Lowell MacDonald

Lowell MacDonald
Date of birth	August 20, 1941
place of birth	New Glasgow , Nova Scotia , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1959-1960	Hamilton Tiger Cubs
1960–1962	Hamilton Red Wings
1962-1965	Detroit Red Wings
1965-1967	Tulsa Oilers
1967-1969	Los Angeles Kings
1969-1970	Springfield Kings
1970-1988	Pittsburgh Penguins

Lowell Wilson MacDonald (born August 20, 1941 in New Glasgow , Nova Scotia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player (right winger) who played for the Detroit Red Wings , Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League from 1961 to 1978 .

Career

MacDonald played during his junior years with the Hamilton Tiger Cubs and Hamilton Red Wings in the OHA , together with Paul Henderson and Pit Martin . He came in the 1961/62 season for his first game in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings , but then returned to Hamilton and won the Memorial Cup with the team .

In the following years he played mostly for the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American Hockey League , over three years he came to another 45 missions with the Detroit Red Wings. In the summer of 1965 he was part of a large swap deal in which, among other things, Marcel Pronovost was given to the Toronto Maple Leafs to bring Andy Bathgate and Billy Harris to Detroit. At the Maple Leafs, he never made the leap into the squad.

After two years with the Tulsa Oilers in the CPhl and the Rochester Americans in the AHL brought him the Los Angeles Kings in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft . With the Kings he showed his scoring danger and was one of the best scorers of his team. After two seasons he surprisingly ended his career because he was very afraid of flying and had to fly from Los Angeles to almost all away games. At the end of the following season, the Kings were able to persuade him to continue his career in the AHL farm team at the Springfield Kings .

In the summer of 1970, the Pittsburgh Penguins got him in an intra-league draft. He played only ten games after his comeback in the 1970/71 season before a knee injury threw him out of the race for almost two seasons. After his return, he scored 34 goals in the 1972/73 season , the second most in the Penguins. For this impressive comeback he was awarded the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy . In the 1973/74 season he made it with 82 points among the top ten scorers in the NHL. After two more good seasons, in which he formed the extremely successful " Century Line " with Jean Pronovost and Syl Apps junior , he sustained a serious shoulder injury. He tried again afterwards to fight his way back to the NHL, but the connection to previous performances he was no longer successful. After the 1977/78 season, he therefore ended his career.

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	13	506	180	210	390	92
Playoffs	6th	30th	11	11	22nd	12

Sporting successes

• Memorial Cup : 1962

Personal awards

• Max Kaminsky Trophy : 1962
• OHA Jr. First All-Star Team: 1962
• Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy : 1973
• Participation in the NHL All-Star Game : 1973 and 1974

Web links

• Lowell MacDonald at hockeydb.com (English)
• Lowell MacDonald at legendsofhockey.net (English)