Langway was once this game's future, but now he knows he is fast becoming its past. He was named the league's best defenseman two years in a row, in 1983 and 1984, a feat equaled by only a handful of players. That one year. He sighs and raps his pencil hard on the desk. He was one of the last players in NHL history to play without a hockey helmet. Discover today's celebrity birthdays and explore famous people who share your birthday. During the 1980-1981 season, he was the NHL leader in Plus/Minus with a plus-53 rating and was named a Second-Team All-Star for the 1981-1982 season. "That's all it was. The fans started coming to the Capital Centre to see what the excitement was all about, and thus ended the dark days of the late '70s and early '80s, when the team might have slipped away to a more hockey-hungry town. Teenagers gather outside the locker-room door looking for autographs. Boxed, full-width, full-screen layouts. Many people considered him the franchise's savior, despite not being the sort of player that one would expect to prevent the club from moving. In 1991-92, he and his agent negotiated a six-year contract in which during the first two years he would remain with the team as a player, but in the last four years, he would serve as an employee for the team in a non-playing role. After the All-Star break that month, he permanently relinquished his captaincy to young defenseman Kevin Hatcher. ", In Calgary, Caps General Manager David Poile says, "This is a sad day for me, and I know it's a sad day for Rod. Following his departure from the Capitals, Langway played in six games for the Richmond Renegades of the East Coast Hockey League. Langway became the first Capital to win an individual NHL award. You pass the torch.". Rod was an all-around athlete. Played in NHL All-Star Game (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986). If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search. ", "He put everything he had into athletics," Torney says. And it gave him about a month to think about things. He is sprawled across the couch in his living room, wearing a loose sweat suit that covers bandages from the surgery on his shoulder and knee. Only one other player -- Mike Gartner -- has played more games in a red, white and blue Capitals uniform. When I look back, I know anyone in D.C. will say my name is the Capitals.". Only his sister and one brother finished high school, and Langway was no student either. Despite his lack of offensive production, his excellence at his position was credited with significantly reducing the Capitals goals against average, which enabled them to finally make the playoffs. "The game has gotten to a level where it's so fast and there is so much pressure to win, you're going to see a lot less older players," Langway says. Santiago. So here Langway sits with the press guys, wearing a tie and a pair of silly-looking earphones, playing guest commentator on the radio. Drafted by Birmingham Bulls. The Capitals were playing poorly, and it was felt the team needed to rely on younger, faster players. Scroll Down and find everything about him. Langway won the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenseman in both 1983 and 1984. I was 24 years old and I became a leader on a professional scale. As a catcher on the Randolph High baseball team Langway was considered a baseball pro-prospect. I hear the guys talk, saying, 'I was only 5 years old when you were in Montreal,' or, 'My Dad loves you.' Several of the school's varsity swimmers were in the class, and Torney says Langway was frustrated that he couldn't swim as well. Finally the maintenance guys gently ask him to leave so they can resurface the ice. "The main way it has affected him is that he's tough as nails. But whatever he had, he had something inside of him that made him go farther than any of them.". He played in 45 games for Montreal and was part of their Stanley Cup-winning team in 1979. The seven-year couple rented an RV and explored the U.S. and Canada. He earned two postseason All-Star first team selections and one Second Team selection as a defensemanthe first American NHL All-Star since Frank Brimsek in 1948. In 2012, he was inducted into the World Hockey Association Hall of Fame in the Legends of the Game category. Get after-school help. He demanded greatness from himself and others and earned the nickname Secretary of Defense. Born: 3-May-1957Birthplace: Taipei, Taiwan, Gender: MaleRace or Ethnicity: WhiteSexual orientation: StraightOccupation: Hockey, Nationality: United StatesExecutive summary: NHL Hall of Famer, Wife: Teresa (four children)Daughter: Maya Rose, High School: Randolph High School, Randolph, MA University: University of New Hampshire, Norris Trophy 1982/83 Norris Trophy 1983/84 Hockey Hall of Fame 2002, SPORTS FRANCHISE HISTORY Washington Capitals (1982-93) Montreal Canadiens (1978-82), Do you know something we don't? That year was the last of his NHL career. ON THE MORNING OF THE CALGARY game, Langway's first as a press box spectator, Murray puts the team through a sweaty workout in the empty Saddledome. Then, one by one, he begins snapping the pucks crisply toward the net. About a week ago, he was under a truck changing the oil." Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile, Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile. Suddenly the Caps were fun to watch. He is currently single. "He said to me, 'What do I have to do to be as good as that?' He grew up in Randolph, Massachusetts, and did not begin playing hockey until age 13 in 1970, aside from pick-up street hockey games with the neighborhood boys. The puck skitters wide of the goal, and Langway slumps in his seat in the press box high above the ice in Calgary's Olympic Saddledome. The seven-year couple rented an RV and explored the U.S. and Canada. We had good neighbors who helped us. Rod Langway of the Canada Legends Team warms up against the Russia Legends Team during the Hockey Hall of Fame Legends of Hockey Game on November 6,. "He was gangly and awkward, but you could clearly tell he had a lot of athletic ability," Foley says. Langway was also an assistant coach under Tom McVie with the American Hockey League's Providence Bruins during the 199798 season. It is a hot-weather place where most people think of hockey as a gang of toothless Canadian goons fighting with big sticks. As captain, Langway became known as an accomplished leader who demanded greatness from himself and others, earning the nickname Secretary of Defense. He says Langway appeared on the ice in a ridiculous outfit -- wearing his shin pads strapped outside his blue jeans and his elbow pads on the outside of his sweat shirt. That was my career. His name is on a restaurant, Langway's Sports Club in Lanham, which is owned by his close friends William and George Koutroumpis. He SCOOORRES!". Since then they have averaged 42 wins, made the playoffs every season, and have sold out as many as 23 a year. "My goal was to get a scholarship," he says. This is the 35-year-old Langway's first glimpse of the end, of what his life might look like when his hockey-playing glory days are gone. Games played - Number of games the player has set foot on the ice, Goals - Number of goals the player has scored, Assists - Number of goals the player has assisted in, Points - Scoring points, calculated as the sum of G and A, Plus/Minus - The number of team goals for minus the number of team goals against while the player is on the ice, Penalties infraction minutes - Number of penalty minutes the player has been assessed. But he was able to parlay his sports ability into a scholarship to the University of New Hampshire in 1975. He asked for his release and departed from the team on March 12. "It used to be common to be 35 or 36 in this league. Rod Langway Born: May 3, 1957 Birthplace: Maaq, TWN Shoots: Left Draft: 1977 MTL, 2nd rd, 18th pk (36th overall) View Player Bio + Follow NHL News Rod Langway News NHL Tonight: Rod. His career was crowned with his election to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002. On this night, Hatcher scores two goals and is clearly the best player on the ice. He played in ten games that year to assist with on-ice development, during which time he was not granted an exemption to play without a helmet. He was an honest, hard-working kid and he raised the younger kids.". Langway began his career before helmets were mandatory and was the only member of the Spiders who played without a helmet under a league grandfather clause. Upon his retirement from the NHL during the 199293 season, Langway was the last active player who won a Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens during their late-70s dynasty. Foley gave him a chance. View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. ", "You'd get yourself up for school," he says. Enter Search Term. I think he had a mission. For more than 10 summers -- until he decided to devote more time to his family -- Langway ran the Rod Langway Hockey School in Randolph, an inexpensive camp that catered almost exclusively to hometown kids. A pizza shop owner has been convicted of murdering his wife and leaving her in an unmarked grave - which went undiscovered by police for more than six months, despite . $139.99 $219.99 Youth Washington Capitals Rod Langway Fanatics Branded Breakaway. He played high school hockey with the Randolph Blue Devils and led them to state tournament appearances in 1973, 1974, and 1975. In high school, Langway was a terrible reader and speller -- a specialist once mistakenly labeled him dyslexic -- and he laughs that "the SATs ate me alive." It was a football recruiter from the University of New Hampshire who convinced him to play college hockey at UNH, one of the few schools that would allow him to play both football and hockey in college, which he did without having to choose one over the other as an incoming freshman. At the beginning of that contact, he was still an effective player, but the 1992-93 season proved to be a difficult one for Langway and the team. This is the 35-year-old Langway's first glimpse of the end, of what his life might look like when his hockey-playing glory days are gone. Langway was a natural quarterback who, according to his coaches, was probably better at football than hockey. 1980-81 Montreal Canadiens Postcards #NNO Rod Langway. It's just like the cops who used to throw him off the tennis courts at midnight a long, long time ago. During the 1995-96 season, Langway served as a player-coach for the San Francisco Spiders of the International Hockey League (IHL), serving as an Assistant Coach for the Providence Bruins in the AHL under Tom McVie, a former Head Coach of the Capitals. Still, he suggested that perhaps it was finally time to pass along the captain's C. Langway said he would like to play another season but acknowledged he was probably not part of management's plans for next year. I wanted to find a way to get Rod Langway to surprise my parents. He knows more people in D.C. than anybody in the organization. Langway's predecessors as Norris Trophy winners were the dominant defensemen of the 1970s, like Bobby Orr, Larry Robinson, and Denis Potvin, who had put up high scoring numbers. Providence finished with a mere 19 victories that season, and Langway did not return the following year after McVie was reassigned to be a scout by the Boston organization. "I'm way ahead of the game," he says. Younger players still respect Langway, but they are figuring out that they can beat him. ", David Wahlgren, a guidance counselor who taught Langway accounting at Randolph High School, says Rod was "a role model for the family, and he seemed to turn out the best of all of them.". He was a Norris Trophy winner, and here he is down on his hands and knees with a 9-year-old teaching him how to skate. It's not the end, but it's a clear indication that we're starting to prepare for life without Rod on the ice.". $89.99 $149.99 Youth Washington Capitals Rod Langway Adidas Authentic Alternate Jersey -. They went 39-25 with 16 ties in 1982-83, finishing third in the Patrick Division and qualifying for the playoffs for the first time. Langway also spent time with teams in the American Hockey League (AHL) and East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) as a player-coach after his NHL career ended. Team management did not extend Langway's contract after the first season. Rodney Cory Langway (born May 3, 1957) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL) and Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association (WHA). Like a fan. "He wasn't the fastest skater, the hardest shooter, most clever with the puck or the best checker. He pushed himself to get extra tutoring before his after-school practices, but he still spent most of high school "hanging in there for dear life." , money, salary, income, and assets. "It helped the team to have something to hang its hat on, a reason to win. "You grew up fast," Langway says. Soon everyone is gone -- everyone except Langway. He played for Montreal until he was traded to the Washington Capitals for the start of the 198283 season. During his entire career with the Capitals, the team made the playoffs, something they never had done before his arrival. The Capitals new number one defenseman, Rod Langway, who was previously stuck behind Larry Robinson, Serge Savard and Guy Lapointe in Montreal, won the Norris Trophy as the league's best defenseman in his first year with the team. They had two boys together, who are 11 and 10, and they also adopted a girl, who is now 6. Langway began his career before helmets were mandatory and was the only member of the Spiders who played without a helmet under a league grandfather clause. Langway has been active in Washington Capitals alumni activities and is President of the Caps Alumni Board. He probably just stayed out there until it got too cold or until his hands were raw. By contrast, Langway was a traditional defender whose shot was likened to a "cool summer breeze", scoring only three goals during one of his best seasons, though he is remembered by Capitals fans for a gamewinning goal in overtime against the New York Rangers' Mike Richter in the 1990 playoffs. Marc Price and his wife Lindsey were out adventuring. She wanted her kids to do their homework and then go outside and play sports. Langway also spent time with teams in the American Hockey League and East Coast Hockey League as a player-coach after his NHL career ended. He'll eagerly join his teammates, who are mostly 10 years younger than he is, at strip joints when the team's on the road. Birmingham was not included in the NHL/WHA merger and as a result, Langway ended up joining the Montreal Canadiens organization for the 1978-79 season, beginning the season with their farm team, the Nova Scotia Voyageurs, and was then called up after spending 18 games there. As his shoulder and knee had been bothering him, he at least wished to resolve any nagging health issues. Langway then took some time off from the team for a vacation and then had knee surgery and shoulder surgery. When Langway was traded to the Capitals on Sept. 9, 1982, he joined a team that went 26-41 with 13 ties in 1981-82 and hadn't qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs in any of its first eight NHL seasons. I don't think I ever heard the kid complain. He was also a standout quarterback for the Randolph High football team and was regarded as one of the top football recruits in the nation. He skates the circle backward, in each direction. His career was crowned with his election to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002. Back in the DMV, the two had to break the news of the baby they were expecting to the rest of the family somehow at some point and Lindsey came up with the idea of sharing it to the family at a Caps game. Cu MIX za . "She didn't want anyone in the house," Langway remembers. Senior correspondent covering national and international affairs. The six-foot-three, 220 pounder even went on to win the Norris Trophy as the NHL's most outstanding defenseman for both the 1983 and 1984 seasons. ", The seven Langway children, ages 10 through 19, were left to fend for themselves. He lost his first wife and married a 70-year-old. "Within a month of skating with us, he was clearly the best player.". One of the teams coaches, Jack Foley, could see that Langway had a lot of athletic ability, despite his awkwardness and relative inexperience at hockey. A two-time winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the top defenseman in the NHL, Langway was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in After 10 years as the Capitals' spiritual leader and one. He would often take Rod's dirty hockey uniforms home to wash them. However, the top college football programs in the country had identified Langway as