Babe Pratt

Babe Pratt
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1966
Date of birth	January 7, 1916
place of birth	Stony Mountain , Manitoba , Canada
date of death	December 16, 1988
Place of death	Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1932-1933	Elmwood Millionaires
1933-1935	Kenora Thistles
1935-1942	New York Rangers
1942-1946	Toronto Maple Leafs
1946-1947	Boston Bruins
1947-1948	Hershey Bears Cleveland Barons
1948-1951	New Westminster Royals
1951-1952	Tacoma Rockets
1952-1953	New Westminster Royals

Walter "Babe" Pratt (born January 7, 1916 in Stony Mountain , Manitoba , † December 16, 1988 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who from 1935 to 1947 for the New York Rangers , Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins played in the National Hockey League .

Career

He traveled by freight train from his home in Manitoba to play for the "Kenora Thistles" and won 15 titles in his 26-year career. He won the Stanley Cup for the first time with the New York Rangers in 1940. Together with Ott Heller, his line of defense was instrumental in the fact that his team only conceded 77 goals in 48 games. Four years later he was the strongest player in the league in Toronto and won his second Stanley Cup there in 1945, scoring the decisive goal in the final game.

As a player-coach, he was still active with the New Westminster Royals after the NHL.

After his active career, he worked for the Vancouver Canucks from 1970 . There he also died at the Pacific Coloseum during a Canucks game.

In 1966 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	12	517	83	209	292	463
Playoffs	9	63	12	17th	29	90

Awards

• NHL First All-Star Team : 1944
• NHL Second All-Star Team : 1945
• Hart Memorial Trophy : 1944

Records

• 6 assists as defender in one game (January 8, 1944; Maple Leafs - Bruins 12: 3) together with 5 other players.

Web links

• Babe Pratt in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
• Babe Pratt at hockeydb.com (English)