Daniel Kenneth Lucas (born February 28, 1958) is a

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former professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

right winger A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who played six

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...

(NHL) games for the

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during the season. He was drafted by the Flyers in the first round (14th overall) of the

1978 NHL Amateur Draft The 1978 NHL Amateur Draft was the 16th NHL Entry Draft. It was hosted at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, on June 15, 1978. It was the last draft to be called the "Amateur Draft" before the process was renamed to the NHL Entry Dra ...

. In 1977-78, Lucas was

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’s right winger with the

Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds The Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (often shortened to Soo Greyhounds) are a Junior ice hockey#Major junior, major junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. The Greyhounds play home games at the GFL Memorial Gardens. The present team was ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lucas, Danny 1958 births Canadian ice hockey right wingers Fort Worth Texans players Living people Maine Mariners (AHL) players National Hockey League first-round draft picks People from Powell River, British Columbia Philadelphia Flyers draft picks Philadelphia Flyers players Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds players UBC Thunderbirds players Victoria Cougars (WHL) players Ice hockey people from British Columbia