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5-11 |
Weight:
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180 |
Shoots:
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L |
Position:
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D |
HHOF:
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1973 | ||||||
No matter what book, or newspaper clipping you read about Doug Harvey, the one common word that surfaces is “Quarterback”. Throughout his career Doug had the ability to control the pace of the game. Doug was a renowned athlete in not only the game of hockey, but was most likely good enough to have received a major league baseball offer had he wanted it. We are all thankful he chose hockey. Harvey played several years with the Montreal Junior Royals, Montreal Navy and just prior to being called up to the Canadiens he played with the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Senior Hockey League. During those playing years Doug was a member of both the Memorial Cup winning Montreal Junior Royals and the Allan Cup Montreal Royals. . In looking at Harvey’s statistics he was never a prolific goal scorer, yet as of the end of the 2000-01 season he was 11th on the Montreal Canadiens all time assist list. Overall, the only league leading statistics Harvey has are in his pre NHL career when he led the QJHL in penalty minutes in 1943-44 and again in the 1946-47 season when he led the QSHL Montreal Royals in penalty minutes. Doug was called up to the Canadiens half way through the 1947-48 season when he played 35 games and tallied 4 goals and 4 points. Doug had some great role models for his play; Kenny Reardon, Butch Bouchard and Glen Harmon, and it wasn’t long before Harvey developed his own playing standard which set him apart from nearly everyone else . By 1952 it was apparent that Harvey was one of the best defensemen the NHL has ever seen. That year he was named to the First All Star Team, an honour which he repeated another 9 times, missing only the 1959 season when he was named to the Second All Star Team. Harvey also played in 13 All Star Games, 12 of them consecutive from 1951 through to 1962. It is written that Canadien’s General Manager, Frank Selke was not pleased with Harvey for his participation in the 1957 player uprising, and in 1961 Harvey was traded to the New York Rangers where he played for another 3 seasons. By the end of the 1964 season Harvey was playing for the Quebec Aces in the AHL. On January 6, 1967, Harvey signed as a free agent with Detroit where he played only 2 games. In June of that same year he signed as a free agent by St. Louis but did not play for the 1967-68 regular season, but did play 8 games in the playoffs. His final year in the NHL was with the St. Louis Blues in 1968-69. It is thought that Doug Harvey was potentially the best defenseman ever to play in the NHL. For his efforts, Harvey won the Norris Trophy a total of 7 times and has 6 Stanley Cup rings to his credit, and was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1973, and sadly passed away on December 26, 1989. |
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