Carl Brewer (ice hockey player)

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CanadaCanada  Carl Brewer Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 21, 1938
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
date of death August 25, 2001
Place of death Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 81 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1955-1958 Toronto Marlboros
1958-1965 Toronto Maple Leafs
1966-1967 Team Canada
1967-1968 Muskegon Mohawks
1968-1969 HIFK Helsinki
1969-1970 Detroit Red Wings
1970-1972 St. Louis Blues
1973-1974 Toronto Toros
1979-1980 Toronto Maple Leafs

Carl Thomas Brewer (born October 21, 1938 in Toronto , Ontario ; † August 25, 2001 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player (right winger) and coach who worked for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis from 1958 to 1980 Blues played in the National Hockey League and for the Toronto Toros in the World Hockey Association .

Career

During his junior years, Brewer played with the Toronto Marlboros in the OHA .

In the NHL he came to the end of the 1957/58 season to two games with the Toronto Maple Leafs . The following season he made the breakthrough. He was an unpredictable guy on the ice and in personal life too. In the 1959/60 season he led the NHL in penalty minutes. With Allan Stanley , Bob Baun and Tim Horton he formed the defense of the Maple Leafs, which won the Stanley Cup three times in a row from 1962 to 1964 . He was always under pressure to be in public, and especially in ice hockey, Toronto, the pressure was often too great for him. He was so annoyed about a fine of 100 dollars in 1960 that he had resigned and was difficult to persuade to continue.

During training camp in 1965, he had an argument with Leafs goalkeeper Johnny Bower that continued in the dressing room. Punch Imlach , who was the coach of the Leafs at the time and with whom Brewer had a tense relationship, sent him home for a few days to think about the matter. He did so and ended his career again. From 1966 he played for the Canadian national team and won the bronze medal with it at the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1967 . He then played with the Muskegon Mohawks in the IHL . In 1968 he went to Finland, where he worked as a player and coach.

As early as March 1968, the Maple Leafs had passed on the rights to him, with Frank Mahovlich , Pete Stemkowski and Garry Unger , including Norm Ullman and Paul Henderson, to the Detroit Red Wings . In the 1969/70 season he returned to the NHL at Mahovlich's encouragement and played an excellent season with the Red Wings. The next year he left the training camp to pursue his job at the ice hockey stick manufacturer KOHO . But before the end of the 1970/71 season , he was hired by the St. Louis Blues , who were trained by Scotty Bowman . After two seasons he recently resigned. He made another comeback with the Toronto Toros in the World Hockey Association , for which he competed in the 1973/74 season.

Six years after his last game in the WHA , he signed with the Maple Leafs in January 1980 and went on the ice again for 20 games. After retiring, he was instrumental in it when Alan Eagleson , the former head of the National Hockey League Players Association , was convicted of fraudulent deals.

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 12 604 25th 198 223 1,037
NHL playoffs 9 72 3 17th 20th 146
WHA regular season 1 77 2 23 25th 42
WHA playoffs 1 12 0 4th 4th 11

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personal data
SURNAME Brewer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brewer, Carl Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2001
Place of death Toronto , Ontario