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Mike Bossy

1957 - 2022

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Michael Dean Bossy (January 22, 1957 – April 15, 2022) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. He spent his entire NHL career, which lasted from 1977 to 1987, with the Islanders, and was a crucial part of their four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s. Bossy won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1978 as NHL rookie of the year when he set the then-record for most goals by a rookie with 53. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy in the 1982 Stanley Cup playoffs as the most valuable player and the Lady Byng Trophy for combining high quality play with sportsmanship three times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mike Bossy is the 66th most popular hockey player (up from 70th in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from Canada (up from 633rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Canadian Hockey Player.

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Mike Bossy ranks 66 out of 676. Before him are Mark Messier, Jan Klapáč, Hugo Budinger, Ronald Pettersson, Jan Palouš, and Konstantin Loktev. After him are Hugo Dollheiser, Peter Bondra, Saku Koivu, Nicklas Lidström, Ross Cuthbert, and Mats Sundin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Mike Bossy ranks 435. Before him are Murat Zyazikov, Faisal Al-Dakhil, Salih Mahmoud Osman, Robert Lepage, Mitsuko Horie, and Hipólito Rincón. After him are Marino Lejarreta, Shari Arison, Yasutaro Matsuki, Cyril Collard, Ľubomír Ftáčnik, and Philippe Riboud. Among people deceased in 2022, Mike Bossy ranks 557. Before him are Adolfas Šleževičius, Cyrus Mistry, Jacques N'Guea, Nikolai Manoshin, Viacheslav Semenov, and John Hansen. After him are James Forbes, Albert Pyun, Ronald Lopatni, Jürgen Sundermann, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, and Gerhard Roth.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mike Bossy ranks 613 out of 1,622. Before him are Elmer Clifton (1890), Yvonne Brill (1924), Tom Thomson (1877), Robert Lepage (1957), William Hope (1955), and Farley Mowat (1921). After him are Tony Esposito (1943), Patrick Roy (1965), Alice Wilson (1881), Rob Gonsalves (1959), Angela Hewitt (1958), and Harold McMunn (1902).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Canada

Among hockey players born in Canada, Mike Bossy ranks 19. Before him are Ernie Collett (1895), Marcel Dionne (1951), Frank Sullivan (1898), Colin Carruthers (1890), Howie Morenz (1902), and Mark Messier (1961). After him are Ross Cuthbert (1892), Bobby Clarke (1949), Bert McCaffrey (1893), Herb Drury (1896), Steve Yzerman (1965), and Sidney Crosby (1987).

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