive game.
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Doug Gilmour recorded 11 goals and 11 assists in 22 games during the Flames' playoff run.
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Doug Gilmour scored a shorthanded goal with 15 seconds remaining in regulation time, followed four seconds later by teammate Paul Ranheim.
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Doug Gilmour completed the season as the team's leader in assists with 67, and second in points at 91.
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Doug Gilmour became embroiled in a physical melee with Los Angeles Kings assistant coach Tom Webster late in the season.
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An argument between the two teams escalated into a physical altercation; Doug Gilmour was suspended two games for shoving Webster, while the coach received four for punching Doug Gilmour.
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Doug Gilmour, who was playing the option year of his contract at a salary of US$450,000 was unable to reach a deal with the team on an extension.
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Doug Gilmour alleged that executives with the team and league had tampered with the process – the arbitrator attended a Flames game with team management on the night before the hearing, while NHL President John Ziegler sent a letter to the arbitrators.
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Doug Gilmour, who remained active with the Flames throughout the process, had scored 38 points in 38 games.
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Doug Gilmour later called the choice to walk away from the team to be one of the toughest decisions he had ever made.
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The deal altered the trajectory of both franchises as Doug Gilmour immediately revitalized the Maple Leafs while the Flames franchise entered a long decline after the deal that was immediately judged to have ended in Toronto's favour.
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Doug Gilmour scored 49 points for Toronto, and finished the year with 87 points combined between the Flames and Maple Leafs.
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Doug Gilmour broke Toronto franchise records for assists and points, and on February 13,1993, tied Babe Pratt's franchise record by assisting on six goals in one game.
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Doug Gilmour finished seventh overall in NHL scoring, but was subject to a controversial suspension during the year.
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Individually, Gilmour earned several accolades for his season: He played in the 1993 All-Star Game, was named recipient of the Frank J Selke Trophy as the NHL's top defensive forward, and finished second to Mario Lemieux in voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player.
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Doug Gilmour finished fourth in post-season scoring with 28 points as the Maple Leafs again reached the Campbell Conference Final before losing to the Vancouver Canucks.
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Doug Gilmour finished fourth in Hart Trophy voting and second in Selke trophy voting.
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Doug Gilmour signed in Switzerland and joined the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers in November 1994.
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Doug Gilmour appeared in nine games with the National League A team and scored two goals to go along with 13 assists before returning to Canada.
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Doug Gilmour attempted to join Wayne Gretzky's exhibition tour of Europe when able.
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Doug Gilmour returned to the Maple Leafs when the NHL's dispute was resolved; in 44 games with Toronto, he had 10 goals and 23 assists.
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Doug Gilmour was one of the most popular players on the Leafs during his tenure.
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Doug Gilmour's Blackhawks played against the Toronto Maple Leafs on February 13,1999 as the last game in historic Maple Leaf Gardens was played.
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Doug Gilmour scored in the game and was given a standing ovation by the Toronto fans during the Gardens' closing ceremonies.
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Doug Gilmour suffered a back injury late in the season and had to undergo season-ending surgery.
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Doug Gilmour helped the Sabres, which had been Stanley Cup finalists the season before, make the playoffs.
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Doug Gilmour signed as a free agent in 2001 with the Montreal Canadiens.
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Doug Gilmour officially announced his retirement on September 8,2003 after John Ferguson, Jr.
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Doug Gilmour scored 450 goals and 964 assists in 1474 games in his NHL career.
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Doug Gilmour became the seventeenth player to be honoured in such a way by the Maple Leafs.
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Doug Gilmour held that position with the Leafs until August 7,2008, when the Maple Leafs announced that Doug Gilmour would join the Toronto Marlies, the Leafs American Hockey League affiliate, as an assistant coach under Marlies head coach Greg Gilbert.
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Doug Gilmour held that position for only a few months before leaving the Maple Leafs' organization to become the head coach of the Kingston Frontenacs of the OHL in November 2008.
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Doug Gilmour stepped down as general manager and became the president of the Frontenacs in 2017.
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Doug Gilmour has been married three times and has four children.
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