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Ab McDonald

#12 · Left wing · Detroit Red Wings

Born Feb 18, 1936 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN · 6'3", 192 lb · Shoots left

Trophy case

×4 Stanley Cup NHL Champion 1960-61, 1959-60, 1958-59, 1957-58

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 1971-72. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Tom Webster CGS · 5 P in 12 GP Gord Labossiere MNS · 5 P in 9 GP Brian Conacher DET · 4 P in 23 GP Larry Mickey BUF · 4 P in 18 GP Bobby Lalonde VAN · 6 P in 29 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below.

02040601958-59: 36 points3658-591959-60: 22 points2259-601960-61: 33 points3360-611961-62: 40 points4061-621962-63: 61 points6162-631963-64: 46 points4663-641964-65: 18 points1864-651965-66: 22 points2265-661966-67: 2 points266-671967-68: 43 points4367-681968-69: 42 points4268-691969-70: 55 points5569-701970-71: 5 points570-711971-72: 5 points571-72

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1958-59 MTL 70 13 23 36 0 35 0 0 0.51
1959-60 MTL 69 9 13 22 1 26 104 0 0.32
1960-61 CHI 62 17 16 33 24 22 136 0 0.53
1961-62 CHI 65 22 18 40 4 8 159 0 0.62
1962-63 CHI 69 20 41 61 21 12 170 0 0.88
1963-64 CHI 70 14 32 46 21 17 193 0 0.66
1964-65 BOS 60 9 9 18 -28 6 104 0 0.30
1965-66 DET 45 6 16 22 13 6 70 0 0.49
1966-67 DET 12 2 0 2 -3 2 26 0 0.17
1967-68 PIT 74 22 21 43 -4 38 185 0 0.58
1968-69 STL 68 21 21 42 18 12 138 0 0.62
1969-70 STL 64 25 30 55 12 8 170 0 0.86
1970-71 STL 21 0 5 5 -5 6 31 0 0.24
1971-72 DET 22 2 3 5 -8 0 29 0 0.23
14 seasons Career 771 182 248 430 66 198 1515 0 0.56

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1957-58 MTL 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0.00
1958-59 MTL 11 1 1 2 0 6 0 0 0.18
1960-61 CHI 8 2 2 4 5 0 16 0 0.50
1961-62 CHI 12 6 6 12 6 0 31 0 1.00
1962-63 CHI 6 2 3 5 -2 9 12 0 0.83
1963-64 CHI 7 2 2 4 0 0 13 0 0.57
1965-66 DET 10 1 4 5 5 2 13 0 0.50
1968-69 STL 12 2 1 3 0 10 25 0 0.25
1969-70 STL 16 5 10 15 1 13 30 0 0.94
9 seasons Playoffs 84 21 29 50 15 42 140 0 0.60

1971-72 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
22 2 3 5 -8 0 29 0 0.23 6.9 0:00

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Dec 18, 1971 @ LAK L 2-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Dec 17, 1971 @ CGS T 3-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Dec 11, 1971 vs PHI W 6-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Dec 8, 1971 @ MTL L 2-4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00
Nov 24, 1971 @ CGS L 1-6 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 00:00
Nov 21, 1971 @ VAN T 2-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00
Nov 20, 1971 @ LAK L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 00:00
Nov 16, 1971 @ STL T 2-2 0 1 1 0 0 6 0 00:00
Nov 13, 1971 @ PHI W 6-3 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 00:00
Nov 10, 1971 @ MNS W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00
Nov 7, 1971 @ BUF T 3-3 1 1 2 0 0 4 0 00:00
Nov 4, 1971 vs BUF T 4-4 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 00:00
Nov 1, 1971 @ TOR L 1-6 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 00:00
Oct 31, 1971 vs PIT W 3-1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 00:00
Oct 30, 1971 @ MTL L 0-3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 00:00
Oct 27, 1971 @ NYR L 4-7 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 00:00
Oct 26, 1971 vs CHI L 2-5 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 00:00
Oct 24, 1971 vs CGS L 3-6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00
Oct 22, 1971 vs TOR W 5-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Oct 20, 1971 @ BOS L 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
Oct 16, 1971 @ STL L 2-9 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 00:00
Oct 10, 1971 @ CHI L 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00:00