{"id":380204,"date":"2025-12-31T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380204\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:42:08","slug":"macdonald-dies-at-84-won-masterton-trophy-with-penguins-in-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380204\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald dies at 84, won Masterton Trophy with Penguins in 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lowell-macdonald-8447536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell MacDonald<\/a>, who played seven seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins and was their first player to win an NHL award, has died at the age of 84.<\/p>\n<p>A forward, MacDonald won the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, awarded to the NHL player who \u201cbest exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey,\u201d in 1973. He played the last seven seasons of his career (1970-78) with the Penguins and was a member of &#8220;The Century Line&#8221; with forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/syl-apps-8444954\" title=\"Syl Apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syl Apps<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jean-pronovost-8450566\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Pronovost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald played 506 regular-season games with the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and the Penguins and had 390 points (180 goals, 210 assists). He also had 22 points (11 goals, 11 assists) in 30 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lowell MacDonald, who played seven seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins and was their first player to win an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-380204","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\/380204","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=380204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}