Andy Aitkenhead

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ScotlandScotland CanadaCanada  Andy Aitkenhead Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 6, 1904
place of birth Glasgow , Scotland , UK
date of death October 21, 1968
size 173 cm
Weight 68 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Career stations
1921-1922 Yorkton Terriers
1922-1923 Saskatoon St. George
Saskatoon Quakers
1923-1924 Saskatoon Nationals
1924-1925 Yorkton Terriers
1925-1926 Saskatoon Empires
1926-1928 Saskatoon Sheiks
1928-1929 Springfield Indians
1929-1931 Portland Buckaroos
1931-1932 Bronx Tigers
1932-1935 New York Rangers
1935-1941 Portland Buckaroos

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Andrew "Andy" Aitkenhead (born March 6, 1904 in Glasgow , Scotland , † October 21, 1968 ) was a Scottish- Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who was active during his career for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League .

Career

The in Scottish Glasgow -born Aitkenhead grew up in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , on. At the age of 17 he was for the first time in a minor league for the Yorkton Terriers on the ice. The goalkeeper spent the following years with various teams from Saskatoon, with Aitkenhead as the goalkeeper of the Saskatoon Nationals in the 1924 calendar year reaching the final series of the Allan Cup . He repeated this success two years later in the jersey of the Saskatoon Empires . In November 1926, the Saskatoon Sheiks signed him from the Prairie Hockey League . In 1928, the New York Rangers had selected the goalkeeper in the Inter-League Draft , but he ended the season without being used in the National Hockey League . Instead, he was transferred to the Portland Buckaroos in the Pacific Coast Hockey League for the 1929/30 season . After two seasons as a regular in the PCHL, the Rangers signed him again in April 1931. In the 1931/32 season he stood for the Bronx Tigers in the Canadian-American Hockey League between the posts.

After the Rangers had transferred goalkeeper John Ross Roach to the Detroit Red Wings through General Manager Lester Patrick in October 1932 , Aitkenhead was first used in the National Hockey League. He made his debut on November 10, 1932 against the Montreal Maroons . In his first NHL season he rose to become a regular player and completed all 48 regular season matches. Also in the eight playoff games Aitkenhead stood for the Rangers between the posts, where he managed a shutout in the fourth encounter of the final series for the Stanley Cup against the Toronto Maple Leafs . As a result, the goalkeeper won the Stanley Cup in his first NHL season.

In the 1933/34 season he also played all season games of the New York Rangers and posted seven shutouts in the regular season and one shutout in the playoffs. Nevertheless, the team lost in the first playoff round to the Montreal Maroons . The following season Aitkenhead was in ten NHL games for the Rangers on the ice, before he was replaced in the course of the season in the position of goalkeeper by Dave Kerr . Up to the end of his career in 1941, the Scottish-Canadian dual citizen spent his career mainly with the Portland Buckaroos in the Pacific Coast Hockey League, with which Aitkenhead won the PCHL championship in 1937 and 1939.

In 1987 Aitkenhead was honored with induction into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame .

Achievements and Awards

literature

  • Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler: Who's Who in Hockey . Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, Missouri, United States 2003, ISBN 0-7407-1904-1 , pp. 5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c rangers.nhl.com, Andy Aitkenhead - Biography ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ oregonsportshall.org, Oregon Sports Hall of Fame, Andy Aitkenhead
personal data
SURNAME Aitkenhead, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aitkenhead, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish-Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1968