Bob Plager
Robert Bryant "Bob" Plager ( born March 11, 1943 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who in his active years from 1959 to 1978 among others for the New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League has played.
Career
Bob Plager followed his older brother Barclay in many ways. As with Barclay it was the use, of the distinguished Bob. As sons of a referee umpire might assume the two played regularly compliant, but the statistics show otherwise. Barclay held the record for penalty minutes in the Ontario Hockey Association, but in his time with the Guelph Royals surpassed Bob this value. He played on a team with Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelle. He did not spare his opponent, and also with his brother he was not squeamish. As the two stood facing each other in a game, it came to the fight, which continued into the penalty box and the cabin aisle.
His rights to the National Hockey League were at the New York Rangers, for whom he played in various farm teams, including the St. Paul Rangers in the Central Professional Hockey League and the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League. In the season 1964/65 he came to his debut in the NHL. In the following two seasons, he replaced injured players again and again. When the NHL was extended to the 1967/68 season by six teams, he moved with some players in exchange for Rod Seiling to the St. Louis Blues. When the team a few months later Barclay undertook, the brothers were united for the first time. They formed one of the toughest defenders pairs in the league. The following year came with Bill, the third brother of the team.
His playing style also called their toll and he ended his active career in 1978. He remained loyal to the blues but took over and in the following years numerous tasks in the organization. He was particularly effective as coach of the Peoria Rivermen. With the farm team of the blues, he won the 1991 Turner Cup. At the beginning of the season 1992/93 season he was for eleven games as head coach of the gang behind the Blues.
Bob Plager converted to Judaism.
Even if his number was not officially closed, it is no longer awarded by the blues for years.