1980-81 O-Pee-Chee 110 Rogie Vachon Hockey Card (Front)
1980-81 O-Pee-Chee 110 Rogie Vachon Hockey Card (Back)
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Card Notes
There is no info snippet on the back of this Rogatien Vachon hockey card but there is a trivia snippet: The father-son combo of Ab DeMarco, Sr. & Jr. both played with the Bruins.
En Français
Ab DeMarco Sr. et son fils Ab Jr. ont tous deux joué pour les Bruins.
Details
As for the trivia about the DeMarcos, Ab Sr. played just six regular season and nine playoff games with the Boston Bruins between 1942-43 and 1943-44. He played a total of 210 regular season and eleven playoff games in the NHL between 1938-39 and 1946-47 with the Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers.
Ab DeMarco Jr. played just three games with Boston, his last NHL action in 1978-79. Between 1969-70 and 1978-79, Junior played 344 regular season and 25 playoff games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Pittsburgh Penguins, Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings and Boston. He also spent time in the WHA with the Edmonton Oilers.
As for Rogie Vachon, he was going into his first of two seasons with the Boston Bruins in 1980-81 at the tail end of his NHL career. Over the off-season, he came over from the Detroit Red Wings in a swap for Gilles Gilbert. In 80-81, he was Boston’s number one goalie, appearing in 53 games with Jim Craig serving as his backup.
In that first season with Boston, Rogie recorded the 50th shutout of his NHL career (see the below Facebook post for more on that). He finished up with 51, tying him for 28th all-time with Dave Kerr, Tomas Vokoun and Curtis Joseph.
Between 1966-67 and 1981-82, Rogie Vachon played 795 regular season and 48 playoff games in the NHL with the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016.