Al Raymond Jensen
Born Nov 27 1958 - Hamilton, ONT
Height 5.10 - Weight 180 - Shoots Left
Sweater #29 #31 #35
The Beginning:
Jensen had a stellar junior hockey career playing on a powerful
Hamilton Fincups hockey team that went on to capture the 1976 memorial
Cup. He was rated by NHL Central Scouting as the No. 1 goaltender
available for 1978 draft. Was on Hamilton (OHL) team that relocated
to St. Catharines for 1976-77 season and then returned to Hamilton
for the 1977-78 season. Represented the St.Catharines Fincups at
the OHL Allstar Game in 1977 and Made the Allstar teams twice in
the OHL. The Second Allstar Team in 1977 and the First Allstar Teams
in 1978.
Jensen also represented Team Canada twice in the World Junior Championships.
In 1977 helped Canada win the silver medal in Czechoslovakia and
the following season helped Canada capture the bronze medal at home
in Montreal, Canada.
He was then selected by Detroit Red Wings round 2, #31 overall 1978
NHL Amateur Draft.
The Wings played him for one season in the IHL for Kalamazoo Wings
in 1978-79 and helped them win the League Championship, the Turner
Cup.
The following season, 1979-80, Jensen was then promoted to the AHL
Adirondack Red Wings. There he played for two seasons and helped
them capture the Calder Cup in his second season with them.
The NHL:
Jensen only played one game for the Red Wings before he was traded
to the Washington Capitals in July 1981 in exchange for Mark Lofthouse.
He was credited for helping guide the team to its first playoff
appearance in the 1982-83 NHL season. The next season Jensen would
achieve even more as he was a co-winner of the William M. Jennings
Trophy with teammate Pat Riggin. (The William M. Jennings Trophy
is an annual award given to "to the goalkeeper(s) having played
a minimum of 25 games for the team with the fewest goals scored
against it). Played almost six seasons with the Capitals before
being traded to the Los Angeles Kings in the 1986-87 season for
defenseman Garry Galley. He only played in five games for the Kings
before returning back to the Capitals that same season where he
played in the final six games of his NHL career.
Holds Washington Capitals team records of best career winning percentage
(.644) and best winning percentage in one season (.738 in 1985-86).
Jensen played n 179 NHL games
and posted a 95-53-18 regular season record. He also played in 10
NHL playoff games
winning five and losing five and a 3.21 goals-against-average.
Capped off his hockey career by playing one season (20 games) in
the AHL for the New Haven Nighthawks.
Worked for NHL Central Scouting Service into 2002-03 season.
Honours:
* 1976 Memorial Cup, Hamilton Fincups
* 1977 World Junior Championships, silver medal, Team Canada
* 1977 OHL Second Allstar team, St.Catharines Fincups
* 1977 OHL Allstar Game, St.Catharines Fincups
* 1978 World Junior Championships, bronze medal, Team Canada
* 1978 OHL First Allstar team, Hamilton Fincups
* 1979 IHL Turner Cup winner, Kalamazoo Wings
* 1981 AHL Calder Cup winner, Adirondack Red Wings
* 1982 Named NHL Player of the Week for Week (Dec. 14, 1982)
* 1983 Named NHL Player of the Week for week (Oct. 24, 1983)
* 1984 William Jennings trophy winner, Washington Capitals (co-winner
with Pat Riggin)
* 1984 NHL Allstar game, Washington Capitals (injured, did not play)
Personal:
On December 14, 1982, Al was the goaltender who allowed Marcel Dionne's
500th career National Hockey League goal.
Ran an indoor ball-hockey team in Glens Falls, New York, during
off-seasons of his NHL playing days.
Named to goaltender position on all-time Hamilton (OMJHL/OHL) team
by a CHL panel in 1999.
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