Wayne Cashman (born June 24, 1945) is a

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former professional

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player and coach. He played seventeen seasons for the

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of the

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(NHL) and helped them win the

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twice, and was the last active player who started his NHL career in the

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era.

Playing career

Cashman played junior hockey in the OHA with the

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; one of his teammates was

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. He played parts of three seasons in the minor leagues for the Oklahoma City Blazers and the

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before making the Bruins' squad for good in 1969. Cashman played his entire NHL career with the Boston Bruins ( 1964–65,

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– 83). His jersey number was 12. He was a hard-grinding left winger on the era's most formidable forward line with centre

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and right wing

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. His role was to get into the corners and battle for loose pucks, and feed them to Esposito or Hodge. He was also a tenacious forechecker and served as an enforcer to protect Esposito and Orr. Esposito has regarded Cashman as underrated and not receiving sufficient credit, saying "Wayne was the digger. He was the heart and soul of our line. Without a doubt." Cashman scored his first NHL goal on November 6, 1968 in Boston's 7-1 home victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Cashman was a member of

-winning teams, in

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and

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, and scored twice in the deciding game of the latter finals against the

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, won by Boston, 3-0. He scored at least 20 goals in a season eight times in his career, doing so in four straight seasons when he also incurred 100 or more penalty minutes. His best season was in 1974, when he finished fourth in the league in points, played in the

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, and was named to the NHL Second All-Star team. In 1972 he played for Team Canada in the first four games of the Summit Series. Before the final four games, at an exhibition game in

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, Ulf Sterner's stick got lodged in Cashman's mouth, cutting his tongue open. The injury required 50 stitches and kept him out of the rest of the Summit Series. He served as the

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of the Bruins from

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. When he retired after the Bruins were eliminated from the playoffs in 1983, he was the last active player from the NHL's

era, just beating out Serge Savard, whose team was eliminated in an earlier playoff round. After his retirement as a player, Cashman served in several coaching positions, including five seasons as an assistant coach for the New York Rangers and four for the

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as an assistant coach. He was appointed head coach of the

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for the 1997-98 season and held that post for 61 games until he was replaced by

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; he served thereafter as the team's assistant coach. He was also on the coaching staff of Team Canada in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, as an assistant to

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. He was an assistant coach with the Bruins from 2001 until 2006. In 2023 he would be named one of the top 100 Bruins players of all time.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

NHL coaching statistics

Personal life

Cashman has 2 children his son Scott and his daughter BeckyCashman's Back on the Ice Former Blazer Star Recalls "Incredible' Team https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1990/02/06/cashmans-back-on-the-ice-former-blazer-star-recalls-incredible-team/62575983007/#

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cashman, Wayne 1945 births Living people Boston Bruins captains Boston Bruins coaches Boston Bruins players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Canadian ice hockey coaches Canadian ice hockey right wingers Canadian sportspeople of Irish descent Hershey Bears players National Hockey League assistant coaches New York Rangers coaches Oklahoma City Blazers (1965–1977) players Oshawa Generals players Philadelphia Flyers coaches San Jose Sharks coaches Ice hockey people from Kingston, Ontario Stanley Cup champions Tampa Bay Lightning coaches 20th-century Canadian sportsmen