Doug Stevenson
Encyclopedia
Doug Stevenson was a Canadian professional ice hockey
goaltender
who played eight games in the National Hockey League
: four with the New York Rangers
and four with the Chicago Black Hawks. He spent the majority of his career with the Tacoma Rockets
of the Pacific Coast Hockey League
(later Western Hockey League
).
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
goaltender
Goaltender
In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...
who played eight games in the National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
: four with the New York Rangers
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
and four with the Chicago Black Hawks. He spent the majority of his career with the Tacoma Rockets
Tacoma Rockets (WHL)
The Tacoma Rockets were a professional ice hockey team in Tacoma, Washington.The Rockets played in the Pacific Coast Hockey League before becoming a member of the Western Hockey League from 1952 to 1953. They played their home games in the Tacoma Ice Palace....
of the Pacific Coast Hockey League
Pacific Coast Hockey League
The Pacific Coast Hockey League was an ice hockey minor league with teams in the western United States and western Canada that existed in several incarnations: from 1928 to 1931, from 1936 to 1941, and from 1944 to 1952.-PCHL 1928-1931:...
(later Western Hockey League
Western Hockey League (minor pro)
The Western Hockey League was a minor pro ice hockey league that operated from 1952 to 1974. Managed for most of its history by Hockey Hall of Fame member Al Leader, it was created out of the merger of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Canada Senior Hockey League...
).