Phil Esposito biography

 Phil Esposito biography

 Phil Esposito, byname of Philip Anthony Esposito, (born February 20, 1942, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada), Canadian-born U.S. skilled ice hockey centre (1963–81) within the National Hockey League (NHL), who was a number one scorer in his day.

Esposito performed hockey from his youth onward, and after a season (1962–63) on a Chicago Black Hawk (later Blackhawk) farm staff he performed as an everyday on the mum or dad staff from the following season, changing into an everyday within the 1964–65 season. He was traded in 1967 to the Boston Bruins, with whom he gained two Stanley Cup championships and scored greater than 50 objectives in 5 totally different seasons. In 1975 Esposito was traded to the New York Rangers earlier than retiring in 1981.

Esposito was the primary hockey participant to attain greater than 100 factors (objectives plus assists) in a season (1968–69). In the 1968–69 season he scored a record-setting 49 objectives and 77 assists (126 factors) and elevated the document within the 1970–71 season to 152 factors, a document that stood till the 1981–82 season, when it was damaged by the Edmonton Oilers’ Wayne Gretzky. At the time of his retirement, Esposito’s 1,590 factors had been second solely to Gordie Howe’s complete. He gained the NHL Art Ross Trophy as prime scorer of the league 5 occasions (1969, 1971–74), and he twice gained (1969, 1974) the Hart Memorial Trophy because the league’s most precious participant.

After retiring as a participant, Esposito was an announcer and did tv commentary for Ranger video games earlier than changing into the staff’s normal supervisor (1988–89). In 1992 he headed a franchise bid that led to the creation of the Tampa Bay Lightning, and he served as the final supervisor till 1998. He subsequently grew to become a radio announcer for the Lightning. Esposito was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. His brother Tony was a goalie for the Chicago Black Hawks.