Bryan Hextall Sr.

Bryan Hextall Sr.
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1969
Date of birth	July 31, 1913
place of birth	Grenfell , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death	July 25, 1984
Place of death	Portage la Prairie , Manitoba , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1931-1932	Winnipeg Monarchs
1932-1934	Portage Terriers
1934-1936	Vancouver Lions
1936-1937	Philadelphia Ramblers
1937-1948	New York Rangers
1948-1949	Cleveland Barons Washington Lions

Bryan Aldwyn Hextall senior (born July 31, 1913 in Grenfell , Saskatchewan , † July 25, 1984 in Portage la Prairie , Manitoba ) was a Canadian ice hockey player (right winger) and coach who worked for the New York Rangers in the 1936-1948 National Hockey League played.

Career

Before Hextall moved to the New York Rangers in the NHL at the age of 23, he had played in western Canada, including Vancouver.

After three games in the 1936/37 season , he made the breakthrough in the following season. Many years before this became a common tactic, he played left-handed on the right wing. He preferred the angle to the gate that this position gave him. He managed to score over 20 goals in six consecutive seasons. He was a regular among the top scorers in the NHL, scoring the most goals in the NHL in 1940 and 1941. In the 1939/40 season he decided the final series with a goal in stoppage time and thus secured the Stanley Cup win for the Rangers . Four times in a row he was voted the NHL's best right winger in the NHL All-Star Team .

The war and liver disease took him out of the action for almost two years. He returned to the 1946/47 season and again managed over 20 goals. After another season in the NHL, he played one more season in the American Hockey League .

A few years later he tried his hand at lower leagues as a coach.

He passed on his enthusiasm for ice hockey to his sons Bryan junior and Dennis . Both played for the Rangers and after the expansion of the league in the late 1960s they each made over 500 NHL games. His grandson Ron Hextall started his NHL career in 1987 and was one of the best goalkeepers of his time.

Bryan Hextall was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1969 .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	11	449	187	175	362	227
Playoff	6th	37	8th	9	17th	19th

Sporting successes

• Stanley Cup : 1940

Personal awards

• NHL First All-Star Team : 1940, 1941 and 1942
• NHL Second All-Star Team : 1943
• NHL top scorer: 1942 (later the Art Ross Trophy was awarded for this)
• Top scorer: In 1940 and 1941, the Maurice Richard Trophy was awarded for this

Web links

• Bryan Hextall in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
• Bryan Hextall at hockeydb.com (English)