Galen Head
| Galen Head | |||
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| Born |
April 16, 1947 Grande Prairie, AB, CAN |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | ||
| Weight | 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st 6 lb) | ||
| Position | Right Wing | ||
| Shot | Right | ||
| Played for |
Detroit Red Wings Fort Worth Wings Johnstown Jets Salt Lake Golden Eagles |
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| NHL Draft | undrafted | ||
| Playing career | 1967–1976 | ||
Galen Russell Head (born April 16, 1947) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who spent the majority of his career with the Johnstown Jets of the Eastern Hockey League and North American Hockey League. Head played one game in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings during the 1967-68 NHL season and wore #15.
Head started out playing in the Grande Prairie Minor Hockey Association at age 13. Three years later, Head would make the jump to what is known as "senior hockey" and play in the South Peace Hockey League as a member of the Grande Prairie Athletics, where he would win SPHL Rookie Of The Year honors in 1963-64.
He would remain with the Athletics until midway through the 1964-65 season, where he would receive an invite from the Edmonton Oil Kings. Head would remain with the Oil Kings during the 1965-66 season, where he would face off against the Oshawa Generals, a team led by future hockey Hall Of Fame member Bobby Orr. The Oil Kings would go on to defeat the Generals and would win the Memorial Cup. Head would score 16 points in 19 games during the 1965-66 post-season.
Head continued to play with the Oil Kings for one more season, scoring 50 goals and 42 assists and trailing only Garnet "Ace" Bailey in regular season point totals.
Head would receive an invitation from the NHL's Detroit Red Wings to attend training camp in the fall of 1967. In camp, he was assigned #15 and was given $130 for a one-game tryout but was eventually released on September 22.
Head would later be assigned to the Johnstown Jets, a team in the Eastern Hockey League. He would score 53 goals in his rookie season. As a result, Head was recalled by Detroit where he would "play six or seven shifts" in his only game with the Red Wings. Head would also see time with the Fort Worth Wings, another Detroit affiliate.
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