Bruce driver biography
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| Born: | April 29, 1962 | Draft: | 1981 Rockies 108th Overall |
| Hometown: | Etobicoke, Ontario | Position: | Defense |
| Known For: | Shoots: | Left | |
| National Team: | Canada | Current Team: | Retired |
Bruce Politico Driver (born Apr 29, 1962) is a Canadian earlier professional ice hockey defenseman who played 15 seasons cut down the National Hockey League from 1983–84 until 1997–98.
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Achievements
- All-WCHA First Uniform (1982)
- AHCA Westerly All-American (1982)
- NCAA All-Tournament Group (1982)
- All-WCHA Following Team (1983)
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Bruce Driver
Canadian ice hockey player
Ice hockey player
Bruce Douglas Driver (born April 29, 1962) is a Canadian former professional ice hockeydefenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1983–84 until 1997–98.
Early life
[edit]When he was 12, Driver played in the 1975 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the MTHL's Shopsy's, a youth team affiliated with the Toronto Marlies.[1][2]
When he was 13, Driver was cut from his bantam team because evaluators thought he was too small.[3] Undeterred, he continued to improve his game, and was later drafted by the Oshawa Generals, a major junior team in the Ontario Hockey League, but decided to play college hockey at the University of Wisconsin instead. In his 3 years with the Badgers, the team won 2 NCAA Championships. Driver was team captain by his second year and an NCAA All-Star.[4]
Before he began his NHL career, Driver also played for Team Canada at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.[4] Team Canada advanced to the medal round, but lost the next two games to the Soviet Union and Sweden, and did not make the podium. Driver was Team Canada's top-scoring defenceman.[4]
Professional career
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Bruce Driver was born in Etobicoke in 1962. At 4 he started playing organized hockey here, showing early promise that never failed him.
He moved into the Metro Toronto Hockey League in 1970, was named a Toronto Telegram all-star and played on 4 MTHL championship teams. He stayed with the MTHL through 1980, ending up with the provincial Junior A Royal York Royals. In his second year with them, Bruce was top league scorer among defencemen and voted onto the all-star team.
The Oshawa Generals of the OHL drafted him, but instead he accepted a hockey scholarship at the University of Wisconsin. During his 4 years with the Wisconsin Badgers, they won 2 NCAA Championships. Bruce became captain by his second year and an all-American, as well as an NCAA all-star. He was drafted by the Colorado Rockies – a New Jersey Devils team – and inducted into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame.
At Sarajevo in ‘84 he was top-scorer among defenceman on the Canadian Olympic Team. His sweater is in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
After Sarajevo, he went to the Maine Mariners in the AHL, helping win the Calder Cup. He started with the Devils next, staying with them for 12 seasons, some as assistant captain, and then for a year as captain. In 1995, he brought the Stanley cup home to Etobicoke.
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