Al MacInnis was named the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as the most valuable player of the playoffs in 1989 after leading the Flames to the Stanley Cup championship.
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38 Facts About Al MacInnis
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Al MacInnis was voted the winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 1999 as the top defenceman in the league while a member of the Blues.
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In 2017 Al MacInnis was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
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Al MacInnis was most famous for having the hardest shot in the league.
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Al MacInnis tied Bobby Orr's Ontario Hockey League record for goals by a defenceman, and won two OHL championships and a Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers as a junior.
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Al MacInnis finished his career third all-time among defencemen in goals, assists and points and was named to seven post-season all-star teams.
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Al MacInnis was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007, and his jersey number 2 was retired by the Blues and is honoured by the Flames.
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Al MacInnis remains a member of the Blues organization, currently serving as the team's Senior Advisor to the General Manager.
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Al MacInnis was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia, and grew up in Port Hood, Nova Scotia, a fishing village on Cape Breton Island.
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Al MacInnis is the seventh of eight children born to Alex and Anna Mae MacInnis, and one of six brothers.
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Al MacInnis's father worked as a coal miner and later as the assistant manager of the arena in Port Hood when the mine closed while his mother was a school teacher.
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Al MacInnis often assisted his father's work at the arena, collecting pucks that he used to shoot repeatedly against a sheet of plywood set against the family barn during the summer.
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Al MacInnis left home in 1979 to join the Regina Pat Blues of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League .
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Al MacInnis was selected by the Calgary Flames in the first round, 15th overall.
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Additionally, Al MacInnis was voted the winner of the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the OHL's top defenceman.
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Al MacInnis tied Bobby Orr's OHL record for goals by a defenceman in one season with 38, and holds the Canadian Hockey League record of five goals in one game by a defenceman.
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Al MacInnis became the first defenceman to lead the league in post-season scoring, and he finished with a 17-game scoring streak, the longest by a defenceman in NHL history.
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Al MacInnis said his decision to leave Calgary was not easy to make given his family was from the city.
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Al MacInnis claimed money was not the only reason he signed with the Blues, stating that he wanted a new challenge.
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Al MacInnis appeared in six All-Star Games with Calgary and was named a league all-star five times: twice on the first team and three times on the second.
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Al MacInnis reached the mark with his 300th point, scored in his 424th game with the organization.
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Al MacInnis completed the season as the league's leader in scoring amongst defencemen with 68 points.
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Al MacInnis was the first player from Nova Scotia so honoured, and was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame and the St Louis Sports Hall of Fame.
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Al MacInnis was a member of the Canadian national team on four occasions.
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Al MacInnis first represented Canada at the 1990 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships where he scored one goal and four points.
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Al MacInnis scored two goals and four assists and was named a tournament all-star as Canada won the title over the United States.
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Al MacInnis suffered a separated shoulder shortly before the 1998 Winter Olympics, and while it was feared he would be unavailable for the tournament as a result, recovered in time to be cleared to play.
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Al MacInnis scored two goals during the tournament, but Canada finished in fourth place after losing the bronze medal match to Finland following a semi-final loss to the Czech Republic.
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Al MacInnis was best known for the power and accuracy of his slapshot.
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Al MacInnis resisted the transition to carbon-fiber sticks in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Al MacInnis continued to win "Hardest Shot" events at All-Star Game skills competitions despite competing with the technologically inferior wooden sticks.
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Al MacInnis won the event a total of seven times between 1991 and 2003.
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Al MacInnis occasionally topped 100 miles per hour, including his win in the 2000 All-Star Game.
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Al MacInnis finally won the Norris Trophy as the league's top defenceman in 1999 with the Blues.
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Al MacInnis married his wife Jackie shortly after winning the Stanley Cup in 1989, and the couple have four children, Carson, Ryan, Lauren and Riley.
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Al MacInnis settled in St Louis following his retirement, and in 2006 was named the Blues' Vice-President of Hockey Operations.
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Al MacInnis's son Ryan was a member of the Kitchener Rangers, and was drafted by the Arizona Coyotes in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.
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