Clark Gillies, Hockey Hall of Famer and four-time Stanley Cup winner, dies at 67

By Wayne Sterling, CNN

Updated 1504 GMT (2304 HKT) January 22, 2022

Clark Gillies, shown skating for the New York Islanders, scored 319 regular season goals in a 14-year NHL career.

(CNN)Clark Gillies, a Hockey Hall of Fame power forward and four-time Stanley Cup winner with the New York Islanders, died Friday, according to the National Hockey League. He was 67. No cause of death was given.

«The National Hockey League mourns the passing of Clark Gillies, a tower of strength on the ice for the dynastic New York Islanders of the early 1980s and a pillar of the Long Island community ever since,» NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said. «Gillies helped define the term 'power forward' during a 14-season, Hall of Fame career with the Islanders and Buffalo Sabres that was highlighted by winning four straight Stanley Cups with the Islanders.»The Saskatchewan native was selected fourth overall by the Islanders in the 1974 NHL draft. With the Islanders, he scored 304 goals and had 359 assists in 872 games over 12 seasons.In 159 playoff games with the Islanders, Gillies collected 47 goals and 46 assists. One of 17 Islanders that won four consecutive Stanley Cups from 1980 to 1983, Gillies was a member of the group that won a league record 19 straight playoff series — a record that still stands.Read MoreClark Gillies was honored in December 2014 before an the Islanders game at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.The left winger was on one of the decade's most successful forward lines, nicknamed the «Trio Grande,» with two fellow future Hockey Hall of Famers, center Bryan Trottier and right winger Mike Bossy. That line also led Team Canada to a second-place finish at the 1981 Canada Cup.«The entire Islanders community