Jack McIlhargey

Jack McIlhargey
Date of birth	March 7, 1952
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
date of death	19th July 2020
Place of death	Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1970-1971	New Westminster Royals
1971	Victoria Cougars
1971-1972	Flin Flon Bombers
1972-1973	Jersey Devils
1973-1975	Richmond Robins
1975-1977	Philadelphia Flyers
1977-1980	Vancouver Canucks
1980	Philadelphia Flyers
1980-1982	Hartford Whalers

Jack McIlhargey
Coaching stations
1984-1991	Vancouver Canucks (Assistant Coach)
1991-1992	Milwaukee Admirals
1992-1994	Hamilton Canucks
1994-1999	Syracuse crunch
1999-2007	Vancouver Canucks (Assistant Trainer & Scout)
2007-2020	Philadelphia Flyers (Assistant Coach & Scout)

John Cecil "Jack" McIlhargey (born March 7, 1952 in Edmonton , Alberta ; † July 19, 2020 in Burnaby , British Columbia ) was a Canadian ice hockey player , coach and scout , who during his active career between 1970 and 1982 under has played 420 games for the Philadelphia Flyers , Vancouver Canucks and Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of defender . Then McIlhargey, who embodied the player type of the Enforcer during his playing days , worked until his death as a coach and scout in the NHL and American Hockey League (AHL) in the organizations of his ex-teams from Vancouver and Philadelphia.

Career

McIlhargey spent his junior years between 1970 and 1972 in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League (BCJHL) and in the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). First, the defender was active in the 1970/71 season for the New Westminster Royals in the BCJHL, before moving to the WCHL for the 1971/72 season. There he ran at the start of the season for the Victoria Cougars , before moving to league rivals Flin Flon Bombers during the current season .

After completing his junior career, the 20-year-old was hired as a free agent by the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL) in September 1972 , who at the time pursued a physical and hard playing style that was well matched by McIlhargey's qualities. Nevertheless, the Flyers initially used him in their farm teams , which he subsequently with the Jersey Devils in the Eastern Hockey League (EHL), Des Moines Capitols in the International Hockey League (IHL) and Richmond Robins in the American Hockey League (AHL ) played. He made his NHL debut in the course of the 1974/75 season , before he established himself in the Philadelphias squad in the following game year and reached the final series with the reigning Stanley Cup winner in the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1976 . However, this was lost to the Canadiens de Montréal . In January 1977 McIlhargey was transferred to the Vancouver Canucks together with Larry Goodenough . In return, they sent Bob Dailey to Philadelphia.

In Vancouver, the defender spent almost exactly three years until January 1980 before the Philadelphia Flyers bought him back from the Canucks. In Philadelphia, however, the Canadian only stayed ten months, since he was sent to the Hartford Whalers together with Norm Barnes in November 1980 . The Whalers were worth the two players a second-round vote in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft in exchange. With the Flyers had again reached the final series in the 1980 Stanley Cup playoffs . In the service of Hartford McIlhargey ended his active career at the end of the 1981/82 season at the age of 30.

After a two-year hiatus as a result of his resignation, McIlhargey was hired as an assistant coach for the 1984/85 season by his ex-team Vancouver Canucks . He filled this post a total of seven seasons under several head coaches. Before the 1991/92 season , he was finally promoted within the organization to head coach of the Milwaukee Admirals farm team from the IHL. After just one season, he switched to the American Hockey League (AHL) as a coach for the Hamilton Canucks , which were also a cooperation partner of Vancouver. With the franchise , the sales manager began moving to Syracuse , New York , USA , in the summer of 1994 , where gaming operations continued under the name Syracuse Crunch . For the 1999/2000 millennium season he was again assistant coach for the Vancouver Canucks until the summer of 2006. He then worked for a season as a scout .

In the summer of 2007, McIlhargey returned as a coach behind the gang, but with the Philadelphia Flyers, who had signed him. From 2011 until 2020 he worked as the Flyers scout, after being replaced by Kevin McCarthy as assistant coach in the 2009/10 season . McIlhargey died in July 2020 at the age of 68 years in Burnaby in the Canadian province of British Columbia from the effects of cancer .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1970/71	New Westminster Royals	BCJHL		Statistics not available
1971/72	Victoria Cougars	WCHL		24	1	1	2	137	-	-	-	-	-
1971/72	Flin Flon Bombers	WCHL		33	1	4th	5	142	7th	0	1	1	39
1972/73	Jersey Devils	EHL		72	2	7th	9	229	-	-	-	-	-
1972/73	Richmond Robins	AHL		9	0	1	1	4th	4th	0	0	0	7th
1973/74	Des Moines Capitols	IHL		16	1	2	3	52	-	-	-	-	-
1973/74	Richmond Robins	AHL		54	2	10	12	163	5	0	0	0	12
1974/75	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		2	0	0	0	11	-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	Richmond Robins	AHL		72	4th	3	7th	316	7th	0	3	3	45
1975/76	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		57	1	2	3	205	15th	0	3	3	41
1975/76	Richmond Robins	AHL		4th	0	0	0	17th	-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		40	2	1	3	164	-	-	-	-	-
1976/77	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		21st	1	7th	8th	61	-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		69	3	5	8th	172	-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		53	2	4th	6th	129	3	0	0	0	2
1979/80	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		24	0	2	2	41	-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		26th	0	4th	4th	95	9	0	0	0	25th
1980/81	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		3	0	0	0	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Maine Mariners	AHL		3	0	1	1	7th	16	6th	1	7th	62
1980/81	Hartford Whalers	NHL		48	1	6th	7th	142	-	-	-	-	-
1981/82	Hartford Whalers	NHL		50	1	5	6th	60	-	-	-	-	-
WCHL overall				57	2	5	7th	279	7th	0	1	1	39
AHL total				142	6th	15th	21st	507	16	0	3	3	64
NHL overall				393	11	36	47	1102	27	0	3	3	68

( 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

• Jack McIlhargey at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Jack McIlhargey at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sam Carchidi: Jack McIhargey, a scout, former player, and assistant coach with Flyers, dies at 68. In: inquirer.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer , July 20, 2020, accessed July 25, 2020 .