Bud poile

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Flag of Canada (1921–1957) .svg  Bud poile Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1990
Bud poile
Date of birth February 10, 1924
place of birth Fort William , Ontario , Canada
date of death January 4, 2005
Place of death Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1940-1942 Fort William Rangers
1942-1947 Toronto Maple Leafs
1947-1948 Chicago Black Hawks
1948-1949 Detroit Red Wings
1949 New York Rangers
1949-1950 Boston Bruins
1950-1951 Tulsa Oilers
1951-1952 Glace Bay Miners
1952-1954 Edmonton Flyers

Norman Robert "Bud" Poile (born February 10, 1924 in Fort William , Ontario , † January 4, 2005 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) was a Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official. As a player, he was active between 1942 and 1950 in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Chicago Black Hawks , Detroit Red Wings , New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins as a right winger . With the Maple Leafs he won the Stanley Cup in 1947 . When his playing career ended, he coached the Western Hockey League teams Edmonton Flyers and San Francisco Seals until 1966 , winning the Lester Patrick Cup four times as WHL champion . Between 1967 and 1989 he worked as a functionary for various ice hockey franchises and leagues. In 1990 he was honored for his commitment to ice hockey with the admission to the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career as a player

Bud Poile in the Toronto Maple Leafs jersey .

In his youth Bud Poile played from 1940 to 1942 for the Fort William Rangers in the Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League (TBJHL) , a junior league of the Canadian province of Ontario . He was considered a dangerous player who also had an accurate shot. After a satisfactory rookie season, in which he achieved a point average of more than two per game, he was in the TBJHL season 1941/42 with 65 points from 18 games most successful player in the junior league.

In November 1942 Poile signed a professional contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League (NHL). He immediately earned a regular place and ended his first NHL season with 35 points scorer in 48 completed games. In the play-offs of the 1942/43 NHL season , he played together with Gaye Stewart and Gus Bodnar in an attack row and was Toronto's most successful scorer. The following season began Poile with 14 points from 11 games before he was drafted by the Canadian Army for service in World War II . During this time, the winger completed a few more games for the Royal Canadian Air Force ice hockey team . At the end of the war Poile was stationed in Germany.

After the war, he returned to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup in the 1946/47 season after the team defeated the Montréal Canadiens in the best-of-seven series with 4-2 games in the final . Subsequently, Poile took part in the 1st National Hockey League All-Star Game . After four season games for Toronto at the beginning of the 1947/48 NHL season , he was transferred to the Chicago Black Hawks along with four other players . The Toronto Maple Leafs received superstar Max Bentley and Cy Thomas in return . A little later, as a member of the NHL All-Stars, Pile met his former teammates in the 2nd NHL All-Star Game . In Chicago Poile first followed on from his good offensive performances and scored 52 scorer points in 54 games for the Black Hawks; league-wide, he ended the 1947/48 season as the sixth-best scorer in the NHL.

Bud Poile was transferred to the Detroit Red Wings at the beginning of the 1948/49 season , where he was employed until the end of the season. In the Stanley Cup final he met with the Red Wings on the Toronto Maple Leafs and was defeated there with his new team by his former club with 0: 4 games ( sweep ). The following season he began with the New York Rangers before he was given on December 22, 1949 to the Boston Bruins . At the end of the 1949/50 season, Bud Poile ended his NHL career at the age of 26, in which he played for each of the original Six teams , with the exception of the Montréal Canadiens .

On October 3, 1950 he was committed by the Tulsa Oilers from the United States Hockey League (USHL), for which he was active for a year as a player-coach. After an engagement for a lower class team from Glace Bay , he went on the ice from 1952 for the Edmonton Flyers from the Western Hockey League (WHL). Shortly after the start of the 1954/55 WHL season , Poile finally ended his playing career and henceforth focused exclusively on the coaching profession.

Career as a trainer and functionary

Flag of Canada (1921–1957) .svg  Bud poile
Coaching stations
1950-1951 Tulsa Oilers
1952-1958 Edmonton Flyers
1959-1962 Edmonton Flyers
1962-1966 San Francisco Seals

Bud Poile gained his first experience as a coach in the 1950/51 season when he was the player-coach of the Tulsa Oilers . With the beginning of his engagement with the Western Hockey League team Edmonton Flyers , he immediately took over the coaching position at this club. After two full seasons as player-coach of the Flyers Poile ended his career as an active player after four games in the 1954/55 season; but was still employed as a trainer for the Flyers. During this time he won the President's Cup as WHL champion in 1953 , and in the same year he was also named WHL Executive of the Year by The Hockey News .

