Kevin McClelland

Kevin McClelland
Date of birth	4th July 1962
place of birth	Oshawa , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1980 , 4th lap, 71st position Hartford Whalers
Career stations
1979-1982	Niagara Falls Flyers
1981-1983	Pittsburgh Penguins
1983-1989	Edmonton Oilers
1989-1991	Detroit Red Wings Adirondack Red Wings
1991-1993	Toronto Maple Leafs St. John's Maple Leafs
1993-1994	Winnipeg Jets Moncton Hawks
1994-1995	Rochester Americans

Kevin William McClelland (born July 4, 1962 in Oshawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . The right winger completed, among other things, over 600 games in the National Hockey League , the majority of them for the Edmonton Oilers , with whom he won four Stanley Cups and primarily appeared as an enforcer .

Career

youth

Kevin McClelland was born in Oshawa and played there in his youth for the Oshawa Legionaires , among others , before moving to the Niagara Falls Flyers in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL) for the 1979/80 season. After his first year with the Flyers, the attacker was selected in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft in 71st position by the Hartford Whalers , but his breakthrough in Niagara Falls only came in the following season 1980/81: In the now renamed Ontario Hockey League (OHL ) he scored 108 points in 68 games and at the same time established himself as an enforcer , leading his team in penalty minutes (186). In June 1981 the Whalers were forced to hand him and Pat Boutette over to the Pittsburgh Penguins as compensation for having signed their goalkeeper Greg Millen despite his restricted free agent status . For the Penguins, McClelland made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in December 1981 , but spent most of the season in the OHL.

NHL

At the beginning of the 1982/83 season, the Canadian established himself in the Penguins' NHL squad, but fell out over half of the season due to a shoulder injury. As a result, he lost his regular seat again and played briefly at the beginning of the 1983/84 season for the Baltimore Skipjacks , the Pittsburgh farm team , in the American Hockey League (AHL), before the Penguins in December 1983, including a six-round vote for the 1984 NHL Entry Draft to the Edmonton Oilers . In return, Tom Roulston moved to Pittsburgh.

In the jersey of the Oilers, one of the up-and-coming teams in the league, McClelland subsequently spent by far his most successful time in the NHL, winning four Stanley Cups with the team in the following five years . The attacker appeared primarily as an enforcer, so he led the Oilers several times, both in the regular season and in the playoffs, in penalty minutes. Nevertheless, he also contributed to the success as a scorer, for example in his first year he scored the decisive goal for the 1-0 success of the Oilers in the first game of the Stanley Cup final in 1984 against the New York Islanders . His career best, however, he set up with 36 points scorer in 70 games in the 1985/86 season, the only year in which he did not emerge victorious from the playoffs with Edmonton. After about six years, McClelland was given to the Detroit Red Wings in November 1989 and at that time held the franchise record for the most penalty minutes in the regular season (1289) and playoffs (276). With him Jimmy Carson and Edmonton's five-round suffrage in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft moved to Detroit, while the Red Wings sent Petr Klíma , Joe Murphy , Adam Graves and Jeff Sharples to Edmonton.

In Detroit, McClelland ended the season 1989/90 and then already lost his regular place in their NHL squad, so that he spent the 1990/91 season mainly with the Adirondack Red Wings in the AHL. Something similar happened to him in the following two years with the Toronto Maple Leafs , which he had joined as a free agent in September 1991. Apart from 18 NHL games, he was used exclusively with the St. John's Maple Leafs in the AHL before he was given in August 1993 for financial consideration to the Winnipeg Jets . After six missions in Winnipeg and 40 AHL games for the Moncton Hawks , the Jets transferred him to the Buffalo Sabers in July 1994 , for which he subsequently no longer appeared in the NHL. After 22 missions in the 1994/95 season for their farm team, the Rochester Americans , he ended his active career. In total, he had completed 686 games in the NHL, collecting 209 scorer points and 1953 penalty minutes.

Coaching career

After a hiatus of two years, McClelland began his coaching career in 1997 as an assistant coach with the Barrie Colts in the OHL, before heading the Prince Albert Raiders of the Western Hockey League from 1998 to 2000 as head coach. He then returned to the St. John's Maple Leafs in the AHL and looked after the team from 2000 to 2005 as an assistant coach. In the 2005/06 season, the Canadian took over his first position as head coach in the professional field when he moved to the Memphis RiverKings in the Central Hockey League (CHL). In the CHL, he subsequently worked as head coach for the Colorado Eagles (2008-2010) and the Wichita Thunder (2010-2014), with the latter being in charge of the ECHL until 2016 . In the 2016/17 season, McClelland finally returned to junior ice hockey and took over the West Coast Renegades , a junior team from Utah .

Achievements and Awards

• 1984 Stanley Cup win with the Edmonton Oilers
• 1985 Stanley Cup win with the Edmonton Oilers
• 1987 Stanley Cup win with the Edmonton Oilers
• 1988 Stanley Cup win with the Edmonton Oilers
• 2007 Commissioner's Trophy
• 2012 Commissioner's Trophy

Career statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
1979/80	Niagara Falls Flyers	OMJHL		67	14th	14th	28		71		10	6th	3	9		49
1980/81	Niagara Falls Flyers	OHL		68	36	72	108		186		12	8th	13	21st		42
1981/82	Niagara Falls Flyers	OHL		46	36	47	83		184		5	5	5	10		14th
1981/82	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		10	1	4th	5	+6	5		5	1	1	2	-3	5
1982/83	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		38	5	4th	9	-18	73		-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Baltimore Skipjacks	AHL		3	1	1	2		0		-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		24	2	4th	6th	–7	62		-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		52	8th	20th	28	+9	127		18th	4th	6th	10	+13	42
1984/85	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		62	8th	15th	23	–11	205		18th	1	3	4th	+4	75
1985/86	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		79	11	25th	36	+9	266		10	1	0	1	-1	32
1986/87	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		72	12	13	25th	-4	238		21st	2	3	5	–6	43
1987/88	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		74	10	6th	16	+1	281		19th	2	3	5	-1	68
1988/89	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		79	6th	14th	20th	-10	161		7th	0	2	2	+3	16
1989/90	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		10	1	1	2	-1	13		-	-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		61	4th	5	9	-5	183		-	-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		27	5	14th	19th		125		-	-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		3	0	0	0	-4	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		34	7th	15th	22nd	+6	199		5	0	1	1	-2	9
1991/92	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		18th	0	1	1	-3	33		-	-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		55	7th	20th	27	+2	221		1	0	0	0		7th
1993/94	Moncton Hawks	AHL		39	3	5	8th	–7	233		1	0	0	0	-1	2
1993/94	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		6th	0	0	0	± 0	19th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Rochester Americans	AHL		22nd	0	2	2	-4	93		-	-	-	-	-	-
O (MJ) HL total				114	72	119	191		370		17th	13	18th	31		56
AHL total				180	23	57	80		871		7th	0	1	1		18th
NHL overall				588	68	112	180	-38	1672		98	11	18th	29	+9	281

( 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

• Kevin McClelland in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Kevin McClelland at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Kevin McClelland at legendsofhockey.net (English)