# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-macneil
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:18:33.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-macneil"
name: "Al MacNeil"
slug: "al-macneil"
description: "Allister Wences MacNeil was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach and executive. MacNeil played 524 games in the National Hockey League and was a four-time Stanley Cup winner. He was the first native of Atlantic Canada to serve as a head coach in the NHL. He won three Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens, first as the team's rookie head coach in 1971, and then back-to-back championships as Director of Player Personnel in 1978 and 1979. He went back into coaching in 1979, becoming the last head coach of the Atlanta Flames and then the first one for the Calgary Flames in 1980. As an NHL head coach, with the Canadiens and Flames, his career win-loss-tie total was 160–134–55. The final time he won a Stanley Cup was as the assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames in 1989."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1935–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1963_Topps_Al_MacNeil_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1935-09-27"
deathDate: "2025-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.752737333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12963385/"
    handle:    "nm12963385"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BB"
    title: "Ел Макніл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ال ماكنيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_MacNeil"
    title: "Al MacNeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_MacNeil"
    title: "Al MacNeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_MacNeil"
    title: "Al MacNeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allister_MacNeil"
    title: "Allister MacNeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_MacNeil"
    title: "Al MacNeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB"
    title: "Макнил, Эл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_MacNeil"
    title: "Al MacNeil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2542734"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1793689"
    title: "Al MacNeil"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump