With our 18th Round pick,
Punk's Puckers select:
On Defence, #16
Dave Hanson
David J. Hanson (born
April 12,
1954) played 10 seasons of professional
hockey for the
Detroit Red Wings and
Minnesota North Stars of the
National Hockey League and the
New England Whalers,
Minnesota Fighting Saints and
Birmingham Bulls of the
World Hockey Association.
Hanson was born in
Cumberland, Wisconsin and grew up in
St. Paul, Minnesota where he eventually starred in football, baseball and hockey at
Humboldt Senior High School. He continued playing hockey for the
St. Paul Vulcans and for
Herb Brooks'
University of Minnesota college team.
He was cast as "Jack Hanson", one of the
Hanson Brothers in the
1977 film
Slap Shot when
Jack Carlson was unable to perform because his team was in the playoffs. A month after production wrapped, he married Sue Kaschalk, a coal miner's daughter from Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania.
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He appeared in several other films, and won a "DVD Premiere Award", along with
Steve Carlson and
Jeff Carlson, for his part in the
2002 sequel
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice.
Hanson has two daughters and one son.
[1] His son, Christian, is a centre at The
University of Notre Dame.
[1] He currently resides in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and manages a sports center at
Robert Morris University.
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