Best to Wear # 15 – John MacLean

NUMBER: 15
HEIGHT: 6′ 0″
WEIGHT: 200
POSITION: Right Wing
SHOOTS: Right
BORN: November 20, 1964
BIRTHPLACE: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

John MacLean was drafted sixth overall in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils.

MacLean’s claim to fame for the New Jersey Devils, isn’t so much all the offensive records he set. No. MacLean is remembered for scoring an overtime goal against the Chicago Blackhawks on April 3, 1988. This goal would send the Devils into the playoffs for the first time.

MacLean was one of the Devils’ alternate captains when the team won the Stanley Cup in 1995.

He remained with the team until he was traded in 1997 so the San Jose Sharks.

He would go on to play with the New York Rangers and the Dallas Stars before retiring during the 2002 offseason.

MacLean would join the Devils coaching staff in September 2002 as an assistant coach, and was part of the coaching staff of the Stanley Cup winning team that year.

After being named head coach for the Lowell Devils of the AHL in 2009, MacLean was finally named head coach of the New Jersey Devils in 2010, but that didn’t go very well. MacLean was fired on December 23, 2010 while the Devils sat last in the Eastern Conference with a 9-22-2 record.