John Miszuk
John Stanley Miszuk is a retired Belarus-born Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, Philadelphia Flyers and Minnesota North Stars. He also played in the World Hockey Association for the Michigan Stags, Baltimore Blades and Calgary Cowboys.Playing career
Miszuk was born in the village Naliboki in what was then Poland and is now part of Belarus. The family moved to Canada and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario where he began playing hockey in the Ontario Hockey League. After a season with the Hamilton Red Wings Miszuk turned professional joining the Detroit Red Wings organization.
After playing in the Western Hockey League and the American Hockey League Miszuk moved up to the National Hockey League with Detroit in 1963-64. At the end of that season he moved to the Chicago Blackhawks, but in the following three years he played only eight NHL games, spending most of his time in the minor leagues.
In the summer of 1967, Miszuk was chosen during NHL Expansion Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers, one of the six new franchises in the National Hockey League. With the Flyers he found a place in NHL and he played two full seasons and then moved on to the Minnesota North Stars.
He eventually moved to the World Hockey Association with the Michigan Stags. At the end of his career Miszuk returned again to the minor leagues, spending two seasons in the Pacific Hockey League before retiring from the competitive event.
