Position: | Left wing |
Shoots: | Left |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 11 |
Weight Lb: | 160 |
Played For: | Detroit Red Wings |
Birth Date: | August 30, 1915 |
Birth Place: | Painesdale, Michigan, U.S. |
Death Place: | Hancock, Michigan, U.S. |
Career Start: | 1939 |
Career End: | 1948 |
Anthony John Bukovich (August 30, 1915 — December 19, 2009) was an American ice hockey player who played 17 games for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League between 1943 and 1945. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1939 to 1948, was spent in the minor leagues. He was born in Painesdale, Michigan. At the time of his death, at the age of 94 in Hancock, Michigan, he was the oldest former member of the Detroit Red Wings.[1]
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
1939–40 | Painesdale Pontiac Chiefs | MOHL | 24 | 16 | 17 | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1940–41 | Painesdale Pontiac Chiefs | MOHL | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1941–42 | Fort Worth Rangers | AHA | 47 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1942–43 | Windsor Colonial Tools | MOHL | 7 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 4 | ||
1943–44 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1943–44 | Indianapolis Capitals | AHL | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1944–45 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 14 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
1944–45 | Indianapolis Capitals | AHL | 32 | 22 | 18 | 40 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1945–46 | Indianapolis Capitals | AHL | 59 | 25 | 28 | 53 | 68 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||
1946–47 | Indianapolis Capitals | AHL | 49 | 20 | 23 | 43 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1947–48 | Cleveland Barons | AHL | 7 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
1947–48 | Minneapolis Millers | USHL | 10 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
AHL totals | 153 | 72 | 71 | 143 | 161 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | ||||
NHL totals | 17 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |