Danny Gare played 13 seasons (1975–1987) for Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers. Career regular-season line: 354 goals and 331 assists (685 points) in 827 games. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1980.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within NHL
Cross-sport prominence: 94.1th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NHL Age Milestones — Youngest to 100 Goals, 500 Points, 50 Goals and 100 PointsNHL Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNHL Career Arc TypesNHL Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNHL Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Stanley Cup PlayoffsNHL Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNHL Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNHL Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNHL Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNHL Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNHL Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Skaters and Goalies)NHL Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNHL JourneymenNHL League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNHL LoyaltyNHL Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Rosters, bio, draft details, and season/career totals come directly from the NHL's own official public API.
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Rate Danny Gare — All-Time
13 seasons · peak 16.2 in 1980
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NHL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
26.7 career wins over 13 seasons · 1 win = 3.52 VAL
Best season · 1980 · +4.6 wins
Latest season · 1987 · −0.1 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NHL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Danny Gare led or placed top-ten on a NHL season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 2 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1980, 13 rated seasons.
Season boards
2
top-ten finishes across the NHL season boards
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 13 seasons (1975–1987) — a true nomad. The crest trail: