65 Facts About Mike Bossy

Michael Dean Mike Bossy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.

Mike Bossy spent his entire NHL career, which lasted from 1977 to 1987, with the Islanders, and was a crucial part of their four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.

Mike Bossy won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1978 as NHL rookie of the year when he set the then-record for most goals by a rookie with 53.

Mike Bossy won the Conn Smythe Trophy in the 1982 Stanley Cup playoffs as the most valuable player and the Lady Byng Trophy for combining high quality play with sportsmanship three times.

Mike Bossy led the NHL in goals twice and was second three further times.

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Mike Bossy was voted to the league's first all-star team as right wing five times, with three further selections to the second all-star team.

Mike Bossy is one of two players to score consecutive Stanley Cup-winning goals and the only player to record four game-winning goals in one playoff series .

Mike Bossy is the NHL's all-time leader in average goals scored per regular season game, holds the NHL's third-highest all-time average points scored per regular season game, and is the second of five players to score 50 goals in 50 games, being the first to accomplish this feat 36 years after Maurice Richard did so.

Mike Bossy tied for the record for most 50-goal seasons with Wayne Gretzky and Alexander Ovechkin with nine, though his were consecutive as opposed to Gretzky's and Ovechkin's being non-consecutive; he thus is the sole record-holder for most consecutive 50-goal seasons.

Mike Bossy was the fifth son among ten children, and grew up in a family of Detroit Red Wings fans in the parish of Saint-Alphonse, in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville area of Montreal.

Mike Bossy attended St Pius X Comprehensive High School and then Laval Catholic High School.

When he was 12 years old, Mike Bossy broke a kneecap while competing in long jump at school, later developing chronic knee problems during his hockey career.

Mike Bossy started his junior career with the Laval National of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at the age of 15.

Mike Bossy, who had averaged 77 goals per season in junior with Laval, was passed over by twelve teams in the 1977 NHL amateur draft, including the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs, who each passed over him twice.

Mike Bossy was known as a scorer who could not check, while Foster, who had led the Ontario Hockey Association with 143 points, had a defensive aspect to his game.

Mike Bossy replaced Billy Harris on the Islanders' top line with Bryan Trottier and Clark Gillies, creating a new combination that came to be known as The Trio Grande.

Mike Bossy had boldly told Bill Torrey before the season he would score 50 goals, and wound up with a total of 53, setting a rookie record which stood until broken by Teemu Selanne in 1993.

Mike Bossy managed two goals and two assists against Toronto in the quarterfinals of the 1978 Playoffs, a hard-fought series in which the Trio Grande was somewhat neutralized by Toronto's toughness.

In game 6, with the Maple Leafs trailing in the series 3 games to 2, Mike Bossy was hit from behind by Toronto's Jerry Butler and sent to the hospital with a neck sprain; the Leafs won and forced a seventh game.

Mike Bossy returned for game 7 but was held scoreless as Toronto won the game – and the series – in overtime.

Mike Bossy set an Islanders playoffs record for single-game points with four in a 1979 quarterfinal game against the Chicago Black Hawks.

The Islanders swept Chicago in four games and Mike Bossy set another team playoffs mark by collecting five goals over the series, including the overtime winner in game 2.

Mike Bossy played in the all-star game for the Campbell Conference.

Mike Bossy led all scorers in the Finals with 11 points, and finished second to teammate Trottier in scoring with 23 points as the Islanders won their first Stanley Cup.

That evening, Mike Bossy scored twice against the Quebec Nordiques in the final five minutes, including the second goal with 89 seconds left, becoming the second to achieve 50 in 50.

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Mike Bossy's season included an NHL-record 9 hat tricks, and he finished the season with 68 goals, and through his first four seasons had the highest goals per game average in NHL history with.

Mike Bossy was again named a starter for the 1981 All-Star Game, and was named a First Team All-Star at the end of the season.

The Islanders then defeated the Edmonton Oilers in six games, in which Mike Bossy led all scorers with 11 points, and his 21 total points tied him with Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky for the playoff lead.

The Islanders then defeated the Minnesota North Stars in the 1981 Stanley Cup Finals, as Mike Bossy set records for most points, and power-play goals and most goals combining regular season and playoffs, and the Islanders won their second Stanley Cup.

That season Mike Bossy set records for right-wingers with 83 assists and 147 points, and was +69 on the season.

In spite of lingering knee issues, Mike Bossy recorded 27 points and a league-leading 17 playoff goals.

Mike Bossy scored seven times in the Finals, tying him with Jean Beliveau for most goals in the final round, and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoffs MVP.

Mike Bossy skated the 1983 NHL Playoffs on the Islanders top line, with Trottier and Anders Kallur; collectively they accounted for 17 Islander goals.

