Tony McKegney

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CanadaCanada  Tony McKegney Ice hockey player
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

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
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
1978 Canada June World Cup Bronze medal 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

Individual evidence

  1. Craig Wolff: All-Stars gather at NHL roundup. nytimes.com, February 12, 1985, accessed September 15, 2017 .