Team "He Shoots.....He Scooooores!" is proud to select a Defenceman who will help guard our end of the ice and prevent liberties being taken with our goaltenders - Tim Horton.
(And seriously, what would we do without Timbits & Double-Doubles???)
From Wiki:
Horton started to play regularly for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the fall of 1952. He remained a Leaf until 1970, winning four Stanley Cups. Horton later played for the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres. Horton was known for his tremendous strength and calmness under pressure, and had relatively few penalty minutes for an enforcer-type defenceman. Horton was a hard-working and durable defenceman who was also an effective puck carrier–in 1964-65 he played right wing for the Leafs. He was named an NHL First Team All-Star three times (1964, 1968, and 1969). He was selected to the NHL Second Team three more times (1954, 1963, 1967). He appeared in seven National Hockey League All-Star Games.
Between February 11, 1961 and February 4, 1968, Horton appeared in 486 consecutive regular-season games; this remains the Leafs club record for consecutive games and was the NHL record for consecutive games by a defencemen until broken by Kārlis Skrastiņš on February 8, 2007.
Horton had a reputation for enveloping players who were fighting him in a crushing bear hug. Boston Bruins winger Derek Sanderson once bit Horton during a fight; years later, Horton's widow, Lori, still wondered why. "Well," Sanderson replied, "I felt one rib go, and I felt another rib go, so I just had—to, well, get out of there!"[citation needed]
Injuries and age were little more than minor inconveniences to Horton, who was generally acknowledged as the strongest man in the game while he was playing. Declared Chicago Blackhawks winger Bobby Hull, perhaps the only NHL player more muscular than Horton, "There were defensemen you had to fear because they were vicious and would slam you into the boards from behind, for one, Eddie Shore. But you respected Tim Horton because he didn't need that type of intimidation. He used his tremendous strength and talent to keep you in check."
no worries, windom. Another Habs great married Morenz' daughter. And yes, his death was definitely a sad story. If he couldn't play, he didn't want to live anymore.
Team Slapshot are proud to select as Defenceman #1
Brian Leetch
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it was either Housley or Leetch for me.
In the end I did opt for Housley, hard to ignore being the second highest scoring american of all time, and tops for american dmen
But Leetch does have a Norris to his credit
good pick
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First player to play 20 seasons in the NHL, longest serving captain ever (until Bourque and Yzerman came along), versatile (all-star at both forward and defence), had his number retired and was elected to HHOF after the selection committee waived the three year waiting period.
Stanley Cup Champion (1929 as the player-coach, 1939, 1941 as a player)
First All-Star Team: (1939, 1940, 1941)
Second All-Star Team: (1944) as a defenceman.
Second All-Star Team: (1931, 1935) as a right wing.
listed in the top 100 hockey players of all-time by both The Hockey News (#41) and Motown Sports Revival (#53)
Team Cyclones
Center-1: Stan Mikita (2xHart, 3xArt Ross, 6x1st team all-star, 2x2nd team all-star, 2x Bying)
Right Wing-1: Teemu Selanne (Richard, Calder, Masterton, 2x1st team all-star, 2x2nd team all-star)
Left Wing-1: Bobby Hull (2xHart, 3xArt Ross, 10x1st team all-star, 2x2nd team all-star)
Defence-1: Dit Clapper (3x1st team all-star, 3x2nd team all-star)
Goalie-1: Dominik Hasek (2xHart, 2xPearson, 6xVezina, 3xJennings, 5x1st team all-star)
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"...but I'm feeling MUCH better now." -John Astin, Night Court
Bucyk was a skilled left winger who was (at 6', 215 lb) the largest of his day. While he never was regarded as the best at his position (being a contemporary of superstars Bobby Hull and Frank Mahovlich), he had a long and stellar career, and retired as the fourth leading point scorer of all time and having played the third most games in history. Despite his reputation for devastating hip checks, he was a notably clean player who won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship in 1971 and 1974.
Achievements and facts
Is currently 23rd of all-time National Hockey League goal scorers and 21st all-time of point scorers.
Retired as the leading career point scorer among left wings, a record recently surpassed by Luc Robitaille.
Is currently tenth all-time in NHL games played.
Recorded sixteen twenty-goal seasons.
Named a First Team All-Star in 1971 and a Second Team All-Star in 1968.
Played in the All-Star Game in 1955, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970 and 1971.
Leads the Bruins in career goals and longest consecutive game streak; second to Ray Bourque in career games, assists and points.
Known as the "Chief" due to presumed Native American looks; in fact, he was of Ukrainian ancestry.
When the Bruins ended their twenty-nine year championship drought in 1970, Bucyk was given the honour of being the first player of the team to hoist the Stanley Cup around the Boston Garden.
His nephew Randy Bucyk played for the Northeastern University Huskies and the Montreal Canadiens and Calgary Flames organizations, earning a Stanley Cup ring with Montreal in 1986. Randy Bucyk also played for the Canadian national team in 1989.
Oldest player to score 50 goals (51 goals in 1970–71) at age 35.
Also oldest player scoring 50 or more for 1st time in career. (1970–71).
In 1998, he was ranked number 45 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.
The Beantown Bruins are proud to select our #1 Centre Denis Savard
Denis Savard was drafted in the first round, 3rd overall, in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks. He was the highest drafted player in Blackhawks' history, until recently. He began his career during the 1980–81 NHL season in which he had three assists in his first game. He then went on to set the Black Hawks' record for most points by a rookie with 75.
He was known for his trademark move, the 'Savard Spin-o-rama', which entailed Savard whirling around with the puck in a full rotation allowing him to defeat defenders and goaltenders alike.
