Seasons with Rangers: 9 (1948-1952, 1953-1958)
Regular-Season Games with Rangers: 407
Playoff Games with Rangers: 16

Acquired
Scouted and signed by Rangers as a free agent in 1949.

Departed
Claimed off Rangers` roster by Chicago in NHL Intra-League Draft on June 3, 1958.

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NYR - Career Regular Season Stats Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S S% 1948-1949 Rangers 3 0 0 0 4 1949-1950 Rangers 2 0 0 0 2 1950-1951 Rangers 49 1 0 1 95 1951-1952 Rangers 52 1 6 7 83 1953-1954 Rangers 44 4 4 8 73 1954-1955 Rangers 47 0 5 5 91 1955-1956 Rangers 70 2 9 11 104 1956-1957 Rangers 70 3 6 9 110 1957-1958 Rangers 70 4 8 12 108 Team Totals: 407 15 38 53 670

NYR - Career Playoff Stats Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S S% 1955-1956 Rangers 5 1 0 1 18 1956-1957 Rangers 5 0 1 1 4 1957-1958 Rangers 6 0 0 0 17 Team Totals: 16 1 1 2 39

Career Regular Season Stats Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S S% 1947-1948 Lethbridge Native Sons-WCJHL 23 10 21 31 58 1947-1948 Lethbridge Maple Leafs-WCSHL 1 0 0 0 0 1947-1948 Lethbridge Native Sons-M-Cup 12 4 4 8 26 1948-1949 Rangers 3 0 0 0 4 1948-1949 Lethbridge Maple Leafs-WCSHL 48 7 10 17 124 1949-1950 Rangers 2 0 0 0 2 1949-1950 New Haven Ramblers-AHL 69 3 12 15 150 1950-1951 Rangers 49 1 0 1 95 1950-1951 Cincinnati Mohawks-AHL 16 3 3 6 56 1951-1952 Rangers 52 1 6 7 83 1952-1953 Saskatoon Quakers-WHL 68 9 22 31 179 1953-1954 Rangers 44 4 4 8 73 1953-1954 Saskatoon Quakers-WHL 27 2 3 5 49 1954-1955 Rangers 47 0 5 5 91 1954-1955 Saskatoon Quakers-WHL 22 2 4 6 16 1954-1955 Victoria Cougars-WHL 1955-1956 Rangers 70 2 9 11 104 1956-1957 Rangers 70 3 6 9 110 1957-1958 Rangers 70 4 8 12 108 1958-1959 Blackhawks 70 1 8 9 75 1959-1960 Blackhawks 68 0 4 4 60 1960-1961 Blackhawks 69 0 8 8 58 1961-1962 Blackhawks 70 3 14 17 80 1962-1963 Blackhawks 68 0 8 8 46 1963-1964 Buffalo Bisons-AHL 72 0 17 17 87 1964-1965 Los Angeles Blades-WHL 69 2 13 15 91 1965-1966 Vancouver Canucks-WHL 72 2 31 33 103 1966-1967 California Seals-WHL 71 3 18 21 52 1967-1968 San Diego Gulls-WHL 65 1 15 16 36 1968-1969 San Diego Gulls-WHL 73 1 11 12 50 1969-1970 San Diego Gulls-WHL 67 0 8 8 46 1970-1971 San Diego Gulls-WHL 69 1 10 11 82 1971-1972 San Diego Gulls-WHL 72 0 20 20 87 NHL Totals: 752 19 80 99 989

Career Playoff Stats Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S S% 1947-1948 Lethbridge Native Sons-WCJHL 6 5 3 8 8 1947-1948 Lethbridge Native Sons-M-Cup 12 4 4 8 26 1948-1949 Lethbridge Maple Leafs-WCSHL 3 0 0 0 8 1952-1953 Saskatoon Quakers-WHL 13 0 3 3 16 1954-1955 Victoria Cougars-WHL 1 0 0 0 2 1955-1956 Rangers 5 1 0 1 18 1956-1957 Rangers 5 0 1 1 4 1957-1958 Rangers 6 0 0 0 17 1958-1959 Blackhawks 6 0 0 0 10 1959-1960 Blackhawks 4 0 0 0 4 1960-1961 Blackhawks 12 1 1 2 14 1961-1962 Blackhawks 12 0 0 0 26 1962-1963 Blackhawks 6 0 0 0 4 1965-1966 Vancouver Canucks-WHL 7 0 1 1 20 1966-1967 California Seals-WHL 6 0 2 2 4 1967-1968 San Diego Gulls-WHL 7 0 3 3 8 1968-1969 San Diego Gulls-WHL 7 0 0 0 0 1969-1970 San Diego Gulls-WHL 6 0 0 0 2 1970-1971 San Diego Gulls-WHL 6 0 2 2 12 1971-1972 San Diego Gulls-WHL 4 0 0 0 4 NHL Totals: 56 2 2 4 97

Bio/News RANGERS DEBUT March 15, 1949 (Rangers vs. Boston Bruins) FINAL GAME WITH RANGERS March 23, 1958 (Rangers vs. Toronto Maple Leafs) RANGERS TEAM LEADER Most penalty minutes — 1954-55 Most playoff penalty minutes — 1956, 1958 RANGERS ORGANIZATION STATISTICS Minor-league games: 202 Minor-league teams: New Haven (AHL) 1949-50; Cincinnati (AHL) 1950-51; Saskatoon (WHL) 1952-1955 MISCELLANEOUS Nickname: Tex Full name: William John Evans Uniform Numbers: 16, 3, 20, 5 Retired from pro hockey as player: 1972 BIOGRAPHY Born in Wales but raised in Canada, Jack "Tex" Evans took awhile to establish himself as a full-time member of the New York Rangers. Once he did, however, he became a major contributor to the team`s success in the late 1950s. Evans` pro hockey playing career, which began in New York, would span an amazing 24 seasons, taking him into another hockey life as an NHL coach. Evans played his first games with the Rangers in the spring of 1949 but did not become a semi-regular until the 1950-51 season. After three years in which he moved back and forth between Madison Square Garden and the minor leagues, Evans was farmed out to the Saskatoon Quakers of the WHL for a full season in 1952-53. The extra minor-league training served Evans well. He went on to make the league`s First All-Star Team and set the tone for the next nine years in the NHL. By 1955, Evans was a Rangers regular, and he played in 210 consecutive games over his final three years in New York. Lost to Chicago in the 1958 NHL Intra-League Draft, Evans went on to have two All-Star seasons with the Hawks before turning his attention to coaching in the minors. By 1975, he was back in the NHL as head coach of the California Golden Seals. He spent three seasons with the California franchise, which moved to Cleveland in 1976, and was with the team when it folded following the 1977-78 season. Evans got his second shot at NHL coaching in Hartford. He joined the Whalers in 1983 and turned them into a playoff team within three seasons. His best moment came in 1986, when Hartford swept Quebec in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and then pushed Montreal to a seven-game series in Round 2.