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Position	Defenceman
Shot	Right
Height Weight	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 200 lb (91 kg)
Pro Clubs	CHL  Colorado Flames NHL  Calgary Flames  St. Louis Blues
Nationality	Canada
Born	July 11, 1963 (1963-07-11) (age 44), Port Hood, NS, CAN
NHL Draft	15th overall, 1981 Calgary Flames
Pro Career	1981 – 2004
Hall of Fame, 2007

Allan "Al" MacInnis (born July 11, 1963 in Port Hood, Nova Scotia, Canada^[1]) is a Hall of Fame Hockey defenceman who played 23 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues.

MacInnis grew up in a small fishing village on the west coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. He spent his teen years in Kitchener, Ontario playing junior hockey and attended Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School.

In November 2006, he was appointed Vice President of Hockey Operations by Blues President John Davidson.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Awards & achievements 3 Records 4 Career statistics 5 International play 6 See also 7 External links

A star defenceman known for the power of his slapshot, Al MacInnis was drafted 15th overall by the Calgary Flames in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He started playing for Calgary in 1981, winning the Stanley Cup with the Flames in 1989. In that year he also won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs. During that postseason he racked up 7 goals and 24 assists in 22 games. He recorded 26 of those 31 points during a 17-game scoring streak. It was the second-longest such run in the playoffs and MacInnis' streak was the longest by a rearguard. MacInnis was the first blueliner to record more playoff points in one playoff than anyone else.

MacInnis's slapshot became almost legendary. Early in his career with Calgary, he blasted a shot that shattered the goalie mask of St. Louis Blues' goalie Mike Liut. After the game Liut said that there were "two kinds of hard [shots]" in the League. "There's hard, and then there's MacInnis hard."

On July 4, 1994, the Flames, traded MacInnis (an upcoming free-agent), and a 4th round selection (Didier Tremblay) in 1997 to the St. Louis Blues for Phil Housley, a 2nd round selection (Steve Begin) in 1996 and a 2nd round selection (John Tripp) in 1997. He re-signed as an unrestricted free agent with St. Louis for the start of the 1994-95 season.

One of the few defencemen to record over 1000 career points, MacInnis retired from the NHL on September 9, 2005 after missing close to two seasons due to a combination of injuries and the 2004-05 NHL Lockout which cancelled the entire season but the factor that was most responsible was his eye injury. His last game was in October 2003, just three games into the season, facing off against the Predators in Nashville when he realized he was having vision problems again. It turned out that he had suffered a detached retina to the same eye that was injured by a wayward stick in January of 2001. The previous injury had left him with a permanent blind spot and a need to wear a special contact lens. His jersey #2 was retired by the St. Louis Blues during a pre-game ceremony on Sunday, April 9, 2006 before the Blues faced off against the Edmonton Oilers.

Throughout his career, MacInnis was known most for his extremely powerful slapshot. In the 1999-00 NHL Skills Competition he captured "Hardest Shot" honors for the fourth consecutive year and, overall, has seven such honors to his credit. MacInnis, one of the few NHLers to resist the new composite fiber sticks that came out during 2002-03, amazed everyone during NHL All-Star Week that season by firing a 98.9-miles per hour screamer with a Sher-Wood brand wooden stick. In characteristic Canadian style, MacInnis said: "So much for technology, eh?"

MacInnis has the distinction of playing in two of the three games featuring the largest third-period comeback in NHL history. On January 26, 1987, the Calgary Flames came back from a 5-0 deficit in the third period to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-5 in overtime. MacInnis scored a hat trick in the third period. Nearly 14 years later, on November 29, 2000, the St. Louis Blues came back from a 5-0 deficit to defeat the Leafs 6-5 in overtime again; MacInnis played another key role by recording a power-play goal in the third period.

On November 12th, 2007, Al was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame, along with Mark Messier, Ron Francis, and Scott Stevens.

• Played in 15 NHL All-Star Games - 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003.
• Max Kaminsky Trophy - 1983
• 1988-89 - Conn Smythe Trophy winner
• 1988-89 - Stanley Cup Champion
• 1998-99 - James Norris Memorial Trophy winner
• 2002 Winter Olympics, Gold medal, Men's Ice Hockey
• His jersey number 2 was retired by the St. Louis Blues on April 9, 2006.

• Tied for 28th place in all-time NHL scoring with 1,274 points.
• 12th on the all-time NHL assists with 934.
• 17th on the all-time NHL games played list with 1,416.
• 3rd among all-time NHL defensemen in points.
• 3rd among all-time NHL defensemen in assists.
• 3rd among all-time NHL defensemen in goals with 340 goals.
• Seven-time winner of the hardest-shot competition at the NHL All-Star Game.

				Regular Season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1980-81	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		47	11	28	39	59		--	--	--	--	--
1981-82	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		59	25	50	75	145		15	5	10	15	44
1981-82	Calgary Flames	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		--	--	--	--	--
1982-83	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		51	38	46	84	67		8	3	8	11	9
1982-83	Calgary Flames	NHL		14	1	3	4	9		--	--	--	--	--
1983-84	Colorado Flames	CHL		19	5	14	19	22		--	--	--	--	--
1983-84	Calgary Flames	NHL		51	11	34	45	42		11	2	12	14	13
1984-85	Calgary Flames	NHL		67	14	52	66	75		4	1	2	3	8
1985-86	Calgary Flames	NHL		77	11	57	68	76		21	4	15	19	30
1986-87	Calgary Flames	NHL		79	20	56	76	97		4	1	0	1	0
1987-88	Calgary Flames	NHL		80	25	58	83	114		7	3	6	9	18
1988-89	Calgary Flames	NHL		79	16	58	74	126		22	7	24	31	46
1989-90	Calgary Flames	NHL		79	28	62	90	82		6	2	3	5	8
1990-91	Calgary Flames	NHL		78	28	75	103	90		7	2	3	5	8
1991-92	Calgary Flames	NHL		72	20	57	77	83		--	--	--	--	--
1992-93	Calgary Flames	NHL		50	11	43	54	61		6	1	6	7	10
1993-94	Calgary Flames	NHL		75	28	54	82	95		7	2	6	8	12
1994-95	St. Louis Blues	NHL		32	8	20	28	43		7	1	5	6	10
1995-96	St. Louis Blues	NHL		82	17	44	61	88		13	3	4	7	20
1996-97	St. Louis Blues	NHL		72	13	30	43	65		6	1	2	3	4
1997-98	St. Louis Blues	NHL		71	19	30	49	80		8	2	6	8	12
1998-99	St. Louis Blues	NHL		82	20	42	62	70		13	4	8	12	20
1999-00	St. Louis Blues	NHL		61	11	28	39	34		7	1	3	4	14
2000-01	St. Louis Blues	NHL		59	12	42	54	52		15	2	8	10	18
2001-02	St. Louis Blues	NHL		71	11	35	46	52		10	0	7	7	4
2002-03	St. Louis Blues	NHL		80	16	52	68	61		3	0	1	1	0
2003-04	St. Louis Blues	NHL		3	0	2	2	6		--	--	--	--	--
NHL Totals				1416	340	934	1274	1501		177	39	121	160	255

Olympic medal record
Men's ice hockey
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	Team

Played for Canada in:

• 1990 World Championships
• 1991 Canada Cup (Champions)
• 1998 Winter Olympics
• 2002 Winter Olympics (gold medal)

• List of NHL statistical leaders
• List of NHL seasons
• List of NHL players with 1000 points
• List of NHL players with 1000 games played
• List of NHL players

Preceded by Wayne Gretzky	Winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy 1989	Succeeded by Bill Ranford
Preceded by Rob Blake	Winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy 1999	Succeeded by Chris Pronger
Preceded by Chris Pronger	St. Louis Blues Captains 2003-04	Succeeded by Dallas Drake

• Al MacInnis's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

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Atlanta: Richard • Lysiak • Mulhern • Shand • Phillipoff • Marsh • Reinhart Calgary: Cyr • MacInnis • Quinn • Roberts • Biotti • Pelawa • Deasley • Muzzatti • Kidd • Sundblad • Stillman • Mattsson • Dingman • Gauthier • Morris • Tkaczuk • Fata • Saprykin • Krahn • Kobasew • Nystrom • Phaneuf • Chucko • Pelech • Irving • Backlund