Marcel Dionne

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 1992
Marcel Dionne, 1987

Marcel Dionne, 1987
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

Dionne in the Rangers jersey

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

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
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:

 

Represented the National Hockey League at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1972 Canada Summit Series 1st place - - - - -
1976 Canada Canada Cup 1st place, gold 7th 1 5 6th 4th
1978 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 10 9 3 12 2
1979 NHL All-Stars Challenge Cup - 2 0 1 1 0
1979 Canada WM 4th Place 7th 2 1 3 4th
1981 Canada Canada Cup 2nd place 6th 4th 1 5 4th
1983 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 10 6th 3 9 2
1986 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 10 4th 4th 8th 8th
Men overall 50 26th 17th 43 24

( 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.

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personal data
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