Frank St. Marseille

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Frank St. Marseille
Date of birth December 14, 1939
place of birth Levack , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 77 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
until 1962 New Haven Blades
1962-1964 Sudbury Wolves
1964-1967 Port Huron flags
1967-1973 St. Louis Blues
1973-1977 Los Angeles Kings
1977-1988 Nova Scotia Voyageurs

Joseph Francis Léo "Frank" St. Marseille (born December 14, 1939 in Levack , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 795 games for the St. Louis Blues and Los Angeles Kings in the course of his active career between 1961 and 1978 has played in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . St. Marseille belongs to the Anishinabe people .

Career

St. Marseille was not drafted as it was considered too slow for the big leagues. So he played early in his career with the Chatham Maroons . During a bear market in 1962 he was ordered to the first team that was then playing in the Ontario Hockey Association , he established himself right away and scored 39 points. For the 1962/63 season, the Maroons moved to the International Hockey League , St. Marseille went with the team. He scored a respectable 64 points in 70 games. The Chatham Maroons left the IHL for the next season, so St. Marseille had to look for a new club. He was then transferred to the Port Huron Flags , which also played in the IHL. There followed three impressive seasons with Port Huron. In just 210 games, he scored 305 points and also won the Turner Cup in 1966 .

St. Marseille in the jersey of the St. Louis Blues

In 1967 he was elected to the IHL Second All Star Team. He then signed a contract with the St. Louis Blues, who were newly included in the National Hockey League in the course of the NHL expansion in 1967 . This expansion opened up new opportunities for an entire generation of eager young gamers that they would never have had if they originally received the Original Six . St. Marseille began his first contract season with the Kansas City Blues , a farm team of the St. Louis Blues, in the Central Professional Hockey League . After only eleven games, he was called back to the NHL together with his line partners Gary Sabourin and Terry Crisp from Scotty Bowman , the then head coach of the St. Louis Blues. Bowman is said to have meant when referring to the trio that they were "better than our third line". Known as a defensive striker, St. Marseille often played in the third line, also known as the checking line, so that he often had to play against the opponent's parade line. Despite this, he averaged 16 goals per season. In six years with St. Louis he reached the Stanley Cup finals three times , losing once to the Canadiens de Montréal and twice to the Boston Bruins . In 1970 he made it to the All-Star team in the West Division, where he played with legends like Bobby Clarke and teammate Jacques Plante . From 1970 to 1972 St. Marseille held the position of team captain . He played for the box play and power play formation of the Blues, had a plus / minus balance of +37, spread over six seasons and is still the sixth best goalscorer in the history of the Blues. St. Marseille scored 19 goals and 24 assists in 62 playoff games.

In the middle of the 1972/73 season he was transferred from the St. Louis Blues to the Los Angeles Kings . In return, the Blues got Paul Curtis . With the Kings he spent the last four and a half seasons of his NHL career. He kept his position as a defensive striker and box play specialist, but from now on no longer played in the power play formation. He scored 54 goals in the dress of the Los Angeles Kings and reached the playoffs with the team each season. He had his best year in the 1974/75 season , when he got a total of 53 points. In 19 NHL seasons, St. Marseille came to a point total of 425 points, made up of 140 goals and 285 assists.

At the end of his career with the Fort Worth Texans and the Nova Scotia Voyageurs , St. Marseille had already acted as a playing assistant coach. After retiring, he became head coach of the Voyageurs for one season in the 1978/79 season, followed by a year as assistant coach for his ex-team, the Los Angeles Kings, in the 1979/80 season .

In 1988 Frank St. Marseille and Ron Duguay were honored to be the first player to be inducted into a newly formed Hall of Fame in Valley East . In addition, a junior tournament in the Nickel District Minor Hockey League was named after St. Marseille in recognition of his career.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1961/62 New Haven Blades EHL 3 0 0 0 9 - - - - -
1962/63 Sudbury Wolves EPHL 3 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
1962/63 Chatham Maroons OHA 45 17th 22nd 39 49 - - - - -
1963/64 Chatham Maroons IHL 70 31 33 64 21st - - - - -
1964/65 Port Huron flags IHL 70 38 59 97 57 7th 2 5 7th 24
1965/66 Port Huron flags IHL 68 45 45 90 28 9 6th 6th 12 12
1966/67 Port Huron flags IHL 72 41 77 118 46 - - - - -
1967/68 Kansas City Blues CPHL 11 7th 8th 15th 0 - - - - -
1967/68 St. Louis Blues NHL 57 16 16 32 12 18th 5 8th 13 0
1968/69 St. Louis Blues NHL 72 12 26th 38 22nd 12 3 3 6th 2
1969/70 St. Louis Blues NHL 74 16 43 59 18th 15th 6th 7th 13 4th
1970/71 St. Louis Blues NHL 77 19th 32 51 26th 6th 2 1 3 4th
1971/72 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 16 36 52 32 11 3 5 8th 6th
1972/73 St. Louis Blues NHL 45 7th 18th 25th 8th - - - - -
1972/73 Los Angeles Kings NHL 29 7th 4th 11 2 - - - - -
1973/74 Los Angeles Kings NHL 78 14th 36 50 40 5 0 0 0 0
1974/75 Los Angeles Kings NHL 80 17th 36 53 46 3 0 1 1 0
1975/76 Los Angeles Kings NHL 68 10 16 26th 20th 9 0 0 0 0
1976/77 Los Angeles Kings NHL 49 6th 22nd 28 16 9 1 0 1 2
1976/77 Fort Worth Texans CHL 16 6th 12 18th 4th - - - - -
1977/78 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 74 14th 14th 28 38 11 3 2 5 0
IHL total 280 155 214 369 152 16 8th 11 19th 36
NHL overall 707 140 285 425 242 88 20th 25th 45 18th

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Frank St. Marseille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Indigenous Hockey | Promoting, motivating and bringing news . In: Indigenous Hockey | Promoting, motivating and bringing news . Archived from the original on April 19, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 29, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indigenoushockey.org
  2. ↑ Levack Map | Canada Google Satellite Maps . In: maplandia.com . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Legends of Hockey - NHL Player Search - Player - Frank St. Marseille . In: legendsofhockey.net . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ Scotty Bowman shares milestone memories ( English ) In: NHL.com . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ Experiment Time For Maple Leafs ( English ) In: betweentheposts.ca . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ 1970 NHL All-Star Game Rosters | Hockey-Reference.com ( English ) In: Hockey-Reference.com . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  7. ↑ Blues Captains ( English ) In: St. Louis Blues . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  8. ↑ All-Time Offense Leaders ( English ) In: St. Louis Blues . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  9. ^ Frank St. Marseille trades - NHL Trade Tracker . In: nhltradetracker.com . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  10. ↑ Frank St. Marseille . In: Elite Prospects . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  11. ↑ Heritage Museums . In: sudburymuseums.ca . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  12. ↑ Fame . In: valleyeasttoday.ca . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  13. ↑ PASCAL: NDHL championship weekend wrap . In: Sudbury Star . Retrieved March 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME St. Marseille, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saint-Marseille, Joseph Francis Léo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Levack , Ontario , Canada