Bronco Horvath

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Bronco Horvath
Date of birth March 12, 1930
place of birth Port Colborne , Ontario , Canada
date of death 17th December 2019
Place of death Barnstable , Massachusetts , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 84 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1948-1949 Galt Black Hawks
1949-1950 Galt Red Wings
1950-1951 Springfield Indians
1951-1954 Syracuse Warriors
1954-1955 Edmonton Flyers
1955-1956 New York Rangers
1956-1957 Rochester Americans
1957-1961 Boston Bruins
1961–1962 Chicago Black Hawks
1962-1963 New York Rangers
1963 Toronto Maple Leafs
1963-1968 Rochester Americans
1968 Minnesota North Stars
1968-1970 Rochester Americans

Bronco Joseph Horvath (born March 12, 1930 in Port Colborne , Ontario , † December 17, 2019 in Barnstable , Massachusetts , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 470 games for, among other things, in the course of his active career between 1948 and 1970 the New York Rangers , Montreal Canadiens , Boston Bruins , Chicago Blackhawks , Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of the center has denied. Horvath, who was inducted into the AHL Hall of Fame in 2015 , celebrated his greatest achievements in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he won the Calder Cup three times for the Rochester Americans . He had his best season in the NHL in 1960, when he shared the title of best goalscorer with Bobby Hull and was called to the NHL Second All-Star Team .

Career

Horvath had to wait a long time to be noticed in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Springfield Indians and the Syracuse Warriors in the American Hockey League (AHL) for five years , before moving to the Edmonton Flyers in the Western Hockey League (WHL), where he was the league's top scorer. Here he played with the then 19-year-old Johnny Bucyk and won the Lester Patrick Cup with the team at the end of the season .

For the 1955/56 season , the New York Rangers bought the rights to Horvath, which until then were with the Detroit Red Wings . After a good first season, the Rangers sold him after a few games in his second year to the Canadiens de Montréal . Here he came only to one use and played mostly in the AHL for the Rochester Americans . The following summer, the Boston Bruins brought him into their squad in the Intra-League Draft . Together with Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk , who were also both of Ukrainian descent, he formed the so-called "Uke Line" . In this storm series he had his most successful years and in the 1959/60 season he was the most successful goalscorer in the NHL with 39 goals together with Bobby Hull . Hull scored one more assist and became the league's top scorer. The Bruins reached the final series of the Stanley Cup that year, but were subject to the Canadiens de Montréal there.

In the following years, he regularly changed teams via intra-league drafts . The 1961/62 season he played for the Chicago Black Hawks , a year later he returned to the Rangers, which let him move to the Toronto Maple Leafs before the end of the season . Until the end of his career, he played mostly in the AHL for the Rochester Americans , with whom he won the Calder Cup three times between 1965 and 1968 . This time was interrupted by a brief return to the NHL. The Minnesota North Stars , where Bill Masterton died, received the rights to him from the Maple Leafs. So he played 14 games in the new team's jersey.

He later coached the North Stars before coaching the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey Association and the Cape Cod Cubs . In 2015, he was inducted into the AHL Hall of Fame for his services . Horvath, who last lived in South Yarmouth , Massachusetts , died on November 17, 2019 at the age of 89 in a hospital in nearby Hyannis , a neighborhood in Barnstable .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1948/49 Galt Black Hawks OHA Jr. 33 22nd 18th 40 45 - - - - -
1949/50 Galt Red Wings OHA Jr. 47 20th 33 53 91 - - - - -
1949/50 Grand Rapids Rockets EAHL 5 6th 1 7th 12 6th 2 6th 8th 8th
1950/51 Springfield Indians AHL 43 12 26th 38 37 2 0 0 0 0
1951/52 Syracuse Warriors AHL 50 12 36 48 56 - - - - -
1952/53 Syracuse Warriors AHL 52 19th 40 59 44 4th 0 0 0 2
1953/54 Syracuse Warriors AHL 46 21st 39 60 54 - - - - -
1953/54 Springfield Indians QHL 19th 11 14th 25th 25th - - - - -
1954/55 Edmonton Flyers WHL 67 50 60 110 71 16 12 7th 19th 40
1955/56 New York Rangers NHL 66 12 17th 29 40 5 1 2 3 4th
1956/57 New York Rangers NHL 7th 1 2 3 4th - - - - -
1956/57 Rochester Americans AHL 56 37 44 81 39 10 6th 7th 13 14th
1956/57 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1957/58 Boston Bruins NHL 67 30th 36 66 71 12 5 3 8th 8th
1958/59 Boston Bruins NHL 45 19th 20th 39 58 7th 2 3 5 0
1959/60 Boston Bruins NHL 68 39 41 80 60 - - - - -
1960/61 Boston Bruins NHL 47 15th 15th 30th 15th - - - - -
1961/62 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 68 17th 29 46 21st 12 4th 1 5 6th
1962/63 New York Rangers NHL 41 7th 15th 22nd 34 - - - - -
1962/63 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 10 0 4th 4th 12 - - - - -
1962/63 Rochester Americans AHL 18th 7th 15th 22nd 6th - - - - -
1963/64 Rochester Americans AHL 70 25th 59 84 28 2 0 0 0 2
1964/65 Rochester Americans AHL 72 38 68 106 24 10 4th 5 9 16
1965/66 Rochester Americans AHL 70 27 48 75 34 12 3 7th 10 22nd
1966/67 Rochester Americans AHL 72 29 49 78 54 12 2 7th 9 2
1967/68 Rochester Americans AHL 44 15th 29 44 10 10 0 7th 7th 0
1967/68 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 4th 1 2 3 0 - - - - -
1967/68 Minnesota North Stars NHL 14th 1 6th 7th 4th - - - - -
1968/69 Rochester Americans AHL 66 18th 30th 48 30th - - - - -
1969/70 Rochester Americans AHL 5 3 1 4th 0 - - - - -
OHA Jr. total 80 42 51 93 136 - - - - -
AHL total 664 263 484 747 416 62 15th 33 48 58
NHL overall 434 141 185 326 319 36 12 9 21st 18th

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ obituary in the Boston Globe , accessed on 20 December 2019 (English)
  2. ↑ Obituary for Horvath on the funeral home's website, accessed on December 20, 2019 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Horvath, Bronco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horvath, Bronco Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Colborne , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2019
Place of death Barnstable , Massachusetts