| Position: | Defenceman |
| Shoots: | Right |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 10 |
| Weight Lb: | 175 |
| Played For: | Detroit Red Wings Klagenfurter AC KOOVEE |
| Birth Date: | 1948 1, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Career Start: | 1968 |
| Career End: | 1979 |
John "Barry" Salovaara (born January 7, 1948) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played 90 games in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings during the 1974–75 and 1975–76 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1968 to 1979, was mainly spent in the minor leagues.
Salovaara is of Finnish descent.[1]
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
| 1965–66 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | OHA | 47 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 67 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ||
| 1966–67 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | OHA | 48 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 99 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 1967–68 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | OHA | 38 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 96 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1968–69 | Greensboro Generals | EHL | 57 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 106 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 | ||
| 1968–69 | Dallas Black Hawks | CHL | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1969–70 | Greensboro Generals | EHL | 74 | 11 | 35 | 46 | 141 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 45 | ||
| 1970–71 | Greensboro Generals | EHL | 72 | 15 | 53 | 68 | 95 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 29 | ||
| 1971–72 | Fort Worth Wings | CHL | 34 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1971–72 | Tidewater Wings | AHL | 36 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1972–73 | Virginia Wings | AHL | 76 | 4 | 26 | 30 | 92 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 | ||
| 1973–74 | Baltimore Clippers | AHL | 70 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 95 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 22 | ||
| 1974–75 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 27 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1974–75 | Virginia Wings | AHL | 43 | 2 | 17 | 19 | 50 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | ||
| 1975–76 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 63 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 52 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1975–76 | New Haven Nighthawks | AHL | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1976–77 | Klagenfurter AC | AUT | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1977–78 | Klagenfurter AC | AUT | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1978–79 | KOOVEE | FIN | 35 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| AHL totals | 231 | 15 | 84 | 99 | 287 | 27 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 45 | ||||
| NHL totals | 90 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 70 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||