Dennis Hextall

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CanadaCanada  Dennis Hextall Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 17, 1943
place of birth Poplar Point , Manitoba , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 80 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1961-1963 Brandon Wheat Kings
1963-1966 University of North Dakota
1966-1967 Knoxville Knights
1967-1969 New York Rangers
Buffalo Bison
1969-1970 Los Angeles Kings
Springfield Kings
1970 Voyageurs de Montréal
1970-1971 California Golden Seals
1971-1976 Minnesota North Stars
1976-1979 Detroit Red Wings
1979-1980 Washington Capitals

Dennis Harold Hextall (born April 17, 1943 in Poplar Point , Manitoba ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The attacker played over 700 games in the National Hockey League , most of them for the Minnesota North Stars and Detroit Red Wings .

Career

Dennis Hextall played in his youth for the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL) in his home province. With the team he took part in the qualifying games for the Memorial Cup in 1962 and 1963 , but missed the final. Without the prospect of switching to the professional field at this point in time, the attacker enrolled at the University of North Dakota in the fall of 1963 and played two years with their ice hockey team, the North Dakota Fighting Sioux , at the beginning of the 1964/65 season of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). In both seasons he was elected to a WCHA All-Star Team before he moved to the Knoxville Knights in the Eastern Hockey League in 1966 and thus became active as a professional for the first time. His further path led him initially also through minor leagues , so he was active for the Omaha Knights in the Central Professional Hockey League and for the Buffalo Bisons in the American Hockey League . The bison served as the farm team of the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League (NHL), in which the Canadian finally came to his first two NHL appearances as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1968 . Nevertheless, the attacker could not earn a regular place with the Rangers in the following season 1968/69, so he was given up in June 1969 with Léon Rochefort to the Los Angeles Kings , who sent Réal Lemieux to New York.

After just under half a year in Los Angeles, which he also partly spent in the AHL with the Springfield Kings , the Kings transferred him to the Canadiens de Montréal in January 1970 in exchange for Dick Duff . There he did not receive an ice age in the NHL and ended the season again in the AHL, with the Voyageurs de Montréal . As a result, the Canadiens sent him for a financial return to the California Golden Seals , where he completed his first full NHL season in 1970/71, scoring 52 points . With these achievements he recommended himself to the Minnesota North Stars , who signed him in May 1971 and sent Joey Johnston and Walt McKechnie to California. In the following two years, Hextall established himself as a regular scorer with the North Stars and achieved his personal career best with 82 points each, while he was also appointed to the NHL All-Star Games in 1974 and 1975 .

Nevertheless, the attacker was released in February 1976 to the Detroit Red Wings , which in return sent Bill Hogaboam and a second-round vote for the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft to Minnesota. In the Motor City , Hextall could not build on his previous achievements and at the beginning of the 1977/78 season nevertheless took over the captaincy of the Red Wings, which he however temporarily shared with Dan Maloney , Nick Libett and Paul Woods . In February 1979 the striker changed one last time and joined the Washington Capitals as a free agent , in which he only played 15 games in the 1979/80 season and subsequently ended his career. Overall, Hextall came to 703 games in his NHL career and posted 509 points.

After the end of his career, Hextall was temporarily active as a coach in the junior area and acted as commissioner and president of the International Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1961/62 Brandon Wheat Kings MJHL 39 11 18th 29 0 9 0 3 3 4th
1962 Brandon Wheat Kings Memorial Cup 11 2 3 5 9
1962/63 Brandon Wheat Kings MJHL 39 21st 46 67 17th 19th 16 10 26th 12
1963 Brandon Wheat Kings Memorial Cup 9 5 6th 11 8th
1963/64 University of North Dakota NCAA - - - - - -
1964/65 University of North Dakota NCAA 33 17th 36 53 33
1965/66 University of North Dakota NCAA 30th 19th 29 48 30th - - - - - -
1966/67 Knoxville Knights EHL 61 20th 56 76 202 4th 3 2 5 21st
1967/68 Omaha Knights CPHL 10 0 2 2 9 - - - - - -
1967/68 Buffalo bison AHL 51 15th 33 48 114 5 1 5 6th 12
1967/68 New York Rangers NHL - - - - - - 2 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1968/69 Buffalo bison AHL 60 21st 44 65 179 6th 1 3 4th 6th
1968/69 New York Rangers NHL 13 1 4th 5 ± 0 25th - - - - - -
1969/70 Springfield Kings AHL 10 5 8th 13 52 - - - - - -
1969/70 Los Angeles Kings NHL 28 5 7th 12 -22 40 - - - - - -
1969/70 Voyageurs de Montréal AHL 29 10 19th 29 126 8th 2 5 7th 29
1970/71 California Golden Seals NHL 78 21st 31 52 -21 217 - - - - - -
1971/72 Cleveland Barons AHL 5 1 1 2 18th - - - - - -
1971/72 Minnesota North Stars NHL 33 6th 10 16 +1 49 7th 0 2 2 +1 19th
1972/73 Minnesota North Stars NHL 78 30th 52 82 +29 140 6th 2 0 2 -2 16
1973/74 Minnesota North Stars NHL 78 20th 62 82 +5 138 - - - - - -
1974/75 Minnesota North Stars NHL 80 17th 57 74 -44 147 - - - - - -
1975/76 Minnesota North Stars NHL 59 11 35 46 -29 93 - - - - - -
1975/76 Detroit Red Wings NHL 17th 5 9 14th +2 71 - - - - - -
1976/77 Detroit Red Wings NHL 78 14th 32 46 -35 158 - - - - - -
1977/78 Detroit Red Wings NHL 78 16 33 49 -5 195 7th 1 1 2 –6 10
1978/79 Detroit Red Wings NHL 20th 4th 8th 12 +3 33 - - - - - -
1978/79 Washington Capitals NHL 26th 2 9 11 -14 43 - - - - - -
1979/80 Washington Capitals NHL 15th 1 1 2 -5 49 - - - - - -
MJHL total 78 32 64 96 17th 28 16 13 29 16
Memorial Cup overall 20th 7th 9 16 17th
NCAA overall 63 36 65 101 63
AHL total 155 52 105 157 489 19th 4th 13 17th 47
NHL overall 681 153 350 503 -135 1398 22nd 3 3 6th –7 45

( 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

Dennis Hextall comes from a hockey family, his father Bryan Hextall senior played in the NHL and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame . His brother Bryan Hextall junior and his nephew Ron Hextall also made it into the highest league in North America. Professional ice hockey players were also Brett Hextall , son of Ron, and Donevan Hextall , cousin of Dennis.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Douglas Hamm: IHL taps former NHL player as next commissioner. pantagraph.com, September 2, 2009, accessed February 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hextall, Dennis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hextall, Dennis Harold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Poplar Point , Manitoba , Canada