Val Fonteyne

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Val Fonteyne
Date of birth December 2, 1933
place of birth Wetaskiwin , Alberta , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 73 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1951-1954 Medicine Hat Tigers
1954 New Westminster Royals
1954-1955 Kelowna Packers
1955-1958 Seattle Americans
1958-1959 Seattle totems
1959-1963 Detroit Red Wings
1963-1965 New York Rangers
1965-1967 Detroit Red Wings
Pittsburgh Hornets
1967-1972 Pittsburgh Penguins
1972-1974 Alberta / Edmonton Oilers

Valere Ronald "Val" Fonteyne (born December 2, 1933 in Wetaskiwin , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 879 games for the Detroit Red Wings , New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins in the course of his active career between 1951 and 1974 of the National Hockey League and 154 others for the Alberta / Edmonton Oilers in the World Hockey Association on the position of left winger . Fonteyne is considered to be one of the fairest players in both leagues, as he only spent 38 minutes in the penalty box in over 1000 missions.

Career

Fonteyne spent his junior years between 1951 and 1954 with the Medicine Hat Tigers in the Western Junior Hockey League . The striker proved to be a solid player and moved to the Western Hockey League at the end of the three years . There he ran on in some games for the New Westminster Royals . But he spent most of the season in the lower class senior division with the Kelowna Packers .

For the 1955/56 season, the Canadian then switched completely to the Western Hockey League. Fonteyne played for four years in Seattle , Washington State  - from 1955 to 1958 for the Seattle Americans , then one year until the summer of 1959 for the Seattle Totems . His achievements in the WHL, where he increased from 36 to 81 points scorer in the four seasons , was elected twice to the First All-Star Team of the Coast Division and won the Lester Patrick Cup with the totems , finally led in the summer of 1959 to that the Detroit Red Wings signed him from the National Hockey League .

At the Red Wings, the defensive attacking player made it straight to the franchise roster and, thanks to his solid playing style, joined the team for four years. In the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1961 he reached the finals for the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings , but was defeated there in six games by the Chicago Black Hawks . After four years in the "Motor City" , the Canadian left the Red Wings via the Intra-League Draft when he was selected by league rivals New York Rangers . There he formed a series of attacks with Don Marshall and Vic Hadfield for over a year , but returned to his old place of work in Detroit in February 1965. Fonteyne spent another two and a half years there, but from the 1965/66 season onwards he was increasingly involved in the farm team , the Pittsburgh Hornets , in the American Hockey League . With the Hornets he won the Calder Cup in 1967 . The first win of the Stanley Cup failed due to another final defeat in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1966 against the Canadiens de Montréal .

As a result, Fonteyne stayed in Pittsburgh, but not with the Hornets, but with the newly founded Pittsburgh Penguins , which were part of the expansion of the NHL for the 1967/68 season . They selected the winger in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft from the unprotected squad of the Detroit Red Wings. In Pittsburgh, Val Fonteyne found a new sporting home for the next five years. In contrast to the previous years in Detroit, he played again completely in the NHL and gave the young team the necessary stability with his experience in the defensive area. In addition, he achieved a career high of 34 points in his first year and underpinned his fair play, which gave him only four penalty minutes in 436 regular season games between 1965 and 1972 . There were spans of 185 and 157 unpunished games in a row.

From the 1972/73 season , Fonteyne let his career end in his home province. The almost 40-year-old was selected in February 1972 in the WHA General Player Draft by the Alberta Oilers from Edmonton and in the summer of 1972 switched to the franchise in the newly founded World Hockey Association , which saw itself as competition to the industry leader NHL. He completed 154 games in the WHA in the two years before he retired from active sport after the 1973/74 season. After retiring from his career, he worked as a parcel delivery company in his native Wetaskiwin until the mid-1990s .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1951/52 Medicine Hat Tigers WCJHL 41 9 9 18th 5 - - - - -
1952/53 Medicine Hat Tigers WJHL 31 7th 14th 21st 4th 4th 4th 2 6th 0
1953/54 Medicine Hat Tigers WJHL 36 14th 14th 28 18th 10 1 5 6th 12
1954/55 New Westminster Royals WHL 7th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1954/55 Kelowna Packers OSHL 41 9 10 19th 2 4th 0 0 0 0
1955/56 Seattle Americans WHL 70 18th 18th 36 0 - - - - -
1956/57 Seattle Americans WHL 70 24 40 64 6th 6th 5 1 6th 2
1957/58 Seattle Americans WHL 70 34 41 75 11 9 4th 4th 8th 0
1958/59 Seattle totems WHL 64 32 49 81 2 12 6th 5 11 0
1959/60 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 4th 7th 11 2 6th 0 4th 4th 0
1960/61 Detroit Red Wings NHL 66 6th 11 17th 4th 11 2 3 5 0
1961/62 Detroit Red Wings NHL 70 5 5 10 4th - - - - -
1962/63 Detroit Red Wings NHL 67 6th 14th 20th 2 11 0 0 0 2
1963/64 New York Rangers NHL 69 7th 18th 25th 4th - - - - -
1964/65 New York Rangers NHL 27 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1964/65 Detroit Red Wings NHL 16 2 5 7th 4th 5 0 1 1 0
1965/66 Detroit Red Wings NHL 59 5 10 15th 0 12 1 0 1 4th
1965/66 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 12 5 7th 12 6th - - - - -
1966/67 Detroit Red Wings NHL 28 1 1 2 0 - - - - -
1966/67 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 17th 5 11 16 0 9 3 5 8th 4th
1967/68 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 69 6th 28 34 0 - - - - -
1968/69 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 74 12 17th 29 2 - - - - -
1969/70 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 68 11 15th 26th 2 10 0 2 2 0
1970/71 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 70 4th 9 13 0 - - - - -
1971/72 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 68 6th 13 19th 0 4th 0 0 0 2
1972/73 Alberta Oilers WHA 77 7th 32 39 2 - - - - -
1973/74 Edmonton Oilers WHA 72 9 13 22nd 2 5 1 0 1 0
W (C) JHL overall 108 30th 37 67 27 14th 5 7th 12 12
WHL overall 281 108 149 257 19th 27 15th 10 25th 2
AHL total 29 10 18th 28 6th 9 3 5 8th 4th
NHL overall 820 75 154 229 26th 59 3 10 13 8th
WHA total 149 16 45 61 4th 5 1 0 1 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joe Pelletier: Pittsburgh Penguins Legends: Val Fonteyne. greatesthockeylegends.com, January 25, 2008, accessed February 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fonteyne, Val
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fonteyne, Valere Ronald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetaskiwin , Alberta