Kilby MacDonald

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CanadaCanada  Kilby MacDonald Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 6, 1914
place of birth Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
date of death May 11, 1986
Place of death Seminole , Florida , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 81 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1930-1933 Ottawa Montagnards
1934-1935 Kirkland Lake Blue Devils
1935-1936 Noranda Copper Kings
1936-1937 New York Rovers
1937-1939 Philadelphia Ramblers
1939-1941 New York Rangers
1941-1942 Hershey Bears
1942 Buffalo bison
1942-1943 Montreal Army
1944-1945 New York Rangers
1945-1946 Hull flounces

James Allan "Kilby" MacDonald (born September 6, 1914 in Ottawa , Ontario , † May 11, 1986 in Seminole , Florida ) was a Canadian ice hockey player . The left winger played 167 games for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League between 1939 and 1945 , where he won the Stanley Cup with the team in 1940 and was awarded the Calder Trophy as the best rookie in the league in the same year .

Career

Kilby MacDonald was born in Ottawa, where he played for the Ottawa Montagnards from 1930 to 1933 . At the age of 20 he moved to Kirkland Lake in search of work , where he worked as a miner and ran parallel to the Kirkland Lake Blue Devils and the Noranda Copper Kings in the Gold Belt Hockey League (GBHL). At this time he was discovered by Bill Brydge , who had previously also been active in the NHL and now worked as a scout for the New York Rangers , so that the Rangers MacDonald signed in the episode. For the time being, however, the attacker played for three years in minor leagues , for the New York Rovers in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League (EAHL) and for the Philadelphia Ramblers in the International-American Hockey League (IAHL), which served as the Rangers' farm team . The Canadian was elected once to the First All-Star Team of the respective league.

For the 1939/40 season, MacDonald succeeded in joining the Rangers squad, with his first season in the National Hockey League (NHL) also being his most successful. The attacker scored 28 points in 45 games in the regular season and was subsequently honored with the Calder Trophy as the best rookie in the league. In the subsequent playoffs in 1940 he also won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers. In the following year, his performance dropped significantly, so that he was sent back to the now renamed American Hockey League (AHL) for the 1941/42 season , where he was active for the Hershey Bears and the Buffalo Bisons . He was then drafted into the Canadian Army due to the ongoing Second World War and stationed in Montreal , where he was still on the ice in a regional league.

In the middle of the 1943/44 season, MacDonald returned to New York and spent almost one and a half more NHL seasons with the Rangers. He finally let his career end in the season 1945/46 with the Hull Volants in Québec . In total, he had completed 167 NHL games and scored 73 points scorer.

After his active career, MacDonald worked for the Labatt Brewing Company before he settled in Florida and died there in Seminole on May 11, 1986 at the age of 71.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1930/31 Ottawa Montagnards OCHL 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1931/32 Ottawa Montagnards OCHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1932/33 Ottawa Montagnards OCHL 12 7th 7th 14th 20th 2 1 1 2 12
1934/35 Kirkland Lake Blue Devils GBHL 13 7th 8th 15th 20th - - - - -
1935/36 Noranda Copper Kings GBHL 16 14th 10 24 48 - - - - -
1936/37 New York Rovers EAHL 45 21st 22nd 43 24 3 3 3 6th 0
1937/38 Philadelphia Ramblers IAHL 44 10 21st 31 12 5 2 3 5 2
1938/39 Philadelphia Ramblers IAHL 49 18th 37 55 48 9 4th 4th 8th 0
1939/40 New York Rangers NHL 45 15th 13 28 19th 12 0 2 2 4th
1940/41 New York Rangers NHL 47 5 6th 11 12 3 1 0 1 0
1941/42 Hershey Bears AHL 37 14th 16 30th 16 - - - - -
1941/42 Buffalo bison AHL 21st 14th 14th 28 12 - - - - -
1942/43 Montreal Army MCHL 32 12 23 35 19th 12 9 12 21st 28
1943/44 Montreal Army MCHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1943/44 New York Rangers NHL 24 7th 9 16 4th - - - - -
1944/45 New York Rangers NHL 36 9 6th 15th 12 - - - - -
1945/46 Hull flounces QSHL 9 2 4th 6th 0 - - - - -
OCHL overall 17th 7th 7th 14th 22nd 2 1 1 2 12
GBHL total 29 21st 18th 39 68 - - - - -
MCHL total 36 12 23 35 19th 12 9 12 21st 28
(I) AHL total 151 56 88 144 88 14th 6th 7th 13 2
NHL overall 152 36 34 70 47 15th 1 2 3 4th

( 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 MacDonald, Kilby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacDonald, James Allan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1986
Place of death Seminole , Florida , United States