1980-81 O-Pee-Chee 187 Mike Foligno Hockey Card (Front)
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Card Notes
Won OHA awards in 1978-79 as the MVP, scoring champion and top scoring right-winger. He’s an excellent skater, shooter and passer with outstanding leadership qualities for Red Wings.
Detroit’s “Production Line” featured Gordie Howe, Sid Abel & Ted Lindsay.
En Français
En 1978-79, Joueur le plus utile et meilleur compteur de l’Association de Hockey d’Ontario. Excellent patineur, lanceur et passeur, il sait aussi encourager et inspirer ses coéquipiers.
La “ligne de production” de Détroit comprenait Gordie Howe, Sid Abel et Red Lindsay. (Yes, they made a typo in the French section on Lindsay’s first name.)
Details
Mike Foligno had an outstanding season with the Sudbury Wolves in 1978-79, his fourth and final year with the club (as a player – he would return as head coach for seven years after retirement). Mike scored 65 goals and assisted on 85 for 150 points. He led the league, earning the Eddie Powers Trophy, with six more points than second place Tom McCarthy of the Oshawa Generals.
That year, Foligno also earned the Red Tilson Trophy as the OHL’s most valuable player. The Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy also went his way as the league’s top right winger. He helped the Wolves reach the semi-finals before bowing out to the Peterborough Petes, the eventual 1979 Memorial Cup champion.
His rookie year in the National Hockey League was also outstanding. 36 goals and 71 points while appearing in all 80 of Detroit’s regular season games made Foligno the runner-up in Calder Trophy voting for rookie of the year. The winner, Ray Bourque of the Boston Bruins, took 274 votes while Foligno had 113 votes. Pete Peeters, Brian Propp and Paul Reinhart were also in the running.
Eight of those 36 goals came in a span of three games in January, 1980. Foligno had a hat trick on January 27 in a 7-6 win over the Quebec Nordiques. On January 30, he had a pair in a 6-4 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The following night, he recorded the second hat trick of his career with three in a 4-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The third overall pick by Detroit at the 1979 NHL Entry Draft (behind Rob Ramage and Perry Turnbull – ahead of Mike Gartner), Foligno played 1,018 regular season and 57 playoff games in the NHL between 1979-80 and 1993-94 with the Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers.
Mike Foligno NHL Career Stats
Regular Season
| Year | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| 1979-80 | Detroit Red Wings | 80 | 36 | 35 | 71 | 109 |
| 1980-81 | Detroit Red Wings | 80 | 28 | 35 | 63 | 210 |
| 1981-82 | Detroit Red Wings | 26 | 13 | 13 | 26 | 28 |
| 1981-82 | Buffalo Sabres | 56 | 20 | 31 | 51 | 149 |
| 1982-83 | Buffalo Sabres | 66 | 22 | 25 | 47 | 135 |
| 1983-84 | Buffalo Sabres | 70 | 32 | 31 | 63 | 151 |
| 1984-85 | Buffalo Sabres | 77 | 27 | 29 | 56 | 154 |
| 1985-86 | Buffalo Sabres | 79 | 41 | 39 | 80 | 168 |
| 1986-87 | Buffalo Sabres | 75 | 30 | 29 | 59 | 176 |
| 1987-88 | Buffalo Sabres | 74 | 29 | 28 | 57 | 220 |
| 1988-89 | Buffalo Sabres | 75 | 27 | 22 | 49 | 156 |
| 1989-90 | Buffalo Sabres | 61 | 15 | 25 | 40 | 99 |
| 1990-91 | Buffalo Sabres | 31 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 42 |
| 1990-91 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 37 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 65 |
| 1991-92 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 33 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 50 |
| 1992-93 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 55 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 84 |
| 1993-94 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1993-94 | Florida Panthers | 39 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 49 |
| Totals | 1018 | 355 | 372 | 727 | 2049 |
Playoffs
| Year | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| 1979-80 | Detroit Red Wings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980-81 | Detroit Red Wings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981-82 | Detroit Red Wings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981-82 | Buffalo Sabres | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 1982-83 | Buffalo Sabres | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 39 |
| 1983-84 | Buffalo Sabres | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 19 |
| 1984-85 | Buffalo Sabres | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 1985-86 | Buffalo Sabres | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986-87 | Buffalo Sabres | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987-88 | Buffalo Sabres | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 31 |
| 1988-89 | Buffalo Sabres | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 21 |
| 1989-90 | Buffalo Sabres | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 1990-91 | Buffalo Sabres | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990-91 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991-92 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992-93 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 18 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 42 |
| 1993-94 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993-94 | Florida Panthers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 57 | 15 | 17 | 32 | 185 |