The Kitchener Rangers are generally a mainstay with the Ontario Hockey League from when they were moved from Guelph to the introduction of the 1963-64 season. The Max Kaminsky Trophy may be awarded towards OHL's top defenseman since 1969-70. The Rangers have used just one winner of your Kaminsky in all those years, the team has produced four Hockey Hall of Fame defensemen.For the five Kitchener Rangers grads that are enshrined from the Hockey Hall of Fame, only Bill Barber weren't a defenseman. Barber was among the list of top ten point-getters while in the league in many of the three seasons he played for ones Rangers, 1969-70 to 1971-72. On his final two seasons with Kitchener, he surpassed the 100 point plateau and finished sixth in her final season.Barber was a seventh round pick in the Philadelphia Flyers from the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft. Bill played his entire career from a Flyers uniform (1972-73 to 1983-84) winning two Stanley Cups using the team and finishing fourth in league scoring in 1975-76 with 112 points. Barber was the initial Rangers grad to end up being inducted into the Hall, entering in 1990.Larry Robinson was teammates with Barber around the 1970-71 Rangers. Despite Barber's offensive output and Robinson's defensive abilities, the team didn't have much else opt for it. The Rangers finished 6thout of ten teams that season accompanied by a lackluster 26-32-4 record.1970-71 was one year Robinson took part in the OHA. He was taken by its Montreal Canadiens around the second round on the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft, 20thoverall and spent the other year and a half in the Nova Scotia Voyageurs within the AHL.Larry's NHL career spanned form 1972-73 until 1991-92, mostly spent together with the Canadiens using final a few years played in a L . a . Kings jersey. Robinson won six Stanley Cups with Montreal and was named the Conn Smythe winner as playoff MVP in 1977-78. He won the Norris Trophy doubly the NHL's top defenseman and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995.The time Paul Coffey got around to playing for the Kitchener Rangers, he was on his third OHA team. His career started with all the Kingston Canadians in 1977-78. He totally full 1978-79 season while using Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. He soon began a subsequent season, his last in junior, along with the Greyhounds but after 23 games was shipped to Kitchener. Interestingly, despite a 68 game schedule that season, Coffey played 75 within the two teams.Coffey is a sixth overall pick of your Edmonton Oilers in your 1980 NHL Entry Draft. He took part in the NHL from 1980-81 to 2000-01 when using the Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Texas Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers, Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks, Carolina Hurricanes and Boston Bruins. He played on three Stanley Cup winning teams with Edmonton andf the other with Pittsburgh. Coffey won the Norris Trophy thrice, twice with Edmonton and as soon as with Detroit. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004.Scott Stevens and Al MacInnis were teammates on your 1981-82 Kitchener Rangers team that won the Robertson Cup as OHL playoff champions and therefore the Memorial Cup as Canadian major junior champs. Fittingly, both were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame together in 2007.MacInnis played three seasons in the Rangers from 1980-81 to 1982-83. In the final season, he tied Bobby Orr's OHL record for most goals utilizing a defenseman (later broken by Bryan Fogerty of the Niagara Falls Thunder) with 38, that can becoming the sole Kitchener Ranger known to win the Max Kaminsky Trophy.Al was really a fifteenth overall pick in the Calgary Flames inside the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He took part in the NHL from 1983-84 to 2003-04 using the Flames and the St. Louis Blues. He won the Conn Smythe in 1988-89 should the Flames won their lone Stanley Cup. 10 years later, MacInnis won his only Norris Trophy like a an affiliate the Blues. In 1990-91, he accomplished the rare feat for any defenseman by surpassing the 100 point plateau.For Stevens, 1981-82 was his only full season with Kitchener. The hometown boy played just one single game in 1980-81. Scott must have been a fifth overall pick of the Washington Capitals during the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. He played in the NHL from 1982-83 to 2003-04 with the Capitals, Blues and Nj Devils. Like MacInnis and Robinson, Scott's name is engraved over the Conn Smythe Trophy, winning in 1999-00 with all the Devils.
