Marty McSorley

Marty McSorley
Date of birth	May 18, 1963
place of birth	Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	107 kg
position	Defender / Right Wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1981-1983	Belleville Bulls
1983-1985	Pittsburgh Penguins
1985-1988	Edmonton Oilers
1988-1993	Los Angeles Kings
1993-1994	Pittsburgh Penguins
1994-1996	Los Angeles Kings
1996	New York Rangers
1996-1998	San Jose Sharks
1998-1999	Edmonton Oilers
1999-2000	Boston Bruins
2000-2001	Grand Rapids Griffins

Martin James McSorley (born May 18, 1963 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey defender and coach. During his career as a player he has been under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins , Edmonton Oilers , Los Angeles Kings , New York Rangers , San Jose Sharks and Boston Bruins . He is also an actor in several films. His brother Chris McSorley is the sporting director and former co-owner and coach of Genève-Servette HC .

Career

Marty McSorley played in some lower class junior leagues before joining the Belleville Bulls from the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League in 1981 . A year later he signed as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League , but stayed for another year with the Belleville Bulls. In the 1983/84 season he made his debut for the Penguins and was the entire season in the team's NHL roster. The following year he spent mainly in the American Hockey League with the Baltimore Skipjacks , the Penguins' farm team .

In 1985 he was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers and was finally able to establish himself there in the NHL. He had a good number of points, but his strength was the physically tough game. Since he was not afraid to get involved in fistfights, he was one of the league's most famous Enforcers at the time and was on the ice as the bodyguard of Edmonton's superstars Wayne Gretzky , Mark Messier and Jari Kurri . He was an important part of the team when they won the Stanley Cup in 1987 and 1988 .

Together with Wayne Gretzky, he was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings in the summer of 1988 . There they played together for several years and were in the 1993 final again for the Stanley Cup, which was lost. In August 1993 he was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins, but after six months he was brought back to Los Angeles, where he stayed until 1996. After nine games with the New York Rangers , for which he completed the last weeks of the 1995/96 season , he moved to the San Jose Sharks .

In 1998 he returned to the Edmonton Oilers, but his contract was not renewed after a year. When the 1999/2000 season was already two months old, the Boston Bruins gave him a contract. On February 21, 2000 he hit in the game against the Vancouver Canucks opponent Donald Brashear with the bat against the head. Brashear fell backwards onto the ice and remained unconscious. He suffered a severe concussion. Marty McSorley was then banned for the remainder of the season. On October 4, 2000, a court sentenced him to one and a half years probation. The NHL then extended the ban to a full year.

When the suspension expired in February 2001, McSorley was awarded a contract with the Grand Rapids Griffins in the International Hockey League , but despite his best efforts, he was no longer awarded an NHL contract and retired in the summer of 2001.

In 2002 Marty McSorley took over as head coach of the Springfield Falcons , the Phoenix Coyotes' then AHL farm team . After being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in the first season, they could not even qualify for the finals in 2003/04 and McSorley was sacked.

During the 2005/06 season he analyzed the games of the Los Angeles Kings and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for the television channel Fox Sports Net West . Since the 2006/07 season he has been commenting on the games of the San Jose Sharks as an expert for FSN Bay Area.

Others

• On April 23, 1994 Marty McSorley gave the template for Wayne Gretzky's 802nd goal of his career, whereby Gretzky set a new record that has not been broken to this day.
• McSorley received 3,381 penalty minutes during his career, making only three players in NHL history more penalties than him.

Acting career

• In addition to his career as a hockey player, McSorley is also active as an actor . Between 1995 and 1997 he took on minor roles in the films Bad Boys with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence , Forget Paris with Billy Crystal , Con Air with Nicolas Cage and Do Me A Favor with Rosanna Arquette . He also made an appearance on the television series CSI: Miami in 2005 and made a cameo as himself on the series Greek in 2007 .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	17th	961	108	251	359	3,381
Playoffs	10	115	10	19th	29	374

Achievements and Awards

• Stanley Cup 1987 and 1988
• NHL Plus / Minus Award 1991 (together with Theoren Fleury )

Web links

Commons : Marty McSorley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marty McSorley at hockeydb.com (English)
• Marty McSorley at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Marty McSorley in the Internet Movie Database (English)