From McDonald
McDonald on a trading card (1963) |
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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
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Career statistics
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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
- From McDonald in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- From McDonald at eliteprospects.com (English)
- From McDonald at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ From McDonald. sportmanitoba.ca, accessed January 7, 2018 .
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |