Frank Mahovlich

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CanadaCanada  Frank Mahovlich Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1981
Frank Mahovlich
Date of birth January 10, 1938
place of birth Timmins , Ontario , Canada
Nickname The Big M
size 185 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Left wing
number # 27
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1954-1957 Toronto St. Michael's Majors
1957-1968 Toronto Maple Leafs
1968-1971 Detroit Red Wings
1971-1974 Canadiens de Montréal
1974-1976 Toronto Toros
1976-1988 Birmingham Bulls

Francis William "Frank" Mahovlich , CM (born January 10, 1938 in Timmins , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and politician who played 1318 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Detroit Red Wings during his playing career between 1954 and 1978 and Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League and 312 others for the Toronto Toros and Birmingham Bulls in the World Hockey Association on the position of left winger . Mahovlich, who was called up to one of the NHL All-Star Teams a total of nine times , won the Stanley Cup six times between 1962 and 1973  - four times with the Toronto Maple Leafs and twice with the Canadiens de Montréal. His extraordinary career was crowned in 1981 with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame . From 1998 to 2013 he was a member of the Canadian Senate .

Career

As a junior, he played in the Ontario Hockey Association for the Toronto St. Michael's Majors . He was considered one of the greatest talents and was therefore in the spotlight from an early age.

At the end of the 1956/57 season he came to his first three missions with the Toronto Maple Leafs . In the coming year he finally made the leap into the NHL. With 22 goals and 49 points he was the outstanding rookie of the season and won the Calder Memorial Trophy despite competition from Bobby Hull . He was able to perform well in the next two seasons, but after his first season in Toronto a superstar was expected and so there was immense pressure on his shoulders and expectations that he "still" could not meet. In the 1960/61 season he then showed the performance that one had always expected from the now 23-year-old. He had already scored 48 goals 14 game days before the end of the season, just two goals behind Maurice Richard's record of 50 goals. He couldn't score another goal and was even overtaken by Bernie Geoffrion as top scorer. He himself lay in the tension between the admiration for the strong start to the season and the disappointment of missing the goal in view.

After his first Stanley Cup win in 1962, he won the Stanley Cup at the end of the 1962/63 season , almost as the low point of his career . After he had missed a few chances in the decisive game, he was booed by his own fans during the game, but also after the game. He was also the target of fan attacks at the ceremony the following day. The following year he was hospitalized for depression and missed a few games. After returning to the team, he was unable to build on the previous performance. Even so, the Leafs won the third Stanley Cup in a row. A title win followed at the end of the 1966/67 season .

He made a big appearance on November 1, 1967, when the Leafs beat their rival, the Canadiens de Montréal 5-0. Frank scored one goal and put in two goals. For this he was voted one of the three stars of the game, but even on that day he received applause and boos. When the team drove to Detroit for the game the next day, he got up and went home. A short time later he was again in the hospital for severe depression. He missed 11 games before returning to the squad. Towards the end of the season he was part of a large swap among the four players who moved to the Detroit Red Wings , in addition to Mahovlich, were also Carl Brewer and Garry Unger . In return, Norm Ullman came to Toronto among others .

He was on Detroit's team with your brother Pete . He was placed in a storm line with Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio . Freed from the pressure in Toronto, he flourished. He finished the 1968/69 season with a record 49 goals. In the years with the Red Wings he got more ice age than before and he helped Gordie Howe as the third player to score 100 points in one season. A year after his brother, he moved to the Canadiens de Montreal during the 1970/71 season . In his first full year he got 96 points. With this he also pushed for a nomination for the Summit Series in 1972 . In Montreal he played very successfully until the 1973/74 season after he won his sixth and last Stanley Cup in 1973 and was the eighth player to reach the 1,000 point mark .

From 1974 he played in the World Hockey Association . Here, at the age of 36, he got a very lucrative offer for a four-year contract from the Toronto Toros and here too he had his brother Pete by his side. Here, too, he was one of the top scorers and helped the Toros to hit good times in the competition with the Maple Leafs. After two years, the team moved from Canada to the southern United States and played under the new name Birmingham Bulls . At the end of the 1978/79 season he ended his active career. In 1981 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

In 1998 he was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien . After reaching the age limit, Mahovlich resigned from the same on January 10, 2013.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1953/54 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHA 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1954/55 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHA 25th 12 11 23 18th - - - - -
1955/56 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHA 30th 24 26th 50 55 8th 5 5 10 24
1956/57 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHA 49 52 36 88 122 4th 2 7th 9 14th
1956/57 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 3 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
1957/58 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 67 20th 16 36 67 - - - - -
1958/59 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 63 22nd 27 49 94 12 5 6th 11 18th
1959/60 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 18th 21st 39 61 10 3 1 4th 27
1960/61 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 48 36 84 131 5 1 1 2 6th
1961/62 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 33 38 71 87 12 6th 6th 12 29
1962/63 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 67 36 37 73 56 9 0 2 2 8th
1963/64 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 26th 29 55 66 14th 4th 11 15th 20th
1964/65 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 59 23 28 51 76 6th 0 3 3 9
1965/66 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 68 32 24 56 68 4th 1 0 1 10
1966/67 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 63 18th 28 46 44 12 3 7th 10 8th
1967/68 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 50 19th 17th 36 30th - - - - -
1967/68 Detroit Red Wings NHL 13 7th 9 16 2 - - - - -
1968/69 Detroit Red Wings NHL 76 49 29 78 38 - - - - -
1969/70 Detroit Red Wings NHL 74 38 32 70 59 4th 0 0 0 2
1970/71 Detroit Red Wings NHL 35 14th 18th 32 30th - - - - -
1970/71 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 38 17th 24 41 11 20th 14th 13 27 18th
1971/72 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 76 43 53 96 36 6th 3 2 5 2
1972/73 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 78 38 55 93 51 17th 9 14th 23 6th
1973/74 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 71 31 49 80 47 6th 1 2 3 0
1974/75 Toronto Toros WHA 73 38 44 82 27 6th 3 0 3 2
1975/76 Toronto Toros WHA 75 34 55 89 14th - - - - -
1976/77 Birmingham Bulls WHA 17th 3 20th 23 12 - - - - -
1977/78 Birmingham Bulls WHA 72 14th 24 38 22nd 3 1 1 2 0
OHA total 105 88 74 162 197 12 7th 12 19th 38
NHL overall 1181 533 570 1103 1056 137 51 67 118 163
WHA total 237 89 143 232 75 9 4th 1 5 2

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1972 Canada Summit Series 1st place 6th 1 1 2 0
1974 Canada Summit Series 2nd place 6th 1 1 2 6th
Men overall 12 2 2 4th 6th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Mahovlich, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahovlich, Francis William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Timmins , Ontario