Don Wishart was a Canadian ice hockey

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and forward who captained

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to the

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Career

Wishart's junior career was rife with success as he helped the

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win three consecutive league championships. After he aged out of the Canadian junior league, Wishart joined

on an athletic scholarship and immediately joined the varsity ice hockey team. That year the Tigers jumped from 4th to 1st in the WIHL and, with Wishart playing both forward and defense for CC, they made the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years. The Tigers escaped with a close victory over

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in the semifinal but, despite scoring in the championship match, Wishart couldn't help the team outlast

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in a rematch of the 1952 championship. The team regressed a bit in Wishart's second season, partly from graduations and also due to the resignation of head coach Cheddy Thompson. New bench boss Tom Bedecki still got the team to a 3rd-place finish but that wasn't enough to get them back to the NCAA tournament. Wishart was named captain for the 1956–57 season and with a massive influx of offensive talent the team went on a rampage in college hockey. Wishart led the defensive corps and helped the offense that produced 199 goals in just 30 games. CC was again WIHL champions and received the top western seed. The team had to fight through a stellar effort from

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in the semifinal but the 60 shots they set at the Clarkson cage were enough in the end. For the third time in six seasons CC faced Michigan in the final and this time the Tigers would finally defeat their conference rivals. The two teams remained close for the first two periods but the Tigers scored 6 consecutive goals in the third period to put the game out of reach. In his final game, Wishart scored the final Tiger goal and broke the record for the most goals scored in a championship game (Michigan would add one more to increase the total to 19). Wishart was named to the All-Tournament First Team and was also an AHCA First Team All-American for the season.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wishart, Don 1934 births 2019 deaths Canadian ice hockey defencemen Colorado College Tigers men's ice hockey players Ice hockey people from Manitoba People from Portage la Prairie NCAA men's ice hockey national champions AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans