Andy Bathgate, the hockey Hall of Famer whose scoring touch gave Ranger fans something to cheer about while watching usually lackluster teams in the 1950s and early ’60s, died on Friday in Brampton, Ontario. He was 83.

The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, his wife, Merle, said.

Playing with the Rangers for 12-plus seasons, Bathgate was named to the all-N.H.L. squad four times in an era when his rival right wings included the brilliant Maurice Richard and Bernie Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens and Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings.

The Rangers made the playoffs only four times during Bathgate’s years, though they played in a six-team league, but he pressed on, a graceful skater and a superb puck-handler and passer who had one of hockey’s hardest slap shots and a highly accurate wrist shot.

“He gets no garbage goals,” Frank Selke, the managing director of the Canadiens back then, told The New York Times.