Glenn Healy

Glenn Healy
Born (1962-08-23) August 23, 1962 (age 62)
Pickering, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight 183 lb (83 kg; 13 st 1 lb)
Position Goaltender
Caught Left
Played for Los Angeles Kings
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Toronto Maple Leafs
NHL draft Undrafted
Playing career 1985–2001

Glenn Healy (born August 23, 1962) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played for 15 years in the National Hockey League (NHL). Prior to that, he was a member of the Western Michigan University ice hockey team, and 1985 graduate of the school. He also served as the director of player affairs for the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA). He resigned on September 3, 2009, in the wake of the firing of NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly.[1] In his capacity as director of player affairs, Healy also served as a non-voting member on the NHL Competition Committee, overseeing the NHLPA's interests regarding rule and equipment issues and player safety matters. He serves as the executive director/president of the NHL Alumni Association.

Biography

Playing career

During his career, Healy played for the Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. During the 1992–93 season, he helped lead an up-start New York Islander team to the Wales Conference Finals, shocking the two-time defending Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins along the way.[2] In the 1993 off-season, the Islanders lost Healy to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the expansion draft. The next day, he was claimed by the Tampa Bay Lightning in phase two of the draft. The very same day Healy was traded to the New York Rangers for a third round pick. Healy was a part of the Rangers' Stanley Cup winning team in 1993-94, and he played 68 playoff minutes that year. During the 1995–96 season, Healy won both the Rangers Good Guy Award and the Rangers Fan Club Ceil Saidel Award. At the time he won these awards, he was the Rangers' number-one goalie while Mike Richter was injured.[3] Healy appeared on three video game covers during his career, his first being Electronic Arts' NHL Hockey in 1991, then in Jaleco's Pro Sport Hockey and later Sega's NHL All-Star Hockey '95, both for the Sega Genesis (Healy also appeared on the cover of the Game Gear release of NHL All-Star Hockey). Healy and Wayne Gretzky are the only two players to appear on at least three different video game franchise's covers (Healy is playing for a different team in all three covers).

Broadcasting career

After his long playing career he served as hockey colour commentator and studio analyst, first for the CBC and then for TSN. He also served as the secondary colour commentator for TSN Hockey and as an ice-level reporter for TSN's regional Toronto Maple Leafs telecasts. At the start of the 2009–10 NHL season, he moved back to analyzing games for CBC's Hockey Night in Canada before he joined the NHL on Sportsnet crew in 2014.

Healy created the "Loch Ness Monster" hockey analysis segment for TSN, in which he picked a player (or players) who was supposed to be a key player that night but did not turn out to be (the tagline being that the player is "the monster you hear about but don't see"). Bagpipes can be heard in the background and the chosen player is dubbed "tonight's Nessie". One notable occurrence was the March 29, 2008, broadcast of the Boston Bruins' 4-0 win over the Ottawa Senators, where Healy selected the entire Senators team that night as the "Nessie". The segment's title is a parody of fellow analyst Pierre McGuire's "Monster" segment, which focuses on a player's whose contributions have been particularly effective.

Healy was also a colour analyst for the 2007 Casino Rama Curling Skins Game finals on TSN.

In June 2016, Rogers Media announced that Healy would be among the eight cut from Hockey Night in Canada.[4]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP W L T MIN GA SO GAA SV% GP W L MIN GA SO GAA SV%
1979–80 Pickering Panthers MetJHL 31 — — — 1850 123 0 3.99 — — — — — — — — —
1980–81 Pickering Panthers MetJHL 35 — — — 2080 120 1 3.46 — — — — — — — — —
1981–82 Western Michigan University CCHA 27 7 19 1 1569 116 0 4.44 — — — — — — — — —
1982–83 Western Michigan University CCHA 30 8 19 2 1732 116 0 4.02 — — — — — — — — —
1983–84 Western Michigan University CCHA 38 19 16 3 2241 146 0 3.91 — — — — — — — — —
1984–85 Western Michigan University CCHA 37 21 14 2 2171 118 0 3.26 .906 — — — — — — — —
1985–86 Los Angeles Kings NHL 1 0 0 0 51 6 0 7.06 .829 — — — — — — — —
1985–86 Toledo Goaldiggers IHL 7 — — — 402 28 0 4.18 — — — — — — — — —
1985–86 New Haven Nighthawks AHL 43 21 15 4 2410 160 0 3.98 — 2 0 2 49 11 0 5.55 —
1986–87 New Haven Nighthawks AHL 47 21 15 0 2828 173 1 3.67 — 7 3 4 427 19 0 2.67 —
1987–88 Los Angeles Kings NHL 34 12 18 1 1865 135 1 4.34 .865 4 1 3 238 20 0 5.04 .843
1988–89 Los Angeles Kings NHL 48 25 19 2 2699 192 0 4.27 .872 3 0 1 97 6 0 3.72 .898
1989–90 New York Islanders NHL 39 12 19 6 2197 128 2 3.49 .894 4 1 2 166 9 0 3.25 .886
1990–91 New York Islanders NHL 53 18 24 9 2999 166 0 3.32 .893 — — — — — — — —
1991–92 New York Islanders NHL 37 14 16 4 1960 124 1 3.80 .881 — — — — — — — —
1992–93 New York Islanders NHL 47 22 20 2 2655 146 1 3.30 .889 18 9 8 1109 59 0 3.19 .887
1993–94 New York Rangers NHL 29 10 12 2 1368 69 2 3.03 .878 2 0 0 68 1 0 0.89 .941
1994–95 New York Rangers NHL 17 8 6 1 888 35 1 2.36 .907 5 2 1 230 13 0 3.39 .860
1995–96 New York Rangers NHL 44 17 14 11 2654 124 2 2.90 .900 — — — — — — — —
1996–97 New York Rangers NHL 23 5 12 4 1357 59 1 2.61 .907 — — — — — — — —
1997–98 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 21 4 10 2 1068 53 0 2.98 .883 — — — — — — — —
1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 9 6 3 0 546 27 0 2.97 .895 1 0 0 20 0 0 0.00 1.000
1998–99 Chicago Wolves IHL 10 6 3 1 597 33 0 3.32 .889 — — — — — — — —
1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 20 9 10 0 1164 59 2 3.04 .888 — — — — — — — —
2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 15 4 7 3 871 38 0 2.62 .885 — — — — — — — —
NHL totals 437 166 190 47 24,254 1361 13 3.37 .887 37 13 15 1928 108 0 3.36 .881

Awards and honours

Award Year
All-CCHA Second Team 1984–85 [5]
AHCA West Second-Team All-American 1984–85 [6]
Stanley Cup (with New York Rangers) 1994

References

  1. ^ "Healy resigns as NHLPA's Director of Player Affairs". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  2. ^ Kiley, Mike (May 15, 1993). "Islanders end Penguins' reign in OT". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2023-04-21. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  3. ^ Alexander, Rachel (February 25, 1996). "Goalie Healey Quite a Stopgap for Rangers". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2021-06-23. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  4. ^ Shoalts, David (27 June 2016). "For Hockey Night In Canada employees, the party is over". The Globe and Mail. The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  5. ^ "CCHA All-Teams". College Hockey Historical Archives. Archived from the original on October 18, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
  6. ^ "Men's Ice Hockey Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by CCHA Most Valuable Player in Tournament
1984 		Succeeded by