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His father, Gerry Wilson, played three games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1950s, and later was the team doctor for the Winnipeg Jets.
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Carey Wilson
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Carey Wilson was a rarity in that he played in the Canadian Hockey League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Division I hockey in Europe, and the Canadian National Team all before playing his first game in the National Hockey League. He started his career by playing five games for the Calgary Wranglers of the Western Hockey League in 1978-1979, then moved on to play for Dartmouth College for two seasons. As a result, he was drafted sixty-seventh overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1980 National Hockey League Entry Draft. After playing college hockey, he played two more seasons for HIFK in Finland"s Master of Science-liiga and then finally played the 1983-1984 season for the Canadian National Hockey team which resulted in him playing in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
He scored a hat trick in a 4–2 victory of the United States in the opening game.
After the Olympics he joined the Calgary Flames (he had been traded there in 1982 by the Blackhawks for Denis Cyr). Wilson would make an impact right away, scoring in only his second National Hockey League shift on his first shot in his first game, against Bob Froese of the Philadelphia Flyers.
He would finish the season with the Flames, and the next season he would score seventy-two points as a rookie. Wilson was a solid contributor for the Flames until he was traded to the Hartford Whalers in the middle of the 1987-1988 season.
A little less than a year later, he was traded again, this time to the New York Rangers.
He finished the season on a tear, scoring fifty-five points in the forty-one games he played in 1988-1989 for the Rangers. Wilson played one more season with them, before being traded back to the Whalers. He would only play forty-five games with the Whalers in 1990-1991 before being traded back to the Flames, where he would play a few more seasons before retiring in 1992-1993 because of a knee injury.
Wilson came out of retirement in 1996-1997 to play seven games for the Manitoba Moose of the IHL, the only time he would ever play in the minor leagues.
Carey is the son of National Hockey League player Jerry Wilson. Carey"s twin brother Geoff Wilson was also a hockey player and played for HIFK in Finland"s Master of Science-liiga (1982-1983) with him.
