Bob Cook Bob " Cookie " Cook ( born January 6 , 1948 in Sudbury , Ontario ) is a retired ice hockey right winger . He played 72 games in the National Hockey League with four different teams . Cook last played for the New Haven Nighthawks of the American Hockey League during the 1974 – 75 season . Professional career . Minor league hockey . Cook began play with the London Nationals of the Ontario Hockey League in 1963 . He was looked at as a role player that could finish chances when they were given . He continued to develop with the Nationals until midway through his 1965 – 66 season , when he was traded to the Kitchener Rangers . In only 31 games , Cook put up 72 penalty minutes to go with his 17 points . He also threw in 14 points and 51 penalty minutes in the Rangers 19 game playoff run in which they lost to the Oshawa Generals , featuring a young Bobby Orr . In 1966 , Cook ' s rights were bought by the Vancouver Canucks , then of the Western Hockey League . Cook appeared in 55 games for the Canucks , registering 7 goals and 14 points , but was ultimately moved to the Rochester Americans for the 1967 – 68 season . Playing for the Americans , Cook put up the highest point totals of his career . Excluding a brief stint with the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League , Cook played almost four full seasons with Rochester . He netted 133 points during that span including 44 during the 1969 – 70 season . However the 1970 – 71 season would finally see Cook reaching his goal . Playing in the NHL . Cook finally got to play in the National Hockey League under rather unusual circumstances . The owners of the Rochester Americans were granted an NHL franchise in 1970 and Cook ' s rights were given to Vancouver . Cook played two games for the Vancouver Canucks , now of the NHL , before the end of the season . After allowing Cook a short reconditioning stint with the Seattle Totems of the WHL , his rights were traded to the Detroit Red Wings for cash on November 21 , 1971 . Cook again found himself in a teams ' farm system and he tried to prove himself playing for the Fort Worth Wings of the CHL and the Tidewater Wings of the AHL . After a season in the minors , Cook again got to play in the NHL , when he joined the Red Wings during the 1972 – 73 season . He played 13 games and put up four points before being traded along with Ralph Stewart for Ken Murray and Brian Lavender to the New York Islanders on January 17 , 1973 . Cook had his longest stay in the NHL with New York , playing in 55 games throughout the 1972 – 73 and 1973 – 74 seasons . Netting only 17 points in that span , Cook was sent down to Baltimore Clippers of the AHL for the remainder of the season . He again found his form scoring 19 goals and 19 assists and helping the Clippers into the playoffs . He scored 10 points in the playoffs but the Clippers lost to the eventual champions , the Hershey Bears . For the 1974 – 75 season , Cook began play with the Fort Worth Texans of the CHL but ended the season with the New Haven Nighthawks of the AHL . The Nighthawks were a minor league team for the Minnesota North Stars of the NHL and Cook was called up to play his last two NHL games with them midway through the season . Those games would be his last and Cook retired at the end of 1975 after helping yet another team reach the finals , but the Nighthawks would fall to the Springfield Indians in five games .