The Kitchener Rangers have been a mainstay in the Ontario Hockey League since being transferred from Guelph for the start of the 1963-64 season. The Max Kaminsky Trophy is awarded to the top defenseman in the OHL since 1969-70. The Rangers have had only one Kaminsky winner in all those years, yet the team has produced four Hockey Hall of Fame defensemen.

Of the five Kitchener Rangers graduates enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame, only barber bill he was not a defender. Barber was in the top ten league points scorers in each of the three seasons he played for Rangers, 1969-70 to 1971-72. In his last two seasons with Kitchener, he topped the 100-point plateau and finished sixth in his final season.

Barber was a seventh-round pick by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1972 NHL amateur draft. Bill played his entire career in a Flyers uniform (1972-73 to 1983-84), winning two Stanley Cups with the team and he finished fourth in the league in 1975-76 with 112 points. Barber was the first Rangers graduate to be inducted into the Hall, entering in 1990.

larry robinson he was Barber’s teammate on the Rangers from 1970-71. Despite Barber’s offensive production and Robinson’s defensive skills, the team didn’t have much else going for him. The Rangers finished sixth out of ten teams that season with a mediocre record of 26-32-4.

1970-71 was the only year Robinson played in the OHA. He was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the second round of the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft, 20th overall, and spent the next year and a half with the AHL’s Nova Scotia Voyageurs.

Larry’s NHL career spanned from 1972-73 to 1991-92, spending most of his time with the Canadiens, his last three years playing in a Los Angeles Kings jersey. Robinson won six Stanley Cups with Montreal and was named Conn Smythe’s winner as playoff MVP in 1977-78. He won the Norris Trophy twice as the NHL’s best defenseman and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995.

For the moment Paul Coffey He got to play for the Kitchener Rangers, he was on his third OHA team. His career began with the Kingston Canadians in 1977-78. He played the entire 1978-79 season with the Sault Ste. María Galgos. He started the next season, his last as a junior, with the Greyhounds, but after 23 games he was sent to Kitchener. Interestingly, despite a 68-game schedule that season, Coffey played 75 between the two teams.

Coffey was a sixth overall pick by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft. He played in the NHL from 1980-81 to 2000-01 with the Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers , Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks, Carolina Hurricanes and Boston Bruins. He played on three Stanley Cup-winning teams with Edmonton and one with Pittsburgh. Coffey won the Norris Trophy three times, twice with Edmonton and once with Detroit. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004.

Scott Stevens Y Al MacInnis they were teammates on the 1981-82 Kitchener Rangers team that won the Robertson Cup as OHL playoff champions and the Memorial Cup as youth champions of major Canadian categories. Fittingly, both were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame together in 2007.

MacInnis played three seasons with the Rangers from 1980-81 to 1982-83. In his final season, he tied Bobby Orr’s OHL record for most goals by a defenseman (later surpassed by Niagara Falls Thunder’s Bryan Fogerty) with 38, en route to becoming the only Kitchener Ranger to date to win the Max Trophy. Kaminsky.

Al was a 15th overall pick by the Calgary Flames in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He played in the NHL from 1983-84 to 2003-04 with the Flames and the St. Louis Blues. He won the Conn Smythe in 1988-89 when the Flames won their only Stanley Cup. A decade later, MacInnis won his only Norris Trophy as a member of the Blues. In 1990-91, he accomplished the rare feat for a defenseman of breaking the 100-point plateau.

For Stevens, 1981-82 was his only full season with Kitchener. The hometown boy played just one game in 1980-81. Scott was a fifth overall pick by the Washington Capitals in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. He played in the NHL from 1982-83 to 2003-04 with the Capitals, Blues, and New Jersey Devils. Like MacInnis and Robinson, Scott’s name is engraved on the Conn Smythe Trophy, which he won in 1999-00 with the Devils.