Bob Kelly (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Bob Kelly Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 25, 1950
place of birth Port Credit , Ontario , Canada
Nickname Hound, hound dog
size 178 cm
Weight 91 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 3rd round, 32nd position
Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1968-1970 Oshawa Generals
1970-1980 Philadelphia Flyers
1980-1982 Washington Capitals

Robert James "Bob" Kelly (born November 25, 1950 in Port Credit , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 938 games for the Philadelphia Flyers and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League in the course of his active career between 1968 and 1982 on the position of the left winger . Kelly won the Stanley Cup with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1974 and 1975 .

Career

Kelly spent his junior years between 1968 and 1970 with the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey Association , where he completed a total of 107 games in two seasons and recorded 96 points scorer . Following his second year in the junior division, he was selected in the third round in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft in 32nd place by the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League .

The striker made the leap into the Flyers NHL squad for the 1970/71 season and reached 32 points in his rookie season . With the engagement of Fred Shero as head coach in the summer of 1971, the Flyers developed a reputation as a very physical team, which was nicknamed "Broad Street Bullies" . In the squad, Kelly and Dave Schultz were considered one of the best enforcers and pests . Since Shero valued these qualities very much, the attacker only scored more than 20 goals in one game year. Instead, he played a key role in the franchise's only two Stanley Cup triumphs in 1974 and 1975 .

After a total of ten years in the service of the Flyers they restructured their team in the summer of 1980, which Kelly was given in exchange for a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 1982 to the Washington Capitals . At the capital club, the Canadian spent a successful season for him in 1980/81 , in which he set up career highs alongside Dennis Maruk and Mike Gartner with 26 goals, 36 assists and 62 scorer points. His second year with the Capitals was all the more disappointing with just four points in 16 season appearances after there had been a change to the post of head coach and general manager before the season . Thereupon Kelly canceled the current contract in the summer of 1982 at the age of 31 and announced his immediate withdrawal from active professional sport.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1968/69 Oshawa Generals OHA 54 21st 23 44 128 - - - - -
1969/70 Oshawa Generals OHA 53 21st 31 52 117 6th 2 1 3 7th
1970/71 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 76 14th 18th 32 70 4th 1 0 1 2
1971/72 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 78 14th 15th 29 157 - - - - -
1972/73 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 77 10 11 21st 238 11 0 1 1 8th
1973/74 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 65 4th 10 14th 130 5 0 0 0 11
1974/75 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 67 11 18th 29 99 16 3 3 6th 15th
1975/76 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 79 12 8th 20th 125 16 0 2 2 44
1976/77 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 73 22nd 24 46 117 10 0 1 1 18th
1977/78 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 74 19th 13 32 95 12 3 5 8th 26th
1978/79 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 77 7th 31 38 132 8th 1 1 2 10
1979/80 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 75 15th 20th 35 122 19th 1 1 2 38
1980/81 Washington Capitals NHL 80 26th 36 62 157 - - - - -
1981/82 Washington Capitals NHL 16 0 4th 4th 12 - - - - -
OHA total 107 42 54 96 245 6th 2 1 3 7th
NHL overall 837 154 208 362 1454 101 9 14th 23 172

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flyers Heroes of the Past: Bob Kelly. Philadelphia Flyers , December 22, 2006; accessed September 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kelly, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelly, Robert James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Credit , Ontario