NHL Career
Dave "Tiger" Williams was drafted in the 2nd circular (31st overall) per Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft. He was likewise drafted per Cincinnati Stingers of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in the third round (33rd overall) in the 1974 WHA Amateur Draft. Despite existence drafted by the WHA team, he never played in the WHA. He chose instead to play in the NHL.

Tiger was better known for his roll as an enforcer, but he was likewise suspire to score goals. He played in 5 different NHL teams in the period of his career. He was drafted per Maple Leafs & played there from either his NHL debut on the 7th of January against the New York Islanders in 1975 until he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks on the 18th of February, 1980 for Rick Vaive and Bill Derlago. When around Toronto, he broke numerous Maple Leaf & NHL penalty minute records and lead a league inside penalty minutes twice by using 338 within 1976-77 and 298 in 1978-79. When it seemed that he sleep in the "sin bin", he was able to score his fair part of goals. around the period of his better year within Toronto, he scored Xxii goals in 55 games prior to existence traded to the Vancouver Canucks a share way across that year. He scored Eight supplementary goals around Xxiii games that year using Vancouver for, at that instance, the career right Thirty goals.

A next year, 1980-81, within Vancouver, Tiger scored the career high of 35 goals & 62 points when amassing the league leading 343 penalty minutes in 77 games. A 343 penalty minutes would become a third greatest of his career. Surprisingly, victims 35 goals were a virtually all by any Canuck that month. Williams played within Vancouver until a prevent of the 1983-84 season.

Fallowing Vancouver, Tiger Williams played for the Detroit Red Wings for part of the 1984-85 NHL season before being traded to the Los Angeles Kings that same season. When you took his tenure inside L.A., he would set his career high of 358 penalty minutes for one season. He would play within Los Angeles until he was traded to the Hartford Whalers during the 1987-88 NHL season. That would when well exist as his previous NHL year as Hartford laid him in discharge & he was freed on the 12th of February, 1988. He officially retired around 1988.

Williams was nicknamed "Tiger" as a Five-season-old by his minor hockey coach around Weyburn, Saskatchewan.

Records
National Hockey League records: Most NHL career regular year penalty minutes: 3,966 Most NHL penalty minutes, career, including playoffs: 4,421

Toronto Maple Leaf records: Most playoff penalty minutes: 240 Most playoff penalty minutes inside 1 year by the left wing: 75 within 1976

Vancouver Canuck records: Most playoff penalty minutes: 181 Most penalty minutes around a single playoff season: 116 within 1982 Most penalty minutes around 1 playoff series: 51 vs. Chicago in 1982

Career Highs
Most goals: 35 inside 1980-81 Most helps: 31 inside 1977-78 Most points: 62 inside 1980-81 Most penalty minutes of these year: 358 inside 1986-87 Most NHL regular year career penalty minutes: 3,966 Most NHL playoff year career penalty minutes: 455 Most NHL penalty minutes, career, including playoffs: 4,421