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Garry Unger
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Position Centre
Shoots Left
Height
Weight
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
170 lb (77 kg)
Teams Toronto Maple Leafs
Detroit Red Wings
St. Louis Blues
Atlanta Flames
Los Angeles Kings
Edmonton Oilers
Nationality Flag of Canada Canadian
Born (1947-12-07)December 7, 1947,
Edmonton, AB, CAN
Pro Career 1967 – 1988

Garry Douglas "Iron Man" Unger (born December 7, 1947 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a former professional centre who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1967 until 1983.

Unger holds the second longest consecutive games streak in NHL history, with 914 consecutive games played in the regular season between February 24, 1968 and December 21, 1979. Doug Jarvis holds the current record at 964 consecutive games. Unger ended up playing 1105 career NHL games, scoring 413 goals and 391 assists for 804 points, and he also registered 1075 career penalty minutes.

He started out with the Toronto Maple Leafs and was traded to the Detroit Red Wings in the Frank Mahovlich trade on March 3, 1968.

Unger later played with the St. Louis Blues, Atlanta Flames, Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers. He finished with North American hockey in 1982-83 and then played in Great Britain from 1985 to 1988.

Career Statistics[]

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1966–67 London Nationals OHA 48 38 35 73 60 -- -- -- -- --
1966–67 Tulsa Oilers CHL 2 2 0 2 2 -- -- -- -- --
1966–67 Rochester Americans AHL 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1967–68 London Nationals OHA 2 4 1 5 2 -- -- -- -- --
1967–68 Tulsa Oilers CHL 9 3 5 8 6 -- -- -- -- --
1967–68 Rochester Americans AHL 5 1 3 4 6 -- -- -- -- --
1967–68 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 15 1 1 2 4 -- -- -- -- --
1967–68 Detroit Red Wings NHL 13 5 10 15 2 -- -- -- -- --
1968–69 Detroit Red Wings NHL 76 24 20 44 33 -- -- -- -- --
1969–70 Detroit Red Wings NHL 76 42 24 66 67 4 0 1 1 6
1970–71 Detroit Red Wings NHL 51 13 14 27 63 -- -- -- -- --
1970–71 St. Louis Blues NHL 28 15 14 29 41 6 3 2 5 20
1971–72 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 36 34 70 104 11 4 5 9 35
1972–73 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 41 39 80 119 5 1 2 3 2
1973–74 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 33 35 68 96 -- -- -- -- --
1974–75 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 36 44 80 123 2 1 3 4 6
1975–76 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 39 44 83 95 3 2 1 3 7
1976–77 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 30 27 57 56 4 0 1 1 2
1977–78 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 32 20 52 66 -- -- -- -- --
1978–79 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 30 26 56 44 -- -- -- -- --
1979–80 Atlanta Flames NHL 79 17 16 33 39 4 0 3 3 2
1980–81 Los Angeles Kings NHL 58 10 10 20 40 -- -- -- -- --
1980–81 Edmonton Oilers NHL 13 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 2
1981–82 Edmonton Oilers NHL 46 7 13 20 69 4 1 0 1 23
1982–83 Edmonton Oilers NHL 16 2 0 2 8 -- -- -- -- --
1982–83 Moncton Alpines AHL 8 2 3 5 0 -- -- -- -- --
1985–86 Dundee Rockets BHL 35 86 48 134 64 6 7 6 13 44
1986–87 Peterborough Pirates BHL 30 95 143 238 58 -- -- -- -- --
1987–88 Peterborough Pirates BHL 32 37 44 81 116 -- -- -- -- --
NHL totals 1105 413 391 804 1075 51 12 18 30 105

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Preceded by
Red Berenson
St. Louis Blues captains
1976–77
Succeeded by
Red Berenson
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