Lowell MacDonald

Lowell Wilson MacDonald ( born August 20, 1941 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player ( Right Wing ), who played from 1961 to 1978 for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League.

Career

MacDonald played during his junior time at the Hamilton Tiger Cubs and Hamilton Red Wings in the OHA, along with Paul Henderson and Pit Martin. He came in the 1961/62 season for his first game in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings, but then returned to Hamilton and took the team to the Memorial Cup.

In the following years he played mostly for the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American Hockey League, over three years, he came to another 45 missions in the Detroit Red Wings. In the summer of 1965, he was part of a large exchange business, in which, with him, among other things Marcel Pronovost was released to the Toronto Maple Leafs to get Andy Bathgate and Billy Harris to Detroit. For the Maple Leafs, he never made ​​it into the squad.

After two years with the Tulsa Oilers in the CPhl and the Rochester Americans in the AHL the Los Angeles Kings took him in the NHL Expansion Draft 1967. The Kings he showed his eye for goal and was one of the best scorer of his team. After two seasons, he finished his career surprising, because he had great fear of flying and Los Angeles had to fly to almost all away games. At the end of the following season, the Kings were able to persuade him to continue his career in the AHL farm team in Springfield Kings.

In the summer of 1970, the Pittsburgh Penguins brought him in an intra -League Draft. Only ten games he played after his comeback in the 1970/71 season before a knee injury knocked him for almost two seasons out of the race. After his return he scored in the 1972/73 season with 34 goals, the second most in the Penguins. For this impressive comeback, he was awarded the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. In the 1973/74 season he managed 82 points in the top ten scorers in the NHL. After two more good seasons, he suffered a serious shoulder injury. Once again he tried after the NHL fight back, but the connection to previous achievements not succeeded. Therefore after the season 1977/78 he ended his career.

NHL stats

Sporting successes

  • Memorial Cup: 1962

Personal Awards

  • Max Kaminsky Trophy: 1962
  • OHA -Jr. First All -Star Team: 1962
  • Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy: 1973
  • Participate in the NHL All-Star Game: 1973 and 1974
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