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Born John Albert McKenzie, his teammates dubbed him "Pieface" for his teenage acne that lasted into his twenties but within a few years the nickname evolved to "Pie." After three years in the junior leagues -- for which he starred with the St. Catharines Teepees of the OHA and led the league in goals and points in 1958 -- McKenzie made his NHL debut during the 1959 season with the Chicago Blackhawks. St. ... Oha (Оха), city in Russia, the Sakhalin area (Сахалинская область), population - 29,000 (2003). ... NHL redirects here. ... The classic NHL shield logo The 1958-59 NHL season was the 42nd season of the National Hockey League. ... The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. ...

The following season he moved on to the Detroit Red Wings, where he lasted two years. He was then demoted back to the minors, playing for most of three seasons in the American Hockey League with the Hershey Bears and the Buffalo Bisons, and was named to the league's First All-Star Team in 1963. He returned to the NHL again during the 1964 season, once again with the Blackhawks, and two years later played for the New York Rangers for part of the 1966 season, halfway during which he was traded to the Rangers' arch-rivals, the Boston Bruins. The Detroit Red Wings are an NHL franchise located in Detroit, Michigan. ... The American Hockey League (AHL) is regarded as the top professional hockey league in North America outside the National Hockey League (NHL) for which it serves as the primary developmental circuit. ... The Hershey Bears are a professional ice hockey team playing in the American Hockey League of which the Bears are also the senior member club. ... The Buffalo Bisons are a defunct American Hockey League ice hockey franchise that played from 1940 to 1970 in Buffalo, New York. ... The 1963-64 season was the 47th regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). ... The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York, U.S.A.. Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the oldest teams in the National Hockey League, and are part of the group of teams referred... The 1965-66 season was the 49th regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). ... The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

He was an immediate impact player in Boston, and it was with the Bruins that the 5-foot-9-inch, 170 pound (77 kg) right wing had the most productive seasons of his career. He became a star in the 1968 season, scoring twenty-eight goals and gaining a reputation as a pesky, relentless hustler. He would score twenty-nine goals each of the next two seasons, and would win the accolade as Second Team All-Star in the 1970 season, when in the Stanley Cup playoffs he would score seventeen points in fourteen games, fourth on the team after Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito and John Bucyk and a feat he would repeat in 1972. His best season statistically was the following year, when he scored thirty-one goals and 77 points in 65 games. All in all, McKenzie scored 169 goals in his seven years in Boston and helped the Bruins win two Stanley Cup titles, in 1970 and again in 1972. The 1967-68 NHL season was the 51st regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). ... The classic NHL shield logo The 1969-70 NHL season was the 53rd season of the National Hockey League. ... Robert Gordon Bobby Orr, OC (born March 20, 1948 in Parry Sound, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman and is considered to be one of the greatest hockey players of all time. ... Philip Anthony Esposito, OC (born February 20, 1942 in Sault Ste. ... Boston Bruins John Paul Bucyk (b. ... Regular Season* October 16 The Toronto Maple Leafs Norm Ullman tallies his 1,000th point. ... The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ...

A notorious incident took place immediately after the Bruins defeated the Rangers in six games in the Stanley Cup finals in the latter year (winning the clinching game on the Rangers' home ice at Madison Square Garden), McKenzie skated to center ice, raised one arm in a Statue of Liberty pose, placing his other hand around his neck, making a "choke" gesture (alluding to the fact that the result of the series had left the Rangers still looking for their first Stanley Cup championship since 1940), then jumping up and down in a circle several times. This became known as the "McKenzie Choke Dance," or simply the "choke dance." Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... For other freedom monuments, see Monument of Liberty. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Seven teams remained for the 1939-40 NHL season, the 23rd for the National Hockey League. ...

Following the Bruins second Stanley Cup championship in 1972, McKenzie was disgruntled at being left unprotected in the expansion draft, and though the Bruins did not lose him, he signed as player-coach with the Philadelphia Blazers of the newly-formed World Hockey Association (WHA). He continued to play effectively for the Blazers, the Minnesota Fighting Saints, the Cincinnati Stingers and finally the New England Whalers, and finished his career in the league's final season in 1979, having played in twenty-one major professional seasons. The Philadelphia Blazers were a hockey team based out of Ottawa that played in the World Hockey Association. ... World Hockey Association logo The World Hockey Association (French: Association Mondiale de Hockey) was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979. ... The Minnesota Fighting Saints were a professional ice hockey team that played in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ... The Cincinnati Stingers were an ice hockey team based out of Cincinnati, Ohio that played in the World Hockey Association. ... The Carolina Hurricanes are a National Hockey League team based in Raleigh, North Carolina. ...

In 2007, McKenzie was named as the coach of the Berklee Ice Cats, the newly-formed hockey team at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ...

Career achievements and facts

• Played in 691 NHL games, totalling 206 goals, 268 assists and 917 penalty minutes.
• Played in 477 WHA games (7th all-time), totalling 163 goals, 250 assists and 413 points (16th all-time).
• Played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1970 and 1972.
• Played in the Summit Series for Team Canada in 1974 against the Soviet Union.
• His #19 was retired by the Hartford Whalers, making him -- unusually -- one of only three players whose number was retired by an NHL franchise for which he never actually played (the other two being J.C. Tremblay by the Quebec Nordiques and Frank Finnigan by the modern-day Ottawa Senators). It was widely believed at the time, since McKenzie's contributions to the WHA Whalers were modest, that the honor was a public relations sop to the Boston Bruins' fan base for which Whalers management was competing.

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See also

• List of NHL players
• List of NHL seasons

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External links

• Picture of John McKenzie's Name on the 1970 Stanley Cup Plaque