Vic Hadfield

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CanadaCanada  Vic Hadfield Ice hockey player
Date of birth 4th October 1940
place of birth Oakville , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 79 kg
position Left wing
number # 11
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1958-1960 St. Catharines Teepees
1960-1961 Buffalo bison
1961-1974 New York Rangers
1974-1977 Pittsburgh Penguins

Victor Edward "Vic" Hadfield (born October 4, 1940 in Oakville , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The left winger played over 1,000 games for the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League between 1961 and 1977 . For the Rangers, he also three years as captain led his jersey number 11 is blocked . With the Canadian national team he took part in the 1972 Summit Series .

Career

Vic Hadfield went on the ice during his junior years from 1958 to 1960 for the St. Catharines Teepees in the Ontario Hockey Association , with whom he won the 1960 J. Ross Robertson Cup , the championship of the OHA, and the Memorial Cup . During this time, Hadfield was considered an enforcer who preferred the physical game, while he developed in his later career rather to the scorer, although he retained his physically emphasized style of play. Hadfield originally signed a contract with the Chicago Black Hawks before the New York Rangers selected him on June 13, 1961 in the Intra-League Draft , in which the striker was numbered 11. In the first years with the Rangers, the left-handed shooter was not yet convincing as a scorer, so they sent him to the Baltimore Clippers in the American Hockey League during the 1962/63 season . In 1965 he was nominated for the first time for the NHL All-Star Game , the same honor was given to the striker again in 1972 when Hadfield ran up for the team of the Eastern Conference All-Stars. During the following years, Hadfield spent more than 100 penalty minutes on the bench, but attracted attention towards the end of the 1960s with his scoring qualities. Together with Jean Ratelle and Rod Gilbert he formed the GAG (Goal-A-Game) line , an effective attack line of the New York Rangers.

Although the Rangers did not win the Stanley Cup with the trio , they had a decisive role in the constant results of the team that reached the finals for the Stanley Cup in the 1971/72 season and was defeated by the Boston Bruins around Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr . This was also Hadfield's most personally successful season in the NHL. In the regular season he had reached his career best with 50 goals and 106 points. He was the first player in the history of the New York Rangers to score 50 goals in one season. This club's internal record was broken in the 1993/94 season by Adam Graves , who surpassed Hadfield with 52 goals. He was then elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team . From 1971 to 1974 the attacker was the captain of the New York Rangers, succeeding Bob Nevin , who had held the office from 1965 to 1971. On May 27, 1974, the Rangers gave it to the Pittsburgh Penguins for financial reasons in an exchange deal for Nick Beverley .

In Pittsburgh, the winger completed two more personally successful seasons before he sustained a knee injury on March 29, 1976 in an encounter against the Toronto Maple Leafs , which probably sealed the end of his career. In the 1976/77 season he played nine NHL games for the Penguins before Hadfield decided to end his career. In 2005, Hadfield was honored with induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame . In addition , the Rangers banned his jersey number 11 in December 2018.

International

Hadfield took part in the 1972 Summit Series with the Canadian national team. In the course of the series he was used in two encounters in which the left shooter remained pointless. The striker was angry about his few ice ages with Team Canada . After traveling with the team to Moscow and learning that he was unlikely to play for the remaining games against the Soviet national team , Hadfield immediately decided to take the next flight to Canada and leave early.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1958/59 St. Catharines Teepees OHA 51 6th 14th 20th 72 7th 1 2 3 12
1959/60 St. Catharines Teepees OHA 48 19th 34 53 130 17th 11 13 24 84
1959/60 Buffalo bison AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1960 St. Catharines Teepees Memorial Cup 14th 6th 8th 14th 60
1960/61 Buffalo bison AHL 62 5 16 21st 111 3 0 0 0 11
1961/62 New York Rangers NHL 44 3 1 4th 22nd 4th 0 0 0 2
1962/63 New York Rangers NHL 36 5 6th 11 32 - - - - -
1962/63 Baltimore Clippers AHL 29 10 9 19th 84 - - - - -
1963/64 New York Rangers NHL 69 14th 11 25th 151 - - - - -
1964/65 New York Rangers NHL 70 18th 20th 38 102 - - - - -
1965/66 New York Rangers NHL 69 16 19th 35 117 - - - - -
1966/67 New York Rangers NHL 69 13 20th 33 80 4th 1 0 1 17th
1967/68 New York Rangers NHL 59 20th 19th 39 45 6th 1 2 3 6th
1968/69 New York Rangers NHL 73 26th 40 66 108 4th 2 1 3 2
1969/70 New York Rangers NHL 71 20th 34 54 69 - - - - -
1970/71 New York Rangers NHL 63 22nd 22nd 44 38 13 8th 5 13 46
1971/72 New York Rangers NHL 78 50 56 106 142 16 7th 9 16 22nd
1972/73 New York Rangers NHL 63 28 34 62 60 9 2 2 4th 11
1973/74 New York Rangers NHL 77 27 28 55 75 6th 1 0 1 0
1974/75 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 31 42 73 72 9 4th 2 6th 0
1975/76 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 76 30th 35 65 46 3 1 0 1 11
1976/77 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 9 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
OHA total 99 25th 48 73 202 24 12 15th 27 96
AHL total 92 15th 25th 40 195 3 0 0 0 11
NHL overall 1004 323 389 712 1159 74 27 21st 48 117

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1972 Canada Summit Series 1st place 2 0 0 0 0
Men overall 2 0 0 0 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Hadfield, Vic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hadfield, Victor Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakville , Ontario , Canada