Dave Maloney

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CanadaCanada  Dave Maloney Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 31, 1956
place of birth Kitchener , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 1st lap, 14th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1972-1974 Kitchener Rangers
1974-1975 Providence Reds
1975-1984 New York Rangers
1984-1985 Buffalo Sabers

David Wilfred "Dave" Maloney (born July 31, 1956 in Kitchener , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 706 games for the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League between 1972 and 1985 (NHL) on the position of defender . With the New York Rangers, for which he completed most of the games and reached the final series as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1979 , Maloney was the 17th team captain in franchise history between 1978 and 1980 .

Career

Maloney spent his junior career between 1972 and 1974 with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). After his second year, at the end of which he was called up after 68 scorer points in 69 games in the league's Second All-Star Team, the 17-year-old was 14th in the first round of the New York Rangers in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft selected from the National Hockey League (NHL).

The Rangers did not hesitate and brought the defender into the professional field as early as 1974/75 at the age of 18. They first used him in their farm team , the Providence Reds , in the American Hockey League (AHL), but made his debut in the NHL during the season. There he came to four missions. In the following game year, the Canadian was initially active in the AHL, but worked out a regular place in the NHL squad in New York in the second half of the season, so that he ran permanently for the Rangers from mid-February 1976. Maloney quickly established himself in the league and, after his second full season in the jersey of the "Broadway Blueshirts", he succeeded Phil Esposito as the team captain of the franchise . In the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1979 , the young captain helped ensure that the team reached the final series of the Stanley Cup , which was lost, however, 1: 4 against the Canadiens de Montréal . Shortly after the beginning of the 1980/81 season , the defender stepped down from the captaincy after a little over two years to Walt Tkaczuk . Nevertheless, he remained an integral part of the squad, which had its qualities especially in the majority game. He mostly formed a defender duo with Barry Beck .

In the mid-1980s, the successful years of the Rangers ended and so Maloney, after only scoring three points in the first 16 games of the 1984/85 season , joined the Buffalo in December 1984 with Chris Renaud within the state of New York Sabers transferred. Steve Patrick and Jim Wiemer gave these to the Rangers. In the jersey of the Sabers, the defensive player ended his active career at the end of the season at the age of 29, in order to work full-time as a broker on Wall Street . During the summer breaks of the previous two years, he had already prepared for the time after his career at the investment bank Bear Stearns .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1971/72 Kitchener Rangers OHA 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2
1972/73 Kitchener Rangers OHA 49 8th 21st 29 101 - - - - -
1973/74 Kitchener Rangers OHA 69 15th 53 68 109 - - - - -
1974/75 Providence Reds AHL 58 5 28 33 122 6th 0 6th 6th 6th
1974/75 New York Rangers NHL 4th 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
1975/76 Providence Reds AHL 26th 5 17th 22nd 81 - - - - -
1975/76 New York Rangers NHL 21st 1 3 4th 66 - - - - -
1976/77 New York Rangers NHL 66 3 18th 21st 100 - - - - -
1977/78 New York Rangers NHL 56 2 19th 21st 63 3 0 0 0 11
1978/79 New York Rangers NHL 76 11 17th 28 151 17th 3 4th 7th 45
1979/80 New York Rangers NHL 77 12 25th 37 186 8th 2 1 3 8th
1980/81 New York Rangers NHL 79 11 36 47 132 2 0 2 2 9
1981/82 New York Rangers NHL 64 13 36 49 105 10 1 4th 5 6th
1982/83 New York Rangers NHL 78 8th 42 50 132 7th 1 6th 7th 10
1983/84 New York Rangers NHL 68 7th 26th 33 168 1 0 0 0 2
1984/85 New York Rangers NHL 16 2 1 3 10 - - - - -
1984/85 Buffalo Sabers NHL 52 1 21st 22nd 41 1 0 0 0 0
OHA total 119 23 74 97 210 2 0 0 0 2
AHL total 84 10 45 55 203 6th 0 6th 6th 6th
NHL overall 657 71 246 317 1154 49 7th 17th 24 91

( 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 )

family

Maloney's two years younger brother Don played over 850 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1978 and 1991 , the majority of which were also for the New York Rangers , where the brothers played together between 1978 and 1984. After his retirement, Don made a name for himself as an official in numerous NHL franchises . Her brother-in-law Doug Sulliman was also active in the NHL between 1979 and 1990. He was also part of the New York Rangers' squad between 1979 and 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends.com: Dave Maloney. greatesthockeylegends.com, December 8, 2017, accessed April 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Maloney, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maloney, David Wilfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitchener , Ontario , Canada