Mike McMahon Junior
 Mike McMahon Junior 
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| Date of birth | August 30, 1941 |
| place of birth | Québec City , Québec , Canada |
| date of death | April 29, 2013 |
| Place of death | Saint Paul , Minnesota , USA |
| size | 180 cm |
| Weight | 80 kg |
| position | defender |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Career stations | |
| 1959-1962 |
Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters Guelph Royals |
| 1962-1963 | Sudbury Wolves |
| 1963-1966 |
New York Rangers St. Paul / Minnesota Rangers Baltimore Clippers |
| 1966-1967 | Houston Apollos |
| 1967-1969 | Minnesota North Stars |
| 1969 | Chicago Black Hawks |
| 1969 | Detroit Red Wings |
| 1969-1970 |
Pittsburgh Penguins Baltimore Clippers |
| 1970 | Buffalo Sabers |
| 1970-1971 | Springfield Kings |
| 1971-1972 |
New York Rangers Providence Reds |
| 1972-1975 | Minnesota Fighting Saints |
| 1975-1976 | San Diego Mariners |
| 1976-1977 | Springfield Indians |
Michael William "Mike" McMahon junior (born August 30, 1941 in Quebec City , Quebec , † April 29, 2013 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) was a Canadian ice hockey player . In his professional career, which lasted from 1962 to 1977 and was characterized by numerous changes, the defender played over 200 games each in the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA). He was also regularly on the ice in minor leagues , in particular the American Hockey League and the Central Professional Hockey League (CPHL), and was active for a total of over 20 different teams. A special regional focus of his career was the state of Minnesota, where he played for the North Stars (NHL), Fighting Saints (WHA) and Rangers (CPHL) and settled down after his active career.
Career
Beginnings
Mike McMahon junior was born in Québec City when his father Mike McMahon senior was there for the As de Québec in the Québec Senior Hockey League . In his youth he played for the Fort Erie Frontiers , among others , before moving to the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) for the 1959/60 season. For the team, which operated as Guelph Royals from the following season , he recorded 46 scorer points in 46 games in 1960/61 and was therefore elected to the Second All-Star Team of the OHA. The following year, the defender was also included in the First All-Star team . He then gained his first professional experience in the Eastern Professional Hockey League , where he played briefly for the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers and in the 1962/63 season for the Sudbury Wolves .
NHL
In the 1963/64 season, McMahon made his first appearance for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) and was used sporadically for the team in the following three years. Mostly, however, he was on the ice with the St. Paul / Minnesota Rangers in the Central Professional Hockey League (CPHL) as well as with the Baltimore Clippers in the American Hockey League (AHL). He won the CPHL playoffs for the Adams Cup with the team from Minnesota in 1965 and was also named the best defender in the league and appointed to the CPHL First All-Star Team . The Canadian received both personal awards in 1967 again in the jersey of the Houston Apollos , the farm team of the Canadiens de Montréal . The Canadiens had committed the defender in June 1966 via the NHL Intra-League Draft , but he should not play an NHL game in Montréal in the sequence.
McMahon was not given regular service in the NHL until the big league expansion of 1967 , in the framework of which, among other things, the Minnesota North Stars joined the league and hired him in June 1967 for financial consideration from the Canadiens. With the North Stars he played the 1967/68 season as the only season completely in the NHL and recorded his career best with 47 points from 74 games. After a year and a half, Minnesota and André Boudrias gave it to the Chicago Black Hawks and received Tom Reid and Bill Orban in return . In the Windy City he was only active until October of the same year, when he got via the waiver to the Detroit Red Wings , who in turn exchanged him two games and 14 days later for Billy Dea at the Pittsburgh Penguins . In the organization of the Penguins he was again mainly in the AHL for the Baltimore Clippers, where he was elected to the AHL Second All-Star Team at the end of the season .
About the NHL Expansion Draft 1970 came McMahon in the episode to the Buffalo Sabers , who transferred him after only twelve games to the Los Angeles Kings and received Eddie Shack and Dick Duff . As before for the Canadiens, he did not play an NHL game for the Kings and instead won the AHL playoffs for the Calder Cup with their farm team, the Springfield Kings . In October 1971, the defender returned to the New York Rangers in exchange for Wayne Rivers , for which he completed a single and at the same time his last NHL game in 1971/72. Mostly he was on the ice that year with the Providence Reds and (on loan) the Rochester Americans in the AHL.
