Phil Russell: 1978-79 O-Pee-Chee 12

1978-79 O-Pee-Chee 12 Phil Russell Hockey Card (Front)

1978-79 O-Pee-Chee 12 Phil Russell Hockey Card (Back)

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Card Notes

Phil has natural talent to be one of NHL’s best defensemen. Few players can skate or pass better than Phil, a fine blueliner.

En Français

Phil a ce qu’il faut pour devenir l’un des meilleurs défenseurs dans la LNH. Peu de joueurs peuvent patiner et passer aussi bien que Russell.

Details

Phil Russell would make it 66 games into the 1978-79 NHL season before the Chicago Blackhawks shipped him to the Atlanta Flames with Ivan Boldirev and Darcy Rota for Greg Fox, Tom Lysiak, Harold Phillipoff, Pat Ribble and Miles Zaharko. He finished out the season playing 13 regular season and two playoff games with the Flames. He would remain with the club over the following four seasons.

A week before that trade, Russell had a rare offensive outburst in an 8-5 loss to the Los Angeles Kings. At the Forum in L.A. on March 3, 1979, Phil racked up three points on a goal and two assists. The goal, his eighth of the season, was scored with 35 seconds left in the game on Mario Lessard, assisted by Mike Walton and J.P. Bordeleau. He also had helpers on goals by Reg Kerr and Alain Daigle.

With Atlanta that year, Russell scored just a single goal, the final marker of the game in an 8-2 win over the St. Louis Blues at the Omni. Phil was an assist short of the Gordie Howe Hat Trick, engaging in a scrap with Brian Sutter in the second period. On the other side of that fight, Sutter had an assist but no goals.

Between 1972-73 and 1986-87, Phil Russell played 1,016 regular season and 73 playoff games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres. Originally a first round pick by the Blackhawks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft out of the Edmonton Oil Kings, Russell was a candidate for the Calder Trophy in 1972-73 and the Norris Trophy in 1978-79.

Phil Russell NHL Career Stats

Regular Season

Year	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1972-73	Chicago Blackhawks	76	6	19	25	156
1973-74	Chicago Blackhawks	75	10	25	35	184
1974-75	Chicago Blackhawks	80	5	24	29	260
1975-76	Chicago Blackhawks	74	9	29	38	194
1976-77	Chicago Blackhawks	76	9	36	45	233
1977-78	Chicago Blackhawks	57	6	20	26	139
1978-79	Chicago Blackhawks	66	8	23	31	122
1978-79	Atlanta Flames	13	1	6	7	28
1979-80	Atlanta Flames	80	5	31	36	115
1980-81	Calgary Flames	80	6	23	29	104
1981-82	Calgary Flames	71	4	25	29	110
1982-83	Calgary Flames	78	13	18	31	112
1983-84	New Jersey Devils	76	9	22	31	96
1984-85	New Jersey Devils	66	4	16	20	110
1985-86	New Jersey Devils	30	2	3	5	51
1985-86	Buffalo Sabres	12	2	3	5	12
1986-87	Buffalo Sabres	6	0	2	2	12
	Totals	1016	99	325	424	2038

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1972-73	Chicago Blackhawks	16	0	3	3	49
1973-74	Chicago Blackhawks	9	0	1	1	41
1974-75	Chicago Blackhawks	8	1	3	4	23
1975-76	Chicago Blackhawks	4	0	1	1	17
1976-77	Chicago Blackhawks	2	0	1	1	2
1977-78	Chicago Blackhawks	0	0	0	0	0
1978-79	Chicago Blackhawks	0	0	0	0	0
1978-79	Atlanta Flames	2	0	0	0	9
1979-80	Atlanta Flames	4	0	1	1	6
1980-81	Calgary Flames	16	2	7	9	29
1981-82	Calgary Flames	3	0	1	1	2
1982-83	Calgary Flames	9	1	4	5	24
1983-84	New Jersey Devils	0	0	0	0	0
1984-85	New Jersey Devils	0	0	0	0	0
1985-86	New Jersey Devils	0	0	0	0	0
1985-86	Buffalo Sabres	0	0	0	0	0
1986-87	Buffalo Sabres	0	0	0	0	0
	Totals	73	4	22	26	202