Mr. Winnipeg: The Ab McDonald Story Paperback – January 18, 2023

Ab McDonald did everything a hockey player should. A solid playmaker of his day whose lanky frame made it difficult for opposing defensemen to push him off the puck, Ab is in rare company for winning four Stanley Cups in his first four seasons in the National Hockey League.A 15-season NHL veteran, McDonald also played in five NHL All-Star Games and is the only player to have been an NHL teammate of Rocket Richard, Bobby Hull, and Gordie Howe. He was also named team captain for the expansion Pittsburgh Penguins in their inaugural year and for the WHA’s Winnipeg Jets.Ab McDonald was one of those rare NHLers that are just universally liked, plain and simple. Throughout his life, he was a wonderful ambassador for the sport of hockey in Manitoba, as he was a true Winnipegger through thick and thin that lived in the city for his entire life.Pat McDonald was Ab’s wife and is the best person to tell her husband’s story and what it was like to be a hockey wife through the 1950s and 1960s. She has teamed up for this book with prolific hockey author Ty Dilello, who has filled in the details from Ab’s hockey career and interviewed countless teammates and friends over the years to help tell Ab’s life story.About The Authors:Pat McDonald is a life-long Winnipegger, first-time author, and the wife of the late Ab McDonald.Ty Dilello is a hockey historian and eight-time author from Winnipeg. He is a member of the Society for International Hockey Research (SIHR) and runs a popular NHL history newsletter (https://nhlhistory.substack.com/). Read more