Ross Lonsberry

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CanadaCanada  Ross Lonsberry Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 7, 1947
place of birth Humboldt , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death May 4, 2014
Place of death Santa Clarita , California , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Left wing
number # 18
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1963-1966 Estevan Bruins
1966-1969 Boston Bruins
Oklahoma City Blazers
1969-1972 Los Angeles Kings
1972-1988 Philadelphia Flyers
1978-1981 Pittsburgh Penguins

David Ross Lonsberry (born February 7, 1947 in Humboldt , Saskatchewan , † May 4, 2014 in Santa Clarita , California ) was a Canadian ice hockey player . The left winger played a total of over 1,000 games for the Boston Bruins , Los Angeles Kings , Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League . He won the Stanley Cup with the Flyers in 1974 and 1975 and was also represented at the 1972 NHL All-Star Game .

Career

Beginnings

Ross Lonsberry played in his youth for the Estevan Bruins in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL), a forerunner of today's league of the same name . In Estevan, the left winger increased his performance from year to year until he scored 67 goals and 77 assists in just 59 games in the 1965/66 season. As a result, he was elected to the SJHL First All-Star Team , after having been part of the Second All-Star Team the year before . He also took part in the Memorial Cup three times with the Bruins , but did not reach a final. Instead, he switched to the Edmonton Oil Kings at short notice in 1966 to contest the final of the Memorial Cup with them and ultimately to win this against the Oshawa Generals . After the Canadian had made his professional debut in the Central Professional Hockey League (CPHL) for the Minneapolis Bruins in 1965, he ran regularly for the Oklahoma City Blazers in the CPHL from the beginning of the 1966/67 season , with whom he promptly played the playoffs in 1967 won the Adams Cup . Both teams acted as the farm team of the Boston Bruins , where he came to his first eight appearances in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the same year ; in addition, he was in seven games for the Buffalo Bisons in the American Hockey League on the ice.

NHL

Lonsberry spent two more years in the organization of the Boston Bruins, but without being able to establish himself at the NHL level, so he was active most of the time in Oklahoma City. With 67 scorer points in 65 games, he was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the now renamed Central Hockey League in the 1968/69 season . As a result, the attacker and Eddie Shack were handed over to the Los Angeles Kings in May 1969 , who in return transferred Ken Turlik and two first-round voting rights in the NHL Amateur Draft in 1971 and 1973 to Boston. With the Kings, which were founded only two years earlier and thus went into their third NHL season, Lonsberry immediately earned a regular place and became the team's top scorer with 42 points. He later represented the Kings in the 1972 NHL All-Star Game . After two and a half years and two sportingly disappointing seasons without a playoff participation, however, he was handed over to the Philadelphia Flyers in January 1972 together with Bill Flett , Eddie Joyal and Jean Potvin . In return, Los Angeles received Bill Lesuk , Jim Johnson and Serge Bernier .

The Flyers, founded at the same time as the Los Angeles Kings, subsequently became one of the emerging teams in the league as "Broad Street Bullies", so Lonsberry reached the playoff semifinals with them in his first full season. In the following year, the winger hit the mark of 30 goals this season for the first and only time in his career, before winning the first Stanley Cup in franchise history with the Flyers in the 1974 playoffs and repeating this success in 1975 . He then spent three more years in Philadelphia, where he set up his best personal NHL statistics in the 1976/77 season with 23 goals, 32 assists and a plus / minus rating of +42.

In June 1978 the Flyers transferred him along with Tom Bladon and Orest Kindrachuk to the Pittsburgh Penguins , who in return sent their first-round voting rights in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft to Philadelphia. In Pittsburgh, Lonsberry let his career end in the following three seasons without major sporting successes, but appeared as a regular scorer until the end. After the 1980/81 season he officially ended his active career, in which he had come in the NHL to a total of 1068 games and 277 goals with 612 points scorer.

Then Lonsberry returned to the Los Angeles area and settled there with a job in insurance. He died on May 4, 2014 at the age of 67 in Santa Clarita of complications from cancer .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1962/63 Estevan Bruins SJHL 1 0 1 1 0 - - - - - -
1963/64 Estevan Bruins SJHL 61 18th 26th 44 55 11 6th 9 15th 23
1964 Estevan Bruins Memorial Cup 5 1 1 2 8th
1964/65 Estevan Bruins SJHL 56 40 56 96 130 6th 3 5 8th 18th
1965 Estevan Bruins Memorial Cup 19th 20th 10 30th 23
1964/65 Minneapolis Bruins CPHL 2 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 1 4th
1965/66 Estevan Bruins SJHL 59 67 77 144 109 12 13 6th 19th 26th
1966 Estevan Bruins Memorial Cup 13 10 9 19th 17th
1966 Edmonton Oil Kings Memorial Cup 6th 2 1 3 6th
1966/67 Oklahoma City Blazers CPHL 46 12 10 22nd 83 11 3 2 5 31
1966/67 Buffalo bison AHL 7th 1 1 2 4th - - - - - -
1966/67 Boston Bruins NHL 8th 0 1 1 2 - - - - - -
1967/68 Oklahoma City Blazers CPHL 41 16 18th 34 116 7th 3 3 6th 22nd
1967/68 Boston Bruins NHL 19th 2 2 4th +2 12 - - - - - -
1968/69 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 65 28 39 67 169 12 4th 8th 12 21st
1968/69 Boston Bruins NHL 6th 0 0 0 ± 0 2 - - - - - -
1969/70 Los Angeles Kings NHL 76 20th 22nd 42 -18 118 - - - - - -
1970/71 Los Angeles Kings NHL 76 25th 28 53 -35 80 - - - - - -
1971/72 Los Angeles Kings NHL 50 9 14th 23 -18 39 - - - - - -
1971/72 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 32 7th 7th 14th –9 22nd - - - - - -
1972/73 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 77 21st 29 50 +6 59 11 4th 3 7th -1 9
1973/74 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 75 32 19th 51 +16 48 17th 4th 9 13 ± 0 18th
1974/75 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 24 25th 49 +28 99 17th 4th 3 7th +2 10
1975/76 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 19th 28 47 +29 87 16 4th 3 7th -3 2
1976/77 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 75 23 32 55 +42 43 10 1 2 3 -2 29
1977/78 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 78 18th 30th 48 +41 45 12 2 2 4th -3 6th
1978/79 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 80 24 22nd 46 +7 38 7th 0 2 2 -3 9
1979/80 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 76 15th 18th 33 -4 36 5 2 1 3 -1 2
1980/81 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 80 17th 33 50 -3 76 5 0 0 0 -2 2
SJHL overall 177 125 160 285 294 29 22nd 20th 42 67
Memorial Cup overall 43 33 21st 54 54
C (P) HL total 154 56 67 123 368 35 11 13 24 78
NHL overall 968 256 310 566 806 100 21st 25th 46 -13 87

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helene Elliott: Ross Lonsberry dies at 67; former hockey player for Kings, Flyers. latimes.com, May 5, 2014, accessed November 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lonsberry, Ross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lonsberry, David Ross (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Humboldt , Saskatchewan , Canada
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2014
Place of death Santa Clarita , California , United States