MUST SEE: Dale Hawerchuk's Rookie Season (Originally aired in 1981)

Documentary produced by Scott Oake in Dale Hawerchuk's rookie season.
Produced at the CBC Manitoba, remastered by Brad Lillies 2022
'Dale was, in all respects, the greatest Jet that ever played in this city'
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Dale Hawerchuk immediately became an iconic Winnipeg Jet when he signed his first contract at the windy corner of Portage and Main in 1981 and exactly 40 years later his status has been cemented, almost literally.
True North Sports and Entertainment, which owns the current iteration of the Jets (the original franchise was relocated to Phoenix in 1996), announced on Friday that it will unveil a statue of the NHL Hall of Famer, who was affectionately nicknamed Ducky.
"I'm confident in saying that Dale was, in all respects, the greatest Jet that ever played in this city," TNSE chairman Mark Chipman said. "He was our Wayne Gretzky or Bobby Orr, and there was just something so powerful about that."
The Toronto-born Hawerchuk was drafted first overall by the Jets as an 18-year-old rookie and by the end of his first NHL season, he was the youngest player in league history to reach 100 points - a record only broken in 2006 by Sidney Crosby.
He finished the year with 45 goals and 103 total points, won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's rookie of the year and was selected to the all-star game.
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