After two more cup successes in 1955 and 1962, Bud Poile left after his third championship in nine seasons, the Edmonton Flyers and trained from the 1962/63 season the league competitor San Francisco Seals . In his first year with the Seals, he won his fourth WHL championship title, for the San Francisco Seals it was the first ever Lester Patrick Cup win. After Poile was released from the Seals during the season, the team signed him again for the 1964/65 season. His second employment with the Seals was short-lived and Poile was fired one more time during the 1965/66 season.

The field of participants in the National Hockey League (NHL) expanded before the start of the NHL season 1967/68 by six teams to a total of 12 teams. In the course of Bud Poile was the newly formed franchise the Philadelphia Flyers taken as general manager under contract. In this position, Poile signed, among others, the center forward Bobby Clarke and the goalkeeper Bernie Parent . Both players made a significant contribution to the Flyers' 1970 Stanley Cup win, developed into long-standing top performers in Philadelphia and were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame after their careers were over. In Philadelphia's Stanley Cup success in 1970, however, Poile was no longer in the office of general manager, as he was dismissed in December 1969 and replaced by Keith Allen .

From 1970 to 1973 Bud Poile was the first general manager of the Vancouver Canucks franchise, which was newly admitted to the National Hockey League .

He then moved from the NHL to the competitive league World Hockey Association (WHA) and was there until 1976 for three years as vice president of the league. Afterwards Poile worked as a commissioner ( executive commissioner ) of the lower class Central Hockey League . From 1983 he took over the management of the International Hockey League (IHL), which he led as commissioner until his retirement in 1989 and established it as an important minor league - at the time of his resignation, seven of the ten IHL teams were farm teams from NHL teams.

After a nearly fifty-year career in professional ice hockey, Bud Poile was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990 for his services to ice hockey ; A year earlier he received the Lester Patrick Trophy for his commitment , which is awarded for special services to ice hockey in the United States and the NHL.

Bud Poile suffered from Parkinson's disease in his later years . He also had a stroke in March 2004 that damaged almost all of his memory and eliminated his cognitive performance . He died on January 4, 2005 in Vancouver at the age of 80.

Achievements and Awards

Others

Bud Poile was married to his wife Margaret for almost 60 years. She broke her hip after falling in December 2002; the subsequent operation was complicated and she fell into a comatose state . She died in January 2003 after the life support machines were turned off. Bud and Margaret had two children together: daughter Margo was born with a heart defect; She suffered slight brain damage during the following operation. She died of heart failure in November 2003 at the age of 52. Son David Poile works as an ice hockey official, including working for the National Hockey League teams Washington Capitals and Nashville Predators as general manager. In 2001 David Poile was also honored with the Lester Patrick Trophy . Bud's brother Donald played for the Edmonton Flyers from 1953 to 1962 , and he also played 66 NHL games for the Detroit Red Wings .

Bud Poile was a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee. Jack Adams described Poile as the most personable player in the league, who was liked and respected by teammates and opponents alike. He was also an excellent ambassador for ice hockey, who managed to get the best out of his players with his personality and to win local viewers as fans of his team.

The Norman R. "Bud" Poile Trophy of the American Hockey League (AHL) is named after Bud Poile and is awarded annually to the team with the highest points in the AHL Western Conference . The International Hockey League (IHL) also had a trophy named after Bud Poile until it was dissolved in 2001; the Norman R. "Bud" Poile Trophy was awarded there to the most valuable player in the play-offs.

Career statistics

Bud Poile (bottom right) with Vic Lynn , Gus Mortson and Ted Kennedy in the changing room of the Toronto Maple Leafs (1946–47).

