Chuck Lefley

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Chuck Lefley, 1980

Chuck Lefley, 1980
Date of birth January 20, 1950
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 1st lap, 6th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1965-1967 Winnipeg Rangers
1967-1969 Team Canada
1969-1970 Brandon Wheat Kings
1970-1974 Canadiens de Montréal
1974-1977 St. Louis Blues
1977-1988 Jokerite
1978-1979 Düsseldorfer EG
1979-1980 St. Louis Blues

Charles Thomas "Chuck" Lefley (born January 20, 1950 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The center played over 400 games for the Canadiens de Montréal and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League between 1970 and 1980 . With the Canadiens, who had selected him in sixth position in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft , he won the Stanley Cup in the 1971 and 1973 playoffs .

Career

Chuck Lefley ran in his youth for the Winnipeg Rangers from his hometown in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League . From 1967 he spent three years in the jersey of the Canadian national team , with which he took part in the 1969 World Cup at the age of 19, where he finished fourth with the team. After he finally returned to junior ice hockey late in the 1969/70 season and had completed seven games for the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Western Canada Hockey League , the attacker was in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft in sixth position by the Canadiens de Montréal selected.

In the following season 1970/71 Lefley won with the Canadiens promptly his first Stanley Cup , although he had only completed one game each in the regular season and playoffs . As in the following year, he spent most of the time with the Canadiens farm team , the Voyageurs de Montréal and the Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the American Hockey League (AHL). There, in turn, the Voyageurs succeeded in winning the AHL playoffs for the Calder Cup in the 1971/72 season . Finally, the Canadian established himself in Montreal's NHL squad and won his second Stanley Cup with the team at the end of his first full season in the top division of North America. A little later, in November 1974, it was given to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for Don Awrey .

In St. Louis Lefley achieved his career best in the 1975/76 season with 85 points from 75 games. After the 1976/77 season, however, he surprisingly announced that he had lost the joy of professional sport, so he ended his career and turned to a farm in his home country of Manitoba. In November 1977, however, the Canadian moved to Europe and spent one year each with the Jokerit in the Finnish SM-liiga and with the Düsseldorfer EG in the German Bundesliga . In 1979 the center returned to the Blues, but suffered a shoulder injury in preparation for the 1979/80 season, due to which he missed much of the game year. Finally, after two more missions at the beginning of the 1980/81 season, he finally ended his career. In total, Lefley had played 436 NHL games and recorded 305 points scorer.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1965/66 Winnipeg Rangers MJHL 46 19th 20th 39 10 9 4th 5 9 2
1966/67 Winnipeg Rangers MJHL 43 25th 21st 46 33 7th 6th 2 8th 2
1967-1970 with the Canadian national team active
1969/70 Brandon Wheat Kings WCHL 7th 6th 6th 12 0 - - - - - -
1970/71 Voyageurs de Montréal AHL 48 16 19th 35 53 3 1 1 2 2
1970/71 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 1 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1971/72 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 45 15th 30th 45 18th 15th 7th 7th 14th 0
1971/72 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 16 0 2 2 -1 0 - - - - - -
1972/73 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 65 21st 25th 46 +35 22nd 17th 3 5 8th +9 8th
1973/74 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 74 23 31 54 +10 34 6th 0 1 1 -3 0
1974/75 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 18th 1 2 3 -1 4th - - - - - -
1974/75 St. Louis Blues NHL 57 23 26th 49 +6 24 2 0 0 0 -4 2
1975/76 St. Louis Blues NHL 75 43 42 85 +15 41 2 2 1 3 +1 0
1976/77 St. Louis Blues NHL 71 11 30th 41 -15 12 1 0 1 1 -1 2
1977/78 Jokerite SM-liiga 24 11 12 23 -4 12 - - - - - -
1978/79 Düsseldorfer EG Bundesliga 26th 17th 5 22nd 2 - - - - - -
1979/80 St. Louis Blues NHL 28 6th 6th 12 +5 0 - - - - - -
1980/81 St. Louis Blues NHL 2 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
MJHL total 89 44 41 85 43 16 10 7th 17th 4th
AHL total 93 31 49 80 71 18th 8th 8th 16 2
NHL overall 407 128 164 292 +53 137 29 5 8th 13 +2 12

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1969 Canada WM 4th Place 7th 0 1 1 10
Men overall 7th 0 1 1 10

( 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 older brother Bryan Lefley (1948-1997) also played in the NHL and after his active career worked, among other things, as an Italian national coach.

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personal data
SURNAME Lefley, Chuck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lefley, Charles Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada