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McDonald on a trading card (1963)

McDonald on a trading card (1963)
Date of birth February 18, 1936
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
date of death 4th September 2018
Place of death St. James Assiniboia , Manitoba , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1951-1954 St. Boniface Canadiens
1954-1956 St. Catharines Teepees
1956-1958 Rochester Americans
1958-1960 Canadiens de Montréal
1960-1964 Chicago Black Hawks
1964-1965 Boston Bruins
1965-1967 Detroit Red Wings
Pittsburgh Hornets
1967-1968 Pittsburgh Penguins
1968-1971 St. Louis Blues
1971-1972 Detroit Red Wings
Tidewater Wings
1972-1974 Winnipeg Jets

Alvin Brian "Ab" McDonald (born February 18, 1936 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ; † September 4, 2018 in St. James-Assiniboia , Manitoba) was a Canadian ice hockey player . The left winger played over 800 games for a total of six teams in the National Hockey League . He won four Stanley Cups in a row from 1958 to 1961 , three of them with the Canadiens de Montréal and one with the Chicago Black Hawks . The end of his career he spent with the Winnipeg Jets in the World Hockey Association .

Career

youth

From McDonald played in his youth for the St. Boniface Canadiens from Saint-Boniface , a district of his hometown Winnipeg, in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL). With the team he won the MJHL championship in 1953 and 1954 and then played twice for the Memorial Cup , but was inferior to the Canadiens. For the 1954/55 season, the attacker moved to the higher-ranking Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), where he ran for two years for the St. Catharines Teepees in St. Catharines . He then made the leap into the professional field with the Rochester Americans , where he established himself as a regular scorer in the American Hockey League (AHL). As a result, he also attracted the teams of the National Hockey League (NHL) attention and was therefore committed by the Canadiens de Montréal .

NHL

The Canadiens were the measure of all things in the NHL at the end of the 1950s, had previously won two Stanley Cups and followed in the playoffs in 1958 with the third, with McDonald's first two NHL appearances and thus immortalized on the trophy for the first time has been. As a result, the winger established himself in the Canadiens squad and won two more Stanley Cups in a row with the team. He also took part in two NHL All-Star Games with Montréal as defending champion . In June 1960 he was then given as part of a larger swap to the Chicago Black Hawks , where Reg Fleming , Bob Courcy and Cecil Hoekstra moved to the "Windy City" with him . In return, the Canadiens received Glen Skov , Terry Gray , Bob Bailey , Lorne Ferguson and the rights to Danny Lewicki . With the Black Hawks, McDonald promptly won its fourth straight Stanley Cup in its freshman year, while Chicago celebrated its first title since 1938. After another participation in the NHL All-Star Game, the striker achieved his best personal NHL statistic with 61 points in 69 games in the 1962/63 season .

After four years with the Black Hawks, McDonald and Reg Fleming were handed over to the Boston Bruins in June 1964 , who sent Doug Mohns to Chicago for it. The Bruins in turn transferred the Canadian, Bob McCord and Ken Stephanson to the Detroit Red Wings in May 1965 , who in return sent Al Langlois , Ron Harris , Parker MacDonald and Bob Dillabough to Boston. At the Red Wings, McDonald subsequently lost his regular place in the NHL, but won the AHL playoffs for the Calder Cup with the Pittsburgh Hornets , Detroit's farm team , in 1967 . Subsequently, the major league expansion of 1967 ensured that the attacker returned to the NHL, so the newly formed Pittsburgh Penguins selected him in the NHL Expansion Draft in 1967 in 34th position and made him their first team captain in franchise history . In June 1968, however, the Penguins exchanged him for Lou Angotti of the St. Louis Blues , who also joined the NHL in 1967 and with which he reached two more Stanley Cup finals in 1969 and 1970 , although there was swept by Montréal and Boston . In addition, he was voted into his fourth and fifth NHL All-Star Game in the same years.

