Brian Glennie

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CanadaCanada  Brian Glennie Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 29, 1946
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
date of death February 7, 2020
Place of death Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
Nickname Blunt
size 185 cm
Weight 89 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1964-1967 Toronto Marlboros
1967-1968 Ottawa Nationals
Team Canada
1968-1969 Rochester Americans
Tulsa Oilers
1969-1988 Toronto Maple Leafs
1978-1979 Los Angeles Kings

Brian "Blunt" Glennie (born August 29, 1946 in Toronto , Ontario , † February 7, 2020 in Ottawa , Ontario) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 604 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the course of his playing career between 1964 and 1979 and Los Angeles Kings played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . However, Glennie celebrated his greatest success as a member of the Canadian national team , with which he won the bronze medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble .

Career

Glennie spent his junior time completely in his hometown of Toronto in the province of Ontario , where he is from unterklassigen junior teams for the season 1964-65 in the Ontario Hockey Association moved for juniors. There he was active in the following three seasons and led the team in his final year as team captain to win the double of the J. Ross Robertson Cup and Memorial Cup . Nevertheless, the defender did not find a job as a professional and played the 1967/68 season initially in the amateur field for the Ottawa Nationals , but which eventually gave him a place in the squad of the Canadian ice hockey team for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , France , there only amateurs were eligible to play. After Glennie first came to appearances in his home country's jersey while preparing for the Olympic ice hockey tournament, he finally belonged to the Olympic squad. In the course of the tournament, the defender came to seven missions in which he succeeded in an assist. He eventually won the bronze medal with the team.

For the 1968/69 season, the 22-year-old finally switched to the professional field. He completed the season with both the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League and the Tulsa Oilers in the Central Hockey League . In Tulsa, Glennie was trained by John McLellan , who was appointed head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League for the 1969/70 season . Through his engagement, he also brought Glennie with him - back to his hometown. The defensive player became a fixture in the traditional franchise's squad over the next nine years . In particular, Glennie has perfected the check with an exposed hip joint over the years. During this time, however, he could not celebrate any sporting success with the Maple Leafs. Instead, he came in the summer of 1972 to further missions in the dress of Team Canada , when he was used in the preparatory games for the Summit Series 1972 , in which he himself was part of the squad, but remained without commitment.

Glennie's time in Toronto finally ended after nine years in the summer of 1978, when he was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings along with Kurt Walker , Scott Garland and a second-round suffrage in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Dave Hutchison and Lorne Stamler gave them to Toronto. In the American metropolis on the west coast, the Canadian spent his last NHL season in the 1978/79 season, in which he came to only 18 missions. Glennie then ended his active career at the age of 33. In 2005, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Canadian Sports as part of the Canadian team for the 1972 Summit Series . Glennie died in February 2020 at the age of 73 in the capital Ottawa .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1964/65 Toronto Marlboros OHA Jr. 56 2 18th 20th 84 19th 0 9 9 22nd
1965/66 Toronto Marlboros OHA Jr. 48 5 18th 23 134 14th 0 4th 4th 57
1966/67 Michigan State University WCHA 2 0 0 0 4th
1966/67 Toronto Marlboros OHA Jr. 43 5 39 44 113 17th 2 12 14th 44
1967 Toronto Marlboros Memorial Cup 9 2 9 11 18th
1967/68 Ottawa Nationals OHA-Sr. 30th 2 10 12 20th - - - - -
1967/68 Team Canada International 10 2 10 12 20th
1968/69 Rochester Americans AHL 15th 1 1 2 16 - - - - -
1968/69 Tulsa Oilers CHL 25th 4th 7th 11 40 7th 1 3 4th 12
1969/70 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 52 1 14th 15th 50 - - - - -
1970/71 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 54 0 8th 8th 31 3 0 0 0 0
1971/72 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 61 2 8th 10 44 5 0 0 0 25th
1972/73 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 44 1 10 11 54 - - - - -
1973/74 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 65 4th 18th 22nd 100 3 0 0 0 10
1974/75 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 63 1 7th 8th 110 - - - - -
1975/76 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 69 0 8th 8th 75 6th 0 1 1 15th
1976/77 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 69 1 10 11 73 2 0 0 0 0
1977/78 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 77 2 15th 17th 62 13 0 0 0 16
1978/79 Los Angeles Kings NHL 18th 2 2 4th 22nd - - - - -
OHA Jr. total 147 12 75 87 331 50 2 25th 27 123
NHL overall 572 14th 100 114 621 32 0 1 1 66

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1968 Canada Olympia 3rd place, bronze 7th 0 1 1 10
1972 Canada Summit Series 2nd place Without any effort
Men overall 7th 0 1 1 10

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Glennie, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blunt (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2020
Place of death Ottawa , Ontario , Canada