1963-64 Topps 47 Doug Harvey Hockey Card (Front)
1963-64 Topps 47 Doug Harvey Hockey Card (Back)
Card Notes
All-time defense ace, won Norris Trophy 7 of 10 years. Led Rangers into playoffs as rookie coach in 1961-62. Last year he topped all defensemen as scorer after shedding coach job.
En Français
Comme instructeur recrue en 1961-62 il conduisit les Rangers à la série finale. L’an denier il était le meilleur joueur de défense. Après qu’il eut quitté son poste d’instructeur en obtenant le plus de buts.
Details
The Doug Harvey coached New York Rangers qualified for the post season in 1961-62 for the first time since 1957-58. Unfortunately, the Blue Shirts fell to the Toronto Maple Leafs in six games in the opening round. The team was still a long ways out of a drought that saw them not win a playoff series between 1950-51 and 1969-70. Prior to this dubious streak, the Rangers reached the Stanley Cup final in 1949-50 before falling to the Detroit Red Wings.
Despite his 39 points from the blue line in 1961-62, Doug was left out of the top five for Norris Trophy balloting. The award went to Pierre Pilote of the Chicago Blackhawks with Carl Brewer, Tim Horton, Elmer Vasko and Bill Gadsby also in the running. In fact, the seven Norris wins noted on the back of this 1963-64 Topps hockey card would be the limit for Harvey.
1963-64 would see Harvey play just 14 games with the Rangers, spending the rest of the season in the AHL with the Quebec Aces while also seeing time in the CPHL with the St. Paul Rangers. The rest of his NHL career would be sporadic at best, seeing just two games with the Detroit Red Wings in 1966-67, eight playoff games with the St. Louis Blues in 1967-68 and a full season with the Blues in 1968-69 before retiring.
In all, Doug played 1,113 regular season and 137 playoff games in the National Hockey League between 1947-48 and 1968-69 with the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis Blues. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1973. His number 2 was retired by the Habs in 1985.