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John Richard Jordan (born March 31, 1950) is a
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retired 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 ...
who played 183 games in the
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for the
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,
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, and
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. Jordan was born in
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,
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, Canada. As a youth, he played in the 1962
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with Toronto Shopsy's.


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* 1950 births Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Calgary Cowboys players Canadian ice hockey defencemen Erie Blades players Jacksonville Barons players EC KAC players Living people Maine Nordiques players Montreal Canadiens draft picks Neuchâtel Young Sprinters HC players New England Whalers players Quebec Nordiques (WHA) players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen Rhode Island Eagles players Ice hockey people from Toronto Tidewater Sharks players Toronto Marlboros players NCAA men's ice hockey national champions {{Canada-icehockey-defenceman-1950s-stub