Alan Richard Cameron (born October 21, 1955) is a

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former professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the l ...

. Cameron played two seasons with the

New Westminster Bruins The New Westminster Bruins were a Junior ice hockey#Major junior, major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League. There were two franchises that carried this name: * 1971–1981 (formerly the Estevan Bruins, now the Kamloops Blazers) * ...

of the WHL, from 1973 to 1975, where in the last year, the Bruins advanced to the Memorial Cup finals, eventually losing to the

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. He was drafted 37th overall by the

Detroit Red Wings The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit. The Red Wings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the East ...

in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft and eventually played 282 games with the Red Wings and the

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in the NHL.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

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* 1955 births Living people Canadian ice hockey defencemen Detroit Red Wings draft picks Detroit Red Wings players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Kalamazoo Wings (1974–2000) players Kansas City Red Wings players New Westminster Bruins players Ice hockey people from Edmonton Tulsa Oilers (1964–1984) players Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-icehockey-defenceman-1950s-stub