| Position: | Centre |
| Shoots: | Right |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 11 |
| Weight Lb: | 180 |
| Played For: | Los Angeles Kings |
| Birth Date: | February 27, 1966 |
| Draft: | 24th overall |
| Draft Year: | 1984 |
| Draft Team: | Los Angeles Kings |
| Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Career Start: | 1984 |
| Career End: | 1990 |
Brian Wilks (born February 27, 1966) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who played 48 games for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League between 1985 and 1988. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1985 to 1990, was spent in the minor leagues.
Wilks was born in Toronto, Ontario.[1] As a youth, he played in the 1979 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Shopsy's minor ice hockey team.[2] He attended Carleton University 1990-93, majoring in psychology.
He played for the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League from 1982 to 1984.
He was drafted in 1984, 24th overall, by the Los Angeles Kings.[1] He led the Kings in preseason scoring in 1984-85. He made his NHL debut later that season. He played with the Kings until he was traded to the Edmonton Oilers on March 7, 1989. He never played in the NHL again, and finished his career in the American Hockey League in 1990.
He played for Team Canada in the 1997 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a gold medal.[3] [4]
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
| 1980–81 | Markham Waxers | OPJAHL | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1981–82 | Toronto Marlboros U18 | U18 | 36 | 40 | 48 | 88 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1982–83 | Kitchener Rangers | OHL | 69 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1983–84 | Kitchener Rangers | OHL | 64 | 21 | 54 | 75 | 36 | 16 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 9 | ||
| 1983–84 | Kitchener Rangers | M-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1984–85 | Kitchener Rangers | OHL | 58 | 30 | 63 | 93 | 52 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | ||
| 1984–85 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985–86 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 43 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1986–87 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1986–87 | New Haven Nighthawks | AHL | 43 | 16 | 20 | 36 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||
| 1987–88 | New Haven Nighthawks | AHL | 18 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1988–89 | New Haven Nighthawks | AHL | 44 | 15 | 19 | 34 | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1988–89 | Cape Breton Oilers | AHL | 12 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989–90 | Cape Breton Oilers | AHL | 53 | 13 | 20 | 33 | 85 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989–90 | Muskegon Lumberjacks | IHL | 15 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 41 | ||
| AHL totals | 170 | 52 | 78 | 130 | 209 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||||
| NHL totals | 46 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||