1979-80 O-Pee-Chee 127 Ivan Boldirev Hockey Card (Front)
1979-80 O-Pee-Chee 127 Ivan Boldirev Hockey Card (Back)
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Card Notes
Ivan led the Black Hawks in scoring for both the 1976-77 and 1977-78 seasons.
En Français
Meilleur compteur des Black Hawks pour les saisons 1976-77 et 1977-78.
Details
Despite getting traded to the Atlanta Flames on February 8, 1980, Ivan Boldirev still led the Chicago Blackhawks in scoring for the 1979-80 season. In his 66 games with the team, he scored 29 goals and totaled 64 points. This still put him two goals ahead of Ted Bully and nine points ahead of Stan Mikita.
He wouldn’t last in Atlanta long. 52 games into the 1979-80 season, he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks with Darcy Rota for Don Lever and Brad Smith. Rota and Boldirev had come as a package to the Flames from Chicago a month shy of a year before.
Boldirev was similar to his Sault Ste. Marie neighbour Phil Esposito, in that he could score goals. Not quite the numbers of Esposito, Ivan surpassed the 30 goal plateau five times. Not matter what dressing room he was coming out of, he seemed to be able to accomplish the feat. Boldirev scored 35 with the Blackhawks in 1977-78, 35 again the following year with the Hawks/Flames, 32 in 1979-80 with the Flames/Canucks, 33 win the Canucks in 1981-82 and 35 with the Detroit Red Wings in 1983-84.
Between 1970-71 and 1984-85, Ivan Boldirev played 1,052 regular season and 48 playoff games in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, California Golden Seals, Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Flames, Vancouver Canucks and Detroit Red Wings. He was originally a first round pick by the Bruins at the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft.