Michael Douglas Corrigan (born January 11, 1946 in Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Ontario

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) is a retired professional ice hockey

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 forward

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 who played 594 games in the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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. He played for the Los Angeles Kings

Los Angeles Kings

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, Vancouver Canucks

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, and Pittsburgh Penguins

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. From 1981 until 1984, Corrigan also served as an assistant coach to the Penguins.

Corrigan's best season was 1972-73 when he tallied 37 goals for the Kings. He was often paired with Bob Berry and Juha Widing

Juha Widing

Juha Markku "Whitey, Flying Finn" Widing was a professional ice hockey centre who was the third Finnish-born player to play in the National Hockey League...

 on a line nicknamed "The Hot Line." In the 1975-76 season, he had 22 goals. In a memorable playoff game (game 6 of the quarterfinals) vs. the Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins

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, he was tripped but scored while lying on his stomach in the waning moments to tie a game the Kings won in overtime.

Very early in his junior hockey days, Corrigan played a little goalie and often remarked that if both goalies got injured in the same game, he would be the emergency goaltender.

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