{"id":270986,"date":"2025-11-09T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270986\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:00:09","slug":"former-nhler-senators-gm-mel-bridgman-dead-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270986\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NHLer, Senators GM Mel Bridgman dead at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NHLer and Ottawa Senators general manager Mel Bridgman has died. He was 70.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL Alumni Association announced his death on Saturday. The cause of death was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgman was the first overall pick in the 1975 NHL draft by the Philadelphia Flyers, where he spent his first six-plus seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He was traded to the Calgary Flames in 1981-82 and finished that season with a career-best 33 goals and 54 assists across 72 games. He went to the New Jersey Devils in 1983-84 and played three-plus years before getting traded to the Detroit Red Wings in 1986-87. Bridgman played his final season for the Vancouver Canucks in 1988-89.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Trenton, Ont., native finished his career with 701 points (252 goals, 449 assists) across 977 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, he was named the first general manager of the expansion Senators \u2014 a post he held until 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NHLer and Ottawa Senators general manager Mel Bridgman has died. He was 70. The NHL Alumni Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-270986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}