Jamie McLennan

Jamie McLennan
Date of birth	June 30, 1971
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1991 , 3rd round, 48th position New York Islanders
Career stations
1988-1989	Spokane Chiefs
1989-1991	Lethbridge Hurricanes
1991-1993	Capital District Islanders
1993-1996	New York Islanders
1996-1997	Worcester IceCats
1997-2000	St. Louis Blues
2000-2001	Minnesota Wild
2001-2002	Houston Eros
2002-2004	Calgary Flames
2004	New York Rangers
2004-2005	Guildford Flames
2005-2006	Florida panthers
2006-2007	Calgary Flames
2007-2008	Nippon Paper Cranes

James Joseph McLennan (* the thirtieth June 1971 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who for the New York Islanders , St. Louis Blues , Minnesota Wild , Calgary Flames , New York Rangers and Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League active was. Until the end of the 2010/11 season he worked as an assistant coach with the Calgary Flames.

Career

Jamie McLennan started with the Spokane Chiefs in the Junior League WHL 1988. In 1989 he moved within the league to the Lethbridge Hurricanes . There he moved into the final of the playoffs in 1990 and 1991 , but lost with his team there twice. In 1991 he was named the best goalkeeper in the WHL. In the 1991 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the New York Islanders in the third round at position 48.

He completed the 1991/92 and 1992/93 seasons with the Capital District Islanders in the American Hockey League and the Richmond Renegades in the ECHL , both of which were farm teams of the New York Islanders. At the beginning of the 1993/94 season he played for the IHL farm team of the Islanders, before he was used for the first time in the NHL in January . McLennan took on the role of the back-up gala behind Ron Hextall .

In the following two years, as number 2 of the Islanders, he got several opportunities to present himself in the NHL, but continued to play with the farm teams. 1994/95 in the IHL for the Denver Grizzlies and 1995/96 in the IHL for the Utah Grizzlies , as well as in the AHL for the Worcester IceCats .

After the 1995/96 season ended for a few weeks, he drove from Salt Lake City , Utah , home to Edmonton, but with a stopover in Lethbridge to visit his family. During the May 6 visit, he complained that he was not feeling well and feeling sick. On the same day he was admitted to the hospital because he was having trouble moving. At the hospital it was discovered that he had bacterial meningitis and that the disease could have been fatal. He spent the following weeks in the hospital.

The New York Islanders decided not to extend the contract to July 1st. McLennan was out of work and had to learn to walk again due to illness.

The St. Louis Blues signed him on July 15th. And since McLennan recovered very well, he was able to make his comeback in the AHL with the Worcester IceCats in 1996/97. He was able to convince the Blues with good performances and came to the NHL team as a back-up goalie. With 16 wins and two shutouts in 30 games of the 1997/98 season , he was able to establish himself as number 2. Also in the following two years he brought solid performances. In 1998, Jamie McLennan received the NHL Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for his quick comeback after a serious illness .

In the summer of 2000, the NHL was increased by two teams and so that the squads of the two new teams could be filled with players, the NHL Expansion Draft 2000 took place, in which the new teams can choose a certain number of players from the existing teams. Jamie McLennan was selected by the Minnesota Wild and shared the post as regular goalkeeper with Manny Fernandez in the 2000/01 season . But the season was miserable for him. In 38 games he managed only five wins. The following season he played in the AHL with the Houston Eros .

During the NHL Entry Draft 2002 he was transferred from Minnesota to the Calgary Flames , where he had the chance to work as a back-up goalie again. In Calgary, as in 1999/2000 in St. Louis, he formed the goalkeeping team together with Roman Turek as number 1. His first season in Calgary was not positive and he could only win twice in 22 games. But he stayed with the team and when Roman Turek injured himself at the beginning of the 2003/04 season, Jamie McLennan was the goalkeeper number 1. After Turek's return, Miikka Kiprusoff took over the job as goalkeeper and Turek as a substitute. McLennan now had no more chance of missions for the team. In March 2004 he was transferred to the New York Rangers , where he played four more games.

In the summer of 2004 he signed a two-year contract with the Florida Panthers . However, the 2004/05 NHL season was canceled due to the lockout . McLennan went to the United Kingdom for the Guildford Flames in February 2005 , but only played once for the team.

The 2005/06 NHL season took place again and McLennan started his first year in Florida. But behind Roberto Luongo he was only used ten times.

On July 6, 2006, it was announced that he was returning to the Calgary Flames and that he had signed a one-year contract. In the 2006/07 season he came as a substitute goalkeeper for Miikka Kiprusoff only nine times and brought only three wins. In the first round of the playoffs against the Detroit Red Wings , McLennan was substituted on in the fifth game with a score of 1-5 three minutes and 17 seconds before the end. A few seconds after the substitution, he hit Detroit's Johan Franzén , who blocked his view, in the legs with the bat, whereupon a penalty was displayed. During the subsequent interruption, McLennan finally lost his nerve and deliberately hit the passing Franzén in the stomach with the bat. For his 18-second mission, he received a game misconduct penalty and a match penalty in addition to the two-minute penalty for the first stroke of the stick . A day later, McLennan was suspended from the NHL for five games.

In the summer of 2007, his contract with the Calgary Flames expired and he received a trial contract with Metallurg Magnitogorsk from the Russian Super League , but could not recommend himself for a place in the squad. In November 2007 he was finally signed by the Nippon Paper Cranes from the Asia League Ice Hockey . With the Paper Cranes he moved into the playoffs to the finals, where however they were subject to the Ōji Eagles .

After the season in Japan, he retired in the summer of 2008 and returned to North America. There he was hired by the Calgary Flames as a scout and as Director of Goalie Development oversaw the development of the goalkeepers in the Flames organization. For the 2009/10 season he was hired by the Flames as an assistant coach.

Achievements and Awards

• 1991 Del Wilson Trophy
• 1998 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy

Others

His mask

Jamie McLennan is a huge fan of the rock band KISS . Because of this, the four members of the band are depicted on almost every mask he has worn. On the mask from the 2003/04 season he also had the Calgary skyline with the Pengrowth Saddledome ice hockey arena in the foreground. He also had a large inflamed C on top of the mask and his number 29 under the grille. The lettering of the band Nickelback also adorns the mask, because he is a fan of the band and, like him and the Calgary Flames, they come from the province of Alberta. McLennan designed the mask himself.

His number

Jamie McLennan always wore the number 31 in his junior years in the WHL, but for the first time he had to do without it at his first NHL station, the New York Islanders, as it was no longer awarded in honor of Billy Smith . He decided on the number 29, which he also wore in St. Louis, as Grant Fuhr already claimed 31 for himself. He stayed true to his lineage and wore the 29 in Minnesota as well. In Calgary, he voluntarily waived the 29 out of respect for former Calgary goalkeeper Mike Vernon , as McLennan believed Vernon had worn it. But McLennan was wrong, which is why he wore the 29 again the following season. While he was initially forced to wear the number 29 in the NHL, it is now the number he wears on every team.

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1. ↑ http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20062007/GS030155.HTM

Web links

• Jamie McLennan at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jamie McLennan at hockeygoalies.org
• Various goalie masks from McLennan's career