Marcel Dionne
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1992 | |
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Marcel Dionne, 1987 |
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Date of birth | August 3, 1951 |
place of birth | Drummondville , Quebec , Canada |
Nickname | Little Beaver |
size | 173 cm |
Weight | 84 kg |
position | center |
Shot hand | Right |
Draft | |
NHL Amateur Draft |
1971 , 1st lap, 2nd position Detroit Red Wings |
Career stations | |
1967-1968 | Drummondville Rangers |
1968-1971 | St. Catharines Black Hawks |
1971-1975 | Detroit Red Wings |
1975-1987 | Los Angeles Kings |
1987-1989 | New York Rangers |
Marcel Elphege Dionne (born August 3, 1951 in Drummondville , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The center played over 1,300 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League between 1971 and 1989 . He spent most of his career with the Kings, where he holds a number of franchise records to this day and where his jersey number 16 is banned . With the Canadian national team he won the gold medal at the Canada Cup in 1976 .
Dionne is considered one of the best players of his generation, so he received the 1980 Art Ross Trophy as top scorer of the NHL and was also twice awarded the Lester B. Pearson Award for Most Valuable Player . In total, he recorded 1771 points in his career , so that only five players are placed in front of him in the eternal scorer list of the NHL. In 1992 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .
Career
In the NHL Amateur Draft 1971 he was elected second behind Guy Lafleur and while Lafleur was allowed to stay in his home province with the Montréal Canadiens , Dionne had to go to Detroit in the United States . Dionne was 417 points more than Lafleur, but Lafleur won the Stanley Cup five times with the Canadiens . Dionne is the only player among the NHL's top 10 scorers who never won the Stanley Cup.
Dionne got off to a great start in his first season, but overall his time in Detroit was rather disappointing and he joined the Los Angeles Kings as one of the first top free agents . Even if he was small and not above average, he impressed with his eye for goals, his stability and his excellent passing game. In the middle of the "Triple Crown Line" with Charlie Simmer and Dave Taylor , he scored more than 50 goals six times and more than 100 points eight times. In Wayne Gretzky's first season 1979/80 Marcel Dionne was top scorer because he had scored more goals with the same number of points. Until 1995 only Mario Lemieux and Gretzky could win this title. When he moved from the Kings to the Rangers in 1987, he came from a team that had been without a title for 19 years to a team that had been waiting for a cup win for 46 years. He stayed in New York for two years before ending his career.
Marcel Dionne scored 550 goals for the Los Angeles Kings. That was a club record that lasted until January 2006. Luc Robitaille surpassed him in January 2006 when he scored goals 550, 551 and 552 in one game. Nevertheless, Dionne continues to hold the best marks for most assists and scorer points in the Kings jersey. With his total of 1771 scorer points, he ranks sixth in the all-time scorer list of the NHL, only Gretzky, Jaromír Jágr , Mark Messier , Gordie Howe and Ron Francis were more successful.
In 1992 he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame . On November 6, 2006, he received the Lester Patrick Trophy for his services to ice hockey in the US and the NHL.
Achievements and Awards
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International
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Career statistics
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1967/68 | Drummondville Rangers | QJHL | 48 | 34 | 35 | 69 | 45 | 10 | 14th | 7th | 21st | 4th | ||
1968 | Drummondville Rangers | Memorial Cup | 4th | 9 | 4th | 13 | 5 | |||||||
1968/69 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | OHA | 48 | 37 | 63 | 100 | 38 | 18th | 15th | 20th | 35 | 8th | ||
1969/70 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | OHA | 54 | 55 | 77 | 132 | 46 | 10 | 12 | 20th | 32 | 10 | ||
1970/71 | St. Catharines Black Hawks | OHA | 46 | 62 | 81 | 143 | 20th | 15th | 29 | 26th | 55 | 11 | ||
1971/72 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 78 | 28 | 49 | 77 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1972/73 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 77 | 40 | 50 | 90 | 21st | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1973/74 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 74 | 24 | 54 | 78 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1974/75 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 80 | 47 | 74 | 121 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1975/76 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 40 | 54 | 94 | 38 | 9 | 6th | 1 | 7th | 0 | ||
1976/77 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 53 | 69 | 122 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 14th | 2 | ||
1977/78 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 70 | 36 | 43 | 79 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1978/79 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 59 | 71 | 130 | 30th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
1979/80 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 53 | 84 | 137 | 32 | 4th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4th | ||
1980/81 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 58 | 77 | 135 | 70 | 4th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 7th | ||
1981/82 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 78 | 50 | 67 | 117 | 50 | 10 | 7th | 4th | 11 | 0 | ||
1982/83 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 56 | 51 | 107 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1983/84 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 66 | 39 | 53 | 92 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1984/85 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 46 | 80 | 126 | 46 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
1985/86 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 80 | 36 | 58 | 94 | 42 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1986/87 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 67 | 24 | 50 | 74 | 54 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1986/87 | New York Rangers | NHL | 14th | 4th | 6th | 10 | 6th | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
1987/88 | New York Rangers | NHL | 67 | 31 | 34 | 65 | 54 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1988/89 | New York Rangers | NHL | 37 | 7th | 16 | 23 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1988/89 | Denver Rangers | IHL | 9 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
OHA total | 148 | 154 | 221 | 375 | 104 | 43 | 56 | 66 | 122 | 29 | ||||
IHL total | 9 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
NHL overall | 1348 | 731 | 1040 | 1771 | 600 | 49 | 21st | 24 | 45 | 17th |
International
Represented Canada to: |
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Represented the National Hockey League at: |
( 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 )
Personal
His brother Gilbert Dionne was also active in the NHL and won the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1993.
Web links
- Marcel Dionne in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Marcel Dionne in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
- Marcel Dionne at eliteprospects.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dionne, Marcel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dionne, Marcel Elphege (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Drummondville , Quebec , Canada |