a future NFL quarterback. She was his high school sweetheart, and they married after his freshman year in college. In 1999, he was elected to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame and in November 2002, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, along with Bernie Federko, Clark Gillies, and Roger Neilson. One of the greatest defenseman in Washington Capitals franchise history, Rod Langways playing style, leadership, and persona earned him the nickname Secretary of Defense, and his arrival to the team in 1982 was franchise-changing. Langway also spent time with teams in the American Hockey League (AHL) and East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) as a player-coach after his NHL career ended. They did so for the Capitals game on Nov. 24 against the Tampa Bay Lightning but that wasnt the only trick Marc had up his sleeve. More or less, that's when you could find him.". He doesn't let anything keep him down, and that comes from his childhood. He then played hockey for his high school team, the Randolph Blue Devils, which he led to state tournament appearances in 1973, 1974 and 1975. Following that trade, the Capitals named Langway their captain, which he would hold for the next 11 seasons until his NHL retirement. 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Copyright 2008 Club de hockey Canadien, Inc. All rights reserved. He was determined to be the first Langway to graduate from high school. "You forgive, you forget. Not long after their father abandoned them, Rod's two older brothers also left and Rod became de facto head of household. Hatcher, who joined the team as an 18-year-old, has learned much of the game from Langway. He now works for Monumental Sports, the parent company of the Caps. Langway opted to play with the Bulls for the 1977-78 season, who then sent him to their minor league affiliate, the Hampton Gulls, with whom he played 30 games until he was recalled to Birmingham, where he played 52 games. Scarlett Sasscer, Langway's fiancee, says Rod's upbringing has given him the ability to keep an even keel in rough times. The Canadiens won the Stanley Cup for the fourth straight season in 1979 with a roster that included Hockey Hall of Famers Guy Lafleur, Steve Shutt, Jacques Lemaire, Larry Robinson, Guy Lapointe, Bob Gainey, Serge Savard, Yvan Cournoyer, Ken Dryden -- and Langway, who was inducted in 2002. Langway was drafted by both the Montreal Canadians of the NHL and the Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1977, with the Bulls selecting him in the first round with the sixth overall pick and the Canadiens drafting him in the second round with the 36th overall pick. He also had 27 points (five goals, 22 assists) in 104 playoff games. First it was football. [65 yrs. They were divorced in 1990. The 1979-1980 season was his first full season in the NHL, recording seven goals and 29 assists, and a Plus/Minus rating of plus-36. "They didn't think much of him or his family, and he wanted to make them, and athletics were the way to do it. The game has long been known for its brutal fistfights, which discouraged fan interest and hindered the league's effort to win the network TV exposure enjoyed by other big-time sports. Rods two elder brothers soon moved out, as well, leaving Rod as the de facto head of the household. 36) of the 1977 NHL Draft, and he came to Montreal after playing with Birmingham of the World Hockey Association in 1977-78. During their trip they made it out to Yellowstone National Park and got surprising news. ", Several times Langway was suspended for skipping school, fighting or mouthing off to teachers. Langway also spent time with teams in the American Hockey League (AHL) and East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) as a player-coach after his NHL career ended. The team made the playoffs for the first time ever on the heels of a 39-26-12 record, and finished third in the Patrick Division, ultimately losing to the New York Islanders in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, though the season was also the first season in which the Capitals finished with a winning record. He played one season for the Bulls (197778) before joining the Canadiens for the 197879 NHL season, and would win the Stanley Cup that year. 1980-81 Pepsi-Cola Caps #NNO Rod Langway. Poor grades? Our Rod Langway jerseys, gear, apparel section has great options for colors and styles . Canadian teenagers wait in the rain for his autograph and waiters call him "Mr. Langway" and strangers stop him to talk hockey. Friends and family speculate that Langway was driven to prove his own worth and improve the name of his wrong-side-of-the-tracks family. "(Coach) Bryan Murray had a defensive theory and it played right into my hands: to win the game 2-1 or 3-1 and be satisfied.". He played without a helmet even while he was playing for the Washington Capitals and was normally the only player on the ice who was not wearing a helmet; most players not having been grandfathered in to the requirement to wear a helmet. As captain, Langway became known as an accomplished leader who demanded greatness from himself and others, earning the nickname "Secretary of Defense". He played in ten games that year to assist with on-ice development, during which time he was not granted an exemption to play without a helmet. When he arrived here in 1982 via a trade with the Montreal Canadiens, the Capitals were an eight-year-old expansion team that had never made the playoffs. It's not easy for me to sit out a game when I'm not hurt," he says. 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