Rick Chartraw

Raymond Richard Chartraw (born July 13, 1954) is a Venezuelan-born American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 420 games in the National Hockey League between 1974 and 1984. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, while his father worked there as an engineer, Chartraw moved back to the United States and grew up predominantly in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he learned to play hockey. As a teenager he moved to Canada to play junior hockey for the Kitchener Rangers. Selected tenth overall in the 1974 NHL entry draft, he was the first American skater ever drafted in the first round.

Chartraw began his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1975 and spent seven seasons with the club before being traded to the Los Angeles Kings. He later played for the New York Rangers and the Edmonton Oilers. He won four Stanley Cups with Montreal, from 1976 to 1979, and a fifth with Edmonton in 1984. In that final season with the Oilers he played only 24 regular season games and one playoff game, and did not qualify to have his name engraved on the Cup.