Jerry William Byers (March 29, 1952 – December 25, 2006) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward.

Career

Byers was drafted in the first round, twelfth overall, by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft. He played forty-five games in the National Hockey League: twenty-four with the North Stars in the 1972–73 and 1973–74 seasons, fourteen with the Atlanta Flames in the 1974–75 season, and seven with the New York Rangers in the 1977–78 season. He left North America in 1980 to join HC Salzburg in the Austrian Hockey League. He then spent two seasons in Switzerland's National League B for EHC Grindelwald before finishing his career in the Japan Ice Hockey League for Jūjō Ice Hockey Club.

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As a youth, he played in the 1963 and 1964 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with his Kentville minor ice hockey team.

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Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

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1952 births

2006 deaths

Atlanta Flames players

Canadian ice hockey forwards

Cleveland Barons (1937–1973) players

Ice hockey people from Nova Scotia

Jacksonville Barons players

Kitchener Rangers players

Minnesota North Stars draft picks

Minnesota North Stars players

National Hockey League first-round draft picks

New Haven Nighthawks players

New York Rangers players

Nippon Paper Cranes players

Nova Scotia Voyageurs players

Omaha Knights (CHL) players

People from Kentville, Nova Scotia

Providence Reds players

EC Red Bull Salzburg players

Jerry Byers