WHA and end of career
In 1972 McMahon took the opportunity to return to Minnesota in the newly formed World Hockey Association (WHA) and to play for the Fighting Saints there from now on . In the following years, the defender appeared again as a regular scorer, before he came to the San Diego Mariners in June 1975 via the Intra-League Draft of the WHA . There he played his final WHA year before ending his career with the Springfield Indians - the team with which he won the Calder Cup under the name Kings . He then settled in Minnesota and died on April 29, 2013 at the age of 71 in Saint Paul .
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | ||
| 1959/60 | Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters | OHA | 48 | 7th | 16 | 23 | 94 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15th | ||||
| 1960/61 | Guelph Royals | OHA | 46 | 10 | 36 | 46 | 114 | 9 | 3 | 6th | 9 | 8th | ||||
| 1961/62 | Guelph Royals | OHA | 45 | 9 | 28 | 37 | 94 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1961/62 | Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers | EPHL | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 1962/63 | Sudbury Wolves | EPHL | 71 | 12 | 39 | 51 | 107 | 8th | 3 | 3 | 6th | 8th | ||||
| 1963/64 | St. Paul Rangers | CPHL | 13 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 30th | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1963/64 | Baltimore Clippers | AHL | 40 | 7th | 10 | 17th | 66 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1963/64 | New York Rangers | NHL | 18th | 0 | 1 | 1 | –6 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1964/65 | St. Paul Rangers | CPHL | 63 | 20th | 41 | 61 | 204 | 11 | 4th | 5 | 9 | 23 | ||||
| 1964/65 | Baltimore Clippers | AHL | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1964/65 | New York Rangers | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1965/66 | Minnesota Rangers | CPHL | 25th | 3 | 13 | 16 | 45 | 4th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 0 | ||||
| 1965/66 | New York Rangers | NHL | 41 | 0 | 12 | 12 | -1 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1966/67 | Houston Apollos | CPHL | 64 | 13 | 37 | 50 | 129 | 6th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6th | ||||
| 1966/67 | As de Québec | AHL | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 1967/68 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 74 | 14th | 33 | 47 | -14 | 71 | 14th | 3 | 7th | 10 | +12 | 4th | ||
| 1968/69 | Cleveland Barons | AHL | 6th | 1 | 4th | 5 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1968/69 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 43 | 0 | 12 | 22nd | -26 | 21st | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1968/69 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 20th | 0 | 8th | 8th | +15 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1969/70 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1969/70 | Baltimore Clippers | AHL | 48 | 13 | 25th | 38 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 1969/70 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4th | +2 | 19th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1970/71 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –9 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1970/71 | Springfield Kings | AHL | 36 | 5 | 14th | 19th | 43 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 57 | ||||
| 1971/72 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 9 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1971/72 | Providence Reds | AHL | 39 | 3 | 19th | 22nd | 74 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1971/72 | New York Rangers | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1972/73 | Minnesota Fighting Saints | WHA | 75 | 12 | 39 | 51 | 87 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| 1973/74 | Minnesota Fighting Saints | WHA | 71 | 10 | 35 | 45 | 82 | 11 | 1 | 7th | 8th | 9 | ||||
| 1974/75 | Minnesota Fighting Saints | WHA | 64 | 5 | 15th | 20th | 42 | 7th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 1975/76 | San Diego Mariners | WHA | 69 | 2 | 12 | 14th | -5 | 38 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | ||
| 1976/77 | Springfield Indians | AHL | 59 | 6th | 25th | 31 | 64 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| OHA total | 139 | 26th | 80 | 106 | 302 | 14th | 3 | 6th | 9 | 23 | ||||||
| EPHL overall | 76 | 12 | 40 | 52 | 107 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 8th | ||||||
| CPHL total | 165 | 39 | 100 | 139 | 408 | 21st | 5 | 11 | 16 | 29 | ||||||
| AHL total | 245 | 35 | 107 | 142 | 290 | 18th | 3 | 11 | 14th | 61 | ||||||
| WHA total | 279 | 29 | 101 | 130 | 249 | 32 | 1 | 14th | 15th | 13 | ||||||
| NHL overall | 224 | 15th | 68 | 83 | -39 | 169 | 14th | 3 | 7th | 10 | +12 | 4th | ||||
( 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 father Mike McMahon senior (1915-1974) was also a ice hockey player, ran in the 1940s for the Canadiens de Montréal and the Boston Bruins in the NHL and won the Stanley Cup with Montréal in the 1944 playoffs .
Web links
- Mike McMahon Jr. in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Mike McMahon junior at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Mike McMahon junior at legendsofhockey.net (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | McMahon, Mike junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McMahon, Michael William (full name); McMahon, Mike Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Québec City , Québec , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 2013 |
| Place of death | Saint Paul , Minnesota , United States |