Marcel Dionne
Marcel Dionne was born in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada on August 3rd, 1951 and is the Hockey Player. At the age of 72, Marcel Dionne biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Marcel Elphège "Little Beaver" Dionne (born August 3, 1951) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.
Marcel Dionne was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992.
In 2017 Dionne was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
Junior career
Dionne's Drummondville youth team competed in the 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1964 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments. Dionne's first junior season was in 1968 with the Drummondville Rangers of the former Quebec Junior Hockey League, in which he scored over two goals in a game in Drummondville's loss of the Memorial Cup playoffs.
Dionne left the Quebec Major Hockey League in 1969 to play in the Ontario Hockey Association, which was then regarded as a higher-calibre sport, spending the next three seasons with the St. Catharines Black Hawks. He was the league's top scorer in 1970 and 1971, winning scoring titles in 1970 and 1971 and then scoring a record 122 points in 43 playoff games. During the 1971 Richardson Cup finals against the Quebec Remparts, Dionne's scoring exploits were marred by one of Canada's most popular games. The fifth game of the series, which Dionne's Black Hawks' team bus was assaulted by the crowd, was played at a neutral location, and the remainder of the series was not played due to further violence.
Dionne ended his junior career by shattering the OHA's career scoring record, which wasn't broken until Dale McCourt did so in the 1977 season. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1971 NHL Entry Draft in the second round (second overall, behind Rempart rival Guy Lafleur).
NHL career
Dionne played his first four seasons with the Red Wings, where he was one of the few stars on an otherwise mediocre team that failed to make the playoffs.
Despite having colleagues like Alex Delvecchio and Mickey Redmond, Dionne's annoyances with losing were evident. Alan Eagleson, his handler, demanded more money. Jack Kent Cooke, the owner of the Los Angeles Kings, told Dionne $300,000 per year. Terry Harper, Dan Maloney, cash, and draft picks were exchanged by the Red Wings and Dionne; Dionne signed with the Kings on June 23, 1975, making them their franchise player. It was the best deal in hockey history at the time.
During Dionne's time with the Los Angeles Kings, he served for eleven and a half seasons and established the famed "Triple Crown Line," centring Charlie Simmer and Dave Taylor. Despite Dionne's success during the regular season, he was dissatisfied with the Kings' lack of playoff success; they made the playoffs from 1976–82, but only advanced to the second round three times, out of a total of 43 games. Dionne coached the rookies of the Kings in 1988-87 as Mickey Redmond had mentored him during his rookie years in Detroit. Luc Robitaille, Jimmy Carson, and Steve Duchesne were taken under his wings by the eventual Calder Trophy champion.
Despite the friendship with the rookies, Pat Quinn was also on the losing side when it was decided against; in the meantime, the aging Kings were on track to miss the playoffs. Dionne did not want to be a part of a rebuilding campaign, so he either needed a quick increase to the roster or a trade to a contender. On March 10, 1987, he was traded to the New York Rangers; the Kings did not make the playoffs until the season was over.
Dionne spent his remaining two and a half seasons in the Rangers' first round of the playoffs twice and lost in the first round of the playoffs twice and never made it to the playoffs. In 1989, he graduated from the University of Michigan.