Career Achievements and Facts
- Played in 691 NHL games, totalling 206 goals, 268 assists and 917 penalty minutes.
- Played in 477 WHA games (7th all-time), totalling 163 goals, 250 assists and 413 points (16th all-time).
- Played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1970 and 1972.
- Played in the Summit Series for Team Canada in 1974 against the Soviet Union.
- His #19 was retired by the Hartford Whalers, making him — unusually — one of only three players whose number was retired by an NHL franchise for which he never actually played (the other two being J.C. Tremblay by the Quebec Nordiques and Frank Finnigan by the modern-day Ottawa Senators). It was widely believed at the time, since McKenzie's contributions to the WHA Whalers were modest, that the honor was a public relations sop to the Boston Bruins' fan base for which Whalers management was competing.
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