Height: 5-11
Weight: 195
Shoot: R
Born: 2 May 1950, Winnipeg MB (d. 2020)
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
| year | team | |||||||||||
| 1973-74 | Winnipeg | |||||||||||
| 1974-75 | Indianapolis | |||||||||||
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| 1975-76 | San Diego | |||||||||||
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Hargreaves, the Physical Jet • by Vic Grant • The Hockey Spectator • November 16, 1973
Jimmy Hargreaves falls short of bearing a resemblance to a Greek God but only because of a prematurely receding hairline and a face which doesn't exactly fall into the handsome category. Jimmy Hargreaves is hard. If they petrified muscles they'd use Hargreaves' as examples. Hargreaves could go head-to-head with one of Bobby Hull's prize bulls and win two of three falls. Hargreaves doesn't have the body beautiful but if you dropped a rock on it the rock would lose. Hargreaves has muscles in his nose, not to mention his ear lobes. If there's a Rock of Gibralter on skates it's Hargreaves. If skating through the North Wall of the Winnipeg Arena meant furthering his hockey career, Hargreaves would do it. His teammates don't think of him as the second coming, but he must be the next best thing because they stuck the nickname "Moses" on him. Winnipeg Jets lost their first game of the season to Vancouver and Hargreaves didn't play. He was air freighted to Edmonton for the second game, which Jets also lost, but he scored three points. Hargreaves was on the Jet blueline for the next four Jet games and they didn't lose. Jets should have had someone on their blueline last year who could punish the opposition, but they didn't. They've asked Hargreaves to do the punishing and he's all gung ho. Hargreaves displays a body beautiful which pushes the weigh scale pointer to 196 lbs. and he hasn't been that light since he was a kid hockey player here in Winnipeg. The majority of the weight is muscle fibre. He spent some time moulding a liquid belly the last couple of years but there's no trace of it now. Hargreaves still has a long way to go before becoming the complete hockey player but he's willing to learn, something he didn't do while he was a member of questionable standing with Vancouver Canucks. Jets are just as happy to have Hargreaves as he's happy to be a part of the Jets. "I guess Jets want me to hit a lot," said Hargreaves as he attempted to suck the plastic bottom of a milk carton through a straw. "I don't mind hitting people." A day earlier Hargreaves had dished out the hardest check they'd seen in the Arena in quite some time. Claude St. Sauveur of Vancouver was on the receiving end and it resembled an Austin colliding with a Mack truck. "I've never considered myself a good fighter or anything, but I'm not the type to turn around and go the other way. If you have to fight, you have to fight." "Don't get the idea, though, that I'm back here to play as I did when I was a junior hockey player — it's impossible. I don't carry the puck as much. I'm defensive minded rather than offensive, and I have to try and break a losing attitude. "I chose to come to Winnipeg this year because I'd had enough of not knowing where I was at with Canucks. You've got to face reality when you're with an expansion team. When you're with Vancouver you become accustomed to the fact that you're going to be in last place, or right next to it. It's not a good attitude to have but you have to face the facts. "I never got the chance to use the things I wanted to in Vancouver. I didn't shoot and I didn't carry the puck. Of course, I never carried the puck in Vancouver because we were never in their end, they were always in ours. Three years as a pro and I've never had so much as a sniff of the playoffs. This Winnipeg team is a lot different than Vancouver. 1 don't have anything against the guys in Vancouver but there the players were out for themselves, you know, bonuses and such. Here they seem to be out for the team." |
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Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1975-76 (by Dan Proudfoot)
Jim Hargreaves' play improved constantly as the 1974-75 season wore on, a tipoff to the problem that had been holding the young defenceman back. Hargreaves, now 25, lacked confidence. It was comedian Rodney Dangerfield's Can't-Get-No-Respect routine come true. Mariner fans, responded to his bodychecking, making him a favorite, and by the end Hargreaves showed every sign of finally living up to the expectations of 1970, when Vancouver Canucks made him their second choice in a talent-filled amateur draft. |
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Excerpts from Zander Hollander Complete Hockey Handbook, 1975-76 (by Reyn Davis) Finally arrived as professional under Harry Howell's tutelage in San Diego ... Always considered to be what former NHL great Babe Pratt used to call "a diamond in the rough" ... Grabbed in the 1974 WHA expansion draft by the Indianapolis Racers from Winnipeg, then, 37 games later, traded to San Diego for Ken Block ... Added responsibility of being a parent had positive effect on his play ... A clown prince of hockey ... Scored more goals in 41 games at San Diego than he had previously scored in 276 games of professional hockey. |
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