CATCHING UP WITH ... BLAIR MACKASEY

When you peruse the career of defenceman Blair Mackasey, what jumps out is that he played in only one National Hockey League game, with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1976-77 season opener.

"My claim to fame is that I took a penalty on the first shift of the game and it was the first recorded statistic of the season," Mackasey recalled. "Randy Carlyle and I were rookies that day. But that was it for me. He went on to play [1,055] games."

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