height_ft played_for death_date weight_lb death_place birth_place career_end position catches height_in birth_date article_title ntl_team career_start
6 detroit calgary cowboys quebec nordiques edmonton oilers red wings philadelphia flyers houston aeros vancouver blazers 11 march 2015 190 port coquitlam , bc , can trail , bc , can 1978 goaltender left 0 24 august 1946 don mcleod
 canada 1967
don mcleod

donald martin `` smokey '' mcleod -lrb- august 24 , 1946 -- march 11 , 2015 -rrb- was a canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played briefly in the national hockey league and six full seasons in the world hockey association .
mcleod 's nhl career consisted of 18 games played with the detroit red wings and philadelphia flyers over the 1970-71 and 1971-72 seasons .
with the formation of the wha in 1972 , mcleod was signed by the houston aeros where he played two seasons .
the 1973-74 season was his finest year .
he was awarded the ben hatskin trophy as the new league 's top goalie and was named to the first all-star team .
to top off his best professional season , the aeros won the wha playoff championship -lrb- avco trophy -rrb- .
mcleod was also chosen to represent canada -lrb- wha -rrb- in the 1974 summit series against the soviet union in september 1974 .
for the 1974-75 season , mcleod signed with the vancouver blazers where he appeared in a league record 72 games .
mcleod followed the franchise to calgary and for the next two seasons was the calgary cowboys main goalie .
when that franchise folded in 1977 , mcleod was drafted by the quebec nordiques where he played in only 7 games before being dealt to the edmonton oilers where he finished out the 1977-78 season and his professional career .
mcleod was the holder of numerous wha career , season and playoff goaltending records .
he died in 2015 , aged 68 .
