John McKenzie John Albert ( " Johnny " , " Pie " ) McKenzie ( born December 12 , 1937 in High River , Alberta , Canada ) is a retired Canadian professional player . Playing career . McKenzie ' s teammates dubbed him " Pieface " for his teenage acne that lasted into his twenties but within a few years the nickname evolved to " Pie . " After three years in the junior leagues - - for which he starred with the St . Catharines TeePees of the OHA and led the league in goals and points in 1958 - - McKenzie made his NHL debut during the 1959 season with the Chicago Black Hawks . The following season he moved on to the Detroit Red Wings , where he lasted two years . He was then demoted back to the minors , playing for most of three seasons in the American Hockey League with the Hershey Bears and the Buffalo Bisons , and was named to the league ' s First All - Star Team in 1963 . He returned to the NHL again during the 1964 season , once again with the Black Hawks , and two years later played for the New York Rangers for part of the 1966 season , halfway during which he was traded to the Rangers ' arch - rivals , the Boston Bruins . He was an immediate impact player in Boston , and it was with the Bruins that the 5 - foot - 9 - inch , 170 pound ( 77 kg ) right wing had the most productive seasons of his career . He became a star in the 1968 season , scoring twenty - eight goals and gaining a reputation as a pesky , relentless hustler . He would score twenty - nine goals each of the next two seasons , and would win the accolade as Second Team All - Star in the 1970 season , when in the Stanley Cup playoffs he would score seventeen points in fourteen games , fourth on the team after Bobby Orr , Phil Esposito and John Bucyk and a feat he would repeat in 1972 . His best season statistically was the following year , when he scored thirty - one goals and 77 points in 65 games . All in all , McKenzie scored 169 goals in his seven years in Boston and helped the Bruins win two Stanley Cup titles , in 1970 and again in 1972 . A notorious incident took place immediately after the Bruins defeated the Rangers in six games in the Stanley Cup finals in the latter year ( winning the clinching game on the Rangers ' home ice at Madison Square Garden ) , McKenzie skated to center ice , raised one arm in a Statue of Liberty pose , placing his other hand around his neck , making a " choke " gesture ( alluding to the fact that the result of the series had left the Rangers still looking for their first Stanley Cup championship since 1940 ) , then jumping up and down in a circle several times . This became known as the " McKenzie Choke Dance , " or simply the " choke dance . " Following the Bruins second Stanley Cup championship in 1972 , McKenzie was disgruntled at being left unprotected in the expansion draft , and though the Bruins did not lose him , he signed as player - coach with the Philadelphia Blazers of the newly - formed World Hockey Association ( WHA ) . He continued to play effectively for the Blazers , the Minnesota Fighting Saints , the Cincinnati Stingers and finally the New England Whalers , and finished his career in the league ' s final season in 1979 , having played in twenty - one major professional seasons . Retirement . In 2007 , McKenzie was named as the coach of the Berklee Ice Cats , the newly - formed hockey team at the Berklee College of Music in Boston . He is currently the liaison for hockey development at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell .