Marshall Johnston

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CanadaCanada  Marshall Johnston Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 1998
Date of birth June 6, 1941
place of birth Birch Hills , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1957-1959 Prince Albert Mintos
1959-1963 University of Denver
1963-1968 Team Canada
1968-1971 Minnesota North Stars
Cleveland Barons
1971-1974 California Golden Seals

Lawrence Marshall Johnston (* 6. June 1941 in Birch Hills , Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , - coach , and - functionary . The defender played over 250 games for the Minnesota North Stars and California Golden Seals in the National Hockey League between 1968 and 1974 . He also represented the Canadian national team at the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and 1968 and the World Championships in 1966 and 1967 . In 1998 he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame . As head coach, he was in charge of the California Golden Seals and the Colorado Rockies , among others, and also acted several times as the Canadian national coach at world championships. From the mid-1980s, Johnston served as an official for several teams in the NHL, including general manager of the Ottawa Senators , before retiring from the sport in 2016.

Career

As a player

Marshall Johnston played in his youth for the Prince Albert Mintos in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , before he attended the University of Denver from 1959 to 1963 and with its Pioneers twice the national college championship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) won. The defender was then - apart from sporadic appearances in regional amateur leagues - active in the Canadian national team for several years . With Team Canada he took part in the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and 1968 , where he led the team in Grenoble in 1968 as captain to win the bronze medal. In the meantime, he had already won two more bronze medals for his home country at the World Championships in 1966 and 1967 .

In the second half of the 1967/68 season, Johnston finally made the leap into the professional field when he joined the recently founded Minnesota North Stars from the National Hockey League (NHL). With the North Stars he did not succeed in the following two years, however, in establishing himself in the NHL squad, so that he was mainly used in their farm teams in minor leagues , the Cleveland Barons from the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Iowa Stars from the Central Hockey League . He was honored in the AHL season 1970/71 with the Eddie Shore Award as the best defensive player in the league and also elected him to the AHL First All-Star Team . In the summer of 1971 he was finally transferred from Minnesota to the Canadiens de Montréal , who only a little later gave him over to the California Golden Seals . In California, the Canadian was used regularly in the following three seasons, so that he achieved his career best in the 1972/73 season with 30 points from 78 games. After the season 1973/74, in which he was already temporarily acting as the head coach of the Golden Seals, Johnston ended his active career, in which he had completed 256 games in the NHL and posted 66 points. In 1998 he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame as a player .

As a trainer

CanadaCanada  Marshall Johnston
Coaching stations
1974-1975 California Golden Seals
1975-1981 University of Denver
1981-1982 Colorado Rockies

Johnston moved directly to the head coach position of the California Golden Seals while he was still active in the NHL when Fred Glover was fired during the 1973/74 season. He looked after the team for the last 21 games of the season, of which he won only two, before he was also dismissed after 48 games of the following season 1974/75 and replaced by Bill McCreary . Johnston then returned to his alma mater and was head coach at the University of Denver from 1975 to 1981, while he also served as national coach for Team Canada at the 1978 and 1979 World Championships . He won a bronze medal with the team in 1978, which was to be followed by another at the 1982 World Cup in the same function.

For the season 1981/82 Johnston returned to the NHL and also took over his first official position when he was introduced as the new assistant to the general manager of the Colorado Rockies . Only a short time later he returned there, however, already behind the dugout when he succeeded the dismissed Bert Marshall and looked after the Rockies until the end of the season. He then accompanied the team on their move to New Jersey , where it was renamed New Jersey Devils , and took over the position of assistant coach from Bill MacMillan for two years before finally moving to management and being hired as Director of Player Personnel .

As a functionary

As Director of Player Personnel , Johnston worked for the Devils from 1984 to 1993, before he was hired by the Ottawa Senators in the same capacity for the 1995/96 season . In Ottawa, he eventually rose to the 1999/00 season as general manager and stepped while the succession of after Tampa migrated Rick Dudley to. The Canadian led the Senators' fortunes for three years before being replaced by John Muckler in 2001 . The Chicago Blackhawks then hired him from 2002 to 2005 as Scout or Director of Player Development , before he took over as Director of Professional Scouting at the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2005/06 season . In this role he was immortalized at the Stanley Cup in 2006 and subsequently worked for the Hurricanes until 2016 when he retired from the ice hockey business.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1957/58 Prince Albert Mintos SJHL 49 20th 29 49 21st 5 0 0 0 2
1958/59 Prince Albert Mintos SJHL 48 31 24 55 17th 5 1 0 1 4th
1959/60 University of Denver NCAA no statistics available
1960/61 University of Denver NCAA 14th 4th 7th 11 ?
1961/62 University of Denver NCAA 12 7th 11 18th 8th
1962/63 University of Denver NCAA 14th 6th 12 18th 8th
1963-1968 active in the national team
1967/68 Minnesota North Stars NHL 6th 0 0 0 +1 0 - - - - - -
1968/69 Cleveland Barons AHL 53 6th 20th 26th 31 5 0 4th 4th 4th
1968/69 Minnesota North Stars NHL 13 0 0 0 -1 2 - - - - - -
1969/70 Iowa stars CHL 50 1 25th 26th 42 - - - - - -
1969/70 Minnesota North Stars NHL 28 0 5 5 +1 14th 6th 0 0 0 +1 2
1970/71 Cleveland Barons AHL 69 11 45 56 45 8th 0 6th 6th 4th
1970/71 Minnesota North Stars NHL 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
1971/72 California Golden Seals NHL 74 2 11 13 -28 4th - - - - - -
1972/73 California Golden Seals NHL 78 10 20th 30th -2 14th - - - - - -
1973/74 California Golden Seals NHL 50 2 16 18th -43 24 - - - - - -
SJHL overall 97 51 53 104 38 10 1 0 1 6th
AHL total 122 17th 65 82 76 13 0 10 10 8th
NHL overall 250 14th 52 66 -72 58 6th 0 0 0 +1 2

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1964 Canada Olympia 4th Place 7th 0 3 3 6th
1966 Canada WM Bronze medal 7th 3 3 6th 4th
1967 Canada WM Bronze medal 7th 2 2 4th 0
1968 Canada Olympia Bronze medal 7th 2 5 7th 2
Men overall 28 7th 13 20th 12

( 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 California Golden Seals NHL 21st 2 17th 2 6th .143 8. (West) not qualified
1974/75 California Golden Seals NHL 48 11 28 9 31 .323 dismiss
1981/82 Colorado Rockies NHL 56 15th 32 9 39 .348 5. ( Smythe ) not qualified
NHL overall 125 28 77 20th 76 .304 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Terrell Williams: Johnston Retires; Whitney Added as Pro Scout. nhl.com, June 29, 2016, accessed May 27, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Johnston, Marshall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnston, Lawrence Marshall (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Birch Hills , Saskatchewan , Canada