1973-74 O-Pee-Chee 15 Garry Unger Hockey Card (Front)
1973-74 O-Pee-Chee 15 Garry Unger Hockey Card (Back)
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Currently the NHL’s “Iron Man”, Garry has played in over 400 straight league games. He scored 13 goals on the power play last season. Garry once scored seven points in one game, thre goals and four assists to tie a team record.
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Garry, “l’Homme de Fer” de la Ligue Nationale, a participé à plus de 400 parties régulières consécutives. La saison dernière, il marqua 13 buts sur des jeux de puissance. Garry a déjà produit sept points en une partie (trois buts et quatre assistances) pour égaler un record du club.
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Garry Unger would go on to play 914 regular season games in a row, at the time an NHL record. Since, he has been surpassed by just Phil Kessel, Keith Yandle and Doug Jarvis. The streak began during the 1967-68 season with the Detroit Red Wings and ended during the 1979-80 season while playing for the Atlanta Flames.
On March 13, 1971, Unger tied Red Berenson‘s team record of seven points in a single game. That record remains today. In a 9-0 blowout of the Buffalo Sabres at home, Unger scored three and assisted on four for the seven points. Berenson’s record was six goals and an assist. Joe Daley was in the nets for the expansion Sabres and Unger’s final goal was into an empty net.
1972-73 was a career year for Garry with 41 goals while he would top out with 83 points a few years later in 1975-76. He would have a run of eight consecutive seasons scoring at least 30 goals. In 1973-74, nine of his 33 goals would come in just three games, recording three hat tricks.
Between 1967-68 and 1982-83, Garry Unger appeared in 1,105 regular season and 51 playoff games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, Atlanta Flames, Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers.