Don Marcotte
Donald Michel Marcotte ( born April 15, 1947 in Arthabaska, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who graduated a total of 1,000 games for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League during his playing career 1965-1982.
Career
Marcotte spent his junior career from 1964 to 1967 at the Niagara Falls Flyers in the Ontario Hockey Association. With the team of Forward the J. Ross Robertson Cup won in 1965 both as a master of the OHA and the Memorial Cup. Due to the fact that the Flyers cooperated in this period with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, Marcotte sniffed the 1965/66 season for the first time NHL air.
From the autumn of 1967, he finally played for the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League. Its use will brought him from the season 1968/69 repeatedly inserts in the NHL with the Bruins, but only towards the end of the season 1969/70 he acquired a permanent place in the squad, he did not relinquish it until his retirement in the spring of 1982. Overall, he graduated in the regular season and the playoffs a total of 1000 games for Boston, which were / 72 crowned by winning two Stanley Cups at the end of the seasons 1969/70 and 1971. In his time with the Bruins the defensive striker reached 545 points.
His qualities in defense earned him a place in the squad for the NHL All-Stars for the Challenge Cup in 1979, the NHL lost against the national team of the USSR to victory with 1:2. He was used in a batch of three games.