Lou Angotti

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Lou Angotti, ca.1957

Lou Angotti, ca.1957
Date of birth January 16, 1938
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 175 cm
Weight 77 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1955-1958 Toronto St. Michael's Majors
1958–1962 Michigan Technological University
1962-1964 Rochester Americans
1964-1966 New York Rangers
1966-1967 Chicago Black Hawks
1967-1968 Philadelphia Flyers
1968-1969 Pittsburgh Penguins
1969-1973 Chicago Black Hawks
1973-1974 St. Louis Blues
1974-1975 Chicago Cougars

Louis Frederick "Lou" Angotti (born January 16, 1938 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach . The center played , among other things, over 700 games for five teams in the National Hockey League , the majority of them for the Chicago Black Hawks , with whom he reached two Stanley Cup finals. He then worked as head coach in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues and the Pittsburgh Penguins .

Career

As a player

Lou Angotti was active in his youth for the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), the highest junior league in his home province. However, he did not succeed in making the leap into the professional field for the time being, so he enrolled at Michigan Technological University and earned a bachelor's degree in engineering there over the next four years . In parallel, the attacker ran for their ice hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and reached the final of the national college championship with the team in 1960 and 1962. In 1960 they were defeated by the University of Denver , before two years later they won 7-1 against Clarkson University . Angotti was named MVP of the NCAA tournament in both finals and was also appointed to the WCHA's All-Star Team twice during his time at Michigan Tech .

At the beginning of the 1962/63 season, the center forward ran, after a short time with the Kitchener-Waterloo Tigers , for the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League (AHL). There he was active for almost two years until the Toronto Maple Leafs , who held his NHL rights, handed him over to the New York Rangers in June 1964 together with Ed Lawson . In return, Duane Rupp and Ed Ehrenverth moved to Toronto. With the Rangers Angotti first established himself in the National Hockey League (NHL), but spent parts of the 1965/66 season with the St. Louis Braves in the Central Professional Hockey League , before moving to Chicago in January 1966 for financial consideration Black Hawks was transferred.

With the Black Hawks, the center should spend most of his NHL career, but he was initially committed in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers . With the newly founded team he was appointed first team captain and recorded the best value of his career with 49 points scorer . Nevertheless, in June 1968 the Flyers sent him with Ian Campbell to the St. Louis Blues and received Darryl Edestrand and Gerry Melnyk for it . On the same day, however, the Canadian was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Ab McDonald , where he spent the 1968/69 season. He then returned in June 1969 with a first-round vote for the NHL Amateur Draft 1971 back to the Blues, for which the Penguins Ron Schock , Craig Cameron and a second-round vote for the same draft received. However, Angotti was again not active in St. Louis, as he was committed only a few days later in the NHL Intra-League Draft by the Chicago Black Hawks.

His second engagement in the "Windy City" lasted longer, so he stood from 1969 to 1973 in four seasons regularly for the Blackhawks on the ice and reached with the team in the playoffs in 1971 and 1973 , the final of the Stanley Cup , was but inferior there. As a result, he was taken in June 1973 on the Intra-League Draft a third time by the St. Louis Blues, in which he finally played his last NHL games in the 1973/74 season. After briefly supervising the team as head coach, he let his active career end in the 1974/75 season with the Chicago Cougars in the World Hockey Association . In total, he had completed 718 games in the NHL and recorded 305 points scorer.

As a trainer

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Coaching stations
1974 St. Louis Blues
1979-1980 New Brunswick Hawks
1980-1981 Austin Mavericks
1981-1982 Erie Blades
1982-1983 Baltimore Skipjacks
1983-1984 Pittsburgh Penguins

By the end of the 1973/74 season, Angotti ended his career when he was offered to succeed Jean-Guy Talbot as head coach of the St. Louis Blues. He also looked after the team at the beginning of the following season, but was dismissed after nine games, so that he briefly returned as a player on the ice in the WHA. After a long hiatus, he took over the New Brunswick Hawks from the AHL for the 1979/80 season, which he also supervised for only one season, as well as the Austin Mavericks from the United States Hockey League and the Erie Blades and the Baltimore Skipjacks from the AHL. In 1983 he returned to the NHL when he succeeded Eddie Johnston with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Angotti won only 16 of 80 games with the team, so he was replaced by Bob Berry the following season . At the same time, this marked the end of his coaching career, but he stayed with the Penguins for two more years as Director of Professional Scouting . Later, the Canadian was also involved as a commentator and TV expert on broadcasts of games by the Blackhawks.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1955/56 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHA 48 6th 6th 12 29 8th 4th 0 4th 20th
1956/57 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHA 52 12 19th 31 28 4th 1 2 3 4th
1957/58 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHA 52 23 19th 42 72 9 7th 8th 15th 10
1958/59 Michigan Technological University NCAA 5 10 9 19th ?
1959/60 Michigan Technological University NCAA 30th 18th 21st 39 30th
1960/61 Michigan Technological University NCAA 28 25th 17th 42 52
1961/62 Michigan Technological University NCAA 31 28 23 51 50
1962/63 Kitchener-Waterloo Tigers OHA-Sr. 16 19th 7th 26th 26th - - - - - -
1962/63 Rochester Americans AHL 39 16 15th 31 19th 1 0 0 0 0
1963/64 Rochester Americans AHL 60 15th 30th 45 28 2 1 1 2 0
1964/65 New York Rangers NHL 70 9 8th 17th -22 20th - - - - - -
1965/66 New York Rangers NHL 21st 2 2 4th –6 2 - - - - - -
1965/66 St. Louis Braves CPHL 8th 10 8th 18th 4th 11 4th 8th 12 13
1965/66 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 30th 4th 10 14th -1 8th 6th 0 0 0 -2 2
1966/67 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 63 6th 12 18th +4 17th 6th 2 1 3 +1 2
1967/68 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 70 12 37 49 +4 35 7th 0 0 0 +1 2
1968/69 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 71 17th 20th 37 -22 36 - - - - - -
1969/70 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 70 12 26th 38 +2 25th 8th 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1970/71 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 65 9 16 25th +19 19th 16 3 3 6th -1 9
1971/72 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 65 5 10 15th ± 0 23 6th 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1972/73 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 77 15th 22nd 37 -3 26th 16 3 4th 7th -3 2
1973/74 St. Louis Blues NHL 51 12 23 35 -3 9 - - - - - -
1974/75 Chicago Cougars WHA 26th 2 5 7th -1 9 - - - - - -
OHA total 152 41 44 85 129 21st 12 10 22nd 34
NCAA overall 94 81 70 151 132
AHL total 99 31 45 76 47 3 1 1 2 0
NHL overall 653 103 186 289 -28 220 65 8th 8th 16 -4 17th

( 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 )

NHL coaching statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U Pt Pt% Place (division) Sp S. N result
1973/74 St. Louis Blues NHL 23 4th 15th 4th 12 .261 6. ( West ) not qualified
1974/75 St. Louis Blues NHL 9 2 5 2 6th .333 dismiss
1983/84 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 80 16 58 6th 38 .238 6. ( Patrick ) not qualified
NHL overall 112 22nd 78 12 56 .250 0 division title - - - 0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

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personal data
SURNAME Angotti, Lou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angotti, Louis Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada