Tony McKegney
Date of birth | February 15, 1958 |
place of birth | Montréal , Québec , Canada |
size | 185 cm |
Weight | 91 kg |
position | Left wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Amateur Draft |
1978 , 2nd round, 32nd position Buffalo Sabers |
Career stations | |
1974-1988 | Kingston Canadians |
1978-1983 | Buffalo Sabers |
1983-1984 | Nordiques de Québec |
1984-1986 | Minnesota North Stars |
1986-1987 | New York Rangers |
1987-1989 | St. Louis Blues |
1989 | Detroit Red Wings |
1989-1991 | Nordiques de Québec |
1991 | Chicago Blackhawks |
1991-1992 | AS Varese Hockey |
1992-1993 | San Diego Gulls |
Anthony Syiid "Tony" McKegney (born February 15, 1958 in Montréal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player of Nigerian descent. The left winger completed his professional career from 1978 to 1993, including over 900 games in the National Hockey League (NHL), most of them for the Buffalo Sabers and the Nordiques de Québec . He is considered the first black star player in the NHL.
Career
youth
Tony McKegney was born in Montreal to a Nigerian father who left the family after he was born, so his mother put him up for adoption when he was a child . As a result, he grew up with an adoptive family in Sarnia in the province of Ontario , where he played in his youth for the Sarnia Black Hawks and the Sarnia Bees , among others . For the 1974/75 season, the attacker moved to the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL), the highest-ranking junior league in the province, and ran there from then on for the Kingston Canadians . With the Canadians McKegney established himself as a reliable scorer, so he came to 135 scorer points in 66 games in the 1976/77 season and was also appointed to the OMJHL First All-Star Team . As a result, he was in the upcoming NHL Amateur Draft 1978 as one of the most promising talents, so The Hockey News rated him in the run-up to seventh overall position. However, the Buffalo Sabers selected him only in 32nd place, which was attributed, among other things, to the fact that McKegney had announced that he wanted to play for the Birmingham Bulls in the World Hockey Association . However, the owner did not subsequently offer him a contract, which in turn was justified by excessive wages. However, it later turned out that racist tendencies among the supporters of the team also played a role.
Professional area
For the 1978/79 season, McKegney switched to the organization of the Buffalo Sabers, who also used him in his rookie year with their farm team , the Hershey Bears , in the American Hockey League . As a result, however, the left winger quickly established himself in the NHL squad of the Sabers and never produced less than 50 points per season in the years to come, while he even led the team with 36 goals in the 1982/83 season. After five years in Buffalo, however, he was handed over to the Nordiques de Québec in June 1983 along with André Savard , Jean-François Sauvé and a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 . In return, the Sabers received Réal Cloutier and Québec's first-round vote for the same draft. McKegney played for the Nordiques for barely a year and a half until he and Bo Berglund were transferred to the Minnesota North Stars in December 1984 , who sent Brad Maxwell and Brent Ashton to Québec. He was supposed to represent the North Stars in the same season at the NHL All-Star Game 1985 , but he had to cancel this due to a shoulder injury.
McKegney was also active in Minnesota for less than two years, since he was given to the New York Rangers in November 1986 with Curt Giles and a second-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 . In return, the North Stars received Bob Brooke and a four-round vote for the same draft. For the Rangers, the striker scored 29 goals in 64 games and was transferred to the St. Louis Blues in May 1987 with Rob Whistle in exchange for Bruce Bell . In the jersey of the Blues, the Canadian achieved his best personal NHL statistics in the subsequent 1987/88 season with 40 goals and 78 points in 80 games. He could not build on this in the following season, so that the Blues together with Bernie Federko gave him over to the Detroit Red Wings and Adam Oates and Paul MacLean received in return. In Detroit McKegney only came on 14 missions before he was transferred to the Nordiques de Québec in December 1989. In return, the Red Wings received Robert Picard and Greg Adams .
After about a year at the old place of work, McKegney last changed the team when the Nordiques handed him over to the Chicago Blackhawks for Jacques Cloutier in January 1991 . In Chicago, the left winger ended his NHL career after the 1990/91 season. In total, he had scored 344 goals and 686 points scorer in 991 games. He then ended his active career with a year with the Italian AS Varese Hockey and a season with the San Diego Gulls in the International Hockey League .
International
In the youth field, McKegney won the bronze medal with the U20 national team of Canada at the 1978 Junior World Championship . It also came as part of the preparation for the 1992 Winter Olympics to three appearances for the senior team , but not made it into the Olympic squad.
Achievements and Awards
- 1977 OMJHL First All-Star Team
- 1978 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship
- 1978 OMJHL Second All-Star Team
- 1985 NHL All-Star Game (cancellation due to injury)
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | ||
1974/75 | Kingston Canadians | OMJHL | 52 | 27 | 48 | 75 | 36 | 8th | 5 | 7th | 12 | 0 | ||||
1975/76 | Kingston Canadians | OMJHL | 65 | 24 | 56 | 80 | 20th | 7th | 5 | 6th | 11 | 2 | ||||
1976/77 | Kingston Canadians | OMJHL | 66 | 58 | 77 | 135 | 30th | 14th | 13 | 10 | 23 | 14th | ||||
1977/78 | Kingston Canadians | OMJHL | 55 | 43 | 49 | 92 | 19th | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 0 | ||||
1978/79 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 24 | 21st | 18th | 39 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
1978/79 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 52 | 8th | 14th | 22nd | -1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | ||
1979/80 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 80 | 23 | 29 | 52 | +40 | 24 | 14th | 3 | 4th | 7th | +2 | 2 | ||
1980/81 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 80 | 37 | 32 | 69 | +11 | 24 | 8th | 5 | 3 | 8th | -5 | 2 | ||
1981/82 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 73 | 23 | 29 | 52 | -12 | 41 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 2 | ||
1982/83 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 78 | 36 | 37 | 73 | +1 | 18th | 10 | 3 | 1 | 4th | -3 | 4th | ||
1983/84 | Nordiques de Québec | NHL | 75 | 24 | 27 | 51 | +2 | 23 | 7th | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | ||
1984/85 | Nordiques de Québec | NHL | 30th | 12 | 9 | 21st | +3 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1984/85 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 27 | 11 | 13 | 24 | +9 | 4th | 9 | 8th | 6th | 14th | +3 | 0 | ||
1985/86 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 70 | 15th | 25th | 40 | –6 | 48 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 22nd | ||
1986/87 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +2 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1986/87 | New York Rangers | NHL | 64 | 29 | 17th | 46 | +3 | 56 | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 12 | ||
1987/88 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 80 | 40 | 38 | 78 | +10 | 82 | 9 | 3 | 6th | 9 | -3 | 8th | ||
1988/89 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 71 | 25th | 17th | 42 | -1 | 58 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | ||
1989/90 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 14th | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1989/90 | Nordiques de Québec | NHL | 48 | 16 | 11 | 27 | -31 | 45 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1990/91 | Nordiques de Québec | NHL | 50 | 17th | 16 | 33 | -25 | 44 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1990/91 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 4th | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | 4th | ||
1991/92 | AS Varese Hockey | Series A1 | 16 | 15th | 13 | 28 | 70 | 6th | 8th | 2 | 10 | 12 | ||||
1991/92 | AS Varese Hockey | Alpine League | 17th | 18th | 14th | 32 | 55 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
1992/93 | San Diego Gulls | IHL | 23 | 8th | 5 | 13 | +10 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ± 0 | 4th | ||
OMJHL overall | 238 | 152 | 230 | 382 | 105 | 34 | 26th | 26th | 52 | 16 | ||||||
NHL overall | 912 | 320 | 319 | 639 | +5 | 517 | 79 | 24 | 23 | 47 | -20 | 56 |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1978 | Canada | June World Cup | 6th | 2 | 6th | 8th | 0 | ||
Juniors overall | 6th | 2 | 6th | 8th | 0 |
( 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 )
family
His adoptive brother Ian McKegney was also a professional ice hockey player and came in the NHL on three appearances for the Chicago Black Hawks .
Web links
- Tony McKegney in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Tony McKegney at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Tony McKegney at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Tony McKegney at hockeydraftcentral.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Craig Wolff: All-Stars gather at NHL roundup. nytimes.com, February 12, 1985, accessed September 15, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | McKegney, Tony |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McKegney, Anthony Syiid (full name); McKegney, Anthony Syiiyd |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Montréal , Québec , Canada |