Bob McCammon

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CanadaCanada  Bob McCammon Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 14, 1941
place of birth Kenora , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 77 kg
position Center / defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1961–1962 North Bay Trappers
1962 Hull-Ottawa Canadiens
1962-1973 Port Huron Flags / Wings

Robert "Bob" McCammon (born April 14, 1941 in Kenora , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach , functional and scout . He spent his active career almost exclusively with the Port Huron Flags / Wings in the International Hockey League . As head coach, he made the leap into the National Hockey League , where he supervised the Philadelphia Flyers (1978-1979 & 1982-19984) and Vancouver Canucks (1987-1991), while he also briefly held the position of general manager for the Flyers .

Career

As a player

Bob McCammon began his professional career in the Eastern Professional Hockey League , where he played for the North Bay Trappers and the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens between 1961 and 1962 . Shortly after the beginning of the 1962/63 season, he moved to the Port Huron Flags in the International Hockey League (IHL). For the franchise , which was renamed Port Huron Wings in 1971 , he would subsequently be on the ice for the rest of his active career. In the following nine years, including the playoffs, he played over 800 games for the Michigan team and won the Turner Cup three times (1966, 1971 and 1972) . His best season statistically recorded by the Canadian, who mostly on the position of the center was used in the season 1966/67, when he and 72 scorer points once reached 70 games a points average of about 1.0 per game. McCammon was later also used as a defender , in his last professional year 1972/73 even won the Governor's Trophy as the best defensive player in the league and was also elected to the IHL First All-Star Team .

As a trainer and functionary

CanadaCanada  Bob McCammon
Coaching stations
1973-1977 Port Huron Flags / Wings
1977-1988 Maine Mariners
1978-1979 Philadelphia Flyers
1979-1982 Maine Mariners
1982-1984 Philadelphia Flyers
1985-1986 Edmonton Oilers (assistant coach)
1987-1991 Vancouver Canucks
1992-1994 Tri-City Americans
1995-1998 Edmonton Oilers (assistant coach)

At the end of his playing career, McCammon took up the position of head coach at the Port Huron Flags. After four years, he moved in the same position to the Maine Mariners in the American Hockey League (AHL), which he led directly to winning the Calder Cup and was also awarded the Louis AR Pieri Memorial Award as the best coach of the AHL. These successes ensured that the Canadian was introduced to the 1978/79 season as the new head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League (NHL), which acted as a cooperation partner of the Mariners. During his first tenure with the Flyers, he won just 22 of 50 games and was eventually fired and replaced by Pat Quinn before the end of the season . However, MacCammon returned directly to the Mariners in the AHL and defended the Calder Cup with the team in the same season. In the following year he was again honored as AHL coach of the year, so that at the end of the 1981/82 season he took over for the Flyers for a second time and in turn inherited Pat Quinn. The team won under his leadership the following year the title of the Patrick Division , but failed in the playoffs twice in a row without a single win, so that his second term ended after the 1983/84 season. In the meantime, he had also taken over the fate of the franchise as General Manager .

After a hiatus of one year, MacCammon was hired for the 1985/86 season by the Edmonton Oilers as an assistant coach to Glen Sather . Within the organization, he took on the role of Director of Player Development the following year , while the team won the Stanley Cup at the end of the season. Finally, the Canadian got his second head coach post in the NHL for the season 1987/88 when he was hired by the Vancouver Canucks . This he led back in his second year in the playoffs and as a result finished second in the election for coach of the year; however, the Jack Adams Award went to Pat Burns . After the Canucks had missed the post-season in his third year again and something similar appeared in his fourth season, he was dismissed after 54 games in the 1990/91 season and replaced again by Pat Quinn.

Finally, MacCammon served as head coach and general manager of the Tri-City Americans from the Western Hockey League from 1991/92 to the middle of the 1993/94 season , before returning to the Edmonton Oilers and working there as a scout . After a year and a half, he took over the position of assistant coach under Ron Low again , before ending his coaching career after the 1998/98 season. As a scout, he was still active between 2001 and 2008 for the Detroit Red Wings , with whom he was part of two other Stanley Cup wins in the 2002 and 2008 playoffs . Then he finally retired from ice hockey.

Achievements and Awards

As a player
As a trainer

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1961/62 North Bay Trappers EPHL 51 5 12 17th 12 - - - - -
1962/63 Hull-Ottawa Canadiens EPHL 6th 0 1 1 8th - - - - -
1962/63 Port Huron flags IHL 40 6th 16 22nd 6th - - - - -
1963/64 Port Huron flags IHL 70 9 8th 37 30th 7th 1 1 2 4th
1964/65 Port Huron flags IHL 70 22nd 39 61 23 7th 1 4th 5 2
1965/66 Port Huron flags IHL 70 15th 49 64 8th 9 3 8th 11 0
1966/67 Port Huron flags IHL 70 22nd 50 72 12 - - - - -
1967/68 Port Huron flags IHL 65 18th 36 54 28 - - - - -
1968/69 Port Huron flags IHL 72 14th 46 60 14th 3 1 3 4th 0
1969/70 Port Huron flags IHL 72 12 38 50 26th 15th 5 3 8th 2
1970/71 Port Huron flags IHL 71 13 34 47 41 14th 4th 8th 12 2
1971/72 Port Huron Wings IHL 63 4th 25th 29 22nd 15th 0 6th 6th 25th
1972/73 Port Huron Wings IHL 73 6th 36 42 40 11 0 4th 4th 4th
EPHL overall 57 5 13 18th 20th - - - - -
IHL total 736 141 397 538 250 81 15th 37 52 39

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

NHL coaching statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U Pt space Sp S. N result
1978/79 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 50 22nd 17th 11 55 - dismiss
1981/82 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 8th 4th 2 2 10 3rd, Patrick 4th 1 3 Division semi-finals
1982/83 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 49 23 8th 106 1st, Patrick 3 0 3 Division semi-finals
1983/84 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 44 26th 10 98 3rd, Patrick 3 0 3 Division semi-finals
1987/88 Vancouver Canucks NHL 80 25th 46 9 59 5th, Smythe not qualified
1988/89 Vancouver Canucks NHL 80 33 39 8th 74 4th, Smythe 7th 3 4th Division semi-finals
1989/90 Vancouver Canucks NHL 80 25th 41 14th 64 5th, Smythe not qualified
1990/91 Vancouver Canucks NHL 54 19th 30th 5 43 - dismiss
NHL overall 512 221 224 27 67 1 division title 17th 4th 13 0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

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personal data
SURNAME McCammon, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCammon, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach, official and scout
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenora , Ontario , Canada