Bathgate, "Andy" (Andrew J.)
Hockey
b. Aug. 28, 1932, Winnipeg, MAN
After captaining his Guelph team to the Memorial Cup in 1952, Bathgate joined the New York Rangers for eighteen games in the 1952-53 season. He was the team's leading scorer over the next ten seasons and won the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player in 1959. He tied Bobby Hull for the scoring championship with 84 points in 1961-62 and set an NHL record by scoring goals in ten straight games the following season.
Bathgate and Don McKenney were traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs midway through the 1963/64 season for five players. Bathgate's 58 assists that season tied Jean Beliveau's record; it was broken by Stan Mikita in 1964-65.
McKenney and Bathgate combined for nine goals and twelve assists during the 1964 playoffs, leading Toronto to a Stanley Cup. However, the team slipped the following season and Bathgate criticized coach Punch Imlach for working his players too hard in practice. Imlach promptly traded him to Detroit. After two seasons with Vancouver in the World Hockey League, he joined the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1970 and spent one season there before retiring.