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词条 Mark Major
释义

  1. Professional career

     Junior and early minor-league career  NHL appearance  Late minor-league career  Playing roller hockey 

  2. Awards and achievements

  3. Career statistics

     Ice hockey  Roller hockey 

  4. References

  5. External links

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| image =
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| position = Left Wing
| played_for = Detroit Red Wings
| shoots = Left
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 4
| weight_lb = 216
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|3|20}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| draft = 25th overall
| draft_year = 1988
| draft_team = Pittsburgh Penguins
| career_start = 1990
| career_end = 2004
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Mark Major (born March 20, 1970 in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired ice hockey left winger. He was drafted 25th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League's 1988 entry draft. Major acquired many penalty minutes over his career due to his playing style, which involved battling in front of the net for loose pucks, scoring garbage goals, and blocking the goaltenders view. Major only played in two NHL games, for the Detroit Red Wings. He also enjoyed a short career as a professional roller hockey player in Roller Hockey International (RHI). Taking into account all of his hockey games played at a professional level, Major played in 1,339 games and acquired 4,334 penalty minutes, giving Major an average of 3.24 penalty minutes per game during his career. After 4 seasons and 2 Championships as Head Coach of the Amherstview Jets Junior A team, Major is taking a year off to help coach his daughter's Kingston Ice Wolves' Peewee AA team.

Professional career

Junior and early minor-league career

Major started receiving attention from NHL scouts while playing for the Don Mills Flyers of the MTHL in 1986. He advanced to the North Bay Centennials of the Ontario Hockey League for the 1987–88 season and put up 33 points in 57 games to go along with a whopping 272 penalty minutes (PIM). Major averaged almost 5 penalty minutes a game, but his hard-nosed style was admired by NHL scouts and Major was selected 25th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1988 NHL Draft. Now as an NHL prospect, Major gained confidence and began the 1988–89 season again with the Centennials before being traded 11 games in to the Kingston Raiders. He would remain in Kingston for that season and the next (when they were renamed the Kingston Frontenacs), scoring 112 points and 361 PIMs, before moving up to the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League. Major remained with the Lumberjacks for three seasons, scoring 77 points and 617 PIMs. He led the team in penalties during the 1991–92 season with 302 and would add another 29 PIMs in the Lumberjacks' playoff run which saw them lose four games to none in the finals to the Kansas City Blades. After his last season with the Lumberjacks, that included a relocation to Cleveland, Major was let go by the parent club Pittsburgh and quickly signed as a free agent by the Boston Bruins on July 22, 1993.

Major started play with Boston's affiliate the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League. He scored 26 points along with 176 PIMs during the 1993–94 season, but Providence failed to make the playoffs. He was let go by the Bruins, and joined the Detroit Vipers of the IHL for the following season. He continued to play aggressively, with his 36 points and 229 PIMs helping push the Vipers into the playoffs, but his play couldn't help them past the second round.

Major again caught the attention of an NHL team, when the Detroit Red Wings signed him as a free agent on June 26, 1995. He began play for the Adirondack Red Wings of the AHL in the 1995–96 season and scored 29 points while racking up 234 PIMs for second on the team. He was known as a player who wouldn't back down from a fight, and he was involved in several fights during Adirondack's short playoff run that season, receiving 21 PIMs in just three games.

NHL appearance

Major finally received his first shot in the big leagues during the 1996–97 NHL season when he was brought up from Adirondack for two games starting on November 2, 1996. In his very first game, halfway though the second period, Major fought veteran instigator Tie Domi of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Major held his own against Domi but was rewarded with a bloody nose and a five-minute major. Major played the following night and failed to impress the Detroit staff, which resulted in him being sent back down to the minors. Finishing the season with Adirondack, and leading the team in PIMs with 213, Major was let go by Detroit.

