Peter Joseph "Little M" Mahovlich (born October 10, 1946), known in his playing years as "Little M", is a retired Canadian

Canada

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 professional

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 hockey

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 forward

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 and head coach

Head coach

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Playing career

Pete Mahovlich was drafted second Overall by the Detroit Red Wings

Detroit Red Wings

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 in the 1963 NHL Amateur Draft

1963 NHL Amateur Draft

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. He played for the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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's Detroit Red Wings twice, Montreal Canadiens

Montreal Canadiens

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, Pittsburgh Penguins

Pittsburgh Penguins

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, the Ontario Hockey Association

Ontario Hockey Association

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's Hamilton Red Wings

Hamilton Red Wings

The Hamilton Red Wings were a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1960 to 1974. The team was based in Hamilton, Ontario.-History:...

, the AHL

American Hockey League

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's Pittsburgh Hornets, Montreal Voyageurs, Adirondack Red Wings

Adirondack Red Wings

The Adirondack Red Wings were a minor professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Glens Falls, New York, USA at the Glens Falls Civic Center. The team was affiliated with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...

, the Central Hockey League's Fort Worth Wings and the IHL's Toledo Goaldiggers

Toledo Goaldiggers

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He was an important contributor to the Canadiens' cup-winning teams of 1971, 1973, 1976 and 1977, before eventually being traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins. He enjoyed a breakout season in 1970–71, scoring 35 goals in the regular season and another 10 in the playoffs as the Canadiens won the championship. His best year came in 1974–75, when he racked up 117 points as part of a deep forward corps that included the likes of Guy Lafleur

Guy Lafleur

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, Jacques Lemaire

Jacques Lemaire

Jacques Gerard Lemaire is a former ice hockey forward for the Montreal Canadiens and a long-time coach, most notably with the New Jersey Devils and the Minnesota Wild.-Playing career:...

, Yvan Cournoyer

Yvan Cournoyer

Yvan Serge "The Roadrunner" Cournoyer is a retired Canadian hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens from 1963 to 1979. Cournoyer was born in Drummondville, Quebec. He was nicknamed "The Roadrunner" due to his small size and blazing speed, which he...

, Steve Shutt

Steve Shutt

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 and Bob Gainey

Bob Gainey

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. He hit the 100-point mark again the following year, finishing with 105.

Pete was immensely popular as a Pittsburgh Penguin, and cheers of "Pete, Pete" were common when he made one of his end-to-end dashes up ice. Pete was characterized as easy going, joyful, and a party-goer in Ken Dryden

Ken Dryden

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's book The Game

The Game (Ken Dryden)

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In his 16-year NHL

National Hockey League

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 career, he totalled 288 goals and 485 assists for 773 points in 884 games. Internationally, he was a member of the 1972 Summit Series, in which he scored a memorable shorthanded goal in Game 2 of the series. He also played on the 1976 Canada Cup

1976 Canada Cup

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 team.

Post-playing career

After, his retirement, he was head coach of the Toledo Goaldiggers, IHL Colorado Rangers (co-coach), Denver Rangers

Denver Rangers

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, CHL Fort Worth Fire

Fort Worth Fire

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 and the AHL Cape Breton Oilers

Cape Breton Oilers

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. Peter is also the brother of Canadian Senator

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 and former hockey star Frank Mahovlich

Frank Mahovlich

Francis William "The Big M" Mahovlich, CM is a Canadian Senator, and a retired NHL ice hockey player, nicknamed the "Big M." He played on six Stanley Cup-winning teams and is an inductee of the Hockey Hall of Fame.-Playing career:...

. The two were teammates on the Red Wings from 1967 to 1969 and on the Canadiens from 1971 to 1974.

Mahovlich was a scout for the Edmonton Oilers

Edmonton Oilers

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 from 1995 to 1997 before joining the Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lightning

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.

Peter is currently a pro scout for the Florida Panthers

Florida Panthers

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Career statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...	Team	League		GP	G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...	A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...	Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...	PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...	+/-		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1963–64	Hamilton Red Wings Hamilton Red Wings The Hamilton Red Wings were a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1960 to 1974. The team was based in Hamilton, Ontario.-History:...	OHA-Jr.		54	20	27	47	67	-		0	0	0	0	0
1964–65	Hamilton Red Wings	OHA-Jr.		55	20	35	55	88	-		0	0	0	0	0
1965–66	Hamilton Red Wings	OHA-Jr.		46	14	22	36	121	-		4	0	0	0	2
1965–66	Detroit Red Wings Detroit Red Wings The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...	NHL		3	0	1	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0
1966–67	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		34	1	3	4	16	0		0	0	0	0	0
1966–67 1966–67 AHL season The 1966–67 AHL season was the 31st season of the American Hockey League. Nine teams played 72 games each in the schedule. The Pittsburgh Hornets finished first overall in the regular season, and won their first Calder Cup championship since being resurrected in 1961–62...	Pittsburgh Hornets	AHL American Hockey League The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...		18	4	7	11	37	-		9	0	0	0	2
1967–68	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		15	6	4	10	13	-6		0	0	0	0	0
1967–68	Fort Worth Wings	CPHL		42	20	14	34	103	-		0	0	0	0	0
1968–69	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		30	2	2	4	21	-15		0	0	0	0	0
1968–69	Fort Worth Wings	CHL		34	19	17	36	54	-		0	0	0	0	0
1969–70	Montreal Canadiens Montreal Canadiens The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...	NHL		36	9	8	17	51	9		0	0	0	0	0
1969–70 1969–70 AHL season The 1969–70 AHL season was the 34th season of the American Hockey League. Nine teams played 72 games each in the schedule. The Montreal Voyageurs became the second Canadian-based team in the league, and finished first overall in the regular season...	Montreal Voyageurs	AHL		31	21	19	40	77	-		0	0	0	0	0
1970–71*	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		78	35	26	61	181	25		20	10	6	16	43
1971–72	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		75	35	32	67	103	16		6	0	2	2	12
1972–73	Team Canada	1972 Summit Series Summit Series The Summit Series was the first competition between the Soviet and an NHL-inclusive Canadian national ice hockey teams, an eight-game series held in September 1972...		7	1	1	2	4	-		0	0	0	0	0
1972–73*	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		61	21	38	59	4	21		17	4	9	13	22
1973–74	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		78	36	37	73	49	42		6	2	1	3	4
1974–75	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		80	35	82	117	122	41		11	6	10	16	10
1975–76*	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		80	34	71	105	76	71		13	4	8	12	24
1976–77*	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		76	15	47	62	45	36		13	4	5	9	19
1977–78	Montreal Canadiens	NHL		17	3	5	8	4	6		0	0	0	0	0
1977–78	Pittsburgh Penguins Pittsburgh Penguins The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...	NHL		57	25	36	61	37	4		0	0	0	0	0
1978–79	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		60	14	39	53	39	-11		2	0	1	1	0
1979–80	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		80	16	50	66	69	3		0	0	0	0	0
1980–81	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		24	1	4	5	26	-8		0	0	0	0	0
1980–81 1980–81 AHL season The 1980–81 AHL season was the 45th season of the American Hockey League. Nine teams played 80 games each in the schedule. The Hershey Bears finished first overall in the regular season...	Adirondack Red Wings Adirondack Red Wings The Adirondack Red Wings were a minor professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Glens Falls, New York, USA at the Glens Falls Civic Center. The team was affiliated with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...	AHL		37	18	18	36	49	-		18	1	18	19	23
1981–82 1981–82 AHL season The 1981–82 AHL season was the 46th season of the American Hockey League. Eleven teams played 80 games each in the schedule. The New Brunswick Hawks finished first overall in the regular season, and won their first Calder Cup championship.-Team changes:...	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		80	22	45	67	71	-		4	2	1	3	2
16 seasons	NHL total			884	288	485	773	916	0		88	30	42	72	134

• * Name was engraved on the Stanley Cup.

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