Brian MacLellan

Brian MacLellan
MacLellan as an alumnus of the Calgary Flames at the NHL Heritage Classic (2011)
Date of birth	October 27, 1958
place of birth	Guelph , Ontario , Canada
size	190 cm
Weight	99 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1978-1982	Bowling Green State University
1982-1985	Los Angeles Kings
1985-1986	New York Rangers
1986-1989	Minnesota North Stars
1989-1991	Calgary Flames
1991-1992	Detroit Red Wings

Brian John MacLellan (born October 27, 1958 in Guelph , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current official. During his active career, the left winger completed over 600 games in the National Hockey League , winning the Stanley Cup with the Calgary Flames in 1989 . Since May 2014 he has been the General Manager of Washington Capitals .

Career

As a player

Brian MacLellan was born in Guelph and played there in his youth for the Guelph Platers before moving to Bowling Green State University in the United States in 1978 . For their ice hockey team he ran for the next four years in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) and was elected to the CCHA First All-Star Team in 1982 , but was not considered in any NHL Entry Draft . In 1982, the Canadian left the university with a Bachelor of Business Administration and subsequently joined the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL) as a free agent . After a season that he had spent for the most part with the Kings farm team , the New Haven Nighthawks , in the American Hockey League (AHL), the attacker established himself in the Kings NHL squad. In the Los Angeles jersey MacLellan achieved his best personal statistic in the 1984/85 season when he came to 85 points scorer in 80 games. As a result, the winger was also part of the Canadian national team , which won the silver medal at the 1985 World Cup .

Despite these successes, the Kings gave him in December 1985, including their four-round voting rights for the 1985 NHL Entry Draft, to the New York Rangers , who in return sent Roland Melanson and Grant Ledyard to California. In New York, MacLellan only ended the 1985/86 season before he was given up to the Minnesota North Stars in September 1986 . The Rangers received a third-round vote in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft . In Minnesota, MacLellan continued to appear as a regular scorer for the next three seasons until the Calgary Flames signed him in March 1989 . In this transfer, Calgary also received a four-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 , while Shane Churla and Perry Berezan moved to Minnesota. With the Flames, the Canadian won the Stanley Cup in the following playoffs and subsequently remained in Calgary for two more seasons until he was given to the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for Marc Habscheid in June 1991 . In Detroit, however, the attacker could no longer earn a regular place, came in the entire 1991/92 season on only 23 missions and then ended his active career after the end of the season.

Overall, MacLellan came in ten NHL years on 606 missions, in which he scored 172 goals, 241 assists and 413 points scorer.

As a functionary

Between the end of his active career and his return to the ice hockey business was a nine-year hiatus, in which MacLellan first continued his studies and graduated in 1995 with a Master of Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas . He then worked for National Car Rental and in the financial consulting industry, among others , before starting to work as a scout for the Washington Capitals in the 2000/01 season ; this was done on the initiative of the current General Manager of the Capitals, George McPhee , with whom MacLellan had played together at the Guelph Platers and at Bowling Green State University. For a short time, MacLellan only worked part-time for the Capitals, watching the newly founded Minnesota Wild play in his adopted home , before becoming a permanent scout for the organization a little later.

As early as the 2004/05 season , the Canadian was promoted to Director of Player Personnel and held this position for ten years, additionally assisting General Manager George McPhee from 2009 to 2014 as an assistant. After the 2013-14 season , McPhee was fired and MacLellan was named the new General Manager and Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations in May 2014 . He then led the team in the 2018 playoffs for the first Stanley Cup in franchise history .

Achievements and Awards

• 1982 CCHA First All-Star Team
• 1985 silver medal at the world championship
• 1989 Stanley Cup win with the Calgary Flames
• 2018 Stanley Cup win with the Washington Capitals

Career statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
1978/79	Bowling Green State University	NCAA		44	34	29	63		94
1979/80	Bowling Green State University	NCAA		38	8th	15th	23		46
1980/81	Bowling Green State University	NCAA		37	11	14th	25th		96
1981/82	Bowling Green State University	NCAA		41	11	21st	32		109
1982/83	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		71	11	15th	26th		40		12	5	3	8th		4th
1982/83	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		8th	0	3	3	-5	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		2	0	2	2		0		-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		72	25th	29	54	-21	45		-	-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		80	31	54	85	+2	53		3	0	1	1	± 0	0
1985/86	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		27	5	8th	13	-13	19th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	New York Rangers	NHL		51	11	21st	32	-20	47		16	2	4th	6th	+1	15th
1986/87	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		76	32	31	63	-12	69		-	-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		75	16	32	48	-44	74		-	-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	Minnesota North Stars	NHL		60	16	23	39	± 0	104		-	-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	Calgary Flames	NHL		12	2	3	5	+3	14th		21st	3	2	5	-4	19th
1989/90	Calgary Flames	NHL		65	20th	18th	38	-3	26th		6th	0	2	2	–7	8th
1990/91	Calgary Flames	NHL		57	13	14th	27	+15	55		1	0	0	0	-1	0
1991/92	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		23	1	5	6th	+4	38		-	-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				160	64	79	143		345
AHL total				73	11	17th	28		40		12	5	3	8th		4th
NHL overall				606	172	241	413	-94	551		47	5	9	14th	–11	42

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 1985

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1985	Canada	WM			4th	0	0	0	0
Men overall					4th	0	0	0	0

( 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

MacLellan is married and has two daughters.

Web links

• Brian MacLellan in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Brian MacLellan in the database of hockey-reference.com (English)
• Brian MacLellan at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Brian MacLellan at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Key 1982. bgsu.edu, accessed June 3, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Washington Capitals Media Guide 2016–2017 . Washington Capitals Hockey Club, 2016, p. 16.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Barry Svrluga: Brian MacLellan is right at home, at the center of Capitals' success. washingtonpost.com, April 13, 2016, accessed June 3, 2017 .