Perry Turnbull was born March 9, 1959 in Bentley, Alberta. The first round, second overall selection of the St. Louis Blues in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft, Turnbull played two seasons in AJHL with the The Pas Blue Devils before joining the WCJHL's Calgary Centennials during the 1975-76 season.
An offensively gifted forward, Turnbull parts of four seasons in the WCJHL/WHL with stops in Calgary and Portland before making his NHL debut with St. Louis in 1979-80. Turnbull went on to play four full seasons with the Blues before being traded to the Montreal Canadiens in the early stages of the 1983-84 season. After only 40 games with Montreal, the Bentley, Alberta native was traded to the Winnipeg Jets where he played three seasons before returning for a second stint with the Blues in 1987-88.
In 1988-89, Turnbull took his game overseas, where he had stops in Italy, Switzerland and Germany before calling it a career at the end of the 1991-92 season.
Throughout his NHL career, Perry Turnbull played in 608 games, tallying 188 goals and 163 assists for 351 points.
