Frank Mahovlich
Francis William "Frank" Mahovlich, CM ( born January 10, 1938 in Timmins, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( left wing ), who from 1956 to 1978 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League and played for the Toronto Toros and Birmingham Bulls in the World Hockey Association. From 1998 to 2013 he was a member of the Canadian Senate.
- 3.1 Personal Awards
Career
As a hockey player
As a junior he played in the OHA for the Toronto St. Michael's Majors. He was considered one of the greatest talents and was therefore early in the spotlight.
At the end of the season 1956/57, he came to his first three assignments with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In the coming year, he managed then finally made it into the NHL. With 22 goals and 49 points, he was the outstanding rookie season and won the Calder Memorial Trophy, despite competition from Bobby Hull. Over the next two seasons, he has done well with good performances, but had been expected a superstar after his first season in Toronto and so weighed an immense pressure on his shoulders and expectations he could not fulfill "nor". In the 1960/61 season he then showed the benefits that had always come to expect from the 23 -year-old. Already 14 games before the end of the season he scored 48 goals and was thus removed record of 50 goals only two goals behind Maurice Richards. He could not achieve another goal more and was even overtaken by Bernie Geoffrion scorer. He lay in the tension between admiration for the strong start to the season and the disappointment, then to miss the target ahead eyes yet.
After his first Stanley Cup win in 1962 followed almost as a low point of his career, winning the Stanley Cup at the end of the 1962 season / 63. After he had forgiven some chances in the deciding game, he was still booed during the game, but after the game of his own fans. Also at the ceremony the next day he was the target of Fanattacken. In the coming year, he was hospitalized depression to the hospital and missed some games. After his return to the team, he was unable to match the performance before. Nevertheless, the Leafs third Stanley Cup win in a row. It was followed by another title win at the end of the season 1966 /67.
He has on 1 November 1967, when the Leafs against their rivals, the Montreal Canadiens won 5-0 a grand entrance. Frank scored a goal and put two goals in front. For this he was elected one of the three stars of the game, but even on that day he earned in addition to applause and boos. When the team next day drove to the game to Detroit, he got up and went home. A short time later, he was again convicted of serious depression in the hospital. He missed 11 games before he was back in the squad. Towards the end of the season he was part of a large exchange of assets among the four players who moved to the Detroit Red Wings were next Mahovlich also Carl Brewer and Garry Unger. In turn, came under another standard Ullman to Toronto.
In Detroit team he had in common with your brother Pete. He was placed in a forward line with Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio. Freed from the pressure in Toronto, he flourished. He finished the 1968/69 season with a personal best of 49 goals. In the years with the Red Wings, he got more ice age than before, and he helped Gordie Howe as the third player 100 points in a season to achieve.
A year after his brother, he moved over the 1970/71 season with the Montreal Canadiens.
In his first full year he brought it to 96 points. This he urged on also for a nomination at the 1972 Summit Series. In Montreal, he plays very successfully until the 1973/74 season after completing his sixth and last won the Stanley Cup in 1973 and the eighth player reached the 1,000 point mark.
In 1974 he played in the World Hockey Association. Here he got 36 years a very lucrative offer for a four-year contract by the Toronto Toros and here he had his brother Pete at the side. Again, he was one of the Topscorern and helped the Torro's to good punch times in competition with the Maple Leafs. After two years, the team moved from Canada to the southern United States, where he played under the name Birmingham Bulls. At the end of the 1978/79 season he ended his active career.
In 1981 he was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
As a politician
In 1998 he was appointed by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien in the Canadian Senate. After reaching the age limit Mahovlich retired from the Senate on January 10, 2013.
Statistics
Sporting successes
- Stanley Cup: 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1971 and 1973
Personal Awards
- Red Tilson Trophy: 1957
- First All -Star Team: 1961, 1963 and 1973
- Second All-Star Team: 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969 and 1970
- Calder Memorial Trophy: 1958