Mel Angelstad

{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player (born 1971)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

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| played_for = Washington Capitals

| position = Left Wing

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lb = 209

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|10|31|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

| draft = Undrafted

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| career_start = 1992

| career_end = 2006

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Melvin Angelstad (born October 31, 1971) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played two games in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals during the 2003–04 NHL season to become the first player to wear #69 in a regular season game.{{cite web| title = Only NHL Player to wear 69| publisher = Society for International Hockey Research| url=http://www.losthockey.com/public_nhl_jersey_numbers.cfm?num=69&t=0| accessdate = 2006-12-20 }} Andrew Desjardins later joined him in this distinction, who donned the number while skating for the San Jose Sharks.

For Angelstad, the road to the NHL was a long one.{{cite book|first=Jon C.|last=Scott|title=Hockey Night in Dixie: Minor Pro Hockey in the American South|year=2006|publisher=Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd.|page=168|isbn=978-1-894974-21-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/hockeynightindix0000stot}} He played five Colonial Hockey League seasons in Thunder Bay before becoming an IHL regular and then AHL regular.

While in Thunder Bay he played for the Thunder Bay Thunder Hawks (later the Senators and Thunder Cats), wearing number 27, and spawning several bootlegged video collections of his fights.

During the 2003–04 NHL season Angelstad appeared in two games with the Washington Capitals, registering a total of zero points and two penalty minutes.{{cite web| url = http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=6012| title = Mel Angelstad Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com}} Angelstad has the distinction of being the first player in NHL history to wear sweater #69 in a regular season game.{{cite book|first1=Scott |last1=Morrison|title=By the Numbers: From 00 to 99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AufGAAACAAJ|date=2013|publisher=Key Porter Books|isbn=978-1-55263-984-9|pages=160–161}}

He now works as a firefighter in the Fort McMurray, Alberta area. He made a cameo appearance in the film Goon: Last of the Enforcers, in which he fights main character Doug Glatt (portrayed by Seann William Scott).