Barclay Plager: 1970-71 O-Pee-Chee 99

1970-71 O-Pee-Chee 99 Barclay Plager Hockey Card (Front)

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Barclay adds the muscle to the St. Louis defense brigade. Last season three Plager brothers played for the Blues at the same time. Another product of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, he spent seven years with the minor pro leagues before making the St. Louis team.

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Barclay renforce vraiment l’équipe défensive des Blues. La saison passée, trois frères Plager jouèrent pour St-Louis simultanément. Un autre produit de Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Barclay passa sept ans dans les ligues professionnelles mineures avant d’être accepté par St-Louis.

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Between 1968-69 and 1971-72, all three Plager brothers played for the St. Louis Blues. Barclay and Bob Plager were with the Blues from the team’s inception in 1967-68 with Barclay playing with the club until 1976-77 and Bob staying a year longer. Bill Plager was with the Blues for just the four years.

Kirkland Lake, a city in northern Ontario between North Bay and Timmins, produced a disproportionate amount of NHL players prior to the 1970’s. Along with Barclay and Bob (Billy was born in nearby Kapuskasing), Kirkland Lake produced the likes of Ralph Backstrom, Dick Duff, Mike Walton, Mickey Redmond and several more.

Over his seven years in the minors prior to his NHL career, Barclay was property of the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers but didn’t break through until the 1967 NHL Expansion. He was picked up by the Los Angeles Kings, not in the Expansion Draft, but as a free agent. Before the 1967-68 season began, he was shipped to the Rangers and then the Blues.

Between 1967-68 and 1976-77, Barclay Plager appeared in 614 regular season and 68 playoff games in the National Hockey League, all with the St. Louis Blues. He went to the Stanley Cup final three times with the Blues in the franchise’s first three years of existence. He served as team captain from 1972-73 to 1975-76 and his number 8 was retired in 1981, the second to be raised to the rafters after Bob Gassoff.