Career
Neil Belland played his junior hockey with the Kingston Canadians of the OMJHL from 1978–1981, putting up some solid numbers, as he recorded 182 points (43 goals-139 assists) in 171 games, including a huge 1980-1981 season where Belland had 82 points (28G-54A) in only 53 games. He added on 16 points (8G-8A) in 25 career playoff games. Belland went undrafted, but was signed by the Vancouver Canucks as a free agent on October 1, 1980.
Belland would start the 1981-1982 season with the Dallas Black Hawks of the CHL, where in 27 games he put up 22 points (2G-20A) before being called up by the Canucks.
Belland would play 28 games with Vancouver, earning 9 points (3G-6A). Belland would split the 1982-1983 season between Vancouver, where in 14 games he had 6 points (2G-4A), and the Fredericton Express of the AHL, as he had 21 points (4G-17A) in 46 games, then chipped in with 3 points (1G-2A) in 7 playoff games.
Once again in 1983-1984, Belland would split time between the Express, where in 17 games he registered 18 points (3G-15A), before getting 20 points (7G-13A) in 44 games with Vancouver. He then added 3 points (1G-2A) in 4 playoff games with the Canucks.
1984-1985 would be more of the same for Belland, as he would again spend time with both Fredericton, getting 41 points (7G-34A) in 57 games, along with 2 assists in 6 playoff games, and Vancouver, earning 6 assists in 13 regular season games, and then again in 1985-1986, where Belland put up 3 points (1G-2A) in 7 games with the Canucks, and 24 points (6G-18A) in 36 games with Fredericton, then helping out with 7 points (1G-6A) in 6 playoff games with the Express.
After the season, Belland became a free agent, and signed a contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins on September 29, 1986. Belland would spend most of the 1986-1987 season with the Penguins AHL affiliate, the Baltimore Skipjacks, where in 61 games, Belland recorded 24 points (6G-18A), while in 3 games with the Penguins, he would earn an assistant He would become a free agent once again after the season, and decided to head over to Finland to play with Lukko Rauma in the Master of Science-liiga.
Belland would get 22 points (8G-14A) in 44 games before going pointless in 8 playoff games, then would join the Hershey Bears of the AHL for a playoff game, getting no points.
He would then sign with Innsbruck EV of the Austrian League for the 1988-1989 season, putting up 56 points (17G-39A) in 46 games, then returned for the 1989-1990 season, earning 53 points (15G-38A) in 34 games. Belland would split the 1990-1991 season with Innsbruck, getting 12 points (5G-7A) in 17 games, and the Canadian National Hockey Team, where in 9 games he would garner 4 assists.
Belland returned to Austria in 1991-1992 to play with ATSE Graz, earning 22 points (11G-11A) in 28 games, then play 1 game for European Commission Graz in 1992-1993, getting no points, before returning for the 1993-1994 season, picking up 37 points (8G-29A) in 57 games. Belland would then retire from playing hockey in the summer of 1994.