On May 17, Mike Bossy scored the winning goal in game 4, becoming the second player to score Stanley Cup-winning goals in consecutive years, joining Jack Darragh in 1920 and 1921.

Mike Bossy was named to appear in the 1984 NHL All-Star Game, which would have been his sixth consecutive All-Star game, but a collision with Detroit's Dwight Foster resulted in a knee injury and Rick Middleton took his place in the starting lineup; Mike Bossy wound up missing six games with this injury.

Mike Bossy was named a First Team All-Star for the fourth straight year, and again won the Lady Byng Trophy; the Lady Byng Trophy was presented to Mike Bossy at the NHL Awards by Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau.

Mike Bossy missed game 1 of the 1984 Stanley Cup Finals, a rematch against the Oilers, with tonsillitis.

When he returned, Mike Bossy, who had scored 17 goals in each of the previous three post-seasons, failed to score, and was held without a shot on goal in two of the games, as the Oilers won their first Stanley Cup.

Mike Bossy was selected for the 1985 NHL All-Star Game, his seventh selection overall and the only unanimous choice that year.

Mike Bossy finished the season with 58 goals, his eighth consecutive season of 50-goals plus, and earned Second Team All-Star honours, as the Islanders stumbled into the playoffs.

The Islanders and Flames faced each other on the same day as the trade, and Mike Bossy scored four goals, while on a line with Kromm and Trottier.

Mike Bossy hit a number of milestones during the course of the season.

Mike Bossy scored his 61st goal in the last game of the season against the New Jersey Devils, completing his record fifth season with at least 60 goals.

The Islanders did not make it past the opening round of the 1986 Stanley Cup playoffs as they were swept in three games by Washington, but Mike Bossy did set a new all-time record by scoring his 83rd playoff goal.

Mike Bossy was named a First Team All-Star and won the Lady Byng Trophy for the third time.

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At the beginning of training camp Mike Bossy experienced back pain, and after playing two uncomfortable games in which he did not score, he was ordered to rest for 10 days.

The hiatus spanned four games, after which Mike Bossy returned strong, scoring 12 times across 12 games, in addition to recording 9 assists.

Mike Bossy was voted to be the starting right wing representing the NHL against the Soviet Union in Rendez-vous '87, the 1987 replacement for the NHL All-Star Game, but ultimately pulled out of the series due to his back problems.

Mike Bossy then suffered an injury to his left knee on a hit from Lou Franceschetti in game 2, and missed the rest of the series, in which the Islanders came back from a three-games-to-one deficit and won the deciding seventh game in quadruple overtime.

Mike Bossy intended to attend training camp in 1987, but with his condition remaining stagnant, and pain preventing him from bending to tie his own skates, Mike Bossy instead underwent a series of tests and x-rays on his back.

Mike Bossy officially retired in October 1988, having played his last game at the young age of 30; he scored 573 goals and 553 assists in 752 NHL games, all with the Islanders.

Mike Bossy scored 573 goals and had 553 assists in only 752 games.

Mike Bossy aspired to be the best player of his era but fell short, as the Hart Memorial Trophy and Art Ross Trophy were two of the awards that eluded Mike Bossy during his career, going to Guy Lafleur, Trottier, and Wayne Gretzky.

Mike Bossy is frequently compared to Lafleur as they were both considered among the best right-wing snipers, although their styles contrasted as Lafleur was a stylish skater while Mike Bossy was the more accurate shooter.

Mike Bossy harboured some animosity towards Gretzky and the Oilers, stating that the Islanders got little recognition for their dynasty compared to them or the Montreal Canadiens.

Mike Bossy went into business with Pierre Lacroix, his agent, and joined Titan, a hockey stick manufacturer, as vice-president.

In 1993, Mike Bossy broke into radio, and by 1994, he was part of the "Y'e trop d'bonne heure" morning show on CKOI-FM, a French-language radio station in Montreal.

Originally brought on to read the sports, Mike Bossy became known for comic leanings, until he left in 1996.

Mike Bossy afterwards recalled not being able to get a job with an NHL organization for over a decade and a half.

In September 2014, Mike Bossy joined MSG Networks as a hockey analyst, and in September 2015, he officially joined TVA Sports, an official French-language broadcaster of the NHL in Canada, as a colour commentator.

Mike Bossy appeared on the late night show Dave Morissette Live and TVA Sports at 5.

Mike Bossy said of the experience that his "fantasy is to be a singer".

In 2005, Mike Bossy played himself in Les Boys 4, a sequel in the popular French Canadian Les Boys series.

Mike Bossy served as a consultant for The Raccoons on Ice, a hockey-themed special episode of the animated TV series The Raccoons.

Mike Bossy holds several Islanders team records, including as the all-time regular season goals leader with 573.

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