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Gary MacGregor
Gary George MacGregor
Height: 5-9
 
Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
 
What can you say about him — he's super ... Just missed winning the Lou Kaplan award for WHA Rookie of the Rear in 1974-75 ... Polled 94 votes compared to Winnipeg rookie Anders Hedberg's 104 ... Led his team in goals, 44, and points, 78, while centering two second-year pros, Frankie Rochon and Mark Lomenda ... Had six game winners and eight power-play goals ... Nickname is "Mac" ... lived with an ex-bachelor teammate, Jan Popiel ... Owns a boat and cottage in Ontario ... Earnest worker ... Former coach Pat Stapleton called him years ahead of his time as far as moxie goes ... A gem of a player and person.
 
At the farewell party of the Cleveland Crusaders, a long talk developed between Gary MacGregor and coach Johnny Wilson that undoubtedly will prove significant as the 1976-77 season progresses.
MacGregor scored 44 goals in his rookie year with Chicago Cougars, suggesting plenty of potential, but when the Cougars disappeared and his next team, the Denver Spurs, failed to last the 1975-76 season, the young center seemed to falter. The Crusaders picked him up but he never got rolling.
One reason for his failure to get much notice in Cleveland was that he was the team's fourth center, behind Jim Harrison, Ron Ward and Richie Leduc. Now, with Leduc gone, Wilson will be expecting MacGregor to participate — and produce — as a regular.
Home Book Credits & Legal Stuff
 
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Weight: 170
Shoot: L
Born: 21 Sep 1954, Kingston ON (d. 1995)
year
team
1974-75
Chicago
1975-76
Denver-Ottawa
Cleveland
Totals (2 teams)
1976-77
Indianapolis
New England
Totals (2 teams)
1977-78
Edmonton
1978-79
Indianapolis
Totals:
Excerpts from Zander Hollander Complete Hockey Handbook, 1975-76 (by Reyn Davis)
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Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1976-77 (by Dan Proudfoot)