Fleming Mackell

Fleming Mackell
Date of birth	April 30, 1929
place of birth	Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
date of death	19th October 2015
Place of death	Hawkesbury , Ontario , Canada
Nickname	Spark plug
size	173 cm
Weight	76 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1944-1945	Montreal Junior Royals
1945-1947	St. Michael's Majors
1947-1952	Toronto Maple Leafs
1952-1960	Boston Bruins
1960-1961	Québec Aces
1962-1963	Los Angeles Blades
1963-1965	New Glasgow Rangers
1965-1966	Saint-Hyacinthe Saints
1967-1968	St. John's Capitals

Fleming David Mackell (* the thirtieth April 1929 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ; † 19th October 2015 in Hawkesbury , Ontario ) was a Canadian hockey player (center) and coach, who from 1947 to 1960 for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League played.

Career

Mackell came into contact with ice hockey early on. In the early 1920s, his father Jack Mackell won the Stanley Cup twice with the Ottawa Senators . With the Montreal Royals , Mackell was represented for the first time in the final series of the Memorial Cup in 1945 . Two years later, when he played for the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the Ontario Hockey Association , he was the top scorer in the league and at the end of the season was able to win the memorial with Joe Primeau 's team, which also included Red Kelly Win cup.

The Toronto Maple Leafs brought him into the squad for the 1947/48 season and so he also played in the 1st National Hockey League All-Star Game in 1947. In the NHL, he only made three appearances and mostly played for the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American Hockey League . It was similar for him in the following two years. At the beginning of the season and the All-Star Game he played for the Maple Leafs, during the season he was mostly in the AHL. In these two years he was in the playoffs again in the squad of the Leafs and won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 1949 . In the 1950/51 season he finally got a regular seat. In January 1952, Toronto gave it to Boston.

At the Boston Bruins he was quickly one of the top performers. In his first full season in Boston he was his team's best scorer and was elected to the first NHL All-Star Team at the end of the season . In the playoffs in 1958 he reached the finals against the Montréal Canadiens with the Bruins . The Bruins lost, but Mackell was the best scorer of the finals with 19 points. After the end of the 1959/60 season , he ended his career in the NHL.

He played for a few years in the lower leagues and was also active as a player-coach for the Quebec Aces in the AHL. He sustained several serious injuries during these years.

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	13	665	149	220	369	562
Playoffs	10	80	22nd	41	63	75

Sporting successes

• Stanley Cup : 1949 and 1951

Personal awards

• Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy : 1947
• NHL First All-Star Team : 1953
• Participation in the NHL All-Star Game : 1947 , 1948 , 1949 and 1954

Web links

Commons : Fleming Mackell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fleming Mackell at hockeydb.com (English)
• Fleming Mackell at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary: FLEMING MACKELL , obituary on the website legacy.com/obituaries, with reference to publication on October 21, 2015 in the Toronto Star (English)