Vic Hadfield
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
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Career statistics
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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 | |
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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 )
Web links
- Vic Hadfield at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Vic Hadfield at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Vic Hadfield at hockeydb.com (English)
- Vic Hadfield at rangers.nhl.com
- Vic Hadfield at sportshall.ca
personal data | |
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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 |