Capitals Jersey, The Kitchener Rangers have Capitals Jersey been a mainstay in the Ontario Hockey League since they were moved from Guelph for the start of the 1963-64 season. The Max Kaminsky Trophy has been awarded to the OHL\'s top defenseman since 1969-70. The Rangers have had only one winner of the Kaminsky in all those years, yet the team has produced four Hockey Hall of Fame defensemen.
Of the five Kitchener Rangers grads that are enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame, only Bill Barber was not a defenseman. Barber was among the top ten point-getters in the league in each of the three seasons he played for the Rangers, 1969-70 to 1971-72. In his final two seasons with Kitchener, he surpassed the 100 point plateau and finished sixth in his final season.
Barber was a seventh round pick of 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 finishing fourth in league scoring in 1975-76 with 112 points. Barber was the first Rangers grad to be inducted into the Hall, entering in 1990.
Larry Robinson was teammates with Barber on the 1970-71 Rangers. Despite Barber\'s offensive output and Robinson\'s defensive Capitals Jersey abilities, the team didn\'t have much else going for it. The Rangers finished 6thout of ten teams that season with a lackluster 26-32-4 record.
1970-71 was the only year Robinson played in the OHA. He was taken by the Montreal Canadiens in the second round of the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft, 20thoverall and spent the next year and a half with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the AHL.
Larry\'s NHL career spanned form 1972-73 until 1991-92, mostly spent with the Canadiens with his final three years played in a Los Angeles Kings jersey. Robinson won six Stanley Cups with Montreal and was named the Conn Smythe winner as playoff MVP in 1977-78. He won the Norris Trophy twice as the NHL\'s top defenseman and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995.
By the time Paul Coffey got around to playing for the Kitchener Rangers, he was on his third OHA team. His career started with the Kingston Canadians in 1977-78. He played the full 1978-79 season with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. He started the next season, his last in junior, with the Greyhounds but after 23 games was shipped to Kitchener. Interestingly, despite a 68 game schedule that season, Coffey played 75 between the two teams.
Coffey was a sixth overall pick of 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 and Capitals Jersey Al MacInnis were teammates on the 1981-82 Kitchener Rangers team that won the Robertson Cup as OHL playoff champions and the Memorial Cup as Canadian major junior champs. 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 broken by Bryan Fogerty of the Niagara Falls Thunder) with 38, en route to becoming the only Kitchener Ranger to date to win the Max Kaminsky Trophy.
Al was a fifteenth overall pick of 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 lone 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 by surpassing 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 of 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, winning in 1999-00 with the Devils.
