Donald “Donnie” Marshall has died at the age of 92. He won five consecutive NHL championships in the 1950s.
The Montreal Canadiens have won five NHL hockey league championships and the Stanley Cup Donald “Donnie” Marshall is dead, said the Canadiens on its pages.
He was 92 years old and the last surviving member of the Canadiens’ historic dynasty of the 1950s, the team that won five straight championships from 1956-60.
At that time, 12 players won five consecutive Stanley Cups in the Canadiens. The last one alive, ie Jean-Guy Talbot died in February of this year, said the NHL.
Playing as a winger, Marshall played for the Canadiens from 1951 to 1963 and then represented the New York Rangers, Buffalo and Toronto. His career ended at the age of 40 in 1972.
In total, Marshall played 1,176 regular season games in the NHL and collected 265+324.