Fred Creighton

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CanadaCanada  Fred Creighton Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 14, 1933
place of birth Hamiota , Manitoba , Canada
date of death September 28, 2011
Place of death Charlotte , North Carolina , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 75 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1955-1956 Saskatoon Quakers
New Westminster Royals
1956-1957 Seattle Americans
1957-1959 New Westminster Royals
1959-1960 Spokane Spokes
1960-1961 Portland Buckaroos
Providence Reds
1961-1963 Charlotte Checkers
1963-1964 New Haven Blades
Fort Wayne Comet
1964-1966 Charlotte Checkers

Fred B. Creighton (born July 14, 1933 in Hamiota , Manitoba , † September 28, 2011 in Charlotte , North Carolina ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who coached the Atlanta Flames and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League .

Career

Fred Creighton began his career as an ice hockey player in the professional Western Hockey League , in which he was active from 1955 to 1961 for the Saskatoon Quakers , New Westminster Royals , Seattle Americans , Spokane Spokes and Portland Buckaroos . Then the attacker moved to the Providence Reds from the American Hockey League at the beginning of the 1961/62 season . After only one season he left the team and played for the Charlotte Checkers in the Eastern Hockey League for two years . He spent the 1963/64 season with their league rivals New Haven Blades and the Fort Wayne Comets from the International Hockey League .

In the summer of 1964, Creighton returned to his ex-club Charlotte Checkers, for whom he ran up as a player-coach in the following two seasons, before he ended his active career following the 1965/66 season at the age of 35. From then until 1972 he worked exclusively as the head coach of the Checkers. He then signed with the Omaha Knights from the Central Hockey League , with whom he won the championship for the first time in the 1972/73 season. He was also awarded the Jake Milford Trophy as the best coach of the CHL. After two and a half years, the Canadian left the Knights towards the end of the 1974/75 season and joined the Atlanta Flames from the National Hockey League , with whom he reached the playoffs for the Stanley Cup four times in five seasons , but never over the first round got out.

For the 1979/80 season Creighton was committed by Atlanta's league rivals, the Boston Bruins . There, despite a successful season with 40 wins in 73 games, he was dismissed seven game days before the end of General Manager Harry Sinden , who then took over the coaching position himself for the rest of the season. From 1981 to 1984 Creighton worked as a trainer for the Indianapolis Checkers from the CHL, with whom he won the CHL championship in his first two years. After looking after the Springfield Indians from 1985 to 1986 , Creighton retired from professional ice hockey and from 1987 worked together with his wife as managing director of initially two and later twelve Little Caesars restaurants in Sacramento .

In 1995 Creighton moved to Rancho Murieta with his wife . From 1997 to 1999, he helped a friend build an ice hockey team in Charlotte , North Carolina , and then returned to Rancho Murieta. When Creighton was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009 , he was already suffering from Alzheimer's disease , the consequences of which he died in September 2011. Creighton left behind his wife and two sons.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fred Creighton, former NHL coach, dies at 78. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Creighton, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Creighton, Fred B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamiota , Manitoba , Canada
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2011
Place of death Charlotte , North Carolina, United States