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{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player (born 1953)}}
{{For|the American football player|Rick Middleton (American football)}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
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| caption = Middleton in 2010
| played_for = [[New York Rangers]]<br> [[Boston Bruins]]
| position = [[Winger (ice hockey)|Right
| shoots = Right
| height_ft = 5
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| ntl_team = Canada
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|12|4|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Toronto]],
| draft = 14th overall
| draft_year = 1973
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*Named to the [[NHL Second All-Star Team]] in [[1981–82 NHL season|1982]].
*[[1984 Canada Cup]] Gold Medal
*His #'''16''' [[Jersey number|Jersey]]
==NHL records==
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He retired with 448 goals and 540 assists for 988 points in 1005 games, and added 100 points in 114 playoff games.
He was one of five [[plaintiff]]s along with [[Dave Forbes]], [[Brad Park]], [[Ulf Nilsson (ice hockey)|Ulf Nilsson]] and [[Doug Smail]] in ''Forbes v. Eagleson'', a [[class action]] [[lawsuit]] filed in 1995 on behalf of about 1,000 NHL players who were employed by NHL teams between 1972 and 1991 against [[Alan Eagleson]], the league and its member clubs. The players alleged that the NHL and its teams violated the [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act]] by colluding with Eagleson to enable him to [[Embezzlement|embezzle]] from the [[National Hockey League Players' Association]] (NHLPA) and that the four-year [[statute of limitations]] in civil [[racketeering]] cases began when Eagleson was [[Indictment|indicted]] in 1994. The lawsuit was dismissed on August 27, 1998 in [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]] by [[Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr.]] who ruled that the statute of limitations expired because it had begun in 1991 when the players were made aware of the allegations against Eagleson. O'Neill's decision was upheld in the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit]] on October 17, 2000.<ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/19/352/2530316/ ''Forbes v. Eagleson, 19 F. Supp. 2d 352 (E.D. Pa. 1998)'' – Justia.com.] Retrieved April 7, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/2000/10/19/nhl-notes/3c88d462-73b4-4209-871f-74b3acc37fd8/ "NHL Notes: Judge Sides With NHL," ''The Washington Post'', Wednesday, October 18, 2000.] Retrieved April 7, 2024.</ref> Joe McDonald speculated in a May 14, 2020 article in ''The Athletic'' that Middleton's participation in the lawsuit jeopardized his chances of induction into the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]].<ref>[https://theathletic.com/1790871/2020/05/14/hall-of-fame-rick-middleton/ McDonald, Joe. "Snubbed: The Hall of Fame case for Rick Middleton," ''The Athletic'', Thursday, May 14, 2020.] Retrieved April 7, 2024.</ref>
He is currently the President of Boston Bruins Alumni and a partner in Orlanda Energy Systems. Middleton joined with New England High School Sports Showcases, running high school hockey showcases beginning in June 2014.
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==Career statistics==
===Regular season and playoffs===
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! colspan="3" | NHL totals
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! 448
! 540
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| [[Canada men's national ice hockey team|Canada]]
| [[Canada Cup|CC]]
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| 7
| 1
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| CC
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