As a player

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
1940-41 Fort William Rangers TBJHL 17th 25th 10 35 14th 2 3 2 5 4th
1941-42 Fort William Rangers TBJHL 18th 36 29 65 55 3 5 7th 12 11
Fort William forts TBSHL 1 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
1942-43 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 48 16 19th 35 24 6th 2 4th 6th 4th
1943-44 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 11 6th 8th 14th 9 - - - - -
Toronto RCAF OHA 8th 5 9 14th 8th - - - - -
Toronto Bowsers TMHL 3 5 2 7th 0 4th 16 5 21st 2
1945-46 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 9 1 8th 9 0 - - - - -
1946-47 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 59 19th 17th 36 19th 7th 2 0 2 2
1947-48 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 4th 2 0 2 0 - - - - -
Chicago Black Hawks NHL 54 23 29 52 17th - - - - -
1948-49 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
Detroit Red Wings NHL 56 21st 21st 42 6th 10 0 1 1 2
1949-50 New York Rangers NHL 27 3 6th 9 8th - - - - -
Boston Bruins NHL 39 16 14th 30th 6th - - - - -
1950-51 Tulsa Oilers USHL 60 15th 38 53 48 9 5 6th 11 4th
1951-52 Glace Bay Miners MMHL 84 33 60 93 69 2 0 0 0 0
1952-53 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 20th 29 49 62 15th 0 7th 7th 12
1953-54 Edmonton Flyers WHL 49 12 39 51 34 13 3 9 12 0
1954-55 Edmonton Flyers WHL 3 1 2 3 0 - - - - -
TBJHL total 35 61 39 100 69 5 8th 9 17th 15th
WHL overall 122 33 70 103 96 28 3 16 19th 12
NHL overall 311 107 122 229 91 23 4th 5 9 8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

As a trainer

season team league GC W. L. T placement
1950-51 Tulsa Oilers USHL 64 30th 31 3 4th, USHL
1952-53 Edmonton Flyers WHL 60 21st 28 11 President's Cup
1953-54 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 29 30th 11 Semifinals
1954-55 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 39 20th 11 President's Cup
1955-56 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 33 34 3 Prairie Division Semi-Finals
1956-57 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 39 27 4th Prairie Division Finals
1957-58 Edmonton Flyers WHL Quarter finals
1959-60 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 37 29 4th Semifinals
1960-61 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 27 43 0 7th, WHL
1961-62 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 39 27 4th Lester Patrick Cup
1962-63 San Francisco Seals WHL 70 44 25th 1 Lester Patrick Cup
1963-64 San Francisco Seals WHL Dismissal during the season
1964-65 San Francisco Seals WHL 70 31 37 2 5th, WHL
1965-66 San Francisco Seals WHL Dismissal during the season

Legend for coach statistics : GC = games, W = won, L = lost, T = draw

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Bud Poile Biography. Hockey Hall of Fame at legendsofhockey.net, accessed December 14, 2011 .
  2. ↑ All-Time Roster - Bud Poile. (No longer available online.) New York Rangers at rangers.nhl.com, archived from the original on September 8, 2015 ; accessed on March 20, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rangers.nhl.com
  3. ^ A b c Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler: Who's Who in Hockey . Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0-7407-1904-1 , pp. 328 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Jon C. Stott: Ice warriors: The Pacific Coast / Western Hockey League, 1948-1974 . Heritage House Publishing Co, 2009, ISBN 1-894974-54-9 , pp. 120–127 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Norman "Bud" Poile. hockeydb.com, accessed March 22, 2012 .
  6. ^ Allen Named General Manager Of Flyers as Successor to Poile. Associated Press , December 22, 1969, accessed March 10, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Robin Patzwaldt: Vancouver Canucks - Still without the big breakthrough. eishockey.com, accessed on March 22, 2012 (German).
  8. ↑ Terry Frei : Peterson not looking for sympathy, just opportunity. ESPN on espn.com, October 16, 2005, accessed March 10, 2012 .
  9. ^ A b c John Glennon : Preds GM Balances Team Success With Family Turmoil. (No longer available online.) The Tennessean , May 3, 2004, formerly original ; accessed on March 16, 2012 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / health.groups.yahoo.com  
  10. ↑ Jon C. Stott: Ice warriors: The Pacific Coast / Western Hockey League, 1948-1974 . Heritage House Publishing Co, 2009, ISBN 1-894974-54-9 , pp. 46 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Until 1967, the reigning Stanley Cup winner faced an all-star selection consisting of players from other NHL clubs in the NHL All-Star Game .
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personal data
SURNAME Poile, Bud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poile, Norman Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey official, player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort William , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2005
Place of death Vancouver , British Columbia