End of career and death

Together with Bob Wall and Mike Lowe , McDonald returned to the Detroit Red Wings in May 1971, completing the transfer of Carl Brewer to St. Louis. As with his first engagement, he now mainly played in the AHL, for the Tidewater Wings . He then turned his back on the NHL and joined the Winnipeg Jets , who had selected him in the WHA General Player Draft of the newly formed World Hockey Association (WHA). As in 1967 in Pittsburgh, he was the captain of the new team and led it for two years before ending his career after the 1973/74 season. In total, he had completed 846 games in the NHL and scored 203 goals and 480 points scorer.

In 1985 McDonald was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame , as well as into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1996 .

He died on September 4, 2018 at the age of 82 of complications from cancer.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1951/52 St. Boniface Canadiens MJHL 20th 20th 15th 35 17th 11 12 23 6th
1952/53 St. Boniface Canadiens MJHL 35 26th 24 50 0 8th 5 7th 12 0
1953 St. Boniface Canadiens Memorial Cup 17th 11 12 23 6th
1953/54 St. Boniface Canadiens MJHL 35 33 25th 58 14th 10 7th 6th 13 4th
1954 St. Boniface Canadiens Memorial Cup 8th 2 2 4th 6th
1954/55 St. Catharines Teepees OHA 49 33 37 70 20th 10 2 6th 8th 25th
1955/56 St. Catharines Teepees OHA 48 49 34 83 24 6th 4th 2 6th 9
1956/57 Rochester Americans AHL 64 21st 31 52 8th 9 3 1 4th 0
1957/58 Rochester Americans AHL 70 30th 33 63 18th - - - - - -
1957/58 Canadiens de Montréal NHL - - - - - - 2 0 0 0 2
1958/59 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 69 13 23 36 35 11 1 1 2 6th
1959/60 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 68 9 13 22nd +1 26th - - - - - -
1960/61 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 61 17th 16 33 +24 22nd 8th 2 2 4th +5 0
1961/62 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 65 22nd 18th 40 +4 8th 12 6th 6th 12 +6 0
1962/63 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 69 20th 41 61 +21 12 6th 2 3 5 -2 9
1963/64 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 70 14th 32 46 +21 19th 7th 2 2 4th ± 0 0
1964/65 Providence Reds AHL 6th 2 1 3 2 - - - - - -
1964/65 Boston Bruins NHL 60 9 9 18th -28 6th - - - - - -
1965/66 Memphis wings CPHL 20th 9 6th 15th 4th - - - - - -
1965/66 Detroit Red Wings NHL 43 6th 16 22nd +13 6th 10 1 4th 5 +5 2
1966/67 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 61 25th 31 56 22nd 9 5 2 7th 4th
1966/67 Detroit Red Wings NHL 12 2 0 2 -3 2 - - - - - -
1967/68 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 74 22nd 21st 43 -4 38 - - - - - -
1968/69 St. Louis Blues NHL 68 21st 21st 42 +19 12 12 2 1 3 ± 0 10
1969/70 St. Louis Blues NHL 64 25th 30th 55 +11 8th 16 5 10 15th +1 13
1970/71 St. Louis Blues NHL 20th 0 5 5 -3 6th - - - - - -
1971/72 Tidewater Wings AHL 41 5 7th 12 4th - - - - - -
1971/72 Detroit Red Wings NHL 19th 2 3 5 -8th 0 - - - - - -
1972/73 Winnipeg Jets WHA 77 17th 24 41 16 14th 2 5 7th 2
1973/74 Winnipeg Jets WHA 70 12 17th 29 8th 4th 0 1 1 2
MJHL total 90 79 64 143 35 23 25th 48 10
OHA total 97 82 71 153 44 16 6th 8th 14th 34
AHL total 242 83 103 186 54 18th 8th 3 11 4th
WHA total 147 29 41 70 24 18th 2 6th 8th 4th
NHL overall 762 182 248 430 200 84 21st 29 50 42

( 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 )

Personal

His son Dave McDonald was also a hockey player and was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1979 by the Hartford Whalers , but played only a few years in minor leagues .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From McDonald. sportmanitoba.ca, accessed January 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Sarah Petz: 'A first-class Winnipegger': Hockey legend Ab McDonald dead at 82. cbc.ca, September 5, 2018, accessed on September 5, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME McDonald, Ab
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDonald, Alvin Brian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2018
Place of death St. James Assiniboia , Manitoba