Al McDonough

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CanadaCanada  Al McDonough Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 6, 1950
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 75 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 2nd round, 24th position
Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
1967-1970 St. Catharines Black Hawks
1970-1971 Springfield Kings
1971-1972 Los Angeles Kings
1972-1974 Pittsburgh Penguins
1974 Atlanta Flames
1974-1976 Cleveland Crusaders
1976-1977 Minnesota Fighting Saints
1977-1988 Detroit Red Wings
Kansas City Red Wings

James Allison "Al" McDonough (born June 6, 1950 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 245 games for the Los Angeles Kings , Pittsburgh Penguins , Atlanta Flames and Detroit between 1967 and 1978 Red Wings in the National Hockey League (NHL) and 208 other games for the Cleveland Crusaders and Minnesota Fighting Saints in the World Hockey Association (WHA) on the position of right winger . His greatest career success celebrated McDonough, who took part in the NHL All-Star Game in 1974 , but in the service of the Springfield Kings when he won the Calder Cup of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 1971.

Career

McDonough spent his junior years between 1967 and 1970 with the St. Catharines Black Hawks in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). There the striker increased continuously and reached 103 scorer points in his third and final year, in which he was team captain of the Black Hawks and ran up in a storm row with Marcel Dionne , so that he was in the First All-Star at the end of the 1969/70 season Team found the league. He finished his junior career with 194 points in 187 missions. As a result, he was selected in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft in the second round in 24th position by the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

The Kings brought the offensive player into the professional field at the beginning of the 1970/71 season , but initially used him in their farm team , the Springfield Kings , in the American Hockey League (AHL). At the end of the season, McDonough won the Calder Cup , the championship trophy of the AHL with Springfield , after beating the Providence Reds 4-0 in the final series. In addition, the rookie made his NHL debut during the season when he scored three times in six missions for Los Angeles in January and February 1971. At the beginning of the 1971/72 season he was then a regular of the NHL squad, but was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins after 31 missions in January 1972 . Bob Woytowich then gave them to the Californians. For the Penguins, McDonough proved to be a stroke of luck in the 1972/73 season . In a series of storms with Syl Apps junior and Lowell MacDonald , the attacker scored 35 goals and was directly involved in a total of 76 goals. Also in the following game year he started successfully with 36 points in 37 missions before he was given to the Atlanta Flames in January 1974 in exchange for Chuck Arnason and Bob Paradise . There he ended the 1973/74 season . Before that, however, he had represented the Flames in the NHL All-Star Game .

Then the 24-year-old turned his back on the NHL and instead signed a contract with the Cleveland Crusaders , who played in the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was competing with the NHL at the time . McDonough spent two seasons with the Crusaders. He cracked the 30 goal mark once again in his career. From the 1976/77 season , the Canadian was then active for the Minnesota Fighting Saints after the franchise had been relocated during the summer break. The financially troubled Fighting Saints set the game, however, in the summer of 1977, whereupon McDonough became a free agent . He did not appear for the rest of the season. In the NHL, the Atlanta Flames kept his transfer rights, which they gave in August 1977 to the Detroit Red Wings . At the Red Wings, the attacker started the 1977/78 season, before he was then given to the Kansas City Red Wings farm team in the Central Hockey League (CHL). In their squad he ended the season and then shortly before his 28th birthday his career as an active.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1967/68 St. Catharines Black Hawks OHA 49 12 8th 20th 13 4th 1 0 1 0
1968/69 St. Catharines Black Hawks OHA 54 26th 20th 46 34 17th 5 7th 12 12
1969/70 St. Catharines Black Hawks OHA 53 47 56 103 57 10 4th 8th 12 15th
1970/71 Springfield Kings AHL 65 33 16 49 27 12 1 2 3 9
1970/71 Los Angeles Kings NHL 6th 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
1971/72 Los Angeles Kings NHL 31 3 2 5 8th - - - - -
1971/72 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 37 7th 11 18th 8th 4th 0 1 1 0
1972/73 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 35 41 76 26th - - - - -
1973/74 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 37 14th 22nd 36 12 - - - - -
1973/74 Atlanta Flames NHL 35 10 9 19th 15th 4th 0 0 0 2
1974/75 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 78 34 30th 64 27 5 2 1 3 2
1975/76 Cleveland Crusaders WHA 80 23 22nd 45 19th 3 1 0 1 2
1976/77 Minnesota Fighting Saints WHA 42 9 21st 30th 6th - - - - -
1977/78 Kansas City Red Wings CHL 52 18th 24 42 14th - - - - -
1977/78 Detroit Red Wings NHL 13 2 2 4th 4th - - - - -
OHA total 156 85 84 169 104 31 10 15th 25th 27
NHL overall 237 73 88 161 73 8th 0 1 1 2
WHA total 200 66 73 139 52 8th 3 1 4th 2

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME McDonough, Al
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDonough, James Allison (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario , Canada