Late minor-league career

Major still had NHL interest and was quickly signed as a free agent on August 20, 1997 by the Washington Capitals. He started out in their farm system playing for the Portland Pirates of the AHL. In his first season, Major was first on his team and second in the league for penalty minutes with 355. This was his career high for PIMs in a season and as of 2007, he still holds the team record for penalty minutes in a single season. Major wasn't finished with 355 and added 52 more PIMs in 10 playoff games that year. The following season he again led the team in PIMs and saw his point production decrease to only nine points in 66 games. He was let go by Washington and began play for the Houston Aeros of the IHL in 1999. After just 20 games (with 81 PIMs), Major was signed as a free agent by the Flint Generals of the United Hockey League. He was named team captain and finished out the 1999–00 season with the Generals scoring 41 points, his highest point total in years, and helped the team win the Colonial Cup. He put up great numbers the following season when he finished with 46 points and 163 PIMs. Generals coach Billy Thurlow had this to say about Major's style of play:

Anytime he's on the ice, people have to respect us. Nobody's going to shove us around.[1]

He would also go on to join the AHL's Hershey Bears for two games in the 2000–01 season. In 2001, he joined the Wheeling Nailers of the East Coast Hockey League and would go on to score 84 points in two seasons with the Nailers. The coach, John Brophy, had this to say about Major returning for his second season in Wheeling:

We are very fortunate to have Mark return to the Nailers, not only are we getting a great player and a natural team leader, but a guy who is good in the community and represents the Nailers and Penguins organizations with class.[2]

The 2003–04 season would be Major's last, playing in 40 games for the Laval Chiefs of the QSMHL and 12 games for the Kalamazoo Wings of the UHL.

Playing roller hockey

Major was also an active member in the Roller Hockey International League for its entire lifespan. Major played on the Buffalo Stampede in 1994 and 1995, winning the Murphy Cup in 1994. He joined the Empire State Cobras in 1996 and the New Jersey Rockin' Rollers in 1997. When the RHI folded in 1997, Major continued playing with the Buffalo Wings of Major League Roller Hockey in 1998 and joined the newly re-formed Roller Hockey International with Buffalo in 1999. The league folded for good after the 1999 season.

Awards and achievements

  • Murphy Cup Champion:1994 (Buffalo Stampede – RHI)
  • Colonial Cup Champion:2000 (Flint Generals – UHL)

Career statistics

Ice hockey

  Regular season Playoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPtsPIMGPGAPtsPIM
1987–88North Bay CentennialsOHL5716173327240228
1988–89North Bay CentennialsOHL1132558
1988–89Kingston RaidersOHL53222951193
1989–90Kingston FrontenacsOHL62293261168633612
1990–91Muskegon LumberjacksIHL608101816050000
1991–92Muskegon LumberjacksIHL801318313021213429
1992–93Cleveland LumberjacksIHL8213152815530000
1993–94Providence BruinsAHL6117926176
1994–95Detroit VipersIHL78171936229501123
1995–96Adirondack Red WingsAHL78101929234300021
1996–97Adirondack Red WingsAHL78171835213400013
1996–97Detroit Red WingsNHL20005
1997–98Portland PiratesAHL79132153551021352
1998–99Portland PiratesAHL66549250
1999–00Houston AerosIHL2010181
1999–00Flint GeneralsUHL3623184113515831167
2000–01Flint GeneralsUHL53163046163
2000–01Hershey BearsAHL200010
2001–02Wheeling NailersECHL71261945102
2002–03Wheeling NailersECHL68172239135
2003–04Laval ChiefsQSMHL40141226149513415
2003–04Kalamazoo WingsUHL125493351129
NHL totals20005
Career totals1149285299584357877161733229

Roller hockey

  Regular season
SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPtsPIM
1994Buffalo StampedeRHI2118143263
1995Buffalo StampedeRHI2317203797
1996Empire State CobrasRHI2311193098
1997New Jersey Rockin' RollersRHI10881673
1998Buffalo WingsMLRH1321103185
1999Buffalo WingsRHI23243458111
Career totals11399105204527

References

1. ^{{cite news|author=Dean Howe|title = Major Uses Games to Mask Personal Pain|url = |publisher=The Flint Journal|date = October 19, 2000|accessdate =}}
2. ^{{cite news |author = Press Release |title = Mark Major is returning to Wheeling |url = http://www.sportzdomain.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4443 |publisher = ECHL.com |date = September 5, 2002 |accessdate = August 8, 2007 |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110716122224/http://www.sportzdomain.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4443 |archivedate = July 16, 2011 |df = mdy-all}}

External links

  • {{hockeydb|3333}}
  • Mark Major's Player profile while with Buffalo Wings
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927021515/http://www.amherstviewjets.ca/index.php?page=executives Mark Major on the Amherstview Jets webpage]
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